while eating the awesome lunch my sister prepared for me, we discovered my eyes are like super bloodshot and have these weird pink patches on em. i dunno what they are, but it feels like they've been constantly itchy and burning for like a week now. so that's something new with me. hey, this wil be bending a rule. but tblog's very own krazedone, and my only fan and most likely the only person that will be reading this post has challenged me to write some poems. i accepted on the grounds of being bored and thought it could be fun. so here's one i came up with recently. whatcha think?
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believe me i don't know what's best
we all have our troubles and struggles within ourselves
the birds circle overhead, the axe is ready to drop
inside a glass breaks
the sun creeps in through the clouds
the birds stop
looking overhead and looking back down
march to the beat or so that's the plan
same spot, same little town. same smile, same frown

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it's ok. at least it's good for a laugh. i'm no connor oberst or morrissey or someone who actually has a way with words. oh and just yesterday i realized i've been playing the guitar for almost 5 years and there's like not a single photo in existance of me playing, except for the magic fingers photo. so here's one. consider it a christmas gift or something. from me to you. if you consider it a gift.

no posts for a while. but i've been busy and out of town and what not. christmas was sorta different this year. i never like traveling at all, but i had to travel for christmas, because that's where everybody was. and the funny thing about this post is that nobody pays attention to my personal blog, so i can kinda say whatever's on my mind. i got a pretty good haul on gifts. i got TWO melodicas. a melodica is like a wind powered keyboard. that's the best way i can describe it. see the picture below of me being lame with the melodica. i got dvds, mitch hedberg gear, elephant related accessories, and candy. i'm trying to keep it vague so as to include everyone in the general gift appreciation. my brother jump kicked me directly in the phone located snuggly in my pocket, thereby disabling the fragile little screen. so i haven't been able to read the 50 billion text messages or so i get a day. sorry people. i shall get a new phone tomorrow and hopefully things will be back to normal. though none of the people that txt me read this blog, i think. ok so the weird thing about this christmas is that i can feel the awkward tense moments my family seems to have now. it's like we're all the same, but just EXTREME versions of ourselves. we're all going in our own directions and we're all tired of conforming to each other in order to satisfy everyone. so that's basically how i see things. did everyone else enjoy their vacations? i...sure..did.

well, here's my xmas present to the bloggers. a picture of me being an idiot playing the melodica. and a picture of my unnamed elephant bouncy yoyo. sorry, they're a little dark.

the elephant:

hey. the new short film has been posted on student. go there and give it a review. it's starring me, as the hot lead. hope u enjoy.

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some screens from it, yes that's me. ;p

not much news to report this week. my brother is flying into town late friday nite. i've composed a big list of everything music related according to me, and i'll post tidbits of it for the rest of the year and into the new year (there's LOTS.) it'll give everyone a small taste of the music i'm into. so i read this massive article on my fallen hero, elliott smith. it was really sad. talked about how huge of a drug addict he had become. a doctor guy who had treated him said that elliott had actually become IMMUNE to hard drugs. he'd never seen anything like it before. but elliott cleaned up big time and stopped everything cold turkey. the drugs, prescribed medicines, caffeine, and even red meat. and in the process of that, committed suicide. but it doesn't seem like a huge shock to me now that i've seen how many times he threatened to do it in his life. it was so very sad. i'd give anything in the entire world (i know this phrase is lame and stuff) but i'd give it all to have his voice or the ability to play guitar like he did or any instrument he did. i'd trade it all for that. for everything about elliott, there's a fantastic website. go visit and see for yourself. http://www.sweetadeline.net" title="http://www.sweetadeline.net" target="_blank"http://www.sweetadeline.net

look at skyy's blog to see a picture of her super cute puppy dog thing. http://skyy.tblog.com" title="http://skyy.tblog.com" target="_blank"http://skyy.tblog.com

and now, one of the categories for my list.

today is my sister's b-day. she isssss 26? yeah i think that's right. so happy birthday sis, i still haven't bought your present as of 9:23am but yeah, i'm getting it today. i can't mention what it is really, cuz what if i can't purchase it in an orderly fashion today? also my dad's in town and he's going xmas shopping with me cuz i still haven't bought any presents for anyone at all. yesterday at work they walked us into the back room and told us to pick out 10 dvds for ourselves. they stepped aside to reveal a table full of TONS of B movie dvds. one of the movies i picked up was the scorpion king. so my friends and i watched it last night, and it was possibly one of the cheesiest crappy movie ever made. the rock has like.... 10 minutes of dialogue tops. all he does is say like 1 line once a scene. like "you're... dead." or like "take that!" and he didn't even do a rock bottom! my brother told me the entire movie was like him doing a rock bottom on a thousand extras. he didn't do one. though from what we counted, he did 3/4 of a rock bottom. and that's an added total from the whole movie. so after the show, we set up all these cushions and we did rock bottoms on each other. though nobody did one to me, cuz i wouldn't allow it. only i give rock bottoms. we also discussed the fact that the rock's real name is dwayne johnson. so his move really wasn't the rock bottom. it was "the dwanye johnson bottom." take that!

