friday playlist – 2.3.12
February 3rd, 2012 § Leave a Comment
happy friday folks.
i’ve just finished my first week of my last semester and i’ve gotta say, it’s been pretty great. all of my classes are interesting but i know it is going to be a lot of work and a lot of research and just a lot of headaches.
but it’s going to be totally worth it.
and i have a lot of wonderful plans on my day off from work today. i’m going to run some errands and to get some lunch. then i’m headed to the movies to see that new movie with harry potter in it…i mean daniel radcliffe. it’s supposed to be pretty terrifying…so that’s cool…because i totally love being scared for a solid hour and a half…totally…
anyway.
i figured i’d start doing music playlists again because, frankly, i like shoving my music down your throats.
oh i’m just kidding.
actually, sitting down and thinking of what music goes on the list is a lot of fun. so yeah.
enjoy.
- the most beautiful bitter fruit – la dispute
- boy with a coin – iron & wine
- tilde – touche amore
- electric feel – mgmt
- passenger seat – death cab for cutie
that’s it.
those are my choices for this week. suggestions are always welcome.
i hope all of you have an excellent friday.
-the lumberjack
why we write.
September 12th, 2011 § 3 Comments
the nicest thing ever was written to me.
so last night, i wrote that blog about the future [i do those a lot] and i was pretty pleased with it. it wasn’t the normal complain-fest that normally consumes my public writings. i thought it was well done and for once i was proud of a blog i wrote. after i wrote it, i went out around campus with some friends and just made new friends and did what i always do the first few weeks of the semester.
overall, the night was wonderful and i had a lot of fun. yesterday was just a good day altogether [other than my xbox breaking but that was easily fixed].
i took this picture a few years ago. the oceanfront is sort of magical at night.
but then i got back to my room.
usually when i’m in my room alone, horrible things happen to my brain but not last night.
so here is what happened.
i was sitting in my bed watching tv and eating some late night taco bell [ a number 6 - steak baha chalupas and a soft taco] when i got a facebook message. usually i get really nervous when i get facebook messages [no idea why] so i opened it not knowing what to expect. it was from a guy that shopped at my gamestop with his friends. we’d talked a lot about world of warcraft back when i played it and him and his friends are the three nicest dudes ever and i wish nothing but the best for all three of them.
but anyway.
he sent me a message and basically the gist of it was that my writing helped him. it was comforting for him to know that he wasn’t alone in all the stuff he was dealing with and it was nice to know there was someone out there who was kind of going through the same stuff as he was.
going to be completely honest…
his message made me cry. let me clarify: i was almost to the point of weeping. i do this writing for me to help myself cope with myself, but knowing that my awkward ramblings about life helped somebody out seriously makes all the stuff i go through entirely worth it. like, i’m entirely aware that i don’t have a hard life and that i’m an incredibly privileged individual, but we all still have our own problems.
i guess what i’m saying is this: we all touch people’s lives whether we realize it or they tell us or not. there is always someone watching you, paying attention to you, maybe even learning from you. that message made me feel like this blog is worth me keeping up with.
so thank you for reading. knowing that people read this, even if it is just a handful of friends and random people i trick with my “tags”, makes it worth it.
sleep well, folks.
-the lumberjack.
a quick playlist – 9.11.11
September 11th, 2011 § 3 Comments
today is a day of remembrance.
thanks to everyone who serves in the armed forces for doing what you do. and my big lumberjack heart goes out to all the families of those that lost their lives a decade ago. thank you for staying strong and continuing on in their memory.
a real quick playlist.
so i have to head in to work and figured i had a few minutes to post a quick playlist for everyone. it is sort of all over the place but i hope you enjoy it.
- “transatlanticism” by death cab for cutie
- “elder goose” by dance gavin dance
- “aisle” by the bunny the bear
- “its’ for the best” by straylight run
- “upward over the mountain” by iron & wine
that’s all.
it was just something quick while i figured out what to wear to work. [dark jeans, black v-neck, purple plaid flannel shirt]
enjoy your day, folks.
-the lumberjack
be a good person.
August 24th, 2011 § 1 Comment
don’t be an asshole.
if i could offer anyone a little piece of advice that i’ve picked up over the past 21 years or so of being a person, that would be it. it is simple enough and i feel like it shouldn’t be that hard. but you’d be surprised how many trolls exist within a 3959 mile radius [that is the earth's radius. i googled it to make that joke happen. you're welcome.]
two thumbs up for the folks being good dudes.
a day to day basis.
working in retail, you meet a lot of interesting people. about 75% of these people are going to be friendly and about 33% of those people are going to become regular consumers at your respective establishment. people are attracted to friendliness and will tend to migrate towards it.
this is from a business standpoint. if that were true, you’d see a ton of people dating really nice overweight people.
