Connecting Thoughts

Well I got so bored I decided to go ahead and use the lovely product Veet Bladeless shaving stuff that comes in the tube instead of the can, and I must it was much easier to use. Anyhow I was going to wait till morning to do that but I had nothing better to do so I decided to do that now. I bet you all just love hearing about that don't you? But hey I'm bored as we speak so I figured since I hadn't posted anything in a while.

I worked Rockfest, but unfortunately I was working the pyro area so I didn't even freaking hear any of the bands. I guess I didn't miss much since most of the crowd left at like 7 pm. Anyhow I did get the best and I think the most awesomest, I know that's not a word but if you could hear me say it you'd think it was freaking hysterical, view of a fireworks display ever. What would it made it even awesomer, hahaha here I go with the made up words again, would have been some music. You can't go wrong with fireworks done to music.

Speaking of Fireworks next week I'm going to head over to Fireworks World and give them my 5 can foods and purchase $50 of fireworks so I can get me my free $50 assortment of fireworks. Yep I know it's insane but I loved the assortment from last year and we had some kickass fireworks and I'm talking sky high suckers. Thank god my Grandma lives on a farm and you can get away with that shit, or I'd be getting tickets or arrested or something.

Speaking of getting tickets or arrested. For some reason right now I have an obsession with the Van Halen, Sammy Hagar days, song "Amsterdam". I think it's probably one of my favorite Van Halen songs. I forgot when this song came out originally. But I have been to Amsterdam, but that was the summer before I went into high school so I was about 13 or 14. So I didn't get the cultural experience that all the "cool" people like to brag about or go on about over there. I just remember we weren't allowed to go to the Hard Rock Cafe there after dark because of the antics that are legal there and not here.

Now speaking of Hard Rock Cafe's I've been to 11 that's including outside of the country. Anytime I know there is a Hard Rock Cafe somewhere I have to go to it because you have to get the rockn' shirts they got. Some places have better shirts than others. I must say all the ones in LA/Orange County area have the best tshirts. They have like badass cars or beach scenes on them. I've been to almost all of the Hard Rock's in California, the only one I haven't been to is the one in San Diego. I'm assuming the have one there, since freaking LA has two one in LA and one at Universal Boardwalk. I will say the Hard Rock in Newport seems to be the quietest and anytime I've gone in there they barely have any customers if at all. Maybe I've just gone in at the wrong time, but when I've gone to the others at weird times there still ahs been as mass of humanity in there.

Now on to masses of humanity I swear while I was working Rockfest I've never seen so many people who should have top on not have a top on. There were guys who really needed to put the shirt back on, I don't care if in our society guys are allowed to take shirts off because there is nothing really to see. But if you have a got please keep it covered the rest of the world doesn't need to see it. Plus by taking your shirt off when it's hot isn't going to make you feel anyless hot. Then these women who really need to be covered were wearing the littles bikinis ever possible and everything was all hanging out and shit. People it's called common curtosity, put clothes on, taking clothes off of your body is not going to make you feel anymore cooler in fact you are more likely to get heat stroke and have a severe sunburn. That's the other thing do most of these people not know what sunblock is. I know things are expensive but in the long run not putting sunblock on is going to cost you a lot more money in medical bills than going out and buying it and actually using it and not just putting it on once but a multiple times through the day. I've never seen so many people looking like lobsters in my life.

I remember in high school there was a song called Everybody is Free to wear Sunscreen. I use to think oh it's just this funny song where the guy is talking over the music but looking back I really should have taken the advice of the song, it probably would have made my life more interesting and more successful than it is. Here are the lyrics, they aren't really lyrics though they are just words spoken over music.

Everybody's Free
(to wear sunscreen)
Mary Schmich
Chicago Tribune

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97... wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be IT.

The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

You are NOT as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.


Sing.
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.


Floss.
Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.


Stretch.
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.


Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

Speaking of memories of from the past I think I enjoy songs from long ago way more than most any new songs that are out. I don't know why, but even classic country songs lately have seemed real cool to me, and I'm not talking like the 60's but you know early 80's late 70's. Especially that one song I Love the Raining Nights by I think Eddie Rabbit. I need to freaking find a download of that song or as CD with it, because I just think that song is the most rockn'ist country song.

The other day I was thinking if I could choose a song that represented me, basically a theme song, what song would it be. Honestly there are so many songs I can think of but not of them totally 100% fit me. If anyone has any suggestions of songs that you believe most respresent who I am let me know because I'm curious as to what some people think of me, because I'm never sure.

HAHAHA, speaking of theme songs I bought the WWE Wreckless Intent CD. When I first listened to a preview of some of the songs online I thought god these songs are the worst songs ever. Then when I got the CD I listened to the whole thing without skipping anything and it totally rocks. Suprisingly I like Randy Orton's theme "Burn in My Light" By Mercy Drive the best. I hate Randy Orton, but I love this song. I also love the song "Deadly Game" by Theory of a Deadman that song freaking rocks. I crank the volume up on those songs and they sound killer in my car. My current car has six speakers and has awesome bass on it, way better than my old car so I love just driving around in it, but with the freaking gas prices not really doing that.

Finally speaking of Wrestling, ECW is back, but it's not like the true pure ECW it's a WWE version of ECW, which isn't really as quite out there. Or at least based on the premiere last week on Sci Fi it's not. Maybe things will change this week considering how bad everyone said last weeks show was. The thing I loved about ECW was audience participation, the thing I didn't really enjoy was the extremely graphic nature of it, yeah I don't mind blood every now and then but sometimes they really over did it with the blood and graphic violence almost as violent as UFC was in the begining. My opinion is if they want to make ECW successful they need to allow and encourage audience participation, not just chants, but like with the guys going out into the crowd and fans giving them weapons to use or possibly almost getting a 250 pound guy landing on them when they come of the top of a barricade or the ring post or ropes. That is what made ECW great and the fact fans could throw chairs and etc into the ring. That's what people, myself included loved about ECW was the fans were allowed to be part of the show and actually interact with the wrestlers. Unlike in WWE where they have rules and regulations about interacting with the fans. And you have to boo for bad guys and cheer for good guys and if you have a freaking sign that says anything bad about John Cena they take it away, that's the dumbest thing ever. Because if you don't like something you should be allowed to voice it, this is America and we still have our first Amendment rights, right?

On that note I will bid you adieu.

Movies and Music

This post was originally suppose to be typed up two weeks ago but I forgot to do it which is why this is not just a movie post.

Well two weeks ago I went and saw the movie See No Evil featuring the pretty creepy WWE superstar Kane. I liked the movie it had all a horror movie should have, a children's song, Religous themes, and gore. All those things make for a great horror film. But you are probably wondering what do you mean by religious themes? It's very simple in every horror film there has to be some point besides massive victims, the characters have to be judged in some way on their moral standing to some extent. However, I'm also talking about the fact that in most horror films there always is religious symbols like crucifixes, churches, pcitures of jesus or mother mary. Anyhow I enjoyed this movie, maybe not really the storyline so much as the overall package of the gore and the characters.

Only one problem with this movie that I have, the WWE needs to stop showing clips of the movie, because if they keep doing stupid little clip segments of the movie no one is going to go see it because basically what they show you the gists of the movies. So WWE STOP SHOWING SEE NO EVIL CLIPS!!!

I probably would go into more detail about the movie but I didn't right this when I was originally was going to, so now I'll just move along to my other topic music.

This coming Saturday I'm going to be working 15 hours with breaks and such in between for Rockfest. I'm looking forward to it but hopefully the weather won't be too hot and won't rain. I'm praying for a constant breeze all day and maybe mid 70's. Hopefully while I'm working I get a chance to hear, if not see, Trapt. I met these guys on the set of their Headstrong video and they are awesome. They are really great guys and fun to be around.

Well that's all for now. Hopefully my next post won't be too long from now.