JaImE's BLoG

Welcome to my world. Watch your step.

This is my blog.  This is my life.  These are my thoughts. Where have you been?

Ask me about my liberal agenda...
Date: Oct 5th, 2007 8:09:41 pm - Subscribe
Mood: better
RaNDoM ThOuGhT: What would Rudy Do? Oh yeah... instigate terrorist organizations.

Sorry, this last political post and I'll quit for awhile - honestly.


Make the Switch

GOP presidential debate held in South Carolina (May '07)

Ron Paul's speech at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in Feb. 2007

Bill Maher's New Hero

More to come.
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Anyway, Whatever.
Date: Oct 5th, 2007 3:39:12 am - Subscribe
Mood: faded
RaNDoM ThOuGhT: pft.

Tonight's practice kind of sucked, but I'm not going to reflect on that too much.
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Westport Relocation
Date: Sep 24th, 2007 4:20:52 pm - Subscribe
Mood: unhealthy
RaNDoM ThOuGhT: Me l World lll

.. I have a test I should be studying for, so I'm going to make this relatively short. I feel obligated to continue steady blog posts, and I hope my posts are not all in vain.

Over the weekend, I rented a U-Haul, (shameful, how this plug will pay me nothing) loaded my small two bedroom apartment up, and headed to Westport. While I won't bore you with the details of the oh-so-exciting transition, I'd like to touch on the current condition of my new abode. While I do love it, and the location is spectacular, there are a good variety of cons of living in the city which I will gladly share with you now.

The rents are high. This is both a good and bad thing. Money is a lot tighter than before, however, the community holds so much culture, consisting of broke poets, playwrights and college students that frequent the local coffee shops on the Westport strip to mingle with like-minded individuals. There are also a wide variety of bars and clubs in the area to satisfy your alcoholic divulges and drown any notions of rent taxation anyway.

Next quirk. I'm under the impression that these buildings were constructed before the invention of electricity. Power outlets are scarce in the new apartment, and we have a strange room, cleverly named the "sun room", that relies completely on sunlight without the capability of artificial lighting at all. Also, the walls are constructed out of brick, bragging an enduring battle to even the most motivated curtain hanger.

Last, but certainly not least - air quality. My first investment was an ionic air purifier to neutralize all the mold content that (I now proudly say) used to linger within its confines. I have mild allergies already, but a couple steps inside threw me into a sneezing attack. I'm pretty sure I sneezed 14 times in a row initially.

The pros really do out-weight the cons though, and I might talk about them some other time when I'm more settled in and can actually enjoy them. For now, I have about eighteen more boxes to unpack and test to study for.

As always, thanks for reading.

/jaime.

ps. For whatever reason, the current "mood" field - when you post blogs, was set by default to "unhealthy". I think it's fitting given the circumstances.
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Overdue for a change of pace.
Date: Sep 14th, 2007 4:02:19 pm - Subscribe
Mood: sublime
RaNDoM ThOuGhT: Me l World ll

So…now that my political picture is painted perfectly clear, I can adjust the frame and leave it somewhat off-center.

Band practice went really well last night. My band is an acoustic-folk project and screams "emotional" in the worst way - but it's full of meaning and deep-rooted melodically-engineered feeling. Eventually, after we've digitalized our sound (put it online), I'll start up a MySpace and post the link up here so you can catch the breeze of some modernly uplifting, but somewhat depressing singer/songwriter compositions that I've pieced together.

Musically speaking, I've set some pretty obtainable goals. I don't really care to be famous, and hell, money's great, but I'd play for free - location permitting. I know this is cliché, but making music is so much more to me than just parties and an unlimited supply of attractive groupies. I want to touch people with my words. I want to save your life - as music has saved my life. Not in a religious way. In a spiritual way.

It's channeled me to re-think the suicide setup. It has taught me so much during the instrumental periods in my life where ending it all was the easy way out. More than anything - it's shown me that other people have been where I've been, and everything will eventually be okay.

Some people's parents wrap them in a blanket of warmth, securing this premise. Some people have their religious idols to reassure them.

I have my music.

/jaime

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September 11th, 2007
Date: Sep 11th, 2007 6:34:41 pm - Subscribe
Mood: toxic
RaNDoM ThOuGhT: Me l World llll

truth (trooth)
noun.
1. Conformity to fact or actuality.
2. A statement proven to be or accepted as true.
3. Sincerity; integrity.
4. Fidelity to an original or standard.

Today I offer the world solace in its search for the truth. I'm happy to see a few groups and organizations dedicated to questioning the "truth".

I noticed something that kinda hurt my heart as I drove down Metcalf, near the Corporate sector on Outlook. I noticed not one American flag is at half mass today. While everyone recognizes this day as a day of loss, I think everyone has pretty much moved on and written off the reminder that we, regardless of fault, at some point in our lives, are seconds from dying. My thoughts are with the lives lost in 9/11, and if I was anything more than a computer technician, I'd supply much needed funds to the friends and family that lost loved ones during this tragic bookmark in history.

There is a lesson to be learned, an upside to every downward-spiraled story, a happy ending and a note-worthy-mention in a sad song: Live free. Love free. Die, but journey well.

This is not as good as it gets. America is not okay, and you should never be satisfied. I will never settle, and as an American with a well-oiled thought process, I will never rest. I won't allow a government fueled by fast cash and control over the majority to drown me in lies and fog my perception with notions of "terrorism" and "justice-minded" acts of war.

I won't, because I can't. I hope you won't either. We are stronger than the government. We are smarter than the government, and we fight with something much more damaging than the pen or the gun - our hearts.