however, that leaves 25% of people that are going to be rude and downright awful. those are the people that need to read this. treating your waiter/waitress/sales associate/taxi driver/parents/teachers/friends like garbage is just going to get you a shitty response. i’m way more likely to bend rules and go out of my way to help you out if you’re a nice dude or lady.
exceptions to the rule.
some people are just terrible people. they were born that way. some people just suck at being people, and there is no one to blame for that, except for that person. and you know what, they can suck it.
re-evaluating my life.
i guess i’m just at a point where i just don’t want to deal with people anymore. not people in a literal sense but people in the sense that i just don’t have the energy to please everyone. that is going to be a struggle i think. i’m a “people pleaser” [not sexually. eh...maybe sexually] so i enjoy making other people happy [now it is definitely sexual].
i’ve been deleting people from facebook and from my phone lately cause i just need better people in my life or i just need to focus on the quality ones that are already there.
don’t be an asshole.
live by that. tell people that. make it your life motto. do something with it. i’m in a period of positive growth in my life and i’d like to keep it that way. oh yeah, and support your local gamestop. those dudes try hard to be good at their job, they deserve some love.
thanks for reading.
-the lumberjack
commit this to memory.
August 22nd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
lgfuad.
so i’ve been listening to a lot of motion city soundtrack recently and i realized i have the same connection with them as i do with brand new. each one of motion city’s albums strikes me in a different way, almost like it is speaking to a different part of my soul. then i remember i don’t have a soul and move on with my life.
a bottle of woodchuck cause why not?
on to more de-pressing matters.
i’m finding more and more that i have nothing important to say about things. not to toot my own horn or dick ride myself, but i like to consider myself something of an intelligent dude but as i age i feel like my grip on current events and my thoughts is just sort of slipping. i mean, i’m not getting stupid, i’m just getting lazy. [i hope]
this apparently happens to everyone.
i was talking to my dear friend and boss, nick r., and he told me he went through the same sort of from when he turned 20 to the present, which bums me out cause apparently it gets worse. we were standing at work and i asked him if he ever had sweet internal monologues with himself about life and what he thought about things and he looked at me real sad only to respond with a “yeah dude. but it just kind of went away one day.”
my first instinct was to blame gamestop because that made sense. we both work there. but it isn’t gamestop’s fault.
i don’t know what i’m going to do to fix my brain.
someone asked me how i felt about something that was vaguely important the other day, and you know what i did? i lied to them. i made a bunch of really impressive sentences with some intellectual sounding words, and they totally bought it. i felt kind of dirty for lying to someone about something they clearly wanted my opinion on, but that was my first response. that was what my brain naturally went to.
my brain has become an awful muck of stupid.
so why did i write this post?
i honestly couldn’t tell you. i really don’t even know why i bothered all of you with this problem. i can’t fix it. you can’t fix it. only time will tell if i can become the intellectual i used to be, rather than the pseudo-intellectual piece of trash i am now.
sorry for being all depressed, internet.
- the lumberjack
crunk time for the lumberjack.
March 5th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
this is not a facebook status.
though it should be, that was not a facebook status. i figured you all wanted to know what i listened to while partying or to get my mind prepped for a night of good times and cloudy memories. well, even if you’re not wondering, you’re about to know. add these to your party playlist and let the good times happen.
moustache flask. flaskstache.
the list:
- anything dubstep – nothing says party like a bunch of noises made by a machine. not robot noises, of course, because robots are scary…unless they are party robots. like a robot that wants to dance and hangout and tell jokes and bring me beverages while it makes sweet dubstep noises. <— that is the best way to describe dubstep.
- “smoke weed everyday” by snoop dogg – whether you smoke weed everyday or not, you can’t deny that there is something undeniably exciting when this song starts playing. the beat is really great and it’s snoop dogg and dr. dre so you know that the song is good. and, if you do smoke weed everyday, this song should be your anthem, even when you’re not partying.
- “everybody nose” by n.e.r.d. – this is the greatest song ever written [exaggeration] and should forever go down in history as having the best remix ever done. the remix features kanye west [who is crazy] and has a pretty sweet music video [everything is in pixels and has donkey kong and princess peach in it]. pretty much, make sure you play this song. oh yeah, and i totally forgot, pharell is from virginia beach [represent].
- “everyday i’m hustlin” by rick ross – first off, rick ross is the man. actually, rick ross is the boss [even has a song about being the boss]. there really doesn’t need to be an explanation about why this song is on this list.
- “pop bottles” by birdman [feat. lil' wayne] – i have to listen to this song when i play halo to get me in the headshot mood. just a good song. listen to it, because the message is great [the message: pour champagne on models and party like you won an important sporting event].
that is the list.
there are obviously more songs since i always just turn pandora on and whatever pops up is generally great. listen. party. live. enjoy.
party on, wayne.
-the lumberjack
