| to those who have been wondering |
[Dec. 26th, 2008|05:38 pm] |
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| | Aussitot Mort - Le Kid De La Plage | ] |
I've been using a blog lately. I kind of stemmed away from livejournal a bit. Why? I have no idea.
Anyways, here is the blogspot link:
waterflowsunderthebridges.blogspot.com
maybe ill start posting on both, who knows. |
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[Nov. 21st, 2008|10:31 am] |
get up kids reunion tour 09
yes. |
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[Nov. 21st, 2008|09:52 am] |
Had one of those days
When you wanna try heroin,
Drunk driving,
Some form of soft suicide
Sitting in silence and
Staring at ceilings
Or peeling the paint off
Of things to confide
Maybe someday |
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| Fuck. |
[Oct. 31st, 2008|12:46 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  blah | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook | ] |
So after I got out of class at 3:45 today I witnessed something sad.
While waiting to go home at the bus stop I saw a squirrel frantically running around in the rain on the street. I would argue that it was doing so because they are not used to having their habitat fragmented by products of industrial civilization: roads and the monsters that thrive on them (I am guilty of driving one of these monsters). As it approached the sidewalk it quickly turned around and ran for the road again. As it saw a car approached it frantically ran around again and the next thing I knew I saw the car run over its back side. I saw the poor creature hurry with its front two legs to the sidewalk where it slowed down and stopped moving so quickly as it got to the dirt. People started staring and getting closer. Obviously it wasn't going to retreat because it didn't have the space to. At that point I knew it was destined for death and I wanted to slit its throat to die quickly but didn't have a knife to do so in such a manner. Even if I did have one I knew it would have been hard to with so many people around who would have probably scowled at such an act. I guess I could talk more about this but it basically comes down to this:
Fuck Civilization. |
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| I love Santa Cruz |
[Oct. 27th, 2008|10:49 pm] |
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| |  tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Owen - That Tattoo Isn't Funny Anymore | ] |
Yesterday was nothing short of beautiful due to the migration viewing of the Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) and a Great Egret (Ardea alba) down at Natural Bridges. Not to mention I was there with the person I have a crush on. I haven't posted on this for awhile. I felt that this was worth it.
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[Sep. 23rd, 2008|09:46 am] |
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| |  excited | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Good Luck - Stars Were Exploding | ] |
So yesterday I found the best thrift find of my life: a Deluxe Edition Scrabble set for 3.79.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 10th, 2008|01:19 am] |
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| | good | ] |
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| | Gillian Welch - Good Til Now | ] |
Things have gotten a little better.
I got a job at Pacific Wave today.
I start tomorrow.
School starts soon.
I'm looking forward to it. |
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[Sep. 1st, 2008|10:46 am] |
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| | blah | ] |
| [ | music |
| | United Nations - General Figment | ] |
No longer in love.
Why: her excessive consumption of alcohol and and the frustrations she exposes while intoxicated due to the existence of civilization.
Fuck the world. |
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| UNITED NATIONS |
[Aug. 27th, 2008|11:43 pm] |
IF YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO THEM ALREADY THEN GO LISTEN TO THEM.
GEOFF FROM THURSDAY, DARYL FROM GLASSJAW, AND BEN FROM CONVERGE ARE IN THE BAND.
AND THEY ARE TOTALLY PLAYING SCREAMO/GRIND TOGETHER.
LIFE RULES. |
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| Happy. |
[Aug. 26th, 2008|10:59 pm] |
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| | loved | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook | ] |
I'm in love and she loves me. I haven't felt this good in years. |
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[Aug. 25th, 2008|12:31 am] |
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I know that this post is delayed but here are the details about my travels:
Seattle
So Seattle was fun, but not as fun as it was when I was there last summer. This time I flew into Seattle and hung out for a few days and then hung out for another day after getting back from Vancouver, BC. I didn't really do much aside from eating good vegan food (Waywards, Mighty O's, Falafels, etc) and watch that corny movie called Step Brothers. I had the chance to meet a few new people as well which is always nice. After getting back from BC I got to see my friends from Fell Voices (Santa Cruz black metal band) play a show at a house in Seattle. It was rad seeing them play in a different state and hanging out with them as well. Good fucking times. In addition to them I hung out with an awesome friend that I made in the dorms named Jenna who is probably reading this. Like, I said, it's great to see familiar faces when traveling!
