Wednesday, June 17, 2009

A Musical Blog

I don't get people sometimes. Some people have horrible tastes in music. If people had better tastes, bands like Nickelback, Fall Out Boy, and many other crappy bands wouldn't be around. I hate the most is that people are afraid to like the music they like. Some people are ashamed to say they like a certain artist because they will get a lot of heat from everyone else that they like a certain artist. That's just silly. Like what you like. Like what is actually good though. Also don't just listen to an Artist just be to be cool. You'll just end up being really stupid. Those are the kind of people who listen to just the singles and claim to be fans. Those people annoy me. I think I can classify some stupid music listening groups:

The Disney freaks: They pledge their allegiance to the Disney corp. and will eat any musical crap they are given. "OMG I love Mitchel Musso's new album. Let's listen to it after we watch Hannah Montana the movie for the 6th time in a row!". I fear for these kids.

The Warped Minds Tour kids: Any scene Hot Topic warped tour sponsored band out there, these kids love unconditionally. Scene kids. 'Nough said.

The Screamers: Any screamo band that is popular out there, they will love. These will go to the show just to go to the show and buy T-shirts of people trying to scream words you cannot understand and being tough guys. These kids are fun to hit the day after a show on the back because their body is destroyed from moshing. These kids are avid slaves to cancer sticks. They smoke all the time and get high later.

Sadly, where I live, indie kids are rare. I have not met an Indie person yet and I'm quite curious to what they are like. If you do know, please tell me. If I have the right tools, I can begin my quest for an Indie person.

Now usually everytime I meet someone, I find out their music tastes. Sometimes I will listen to their musical likes just cause I want to broaden my musical tastes. One thing I can't stand is someone who loves just one certain genre or branch and refuses to listen to anything else. I know I use to be one of those idiots cause I only use to listen to PUNK for awhile but I learned my lesson. Btw, no one knows real punk music anymore. Blink 182, Sum 41, Green Day, The Offspring are not punk! They are only pop punk. Punk are bands like The Hives, The Stooges, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Early Misfits were punk, Billy Talent, and so forth. Just saying cause that is a pet peeve when people say they love punk and don't know shit about punk.

I know this one dumb guy who loves Blink 182 religiously. He is obsessed with Thomas, Travis, and Mark and all their side projects. He has their whole discography and told me he nearly destroyed his room when he heard Blink got back together at the Grammys. I tried to see what he loved about Blink and downloaded their discography. I listened to their early stuff for a few albums and was done. I didn't want to listen to any more cause it was all so bad! So I did what I usually do, get their greatest hits and be satified with it. I'm sticking with the few songs that they got right. Blink 182 really is kind of overated to me.

I also hate people who say they hate rap. They put a label on it that all songs are about bitches and hos. Most of the time it's not. They are probably thinking of hip hop which some artist aren't smart enough to talk about a variaty of things. I find it's hypocritical to say that all rap and hip hop songs are about bitches and hos, cause most rock songs they like are about chicks and getting high(gasp like some rap songs). But each branch has songs that have a diversity of subjects. Some people are just plain stupid and narrow minded. Most rap is very similar to rock. The only difference is they audience and slight different culture.

Before I end this post, it seems all British bands blow American bands out of the water when it comes to having better music. British people are fucking musical geniuses and create beautiful and intellectual music. Don't argue cause you know it's true. Some of the top Brit bands are Oasis, Artic Monkeys, Radiohead, Muse, and so on. Britain rules!

I've come to try to appreciate all kinds of music but some music is just hard to like and shouldn't exist at all.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Hide and Seek With Mr. Sun

The sun hates me I say. Everytime I step outside, I say hello to Mr. Sun. But Mr. Sun is very mean to me. Instead of saying hello politely back at me or complimenting me on how sexy I look, he decides to shine very bright. The sun has an invisible gun with UV rays as bullets. He best likes to shoot me when I'm at the beach the few times I'm in Florida. I'm amazed how some people can't get burnt even they don't need any sunscreen and don't go out in the sun regularly. My girlfriend went down to St. Pete's beach for a week and came back looking a step bellow Cuban. SORRY IF YOU'RE READING THIS BABE! My gorgeous caucasion girlfriend has some Greek and black irish blood in her so naturally she tans very well. I however, have Norweigan and Whelsh blood in me. Both people in both European nations are very pale! We don't tan well! Grrrrrrrr I put sun screen on today very carefully cause I got a little red last time I was in Florida 10 days ago. But like the genius I am, I forgot parts of my neck. This means my neck is sensitive and red while the rest of me is fine. -_- not fair

