the >> button on your ipod

what is it for? obviously the function is to advance one from one song to the next, whether randomly or not is up to the user.

however, if the ipod is YOURS, then obviously you have filled it with all your favorites tunes and since every song is a good one, you, the owner of this fully customized ipod, have no need for such a button.

and yet, i find myself using this button quite frequently. i do not know why. i have deleted all the music previously on this device, and replaced it with my own selection of quality sound. nevertheless, i am jumping from song to song like a SPED kid with ADD.

it seems that, once one has a perfectly suitable selection of music at his fingertips, nothing is good enough anymore. only the latest addition of music will do for his ears. why is that? did his old songs depreciate in value? actually, i don't believe it is possible for a song to "go down" in value... we do have classics for a reason, after all.

after thinking about this, and listening to my music for a while, i realize the solution is simply to ignore apple's little demon button that is so required for product symmetry. i've begun to slow down and appreciate each song for what it is. i believe that is the way music is meant to be enjoyed, every beat, every note heard and taken note of. beautifully.

oh, and stupid people...

run the world. the simple truth is ugly in nature, yes.

this is simply a rehash of a previous conversation, but i believe necessary to avoid this journal path i've been wandering down.

imagine how boring life would be if everyone lived their life to the best advice they knew:

"how was your day reikai?"

"good, i followed the best advice and my life is on track. how was yours?"

"good, same here."

NOW think about all the stupid stories you've heard lately about, people doing something really DUMB that made you laugh. ironic, no? if everybody was SMART, the world would be boring. strange? yeah. and thus, without your class clowns and morons, the world would probably lack all excitement of dumb humor, or easy entertainment.

quite sad :P

heat exhaustion.

i am ready to move out at this point: my summer has been lame thus far and i'm ready to move on: the people at fitness camp seem nice enough. i don't really hang out with anyone since my life (ALREADY) is soccer 23/6 and my AC is broken, so i basically have been cooking in my house for the past week, NOT hanging out with anybody. i'm also pretty sure i pissed off the last friend i have, the rest are pretty much all fakers.

is my creativity dying because of heat? or what? the absolute worst part of this entire thing is the fact that i will NEVER have this summer back. this carefree, young summer, is slipping by and i can't ever reach back and alter it. (and trust me, i've wished to change my past plenty.)

also, my mother is hovering over my shoulder. since the AC is broken, we left the laptop (soon to be mine?) in the coolest room of the house: living room. so i now am posed with a dilemma. do i switch rooms and blog in the heat or put up with her damn snooping?

hmm.

if you don't know me, you might think i changed rooms and typed that out. i did not change rooms.

but yeah, my social dilemma. its gonna either be hell or very average these next couple of weeks. its already hell, i don't do anything except make friends with going-to-be-freshmen around my block at the community pool in my pathetic attempts to cool off. next week its going to be triple digits the entire week, and we will continute to have practice. i don't know what i'm going to do in the school year, when we'll have 6 days of practice a week. if i don't burn out, i'll just die. :P

it seems an easy life no more for me. (my mother is now complaining about the temperature that i've had to sleep in for 3 nights or so.)

so yeah, if you couldn't tell, if your AC is broken, it becomes all you can think about.

HIGHLIGHT OF MY DAY: seeing ryan ward at wakeland high school this morning as i walked away from the school, having picked up my FINAL transcript. i simply smiled the "hey man!" smile i give all my enemies and he scowled his monkey smile as usual. he was carrying stuff for his mom's classroom, LOL. have fun wasting 2 more years of your life in high school, asshole. wish i could have thrown an elbow instead.





this is becoming a journal. this is pathetic.

the most unlikely source

started this blog. i never would have guessed an ex-cheerleader would have inspired this. nonetheless, here it is. modelled after thomas gore and his awkward greatness, filled with my thoughts only.

a strange thing happens when i created this blog. as i am writing this, i can seem to only think about the blog itself, versus any ideas i formerly had about writing. i feel compelled to explain my every action; as though this were not MY format and MY place to write.

as soon as i overcome this obstacle more substantial and personal thoughts will ensue, but as for now, i must tip my imaginary hat to katlin stewart for hitting the head of hypocracy's nail. well done; but the congratulations must be cut short: my own thought is about to take root.

technology and ignoring people: these do not go together. there is bound to be a problem, especially when technology was created for the purpose of linking people. at the risk of sounding closer to the "loser" end of things, ignoring somebody through technology is complete chickenshit.

reading a text and ignoring it is like having somebody ask you something, looking them in the face (meaning you "read" their message) and then turning away and not saying anything. imagine if that happened to you in real life. in fact, i don't think anybody is badass enough to do that to anyone in real life where it couldn't be played off, attributed to loud music or some other vague interference.

ahem. is this the extent of a blog, a lengthy facebook-status-esque bitching? please tell me no.