total_peace

so things are going pretty good....getting into college in january, getting ready for the winter...me and jules are doing good. i really wish i could get a job and have money cos its pretty much holding me back from everything i need right now...but oh well, i'll get there

plus me and boo boo are going to roanoke on monday to go to the health food store. i wish we were going alone tho and not with her dad : (

dear transcore,

fuck you and your creepy ass big brother job! had i known that a "livejournal check" would be performed alongside the stated criminal background check, and that the offer would be "withdrawn" because of the content contained herein (which really is none of yall's goddamn business), i wouldn't have wasted my time. thank you for wasting my fucking time.

SINCERELY,
EAT MY FUCK

im probably gonna get a tattoo soon, since my girlfriend is a tattoo artist

was gonna get "hail satin" -- yeah the misspell is intentional, or i was gonna get a pentagram made out of ice cream cones, pizza, and gummy bears

what yall think

got back from bonnaroo, aka pot fest '09

saw some cool bands:

dirty projectors
animal collective
tobacco
murs
snoop dog
al green
public enemy, beastie boys, blah blah blah. mars volta were awesome even though i hate that band. maybe it was the hash i had smoked prior!

bruce springsteen played that suicide cover. tobacco (the dude from black moth super rainbow) played in a neon green arcade and the lights + projections were mind melting.

met some cool people...

OH YEAH I ALMOST FORGOT,

saw lil wayne in the arcade during tobacco's set. no fuckin lie, i was like 5 feet away from him and the circle of people around him moving thru the crowd

me and julia are moving to kingsport, tennessee in about a month or two. she got offered a job tattooing there and will be able to make more money there than owning a tattoo shop here in this tiny town, so that's where we're going. it seems like a pretty cool town tho, it's a part of the bristol-kingsport-johnson city tri city so there should be a lot to do. plus it's only about an hour and a half away from knoxville, which is a REALLY cool fuckin city with cool ass shows almost all the time

last night i was scoping out one of the main venues there, and the history of bands that played there, and made a quick list of sorts

90 day men
adam brodsky
aerogramme
allen bishop
avarus
badgerlore
black dice
black keys
black mountain
blue cheer
carlos giffoni
casiotone for the painfully alone
castanets
cat power
cave in
cerebus shoal
cex
charalambides
cloudland canyon
country teasers
cryptacize
cul de sac
damo suzuki
dead meadow (4x)
dead moon
deerhoof
deerhunter
dirtbombs
don caballero
double muslims (25x)
entrance
erase errata
eyes and arms of smoke
fat worm of error
fursaxa
ghost
grey daturas
howlin' rain
howling hex
hush arbors (8x)
indian jewelry
intelligence
islaja
jack rose
jana hunter
jay reatard
jeremy jay
jeromes dream
john wiese + c. spencer yeh
josephine foster
keith fullerton whitman
kevin blechdom
khanate
kinski
lau nau
lee ranaldo has silver wings
liars
lightning bolt
magik markers
magnolia electric company
mammatus
marissa nadler
melt banana
mi ami
michael hurley (3x!!!!)
midnight snake
moe tucker
monotonix
mouthus
nautical almanac
oneida
orthrelm
oxes
pere ubu
pernice brothers
peter and the wolf
plastic crimewave sound
psychedelic horseshit
residual echoes
rtx
saturday looks good to me
scout niblett
shannon wright
shellac
sic alps
six organs of admittance
skeletons and the girl faced boys
solex
stars of the lid
sunburned hand of the man
sweep the leg johnny
the akron family
the mountain goats
the usaisamonster
the weird weeds
times new viking
tony conrad
tyvek
us maple
vivian girls
windy and carl
wooden wand
yellow swans

so much good shit. not to mention the "big ears" festival they have. i'm also really excited about having a cute little house together with our kitties, and maybe a garden! i just hope it's still as pretty and rural as virginia.

friends

obama or not, i'm still really scared and paranoid living in this country


anyone wanna move out of it and start a commune with me?

you know i've gotta say, if i were to get my girlfriend julia to tattoo me...