The Sun is also mean by playing games with me when I don't want to. Mr. Sun will play the hide and seek game with me. He loves hiding during inconvenient hours of my life where he is needed most. He's probably on a date with Ms. Moon or something. So the clouds are left for me to see while Mr. Sun tries to get lucky. I can't ever hide from Mr. Sun cause he is huge and in the sky. I can't really seek Mr. Sun cause if I look up, he shoots me in the eyes with his bright UV bullets and I can't see at all for the rest of my life.


If you're wondering why this blog doesn't make any sense or sounds really f***ed up, it's because I'm very loopy from driving in the car for 6 hours and it's 1: 57 AM. Good night. Beware of the evil sun and his powers to turn you into a lobster!

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The Secret Handshake

I'd like to take this time to write a band recommendation to all you people out there, whether you are hip or want to hip(we all want to be cool, don't we?) I tell all you people to listen to The Secret Handshake. Now just don't go out and pirate their work, actually purchase some things of his. Support up and coming bands. It's ok to steal from huge bands like Muse or Green Day, cause they can afford to be pirated. The Secret Handshake is electropop style of music and is mondo awesome good.

I went to a TSH show last night. It was magnificent. With me at the show was Daniel(alwaystextback) and Zach(thatzak). Btw, subscribe to those funny men while you are reading this blog. It will be worth it. The show was at Swayze's which for some fucked up reason is in the middle of nowhere Georgia. The bad thing about the show is that mostly scene people showed up. Now I use to LOOK scene, but I never acted scene. These other f-words that don't rhyme with ducks acted scene. They look retarded and smoke at least 10 ciggarettes a sitting. While waiting for the show to start outside, I saw a 13 girl smoking(this one wasn't scene but wearing american eagle). Daniel commented, "That girl is going to make a wonderful teanage mother". I agree, there won't be much of an age gap when she has kids at 16 years old so they will get along just great with her lol. Sometimes I enjoy watching people throw their lives away.

But the show was amazing. People were dancing. Louis Dubuc was really energetic and really knew how to get the crowd going. The music was great(except for when he did a cover of Everytime We Touch by Cascada. Daniel made me get over myself so I could enjoy the song). And he did an encore. The music is fantabulous and the lead singer is a great guy.

This is us meating Luis Dubuc, lead singer of The Secret Handshake

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Fear Addict

If you don't know what movie this title is a reference to, it is a reference to Donnie Darko. Donnie Darko is one of the most amazing films I have watched in this lifetime. I can't wait to see the sequel, S. Darko. It's suppose to be about Donnie's sister Samantha(a dancer in Sparkle Motion) something odd years later. It looks amazing.

This blog is about how some people are fear addicts. Patrick Swayze should come to everyone school and preach to them that they should not be held prisoner by fear. Why I say everyone is a fear addict is because a lot of people are afraid to laugh at funny things. I myself lately have been going farther and farther down the road of jokes and silliness with my happiness. I find laughter in everything.

Some things that I may find hilarious is when my brother Zach told me about the book THE MAGIC KINGDOM. The book is a comedy written about terminally ill children going to Disney World. The mere thought of this book makes me giggle and other forms of laughter. Now you may be horrified with me. You may say, "Colson, why on Earth would this be funny? These kids will die." Good question invisible imaginary person I'm talking for, the book is black comedy. NO not black people comedy(Like Johnson family vacation or Barbershop).

Black comedy is a sub-genre of comedy and satire in which topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo are treated in a satirical or humorous manner while retaining its seriousness.

The Onion is satrical humor. Most British comedies are dry humor or smart humor. Important Things by Demetri Martin is nerd/smart humor. These are all great kinds outlets for funniness. But I guess some people are too dumb to appreciate these hilarities. The kind of people who hate the kind of humor you have to pay attention to are pretty much the people who go see Disaster movie and rediculous romantic comedies.