/Langley/Vancouver, BC
Vancouver was amazing, but the trip there was not due to the mighty mighty customs awaiting the our ride at the border. My friend who was a BC resident had no problem getting through but I got a lot of shit before getting through. It sucked. Anyways, after getting through the border we went to my friend Sean's house in Langley. Langley is located about south-east of Vancouver is pretty close to the border. Sean's house was in the countryside part of Langley (south I believe) and was fucking beautiful. He lived next to an awesome lake where a gravel pit used to be. Natural springs sprung up from the gravel pit and eventually created the lake over time apparently. After getting to his house he took me on a ride on one of the rowboats he had at the house. I was way stoked to be out in the middle of a lake on a boat even though it wasn't that big. In the middle of it was this small island and when Sean told me to examine the tree I noticed two types of Herons that were nested within the tree. Fucking amazing. After hanging out in Langley I spent the coming two nights in Vancouver at Jenell's apartment. The same place where I stayed back in December. The only difference this time was that it wasn't snowing and she had a new roommate with a stupid ass cat that was it heat and didn't shit up. SO ANNOYING. Anyways, the trip consisted of the following: me enjoying sushi at a restaurant (the act of doing so is new to me and I discovered i love yam rolls), the beach, making stupid jokes with jenell, bungees burritos(sp?) and hanging out with jesus bong sean.
Olympia
So from Seattle I got a ride to Olympia for the Fell Voices show that Marrow was playing along with Derek's band Deepen the Wound. I was excited to see the Olympia kids there along with Derek who did not expect to see me there. I also happened to run into an awesome friend who I met in Santa Cruz when I had first moved here. I didn't expect to see her and she didn't expect to see me either so it was a great feeling! Anyways, the show ruled and afterwards ruled even more when we went to this kid James' cabin in the town of Shelton which is relatively close to Olympia. I got a ride with Lawson and one of his friends and didn't expect to know anyone at the Cabin but it turned out that Jeff who I met in Bremerton last year was there and I was stoked. Josh and Tony were there which was cool as well. Anyways, the cabin was the edge of a lake which all the kids went swimming in at night following fire roasted veg dogs. I didn't jump that night but I totally did the next morning. It was freezing but the feeling of jumping off of the dock and into the lake was amazing and movie-like. Picking fresh huckleberries afterwards was as well. DELICIOUS. From Shelton, everyone went back to Olympia and it was pretty much a huge hang-out sesh. I had the pleasure of staying at Jeff's pad which was right below James' pad. I met tons of rad kids out there altogether and am actually of thinking of moving out there when I am done with school. I'm kind of excited about the thought of that. It's beautiful up there.
P.S. I saw Black Breath at a friends house there and they are fucking AWESOME. The last time I saw them they definately weren't as good as they are now.
Eugene
From Olympia I took a train to Eugene where I met up with my Aunt and her family. It was great spending time with family members while traveling. It's a good feeling. Especially when you get to eat amazing traditional Indian food which is all homemade. In addition to homemade indian food I also got to eat at Pizza Research Institute for the the first time (FINALLY). Every other time I had tried to go there they had funny hours or were closed for the holidays. I'm glad I finally got to go because it was seriously the BEST FUCKING PIZZA OF MY LIFE. I recommend that anyone who is vegan to go eat there sometime in their life. Other things I did in Eugene: went to the county fair and hung out with my cousins!
Portland
From Eugene I headed to Portland where I would spend the last 3 days of my trip. This trip to Portland was definately my best experience there yet. 10x better then last summer! I met some awesome people through mutual friends that I stayed with. I also saw two of my good friends randomly at a Square Dance in the SE part of town. So fucking random to see people you know in different parts of the country. I guess similar interests of events unite us eh? My friend Melanie from Arizona was also there while I was and it was good seeing her as well. She's pretty rad and share some similar interests. Also saw my old roommate but lets not talk about that, he's kinda screwed up in the head. I think I'm totally rushing this part of the post even though there is a lot to talk about. Maybe because I'm falling asleep. If you want to hear more then just ask me. I'm fucking beatttt.
