7-19-10

I absolutely adore pop-punk. Not early 2000's pop-punk like Simple Plan and Good Charlotte, because my 13 year old self would hate me for it. She's a music snob, who doesn't quite know how to put on eyeliner yet and is just learning how to function with breasts and the like. Obviously, a younger version of yours truly's (I'm being grammatically incorrect with reckless abandon) opinion is still totally relevant.
I guess I enjoy pop-punk because I like upbeat tempos and melody like any other human being. And I like catchy shit. And a degree of silliness at times. These traits don't exactly characterize everything that I listen to or even this genre but if it has these things I'm more than likely to warm up to it pretty fast. Here are some albums that I can listen all the way through without a problem:















I know some people get seriously butt hurt when others refer to the Ramones as "pop-punk". But how are they not? I guess those people just romanticize the band and put them on a pedestal, seeing them as unclassifiable pioneers. Or maybe I just have an ear that can't classify shit.
Besides the ones previously listed I do quite enjoy the Buzzcocks and Alkaline Trio (sparingly, the cut off point is 'Good Mourning'). I know there's a few that I missed but these were the bands/albums that I thought of right at the moment - anything more would be a grocery list of sorts. I was going to conclude this post by writing something incredibly witty, but those words escape me now. So I bid you adieu. Adieu!

6-18-10

I'm not much for useless shit - but this definitely t0ps the list of things that I want.

In an effort to purge the household of a majority of worldly possessions a garage sale was held. Some of Riverside's finest showed up. Such as:

Christine the cat.

This truck with the wind chimes, panther, and horse shoe has a little meaning behind it. The owner of this truck was very, very poor when he was little, having just about nothing. So when he got a little older, and built up a little networth of his own, he bought a car. He put those artifacts on the grill of his truck to show the world that he had something.

Then there's this woman. She openly admits to being broke as fuck. She loves to acquire random pieces of junk for her humble abode. She's squirrely, and if she doesn't have some type of drug addiction then I don't know who has one. Don't get me wrong - she's a genuine person - she just hasn't made good life decisions. Her later plans for the say were to go to the Soboba Indian Casino. I hope she hit it big...lord knows she needs it.

The little neighborhood boys objective for the week was to catch some of our chicks. They were successful after hours and hours of chasing those little suckers down.

5-31-10

So much yet so little has happened in the past few weeks. I moved out of my dorm and finished my freshman year - then proceeded to go home and get used to Riverside again. Freshman year was great and I feel that I'm going in the right direction. I've made long strides when it comes to getting where I'm supposed to go. Both sentences that I just wrote pretty much sound and are the same statement, but whatever.

Obligatory pet pictures because they're the only people I like:

So I made (a?) meatloaf. I really don't like meatloaf but I seriously need to learn how to cook. I can't foresee myself making the dish ever again but I think it was more of a personal course for me on following instructions and not burning things. I just don't get meatloaf at all. Ketchup on meat is just wrong in so many ways. Oh, and fuck casseroles too - I'm not even going to attempt that.


Kitties pretty much rule the roost in my home. I gave away three at a local Albertson's within an hour. Even though I'd like to think they went to great homes I can't help but feel that they're all going to end up as roadkill. Out of sight out of mind I guess! Well, they were the kitties that either didn't have any personality or were just feral little rats. Good Riddance!

5-7-10

So I haven't posted as frequently as I would have liked to in the last two weeks. What the hay. You know what was weird though? My very first blog and this one both had 96 posts, respectively. Kind of odd. I don't like my first blog. At all. Therefore it has been privatized. But on to bigger and better things: it's finals week(s) for me right now. I'm doing my best to handle and organize my time but I still manage to find myself as stressed as I would have been if I didn't do so accordingly. Bitch bitch bitch. Whine whine whine. What are ya gonna do?



This weathered drag queen is really on to something here. Too many people aim for the stars only to hit the pavement. You know what I've noticed as of late? That there's no middle ground for ambition when it comes to people my age. Either you have it or you don't got shit.
I don't want to settle, and just go through the motions. Maybe with age comes complacency?


Lately I've rediscovered the testosterone filled workings of Glenn Danzig. I used to be nuts about the Misfits and Danzig when I was 14. I remember quizzing kids I saw with Misfits Crimson Ghost shirts. I was a real asshole about that. But rightly so! Most of the "victims" that I quizzed couldn't name one Misfits album or at least a couple songs! But that was around the time when Jerry Only totally pimped out that symbol. There were even crimson ghost shoelaces and belts! I understand Jerry Only for doing what he did though. People need to make money - and he found a marketing point to do so.

So this post has been fairly schizophrenic. Back to writing term papers and projects. Lucky me.

4-26-10

Admittedly, I've gone through a coloring bender these last couple of days. You know when you're in that mood where you just don't care to see people? Maybe it's just a creepy only-child thing but I was definitely feeling it. I spent hours upon hours listening to music or watching shitty television, just diligently coloring in pictures. This weekend I inhaled an ungodly amount of sharpie fumes and I couldn't be more proud of how I spent my weekend!
This is just one of my hobbies that I haven't revisited in years. It gives results - however trivial they might be - and is incredibly relaxing. In these coming weeks I won't feel as relaxed and un-bothered as I did this weekend, because I have finals and killer papers due and all that jazz. So you know what? I'm going to cherish the shit out of this.

OH! And to whom it may concern: There's an ancient Aquabats coloring book, and you can print out pages online! I was wayyyy too excited about this discovery.

4-24-10

THE PHENOMENAUTS

I've seen The Phenomenauts a few times and they never fail to put on an energetic set. I'm so glad that the crowd wasn't wrecking - mostly because it totally doesn't go with the music, and partly because it looks down-right idiotic. I'm so glad they played 'older' songs like "Galactic Pioneers" and "Tiny Robots". The band has really changed within the past couple years, line-up wise. But they still managed to replace JoeBot 2.0 really nicely. With a much nicer helmet too, I must say. haha.

THE SLACKERS

I had listened to them a little bit a couple years ago. They put on a decent set - my only qualm is that most of their set was comprised of love songs, most of which that were like "ohhh I'll be strong even though you broke my heart". Still a good band, and chill as hell!

4-21-10

You know those people who get butt-hurt over people that don't even exist? I'm within the ranks of those people. One that's at the top of my list is Jenny from Forest Gump. You know, the girl next door that pretty much uses him all through out his life?

I know, I know - Forrest Gump doesn't know any better because he's slow and is deeply in love with her. Jenny pretty much uses him as the back-up guy. The one that you use for attention when you're not getting anything elsewhere. Then when she's done with him she leaves!
Her last stand was going back to him because she has a kid and is dying of AIDS. I bet that if she didn't even have AIDS Forrest would have never known about the kid! I sound like a terrible person, saying this - and believe me I'm fully aware of this. I just hate when people take advantage of others! Especially when they're autistic...that's just low. It's right up there with selling a dead bird to a blind kid! (I'll love you forever if you get that reference)
But I guess the fact that Jenny even fessed up to him that they had a kid together is kind of big of her - because as shown throughout the movie she runs away from anything that could be even slightly permanent in her life.
I don't understand why I loathe a fictional person so much. It's probably because I've seen Forrest Gump way too many times. Like a really really really unhealthy amount of times. I know, I know - get a life Erin - loathe real people and quit sounding like a nut.