amusing myself

I tend to amuse myself. I joke or say jokes or do little pranks and many times I don't mind enjoying them all by myself. my sense of humor can be pretty twisted and very much mine and I've learned to be ok with it. I have toned it down quite a bit from years ago and even from what I was modeled from my dad. He was a real prankster and apparently didn't mind really messing with people for his amusement. Did I inherit that? like for real? Did I actually learn a thought process or is it something that got carried through genetically? I know I picked up some stuff but is that all?

random thoughts

And what's wrong with random thoughts? If you'd ever had a conversation with me you know that with the topics I talk about I jump from branch to branch like a squirrel goes around a tree, the branches to a different tree and then back. It can be very challenging, I've noticed, to try and keep up. I think it's pretty cool when people start to catch my groove and are able to follow my jumping and hopping and running around. It's like multi-task on conversation. it happens a lot in messaging and sometimes texting. I try, sometimes, I try to walk in around the same branch or explain when I jump. the reasoning being the jump, the connection happens mostly in my brain while I think to myself and many times I forget to set up the topic before hand. hehe. I amuse myself

in the water

It's getting to be time, I don't know if going far or standing near but it's getting to be time. It's been years and it feels like baby steps, sometimes the current pulls up back a bit, when we stop trying to move forward or just try to stay still.

The ocean sometimes has this way of moving you whichever way the current is going while you feel you're standing still. You keep walking against the current, trying to stay in front of your belongings way out in the sand. but before you know it you're back a few steps, if you get distracted you can be a ways away. If the current is strong it can be challenging just walking back the where you were originally. Is there anything in here? Does it matter?

Books and B&N

Sitting here @ Barns & Noble, browsing books, I can't help but feel like books are quickly becoming sort of inefficient. OK I'm talking mostly about books based on current issues or technology. Fiction and self help sort of stuff seem fine but all the others, a good chunk in Barns & Noble, I would never invest in. Like books about the music industry or art business. Yes there's good stuff there but a few months after these book come out they seem outdated. Things just change that fast these days. books about computers or any sort of technology, same thing. I find myself finding periodicals much more useful as I read about these things...and then there's the dark dungeons of the Internets.

Listening to: The Script...didn't I write about them already?

working out vs working outside

I've been going to this gym. Watching all these people working so hard to try and keep in shape. I can't help but think about how we are probably made to have active lives that are physically arduous in order to maintain ourselves healthy by just trying to survive or just live our lives. Not sure we were supposed to figure out a way to spend 2 hours trying to keep in shape. I don't know. Something about all these people sweating while running in place lifting things just to put them back down, and sweating just for the sake or sweating.
I think of this as I hear about some scientists that are working on a TV that can be installed on a contact lens. powered by our body heat and the remote control is the human voice. They also said some "Digital tattoos" could also be developed to allow wearers to literally feel the emotions that the director wants you to feel....I stopped listening @ that point. I'll pay attention more closely if I hear about it again but CRAAAZZYYYYY. Listening to: nothing, I'm watching TV I just said about the eye tv thing. Credit to whoever took the pic i didn't take it.

Changing with the times

I'm so tired of going day in and day out thinking about what to blog. By the time I get home the moment is gone and I end up not blogging. I also have this expectation on myself that I have to post a pic of some sort. I just like the idea a lot and I have so many pics...but then I can't decide. I truly make too much out of this mainly since only like 3 people end up reading these. Today's pics are not very super selections, they just go with what I'm saying, I think.

It amazes me how Ireland just builds upon it's own historic buildings. most of the historic buildings are still being used to official purposes. In one of the pics you can see and old chapel with a not so old building next to it and in the background a brand new building being built. The other pic is the Dublin Castle. The Record Tower was build in 1220s The Chapel Royal was built in 1760s and the rest of the building was finished 1960s. A bit crazy I thought. I chopped the pics a bit so you can see how it was built hopefully, well it makes sense to my brain.

Listening to: Iron Maiden, A Matter of Life and Death....they're huge in Ireland and I like them. Here's a band that has been able to make a very successful career without ever selling out in any way. That's no radio airplay or any kind and the only time their video was ever played on MTV (back when they actually played videos) was on a show that played from 12a to 3a on Sat. The only way their music has truly evolved is in the way that recordings and mixing styles has changed with the times.
See, here's the thing with "progressive rock" The style is known for the way it changes even within a song and...well progresses. So the style lends itself for a whole lot of exploration and evolution without ever sounding like they've departed from their actual root. Well the band members also do solo projects so they can explore further into other styles.

SNL

ARG!! just saw Jason Mraz on SNL tonight. The guy is actually more amazing live than he is on CDs. I started by being mad that I missed him when he came to play in C-ville back in Oct, (yes, we're that cool) and then I was just mad that he was so good. He had an awesome band, played the classical guitar as needed and was vocally flawless, He even added some guts to the singing that is not in the original recording...
I thinks he's a pretty good singer and an excellent songwriter. One of the very, very few artists that has blown me away overall in the last bunch of years, @ least he's just alright with the guitar.

Listening to :Steve martin (still SNL) I think he might've played the second song instead of Mraz. it was funny but...really? WTF?..ok I was wrong. Jason played lucky, pretty awesome 2 songs. I've never taken the time to youtube this guy, why??