hows it goin?
its been awhile since ive written. too busy with school maybe? ha. school kind of caught me off guard and got busy really sudden and i feel like im already going in full steam.
ANYWAYS, over the past couple weeks, I went to numerous events including a MUSE concert, a chargers game (which they were totally embarrassed) and a METRIC concert. The Muse concert was actually the week before school started, chargers game was the weekend after 0th week, and metric was during 1st week of school. AND this week, I'm going to go to Fall fest featuring the ROOTS! amazing. weekly concerts it seems like haha.
The muse concert was at Irvine Verizon amphitheaters and the only bad thing about it was standing up on a hill, with your calves strained for a couple hours. They played a bunch of awesome songs including starlight, problematique, plug in baby and many of their feature songs from their new album as well as some oldies including one of my personal favorites: butterflies and hurricanes. My only regrets are not getting closer seats, having a total cockfest (myself, skrimshaw, jeff liu, kunal, nhan) at the concert, and the weed brownies/beers wearing off shortly before muse started playing.
The chargers game (i went with weff) started out as how i would imagine, with the chargers playing well. They werent playing superb, as mr. rivers was throwing up some floaty shit (which you can see from the stands, his passes so fluttery with low velocity, being picked off...). The environment was awesome and sadly, i cant buy beer. I had tho, charger dog and super nachos which were very tasty and expensive. At half time, i was 80% on getting a merriman jersey in boys xl, which fit me perfectly, and was way cheaper than a men's size. Then the chargers started sucking. Fans were booing, chanting MARTY, MARTY, and there was also a fight that broke out. By the middle of the 4th, many disappointed charger fans were emptying out of the Q. Needless to say I was depressed for the rest of that Sunday, and much of the week after. You dont blow a halftime lead when you could have just given the ball to LT and had him do his stuff. I remember a 3-short near the redzone, and Mr. Norv calls a pass play, when LT could have taken it all the way. Sigh...
THE metric concert was one of the best i've gone to. It was just a lot of fun. I went with andre, kyle, tiffany, emma, kunal, nhan, and jenn and we all had a blast and caused lots of ruckus. We got to the HOB way early and I made the executive decision of drinking on a school night for everybody, which would be the right decision. On the way to the parking lot, i saw a delorean! but didnt have my camera to take a picture of it...shucks. We left the venue and got drunk in my car, and returned for the first show (crystal castle) which was some trippy trip hop and shouting and strobe light action that made everything stop action to amplify my euphoria. Our alcohol was wearing off, so we left after the first show and went to a parking lot and got more drunk. What resulted was awesome. After the concert had started, we slowly migrated towards the middle and kind of started our own mosh pit with andre leading the way, jumping around and causing quite a stir. I got high off the crowd and music and went crazy causing all kinds of ruckus. The concert was awesome tho, with the lead singer choosing an interesting decision for fashion (tights and a shirt that only came down to her waist, exposing her butt shape ahhaha. I got back home from the concert to start my BE110 homework and finished at 3. The assignment was due at 7:40. Hahahaha.
I find that i like random music and new music. I just download a shit load of songs from various indie music blogs w/o sampling, and then play the entire playlist. I never really pay attention to the actual artist or lyrics unless the song is super catchy and sparks my interest. I'll listen to songs for up to a 20seconds to a minute and if i don't want to listen to it or don't like it, i skip to the next. I'll put it on standby for later sampling haha...end of the line. For the ones that stand out, ill listen to it a few times on repeat and if its super good, it might even earn a couple (up to FIVE!) prestigious andrew yu itunes stars. And then when I'm scrolling through my artists, I'm always like huh, who the fuck is so and so and listen to the song, almost like listening to it for the first time again.
Its kind of like meeting people. When someones interesting, you hangout and stuff, becoming friends. Whenever you hear a song you like, its always, "oh its this song again" much like seeing a good friend again and saying hi. I hope that my shuffle-all-songs-and-next-on-songs-i-don't-want-to-listen-to is how i deal with people, although it seems like it. But maybe thats just how life is. Growing up, i changed schools a couple times, always having to meet new friends, and then I'd return to old schools/districts to see old friends again, but even still would make a new group of friends, straying from the old group. Every time you move to a new place, you make your friends which stay within your comfort zone niche. You gotta keep in touch and I find that its tragic how its lost so easily. Just like how you listen to new music and have the music you listened to in high school, etc. Even just moving off campus, its tougher to hang out with other friends. You gotta make the effort. I gotta make the effort.
Ah and as for the couple weeks of college gameday, all i can say is WOW, and goddamn i love college football. So many upsets, suprise teams, teams that come from nowhere and dominate powerhouses. When everything works right, you can win. Its not about being the best/ most talented team, but seriousl about who comes out to want to win, and some luck of course. So much parity in the league...i love it.
School sucks. gotta study. i'm doing pretty damn good with my weed stoppage. kinda. Alrighty, enough with the update. onward. ho. =D