But I would love more people to get into black comedy. It's ok to laugh at tragedies. Don't be a fear addict says Patrick Swayze aka The F***ing Anti Christ(according to Donnie Darko.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Funny Finals

So this week is finals week. Today I took a Lunch final and my Chorus final. We actually don't take a test for Lunch, we just hang out in the cafeteria. People usually bring a ton of video games to play, games, and sometimes musical instruments. I played Rock Band a little and brought Twister. I'm not gonna lie, Twister is pretty funny to see high school kids play. It always ends being gross or sexual. I find it hilarious when two guys are facing off against each other in twister and they position themselves next to the other guy. They make themselves look very homosexual. It's quite hilarious. It's also comical to see a lot of people try to play Twister all at once on one map......You draw the map in your head of what that looks like . lol

I also took my Chorus final. Which was a load of CACK by the way. I didn't know a thing on it because my Chorus teacher hasn't taught us anything on the test. He doesn't really teach people, he guides them through music. So basically to sound good in Chorus, you have to know how to sing before you join the class. That's why I sound mildly mediocre in that class. I joined to learn how to sing, guess I won't be learning anything. My chorus teacher has taught me some stuff but not a lot. I learned how to match pitch and everything after that, I imitate sounds that come out of his throat. During our Chorus show, I lipsynched during the hole thing. I might have sang some notes but mostly did an Ashlee Simpson(except nobody knew I lipsynched and I didn't jig onstage). Nobody knew the answers on the test so he let us use the music textbooks. No one used them anyway because we heard he doesn't count the final as a grade. I heard he just puts them in a file. Idk if that is true cause while I was taking my chorus final, I saw him grading some test. Btw, there are 4 girl choir classes and 1 guy choir class. Guys wear tuxes while we perform onstage, girls wear dresses or some dancing leotard thingy.

Anyway.......they had this ridiculous essay portion at the end of the test. He told us to write a response to one of the questions. I'm a silly bitch kind of kid and so I decided to write a response to all 3 questions. I basically wrote all of them about my friend Mason, who is also in the Chorus class with me. The test is ridiculous so might as well write a ridiculous response too. Never took his test serious. I just tried for some parts but circled random stuff until the essay portion.

Response to essay question 1: Mason F. likes to touch himself at night while singing show tunes from Sound of Music and Kiss Me Kate. He does it with peanut butter smeared all over his face. To be fair to jelly and chocolate, he puts jelly in between his toes and chocolate inside his ears. Sometimes he wears a tiara too.

Response to essay question 2: Mason F. often never wears shoes to school. Most of the time he will wear sandals. He doesn't care to groom his nasty feet but he has told me had gotten a pedicure once. Sometimes I worry about that boy. But I never worry that he will drown in a pool because he is an excellent swimmer.

Response to essay question 3: Mason F. has an incredibly high singing voice. It's very strange because his speaking voice is very low. Mason is in fact able to sing Like A Virgin by Madonna in the same octave as Madonna herself. Mr. S(Chorus teacher fyi) loves Mason's voice . Mason behaves well so I do believe he could be transferred into women's choir. Just don't force him to wear those black dresses. Mason's voice is very lovely. Mason has to go tinkle right now. I suspect he will take a long time in the bathroom because he will be texting all his little friends.




So those were my answers to a Choir final. Yep, I'm a silly boy. ;p

Friday, May 15, 2009

Life Updates

Well to fill you on what has happened since my last post......I got a girlfriend. Her name is Sara and she is wonderful. I met her at school musical rehearsal cause we were both white dancers(and not very good ones I might add) in some scene together. We've been going out for over two weeks now. I say I really adore this girl and it's the first healthy relationship I've been in awhile. The other girls I've dated in the past have been PSYCHO! But Sara is different. She's amazing.

Also, the end of the year is coming up. I truly think it's a joyous occasion. I finally get to be on my own sleeping schedule and be a vampire. Like go to bed at 5 AM and wake up at 4 or 4 PM. I'm not going to miss the people at my school. Cause I will be ACTUALLY making the effort to hang out with my friends that I actually like. Let that be a lesson to you, if you like the people truly as friends instead of school chums, then you'll go the extra distance to spend time with them.

I would put up a pic of me and Sara but she is a little freaked out by me putting her up on the internet and such.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Dia Verde

So it's 2: 28 AM at my friend AJ dad's house. We just watched Yes Man. After watching it, I want to congratulate Jim Carey for making a new movie that doesn't suck. I do think Dick and Jane sucked as a remake of a movie from back in the day. What sucks about Fun With Dick and Jane is that I have it on DVD. I sometimes make bad judgements with DVDs occasionally. Like I still have HULK on dvd at home. Yikes.