P.S. Sweat Pea Bakery in Portland = Best Vegan Desserts Ever!
( Here are some pictures to end the post!! ) |
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| BACK FROM TRAVELING. |
[Aug. 17th, 2008|10:38 pm] |
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| | Mihai Edrisch - Oublier | ] |
So I just got back from traveling today and now I'm sitting at my parents house in southern california. I guess I am technically still traveling since I won't be back at my "home" in santa cruz until later this week.
This is just a brief update. A mega-post about my travels will be posted soon depending on how much I procrastinate. It will probably be up by this coming sunday. |
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[Jul. 24th, 2008|05:52 pm] |
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| | New Burial Year Band Recording | ] |
So the last week has been interesting. Spent 4 days and 4 nights of it in the bay area, particularly Oakland. All I had was my bike and bag. It was quite fun biking everywhere I needed to go. Definitely a place that I wouldn't mind living in after I'm done with school. While I was there I hung out with a lot of awesome people and met some rad new people. I also thought a lot about my current personal life; a lot which had to do with my awkwardness with crushes/relationships and my poor experience with it all. I looked a lot in which the way I grew up has shaped my awkwardness up until this day. I don't know how much looking back on things will help me but I have definately felt a raise in my confidence level in the last few days. Now it's up to me to use it from now on.
Anyways, now I'm back in Santa Cruz until the end of the month (with the exception of the Pulling Teeth show tomorrow @ gilman) and then I will return to the bay again for the Portraits/Yaphet Kotto show. From that show I'm getting a ride straight to Vancouver, BC with a friend who is driving his van down for the show with a bunch of his Canadian friends. Let's just say I got lucky with the ride. From Vancouver I will make my way back down to Santa Cruz in a period of 2 to 3 weeks. Hopefully it works out okay. I'm stoked to travel the northwest again. I love it up there.
LAWSON, if you are reading this then you better be ready to hang out duder. |
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| an update on my life |
[Jul. 15th, 2008|11:38 pm] |
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| | good | ] |
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| | Battery - Who Are You | ] |
So it has been awhile since I updated since I have been traveling the last few weeks (mostly with family). Most of the traveling has been pretty fun with the exception of being around my sister while in Georgia who always makes family trips difficult and full of drama
At the end of June I went to Phoenix, AZ with Heather to visit Drew and hang out in general. Phoenix was REALLY hot. Even at night. There has been so much development there that the heat stays trapped at night from the concrete that absorbs it during the day. In such an area of that type (without the concrete) there is usually a large temperature drop at night. In Phoenix, it stays in the high 90s. Sad. On day 2 Drew took us to Sedona which is about an hour and a half north of Phoenix. It is located in area of red rock / high desert while encroaching on pine forest which you can find in Flagstaff. There we went a stream that a pool at a certain point in the stream where people cliff jumped. There were two main jumps, a 15 foot one and another that was about 25 feet. I jumped twice from both. It was tempting but really fun and refreshing. The water was so nice in that heat. It got a little weird when in started raining for 10 minutes randomly. Arizona definately has some weird weather events! Drew told me about the monsoons that come through during the summer. I totally want to see one some day! Anyways, that was the main highlight of my Arizona trip. The people there rule and I totally am willing to come back in the near future. I really felt at home around all the people there.
On the 2nd I headed to Atlanta, GA for my aunts wedding. It was good seeing alot of my family from my Grandma's(dads side) of the family. I was happy to see my aunt get married to someone she enjoyed as well. Aside from the wedding festivities I went to Alabama for a day to visit my Grandparents from my moms side. My grandma recently had a mild stroke and was seeing double vision for a bit. Luckily it wasn't too serious. It was good seeing them since I don't see them much these days. Overall, Georgia and Alabama were great. The weather wasn't too bad. I saw lightning bugs/fire flies, and it was green everywhere (I saw a lot of pine and maple species of some sort and a bunch of american chestnuts. beautiful)!
