plastikrokk
Thoughts from a luddite trapped in a digital world.
I hate ska.
Went to the best concert of my life.
Ska is Dead 4 was at the Masquerade this past Saturday night. Among the bands were Mustard Plug, The Toasters, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Taj Motel Trio, 50:50 Shot, and Deal's Gone Bad. Most of these are among my favorite bands.
I'm bruised, beaten up, still having trouble moving my neck properly (got kicked by a crowd surfer), but I would go again if I had the chance.
Seriously, best show ever.
Ska is Dead 4 was at the Masquerade this past Saturday night. Among the bands were Mustard Plug, The Toasters, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Taj Motel Trio, 50:50 Shot, and Deal's Gone Bad. Most of these are among my favorite bands.
I'm bruised, beaten up, still having trouble moving my neck properly (got kicked by a crowd surfer), but I would go again if I had the chance.
Seriously, best show ever.
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The Summation Notation of Life, or (A^i) as i=1 leading to infinity.
It's been pretty rough the past few months. I guess I'm just impatient about getting out of community college and back into a 4-year again.
I dug myself a hole, and it's taken me a good 3 years to work out of it. In fact, I'm still working on it. Long story really, starting with the death of my Grandfather who was really the only person I truly looked up to. That kinda spiraled into depression and academic apathy, and I'm here back at home now and have been for a year and a half.
It finally drew to a boiling point this past week. I have to simply pull my head out of my own ass and start taking responsibility. No more of this 'smart, lazy guy' bullshit.
I suppose I drew this from when I went to an A.A. (Rather, Alcoholics Anonymous) meeting with one of my best friends. No, I'm not an alcoholic, but instead I went to support him. The meeting itself really opened my eyes to the world. I've been sitting in my semi-dazed life just living one day after another, unable to focus of work for much of anything. The meeting opened up with this man whom worked at a $200,000/yr. job as a supervisor. One of his employees, whom he befriended and admired muchly, was killed in a car accident after falling asleep at the wheel, fatigued after months of 12 hour days, 7 days a week. This man was so broken up about it, it rendered him unable to work that day, and he was fired. The young man who died left a baby in the world without a father, and the man was more concerned about this fatherless child than he was about his own well-being. But, he proudly stated in between uncontrollable sobs, that he was not going to drink over it. He wasn't going to let alcohol take control, he was stronger than that. He was going to face his issues head on, at face value, and simply muscle his way through.
That man probably inspired me more than anything I could have read or heard. How, no matter how shitty life can get, this man was not going to back down, but instead stare everything right in the face and deny it's control over him. His story, as well as many others that were shared at the meeting, put my life into perspective that I'm not that bad off, that I can fix myself, and I can even help others along the way.
I've never really been a hard working person. I've always been been effected by the 'curse of the intelligent', or arrogance if you will. I've always slid by, convinced that success would just fall in my lap and I could just roll over and fall asleep while it did it's thing.
Fuck that.
Sure, I don't know what I want to do. Sure, I'll have to quit my lazy attitude and give up a lot of things, but that's the only way I'm going to pull myself back on my feet, because I'm the only person who can.
I dug myself a hole, and it's taken me a good 3 years to work out of it. In fact, I'm still working on it. Long story really, starting with the death of my Grandfather who was really the only person I truly looked up to. That kinda spiraled into depression and academic apathy, and I'm here back at home now and have been for a year and a half.
It finally drew to a boiling point this past week. I have to simply pull my head out of my own ass and start taking responsibility. No more of this 'smart, lazy guy' bullshit.
I suppose I drew this from when I went to an A.A. (Rather, Alcoholics Anonymous) meeting with one of my best friends. No, I'm not an alcoholic, but instead I went to support him. The meeting itself really opened my eyes to the world. I've been sitting in my semi-dazed life just living one day after another, unable to focus of work for much of anything. The meeting opened up with this man whom worked at a $200,000/yr. job as a supervisor. One of his employees, whom he befriended and admired muchly, was killed in a car accident after falling asleep at the wheel, fatigued after months of 12 hour days, 7 days a week. This man was so broken up about it, it rendered him unable to work that day, and he was fired. The young man who died left a baby in the world without a father, and the man was more concerned about this fatherless child than he was about his own well-being. But, he proudly stated in between uncontrollable sobs, that he was not going to drink over it. He wasn't going to let alcohol take control, he was stronger than that. He was going to face his issues head on, at face value, and simply muscle his way through.
That man probably inspired me more than anything I could have read or heard. How, no matter how shitty life can get, this man was not going to back down, but instead stare everything right in the face and deny it's control over him. His story, as well as many others that were shared at the meeting, put my life into perspective that I'm not that bad off, that I can fix myself, and I can even help others along the way.
I've never really been a hard working person. I've always been been effected by the 'curse of the intelligent', or arrogance if you will. I've always slid by, convinced that success would just fall in my lap and I could just roll over and fall asleep while it did it's thing.
Fuck that.
Sure, I don't know what I want to do. Sure, I'll have to quit my lazy attitude and give up a lot of things, but that's the only way I'm going to pull myself back on my feet, because I'm the only person who can.
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Antonyms for Procrastination...
Well, the drawing is nearly finished. I have however permanently stained my hands in soft pastel chalk D:
Seriously, that shit gets everywhere.
Seriously, that shit gets everywhere.
Synonyms for Procrastination.
Holy crap I'm never gonna get this drawing AND my costume done by Thursday. Methinks I'm gonna be up late tomorrow night D:
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