julia told me this is considered officially to be the worst tattoo in the world, but i think it's great: the glowing, cryptic green funk coming out of the bottom of the recliner; the dolphins sweet tribal tattoo, the expression on the dolphins face after taking a huge bong rip, the smoke coming out the blow-hole. i love it.

im listening to Dead Meadow at the moment actually...

those watermelon shoes are tight, but these supras are the pills....literally

Akai Mpd 24 USB/MIDI controller - $200.00



M-Audio Fast Track Pro Mobile USB Audio/MIDI Interface - $200.00



Sennheiser HD 25-1 II Headphones - $200.00



KRK RP-8 Rokit Powered 8 Reference Studio Monitor - $400.00 (200 each)



KRK RP-10S Rokit Powered Subwoofer - $300.00



Acer - 20" Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD Monitor - Black - $130.00



total price: $1,430 dollars.


just a basic wishlist. gear-lust comes very easy to me, i could just as easily rack up another grand by throwing in a new laptop, a new computer chair, maybe some other midi controllers. i'll probably end up getting different monitor speakers, those just seemed good at the time, for personal reference.

*edit. plus these

food poisoning is not fun. especially that of the salmonella variety. nasty stuff. and i usually dont even fuck with restaurant chicken, but julia brought me some home and i was hungry. it had to be the chicken im convinced because julia is sick too, and its the only food we shared thru out the day. started with a really intense migraine (which i thought was from smoking bowl after bowl of shitty weed) and about 4 hours later around 5 a.m. i'm puking all over my room and the bathroom. really not fun. this nausea lasted until about 4 pm this afternoon and even still as im writing this, my bones ACHE and can still feel that stuff kicking my ass. sucks, since i just got over the flu and now this. hopefully tonite i can actually get some sleep. so all in all, bitching and moaning aside:

DONT FUCK WITH RESTAURANT CHICKEN

and i really like my girlfriend and her big gold steering wheel.

iv been cooking some pretty damn tasty meals lately that include:

+ cheesy quinoa stuffed bell peppers sometimes with steamed chicken and veggies also
+ mashed sweet potatoes with apple butter and cinammon
+ egg omelet with cheese, tomato, and diced black olives
+ vanilla ice cream smoothies made with frozen blueberries, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries -- though im trying not to have to many of these as they are very delicious!

basically trying to eat right for winter time...food that grows in the ground and takes a considerably longer time to grow -- food that warms you. i'd really like to publish a healthy eating cookbook despite the amount of said cookbooks already available.

so yesterday i went down to the social services office for my interview. i qualified for the maximum amount of food stamps, which means now i get 176 dollars a month free government money to buy food. and they say not having a job doesn't pay!

this whole obama thing is starting to get on my nerves. yeah it's really great and all that bush is about to be out and that mccain didn't win but people are treating this whole thing rather fanatically, and that's fucking scary. sure, he's a smooth talker (almost too smooth) and at least seems a bit more sincere than whiter than white mccain, but even still i think that before we praise him as the saint we want to believe he is, and certainly before we put our trust in him, we need to see some results. lets cool down on the hype until we actually see some change. i dont think governments can or should be trusted no matter how decent the politician seems...because politicians are still puppets, and regardless of democrat/republican, there's still one guy holding both puppets. there are no saints to be found in a 2 party system. and if you vote solely with a "lesser of two evils" mentality then you're a fucking retard (tho i do understand the circumstance).......

haven't updated this nig in a while. no need to. but finally moved my ass out of florida, and better yet, no more melbourne. not that i dont miss my friends there, but that's about it. so now im staying with my best friend in clifton forge, virginia. it's really pretty awesome here and a lot cooler than i expected. basically the town is nestled in a valley between two converging mountain ranges and it's really beautiful beyond words. iv never really seen trees that were dark purple and red orange and the brightest yellows....so unlike florida. im working in a tattoo parlor and skateshop that julia now owns. im pretty damn happy right now we just had a fall festival which is really cool where everyone in the community comes together and sells shit....we bought each other these matching leather bracelets that say NIG NOG lol. hmm what else. there's a skate park that nobody really goes to like a block away from our house which is great.

this morning i had a dream i woke up as franz kafka

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