So what this blog is about is that I just renewed my love for the Pop-Punk/Alternative band Green Day. For years now, I have been a dedicated fan of Green Day. I'm still waiting for them to release that movie but Billi Jo, Mike, and Tre take to long. So my friend's house gets all these extra channels. I'm watching MTV Hits and they have this show called Artist Collection . Tonight's artist is Green Day and they are showing all of Green Day's music videos. Green Day is the only band that I can honestly out of nowhere name a mininum of 25 songs they have recorded. Want me to do right now? I'm bored so I will anyway. You're reading this as I type it so you can't interject.

1. The Saints are Coming
2. Working Class Hero
3. J.A.R
4. Hitching a Ride
5 I want to be alone
6. Extraordinary Girl
7. Judge's Daughter
8. St. Jimmy
9. Good Riddance(Time of Your Life)
10. Holiday
11. American Idiot
12. Lights out
13. Know Your Enemy
14. Welcome to Paradise
15. Maria
16. She
17. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
18. Longview
19. 409 in your coffee maker
20. Jesus of Surburbia
21. When I come around
22. Basket Case
23. Novacaine
24. Warning
25. Minority
26. Wake me up when september ends
27. Jaded
29. Geek Stink Breath
30. Walking Contradiction
31. Emenius Sleepus(one of the few song Mike Dirnt/Bassist wrote)

I'm bored of listing things now.........

so yeah. I made a list of more than 25 songs. Ha! Beat that. No cheating. I didn't. I wrote this list in a whole commercial break. So about 3 minutes, I think.

My love for Green Day faded a little cause I have a brother who tries to convince me they suck. Like was waiting 5 years for a new album worth it. Answer: YES!(according to Jim Carey). Billi Joe Armstrong dead pans his voice(it has no emotion). Answer: Tom DeLonge sings thru his nose so it's more annoying. Plus I feel the mood of the song anyway thru the music. Billi Joe's voice is perfectly fine. Know your enemy is a lame song and very repetetive. Answer: It takes a couple of listens to fully like and appreciate the song. Most songs in existance are repetetive. Look at the fucking at the fucking Beatles for examples. Good morning! Good morning! good morning! Good morning! Good morning!

They made a whole song out of saying goodmorning.

Check and mate.

I have an obsession of punk music and sub-genres of it so I do appreciate Green Day's contributions to the punk genre with their pop-punk sound. I also like almost any band from California that has a punk aspect to their music. I actually don't consider Green Day legit punk. Saying Green Day is true punk is like saying Anti-Flag is punk. Anti-Flag is not punk, they are faggots with guitars who like making up words that rhyme with America. I've been a Green Day fan for 4 1/2 years and going steady. I have their t-shirt, a poster on my wall, and I know a couple of their songs on guitar and how to sing their lyrics at the same time. I love those boys well enough to dedicate this blog post to them.

It's something unpredictable
And in the end it's right
I hope you've had the time of your life................

Monday, April 20, 2009

Trix Yogurt

Literally, just seconds ago, an idea popped in my cranium. It happened by finding some delicious trix yogurt in the refrigerator. Trix yogurt always has a contest where you can win fabulous prizes. But when I lift the lid, sadly, I'm never the winner. One day, I will win the contest. just like Charley won the golden ticket, I'll win the silver licked yogurt top. It might be a long time before I win. If I did win, I'd be the happiest person in the universe. Though if I won, they may take the prize away from me cause Trix are for kids. =(

Friday, April 3, 2009

Dreams

I have many dreams.
But different kinds of dreams too.

I had a dream last night where I walked into a movie theatre on free Jack Daniel's day. Some irresponsible adult gave me a big cup of Jack Daniel as I was walking into the theatre to see the cinematic adventures playing on the screen. As I take my seat near the front of the room. Next I turn around and see two very attractive blonde girls giggling and talking to eachother behind me. All of the sudden, I notice that from across the aisle from those hot girls is one of my best friend, Royce, and my ex-girlfriend(whom I loathe being around) are sitting there. My ex seems to know the blonde girls and talks from across the aisle. So the girls are laughing and chatting to eachother and I want to invite my good friend Royce to sit by me, but I don't want my ex to see me. No one notices me and I was spying on them in my seat. I want to also talk to and try to woo the beautiful blonde girls. I thought to myself I should invite them down to sit to me and have a chat. I could also drink some of the Jack Daniels to lose some inhibitions or offer the girls some.

