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Saturday, 11 July 2009

  • Low Pressure Zones and Power Trios

    Wednesday:
    After camp and the required after camp shower (where I suds up and literally watch the dark water go down the drain), my mom and I went out to Tim's house sinced his mom needs to do something with a skirt of hers for her graduation reunion. And we had a cookout.

    The really cool thing with Tim is that he's one of those friends from way back when in grade school, you know? So even though at the end of the day he's a guy who works two jobs most everyday and has a girlfriend who may/may not be getting engaged to (I've heard rumours), and I'm...whatever the hell you'd call me, whenever we hang out it turns into two guys playing vidja games and enjoying themselves on a level so basic you almost have to go back years to see it happen. We played Left 4 Dead, Rock Band (drums on hard=bad idea when you don't know what the song is), and some old school Super Smash Bros Melee, and...it was really cool. Simple. And with his family of his mom, dad, and little sister (imagine a younger Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter movies) I'm able to go into a comedy/light hearted mode. It's nice.

    Thursday:
    After camp and a quick stop by Rachael's ("We made Blake Cake!" "Why's it called 'Bla--'...you used chocolate and vanilla, didn't you?"), I grabbed my guitar gear and went with Count to Andy's house to jam out for awhile. Andy does drums, Count does bass, I do guitar, simple enough. They're four years ahead of me, and had a band all through college, so they knew how to recover and make shit up and...ah, it was a fun time.

    Whenever I play with other people, I learn something and this time I learned that 1. I've gotten a lot better than last time when I was with With (or Without) Reason, 2. My playing style's shifted more towards rhythm playing 3. I'm open to looser ideas and jamming around more than I used to be and 4. I need to play with people waaaaaaaay more often.

    We played/butchered all sorts of covers (Weezer, blink, Ok Go, Raconteurs, White Stripes, Hooty and the Blowfish), jammed around with the blues ("How does every guitarist I've ever met know that riff?!" "Find any rock/blues guitar playbook on earth and open it, that riff is page one, I guarantee it") and a jam entitled "What Happens When Blake Plays a G? This!".

    It's been a really fun week.

    -CnG

Tuesday, 07 July 2009

  • 12345678, 12345678

    My life has fallen into a fairly easy rhythm of getting up, going to work, coming home, and then doing whatever (occasionally going out) in the evenings on weekdays, and the usual slacking on the weekends. I get up at a decent time, go to camp, come home feeling very fulfilled in what I did that day, I have the night to do almost anything I'd like (music, reading, games, hanging out), and go to bed around twelve or twelve thirty.

    Quite honestly, I could live like this without complaint for much longer than August 14th (last day of camp). Then I revert to a closing Bum Week (not employed or in the student life) to compliment the opening Bum Week between graduation and camp's start.

    But for now? I'm really content to be in this state of mind and body. It tastes of a much different flavor than the old High School Routine which felt like too much in too little time, and it's not as...whatever the fuck you want to call college life. I'm perfectly happy with life right now; I have a good command of the house thanks to my mom's frequent outtings with Jim the Boyfriend, my writing has been pretty solid, and all my friends are in good places. The fact that I have a job probably also helps with this; everyday I come home feeling like I've actually done something...better, more important, than sit in a classroom all day, or study for whatever Big Test is looming ahead.

    Here's to contentment,
    -CnG

Thursday, 25 June 2009

  • Moonwalker

    Michael Jackson is dead. At first I didn't really mind when I heard he was in the hospital, but then I started reaching back in my memory...

    Music is kind of a big thing in my life, and something that's very special to me. And what are some of my earliest memories of music? Me wearing huge, noise cancelling headphones dancing around in my mom and I's little apartment in Norwood to Thriller, Bad, and Dangerous. Even now, the trifecta of Thriller, Beat It, and Billie Jean on Thriller still remains damn near untouchable.

    RIP.

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

  • Updateage

    Alrighty, it's been awhile since I've mentioned anything here, so first of all, no, I have not died.

    I graduated high school almost a week ago. Nice ceremony, shake hands, guys making the backlot a cancer cloud of cigar smoke afterward, etc, etc. It already feels like I'm older just because of a $38k slip of paper and a fancy cover, hm. Oh, I'm starting work at the Y next week, making this training week which cripples my evening activity ("Let's hang out!" "I have training from five to ten!"). But hey, I love that job and the people there, so it's worth it.

    I guess that's really all that's going on right now. Well, I'm compiling a binder of everything I've written, and I need to run up to Staples later today for a bigger binder since a one-inch isn't enough. Oh, and I'm probably going to get some CDs later this summer for the usual music explosion. Two years ago it was the Skaplosion, last year was...hm, what was last year? Oh yeah, last year was a general Alt Rock-Palooza. This year is probably going to be more indie with stuff like The Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, and Neutral Milk Hotel.

    It's so weird that everyone's graduating...we're getting old.

    -CnG

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

  • Mine

    This entry is coming to you from the laptop. Which feels weird now, because it's cleared of all the Moeller stuff and is now my laptop. Not Moeller's, but mine. It feels weird knowing that I have a piece of technology that's 100% Blake's, you know? I mean, the PC is shared between me and my mom, and the laptop has been considered "Blake's on loan from Moeller", but now? This is all mine.

    It's cool.

    -CnG

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