From Georgia I went back home to LA for a few days and then headed for Santa Cruz to move into my new place on the 10th. I love my new home, it's beautiful. I recommend coming for a visit. My parents (along with my Grandpa) came that night too but in a separate vehicle. I hung out with them at night and then the next day we headed to Tahoe for our family reunion on my dads side of the family. I dropped my car off in Davis and the trip continued from there. The drive to Tahoe after getting through Sacromento and its suburbs was beautiful. Pure sugar pine forests once we passed Placerville. I was in love and I wasn't even there yet. It was even better when I got there aside from the stateline area which I was staying a few miles from. Luckily the resort the reunion was at was far enough from the stateline to be quiet. We were on the Nevada side of the stateline although I crossed over to the California side alot when random members of the family went hiking or boating. Although there are alot of people in South Lake Tahoe, I had a good time with the recreation offered. I also had a great time hanging out with my family in general, especially my younger aunts and uncles. I feel like my bond with them has definately gotten stronger since the last reunion. Maybe because I have aged. I also got to know the names of the rest of my family as well. Hopefully I will remember them the next time I see them.
After saying my goodbye's to family in Tahoe my family dropped me off in Davis where I hung out with a good high school friend for the day. We biked around Davis and ate some awesome falafel, biked more and then ended the day with a nice swim in the pool. On the way back to Santa Cruz from Davis I stopped by Walnut Creek to see two friends who were in town. It was good seeing them for the half hour I spend with them. I also happened to run into an awesome friend named Jackson who happened to be working at the Whole Foods there. Such a positive dude, I get stoked every time I see him.
I got in to Santa Cruz in the evening yesterday and just unpacked more. Today I finished unpacking most of my shit. All I have to do is go get some of my techonological crap from my aunts house like my record player (crucial!). I continued my day by hanging out at the boardwalk with friends, eating burritos with brittany and then going on an awesome bike ride with her to capitola. i need to keep riding far distances to cure my laziness. its fun. there aren't really that many people to hang out with in santa cruz right now, I should find some new friends. as of now I have tessa, brittany, erik, and a few other people to hang out with when they aren't busy.
I'm done for the night and can't rant any longer. Goodnight!
-Priyesh |
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[Jun. 26th, 2008|12:52 am] |
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Buried Inside lyrics are fucking brilliant. I'm stoked that they are writing a new album.
These lyrics are from Chronoclast (2004).
1. Introduction
[Instrumental]
2. Time As Ideology
Let loose the clockwork dogs. Pathological believers, faithful servants. Reduced to servomechanisms with lock-step discipline and knee-jerk obedience. Reduced to time-reckoners with Newtonian mechanics and a Promethean mandate. Polishing and decorating each ideological cage. Notch by notch, hammer by hammer, escape from freedom. Prognosis: ideologies are habits of thought that defy thought and enable people to avoid thought. Airborne contagions, communicable plagues, towing the weary down river like rudderless wrecks, and we are all sick with them.
3. Time As Methodology
[Instrumental]
4. Time As Surrogate Religion
Hell-bent on standardization; on Cartesian deliverance. Time is the primary socializing tool. Indelibly imprinted and structurally biased. We are domesticated creatures of technical abstraction. If rationalism/reductionism is our religion, then time keeping is our benediction. Reified and ratified in fixed ideas and solid state circuitry. This baptism took place on the hinges of history by the faithful who made repression a cardinal requisite. By the faithful who made the timepiece as holy as the cross. Hell-bent on standardization: the wheel keeps turning and we all turn with it.
5. Time As Imperialism
The calendar year is an imperial narrative. The seven-day week is an imperial infliction. Circannual holidays are imperial flag-posts. Mechanical time is an imperial installation. The merchant workday is an imperial offering. Greenwich MeanTime is an imperial sanction. The looming weight, uniformly imposed; as albatross and as anchor. The new time-imperialists will get their way with those left: the rural, the feral, the frail. Feed them a thread, that leads to a string. They'll follow the string, until it leads to a rope, and from that rope every vestige of what was will be hung by the neck.