That's the end of the dream before I was woken up. This dream is very immoral and it's weird that I would dream of drinking some alcohol, as I an underaged minor. I didn't like this dream very much cause who likes dreaming about an ex? And to top it off, Mr. Sad was following me around in the dream earlier too. He hates me but we're at least civil to eachother now.

If someone could give me a translation of this dream, it would be very much appreciated.

The other dreams I have in real life are meeting Radiohead and they would actually be glad to meet me. Everyone near my age should be able to meet the boys in Radiohead. It's not like they turn fans away? HA! Sorry(not really) Miley Cyrus. Speaking of Miley, how can she "ruin" a band that has over a decade of hardcore underground fans? The Radiohead army is bigger than the Cyrus army. Radiohead has more albums released than Cyrus and ACTUALLY wrote the songs themselves in it. The Cyrus army has 9-13 year old Disney freak girls who love Miley and her tool of a brother Treyce. If Treyce is a tool, then his dad is one too, and so is his sister. Like father, like son, like sister.

Other dreams I have are to be an actor, a writer/author, psychiatrist, a professional musician, and hell, maybe even a filmmaker.

I have a dream that the face of Disney will return to cartoons like Mickey and Donald instead of some young guys who are overcompensating that they're gay by wearing purity rings and other things.

I dream that my insecurties will go away.

I dream of a Youtube where people wouldn't feel so cocky because of a number that represents people that watch what they put out there.

I dream of a world where Stephenie Meyer can write an intellectual book instead of a dumbed down piece of "literature" about vampires in Washington state and plots stollen off of MUSE's albums.

I dream of many things. But what do you dream about?????

Sunday, March 15, 2009

The Time Blog

It just seems like I'm walking around blindly and struggle just to keep a level head. Like with grades, friends, and life. I'm waiting for my time for the better kind. The better kind of everything. The better kind of life where I can stand my ground for things. The kind of life where I live where in a city where anything and everything is happening. The kind of life where I can ask a girl out and have a functional decent relationship. I don't think I can have a decent relationship at all at the point I'm at. I've had 4 screw ups of "relationships" and not to mention that I've hurt other girls along the way. I'm tired of hurting people. I'm just lost and there are some girls I like but I'm not sure about things. There is this girl in the cast of my high school's rendition of Grease named Sarah. Now Sarah and I have been flirting with her back in forth and I think I like her. I don't know if I should ask her out, if she has a boyfriend, is bothering with girl even worth it. I keep laying down the facts that I can't afford to have a gf. I owe this music store 250 bucks and parents 83 bucks, plus I don't have a job. How can I ask her out to the movies if I can't afford to pay it properly. I don't want to screw things up with her at all or me. It seems like another situation where I don't go across the Tiber river and just turn back again.

On a random note, I hate when people pronounce on their facebook notes how much they have grown over the year. No s**t Sherlock! Everyone grows overtime and if they haven't, I'd be very worried about them. I grown as a musician, a friend, my morals are better, and the list goes on. And I don't feel sorry for those people who say they are bored on facebook cause that means they are very unimaginative about things that could entertain them. I'm not bored ever cause anything could occupy me.

Time is a strange thing. As I'm in the middle of my sophomore year and in the middle of my high school career. There is so much more schooling left for me and it seems never ending. When I say time is weird, this year has been speeding up, stopping at random points, and then back to fast forward mode. I'm actually glad this year is going by fast cause looking back, its sucks. Failed relationship issues, people I cut out of my life because I don't like their company, my not caring for grades, caring to much about what the people around me think, etc etc etc. High school is trying to rob me of many things in my opinion. My individuality because of everyone low self esteem causing them to make fun of everyone and also dress alike. Also my creativity because the structure of things forces you to put things in boring order with lists and paragraphs with no personal touch what so ever. High school keeps on trying but I give up some of my grades that could be higher if I gave in, but I want to keep what keeps me a unique person(individuality and creativity). High school is described as a mininum security prison that can be your person H-E- double slipping slides. If you loved high school, I might say your life peaked during that time.

When it comes to the time of things, seems like there is barely enough, too much of it, or just everything is skewed. I know where I am physically but I still don't know here I am(if you know what I mean. Anyways, I feel lost in the shuffle of things. God help me.