ps, here's a picture i took a while ago and well, i'm just shamelessly putting it here cuz i have no where else to put it.

today at work i got to talk to 3 bosses at once, and show em how i do this program thingy entering hospital type information. i had to show 2 of em that i could do it without their help and i had to show the other one HOW to do it. heh. so that was cool. also tasty ipod girl exchanged more words with me today than ever. she totally loves or hates me. prolly hates. however, i was wrong on my prediction that she listened to the shins. however, i was right in guessing that she'd seen garden state. which suprises me cuz garden state is packed full of the shins. we were listening to em before that! :p ummmm this lady's name on a magazine order was OOPSIE PUCKETT. i mentioned that on the liberty's kids blog http://libertyskids.tblog.com" title="http://libertyskids.tblog.com" target="_blank"http://libertyskids.tblog.com... so here's your picture. it was taken october 31, 2004. it's the original lineup of the magic fingers! that's spencer, the neighbor kid on trumpet. simon my best friend in the white shirt, managing. me on crappy old guitar rocking. and simon's younger brother travis (wesley) on viola and weird hat/trenchcoat. it was one of the best night's of my life and we brought in over 20 lbs of candy between the 4 of us!

ps, sorry for the photo quality, as you can see i didn't take it. but you get the general idea.

i was gonna post a picture of the original magic fingers today, but i'm too lazy to get my camera from my car. maybe i'll edit this post later with the picture, but prolly not. there's a couple work related junkies that i'll report. just lame stuff. somebody's last name i found was mcweeny. so lame. ha. but i still fall for that kinda humor. umm what else. oh yeah it was freaking weird! i was listening to some music and twilight by elliott smith came on and i looked at the address i had to type in and the people lived on twilight road! freaking weird huh?!?!!? i think it's crazy. one in a million there. so those are my work stories.
yesterday we tuned skyy's drums, http://skyy.tblog.com" title="http://skyy.tblog.com" target="_blank"http://skyy.tblog.com or at least tried to tune em how we thought sounded good. either way they sound quite a bit better than they were. that's mostly what we did there. i can't really remember what else. who dips a corn dog in fry sauce? nobody! nobody! we've done lots of work to the liberty's kids blog, so check that out if you've been slacking. it's really worth your time, especially with us starting phase 3 today. http://libertyskids.tblog.com" title="http://libertyskids.tblog.com" target="_blank"http://libertyskids.tblog.com... it snowed today but didn't stick to the ground. which is good. but i wasn't particularly dressed for the weather, so i froze pretty good.

oh and i remembered it was my sister in law's birthday at 11 oclock last nite and i also remembered it the day before, but it was too late to call last night and pointless to call the day before. they never check this blog, but i'll wish AMBER a happy birthday! dec 6th. 1 day late. and i'm too poor to buy a present, so maybe everyone in my family who reads this blog and talks on the phone more than me can relay her the message that she got a public birthday acknowledgment from the one and only (me) will be good? yes? i'll do better next year.

hey here's a new post. and it'll be better than skyy's. http://skyy.tblog.com" title="http://skyy.tblog.com" target="_blank"http://skyy.tblog.com we hung out friday and yesterday. we watched eternal sunshine, it was even cooler than i remembered. and you catch a lot of stuff on the 2nd time that you don't get on the first time. on friday we bought some hair dye for skyy, cuz i like darker hair better and she wanted darker hair. so we got this cool golden brown and it totally worked like a charm on her. but that's not where the story is. it's all in who we bought it from. we stood there in this checkout line and the checker had her back turned to us for literally about 3 minutes. she was just standing there sorta chumming around with this other lady. she's this older, short japanese lady. so she's got this total japanese accent. ya know how L's turn to R's. and she starts saying stuff like "arrr, hair dye. she don't need that. she aHready beautiful. i can see that on the inside. why you makin her-uh dye her-uh hair? you two getting married? she aHready beautiful." stuff like that. it was quite weird. but yeah her hair turned out really good. and the movie was good cuz my juju fish were way better than the sour gummy worms. i love them, the fish. oh and if you haven't already seen, check out the liberty's kids blog! it's linked on the left. we have some big stuff going on. one of the liberty's kids has moved on. go and see. and here's what will make my post better than skyy's. it's this pic i took from crappy st. george. nice colors though. like a calendar!