6. Reintroduction
[Instrumental]
7. Time As Abjection
Time is the defacer. Time is the devourer. The grand mediator of effect and the prosthesis to which we depend. Time is the defacer. Time is the devourer. The harnessed horse of reason and the place where meaning collapses. Borders are constructed, divisions are demarcated. The essence of science is control, but the essence of control is loff of. Neither subject nor object, time is abject. As any crime shows the fragility of the law, as any corpse shows the fragility of the body, time bares fragility of the symbolic order. The violent revolt of being.
8. Time As Automation
[Instrumental]
9. Time As Commodity
Mute protest of a new bastard form. Indentured to Mammon, further bondage is bore. Free market existence under free market terms. Secured at birth and bred as fresh livestock. To the power brokers of hypercapitalism, our lives are on the auction block. Make way for the experience economy, make way for the access economy, make way for the new time-currency, welcome it all like the coming of Rome. Something is provided for all so that none may escape. Spatial gives way to the temporal so that none may escape. Value is wrought in the abstract. While there is a time poor class, we are in it; while there is a mutinous element, we are of it; where there is a life that must be bought, we are not fucking free.
10. Time As Resistance
Time politics are power politics. No denial, no exception. The fallacy of science and tech is its complete objection. All technologies are biased, this the Decadists knew: bringing a revolutionary backwash that flooded more power turbines for the clockmakers, the foremen, the officials, and the megamachine. But the seams will split. The myth will spoil. The monolith will crack. The soil will turn. Death comes in time. Death comes with time. |
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| Individualism Frustrates Me. |
[Jun. 25th, 2008|10:32 pm] |
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| | Gather - I Hate Ayn Rand | ] |
Individualism Frustrates Me.
'Individualism' is the mentality that you don't owe anyone anything.
"Don't tell me how to live my life and i won't tell you how to live yours" - Fuck that Manifestation of living in a capitalist system
Everyone is just looking our for themselves
We shun and ignore the one that need our help but our action affect everyone around us
And the choices we make have very real consequences
And the thing you demand and the things you take for granted
Convenience for you could be the result of another's life
Step out of you little world... And open your eyes and your hearts
A luxury for you could be the result of another's suffering
Can you trace the origins of what you consume back to torture and abuse
Never stop questioning
The unexamined life is not worth living
This is not PC chit chat
This is what it is to be a human being
Taking shortcuts to happiness will not bring you a lifetime of fulfillment |
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[Jun. 9th, 2008|11:32 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | Loma Prieta - Worn Path | ] |
ampere was awesome last night.
loma prieta was amazing. grab their new lp "last city" if you can. seeing them live fucking rules too. watching the drummer blew me away. they also did a sailboats cover which seemed emotional for them since the guy who sang it was in sailboats and had his band mates pass away during a car crash back in 2004.
on another note, school is over for me pretty much. I just gotta write evaluations and do some grading and im set! |
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[May. 29th, 2008|09:07 am] |
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| | The Weakerthans - Everything Must Go! | ] |
I'm in love with the Weakerthans. |
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[May. 23rd, 2008|11:00 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Home | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | awake | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Elliott - Drive On To Me | ] |
Bryan and Jack covered this last night at the cover slam:
I remain speachless.
In other news: I'm doing pretty good. I have some rad friends coming over later tonight. Stoked. |
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| Life rules. |
[Apr. 20th, 2008|11:59 pm] |
Just got home from the Have Heart show. Ever since the demo I have been nothing but amazed by this band and their progress. Good dudes as well.
Anyways, the car ride back with some friends was one of the best ever. We didn't listen to music at all and straight up just talked. A lot had to do with my confidence level and relationships for the first half of the ride. Anyways, they really helped boost my self-confidence up which felt great. Now its up to me to use it. We'll see how it goes. Things are looking good in my life right now and I want to keep it that way. 2008 has been a year of a lot of change and the spring is looking great for a change. I have definitely built up a greater sense of vision and everything is looking my lively this season. Could it be the return of posi-reesh? Who knows. Anyways, I'm off to sleep. Gotta read/study/write a bit in the morning before class.
Goodnight.
-Reesh |
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