Unfortunately, I'm still at home with virtually nothing to do. All my drive to do shit has been drained from me, and all I want to do is hang out with people and sleep. Ugh.
But at least I'm going skiing today. That's always a good thing. Although, it will preclude the proclivity of updates here. Is that grammar right? Good enough I guess.
Ah, my new song was sent to mp3.com, and it should be up there by the time I get back. I'll post a link then, but you guys can just keep going there incessantly and it will eventually pop up.
Sorry again for the nonpost. If only I weren't having a non-life right now.
American Analog Set - Weather Report
Mojave 3 - Mercy
Oh! Interruption! I have this whole list of songs that I want to play on repeat in my room while I burn insense and look at lava lamps and stuff. I just think that would be so cool. And my room would always smell nice and stuff. I don't have enough room for a beanbag chair, but I'd get one of those too. You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
American Analog Set - Gone to Earth
Sigur Ros - Flugufrelsarinn
Sigur Ros - Ny Batteri
Since I'm at home with virtually nothing to do, I figure I'll just catch up on some things here that I haven't had time to do before for whatever reason.
To begin with, my grades.
CS - A
Physics - A-
History - A
Seminar - P
That gives me an even 3.9 gpa. I was really hoping for that 4.0, but god damn physics fucked me. To all of you crazy folk out there that are thinking about taking physics for fun, it's not recommended. It's a lot of work if you'd like to get an A. It's also a lot of frustration when you don't get your A. Hell, it could destroy a dream of being the first person to ever get a 4.0 in EECS. But I suppose that if I couldn't pull an A in entry level physics, getting all A's at Cal would be difficult. I just hope that's not the case.
I don't really know what else to talk about. Hmm. I've been spending time with my parents lately, and that's definitively OK. I like spending time with them, and they're pretty cool, but they're both pretty set into their beliefs and unwilling to change. Case in point, my father, who is utterly convinced that everything about a person is genetically coded, without respect to upbringing. I disagree with this, but it is nearly impossible to have an argument with him about it, because he knows that he is right. Besides, disagreeing with your parents rarely leads to a joyful stay. It leads to fireworks, which aren't much fun when used indoors.
I've been listening to a bunch of new music lately, after a recent trip to Epitonic, which I recommend wholeheartedly. Yes, so go forth and download interesting music. Then you can give out 5 songs a day that I can eagerly download and listen to.
The Curious Digit - Younger Actors
Wheat - Raised Ranch Revolution
Mojave 3 - In Love with a View
The American Analog Set - The Only One
Beta Band - Dry the Rain
The Wuzzles Theme, in all it's glory. Thanks to Mad for this. Lo and behold, a greater searcher than me.
Today was my great gathering, if you missed it, then you simply suck. Anyway, it was pretty decent. We watched Sleeper, Holy Grail and Pulp Fiction, most of which got good reviews. I've discovered that I'm not the best host - I think I prefer being with people on a more one-on-one basis. Regardless, I had a pretty good time, and I got the impression that other people did too. In case you weren't there, I'll give you the highlights.
Well, mostly one big highlight which bears highlighting.
T h e J u d y C a k e ! ! !
So there's this girl we know, goes by Judy. She kind of hates me, but I think (hope) that its a facade. Regardless, as we were inviting people for our gathering, we discovered that Judy's birthday coincided with the day of the gathering (that sounds so dramatic). At hearing such a thing, I said, without thinking about it, that we would get her a cake. It seemed like a good idea, so my co-gathererer and awesome neighbor...actually, she's a bad neighbor, but a good friend...and I went to the supermarket afterwards to buy a cake. I had planned on getting a nice premade cake, and we might even have them write something lewd on it.
Oh, side note. When I was like, 14, I wanted to get Publix to write "Eat Me" on my cake because I thought it would be fucking hilarious. They wouldn't do it, because Publix-folk are prudish and awful. I then wrote it on myself in disgusting handwriting, and felt rather displeased. Back to Judy's cake.
We ended up walking out of the store with the cheapest possible combination of cake-making-things. Cake Mix, and the cheapest possible icing. Cookies and Cream icing, which is cheaper than any other flavor, probably because it is the worst icing idea ever conceived by humanity. So we make this in a Casserole Pan (is it a pan?) and despite greasing the bottom pretty well, had extreme problems getting it out. In fact, a fair amount of the cake in the dish ceased to be cake, and began to be breakaway pieces. Satellites of a former Confectionary Union cast into the throes of the pan. So, most of the cake that left us was the nice hard brown layer on which icing can be spread. So whe had to spread icing over the rest of the cake, which was falling apart. It did not go well.
In fact, since I knew how much Judy seems to hate me, I couldn't stop laughing, thinking about her reaction to my disheveled cake.
"Gee Alex," the feaux-Judy would say, "I see you cared for this cake as much as you did for me, thanks a lot."
I couldn't win, I was thinking to myself as my co-conspirator spread the greyish topping over the broken surface of our cullinary misadventure. Lucky for me, Judy didn't think a man such as I would actually bake a cake. Hah! But she didn't tell us she wasn't coming, and we anxiously awaited the moment when Judy would walk in and get the whole birthday treatment. Eventually, we had to call her, and bribe her to come with the promise of cake.
Anyway, I was quite amused with the Judy-cake, as it was named. After all, it had chocolate chips adorning it in the shape of J-u-d-y. So it was a Judy-cake after all.
Ah, I've decided that if I get 5 requests to post my newest recording to mp3.com, I will do so. It's a demo version of "Call Me", which I wrote yesterday. I think it's better than the lyrics indicate, but if you don't request it you'll never know.
Request it.
I've also been writing less, due to my gathering. Gatherings can be distracting, and while I enjoy being social, I can't be all depressed and produce artsy shit. You can never win, huh?
I have stuff to say about Queer as Folk, but I want to go now. I really have to shit.
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Pinetop Seven - The Fear of Being Found
Requiem For a Dream Soundtrack - (It all sounds the same...)
The Get Up Kids - Action & Action
Spoon - Jealousy
Neutral Milk Hotel - Naomi
