Wilco (the blog post)

No one plays math rock and roll anymore. Nope.

It could be the result of my lack of sleep and poor eating habits, but I've been finding staring at any form of quick movement to be a painful experience. I get dizzy and I just wanna lie down.

That sentence was good. Years of English just chucked out the window.

I got a new prescription for my contacts. I can actually see everything crystal clear again! It's like life went HD on me. I guess it's my fault for not complaining about not being able to read stuff far away even with glasses on.

I wonder if they forgot to send me my schedule or if they're just trying to find a nice way to tell me they don't want me anymore. I have to order my books and if I don't get anything within the next 5 days, I probably will have to order them from China. I've also completely forgotten about the AP Enviromental Science assignment. I will have to BS a lot of stuff and hope it works out.

I need ways to overcome a 14 hour flight then a 12 hour layover. Knowing the stupid company that does all the flights back to where I live, it will probably end up being delayed for another 12 hours and I end up spending an entire day in the Hong Kong airport. I can probably still tell you the layout of the Hong Kong airport because I've spent too much fucking time there.

-Allan

Broke bitches go on tour

So my uncle in China had a baby a while back. He's suppose to be really fat and apparently looks exactly like me when I was a baby. That's besides the points. We send em baby formula and stuff because the formula in China is not safe nor is it actually all that healthy.

Fast forward to today.

I was having lunch with my parents when my mom all of a sudden decides it's a better idea to send me with a heavy suitcase back to china than to just ship the crap to them. So, I'm gonna go spend a few weeks in China and make it back like a day or two before school starts. Hooray! Eat that Cabal! I can't play you from China.

This means I get to miss the Matches show. I won't make the RXB show either. Poop.

Maybe I'll bum a bit of guitar gear off my filthy rich uncles. That makes me sound like an asshole. Har har har.

Vietnam! Fishing trips! ITALIAN OPERA!!

-Allan

Keys to the good life

Are they allowed to swear in TV shows in the UK? Spaced has a ton of swearing in it and it's not bleeped out. They kinda swear on the UK version of the Office, but there were definitely a few episodes that featured dildos that were not censored. So I don't know. Do you live in the UK? Do you watch TV? Will you answer my question? Are you my mother?

I'm really stoked for the new Alice in Wonderland movie. I haven't been this stoked for a movie in a long time.

I think I may in fact go to that Matches show next month since I have other reasons to be in the city anyways. Now I have to buy a ticket.

There's this anime called Neon Genesis Evangelion. It may in fact be my favorite of all time and then some. Apparently the creators are putting out a series of four movies that are basically an updated version of the 26 episode anime. By update I mean shinier robots, more CG crap, new story/plots points that were left out in the original series and possible the worst choice ever: Less Asuka (although I'm not sure of this since I haven't seen all of them, but from what I've read she's already half-dead by the end of the second movie). Two of the movies are out now. I'll hopefully be able to see the first one tonight. Hopefully it'll be just as confusing and fucked up as the original anime was. If you haven't seen Eva, it is a really, really fucked up show and very hard to follow because it's very deep (at least for a dummy like me). The filler episodes feel like an acid trip.

There's suppose to be some sort of Asian Man Records thing going on at Bottom of the Hill this Friday. I think I might go since Mike Park (guy who runs the label) will be there and maybe some of the people I know that know Mike Park will be there and I could see if they are interested in an unpaid helper monkey. DREAM BIG!!!!

SHAMWHATTHEFUCK?!

-Allan

Tramp stamp

Today has been bad. I have a head ache. It won't go away. I've been really out of it. I walked into the bathroom with my coffee mug when the initial plan was to head into the kitchen first to put the mug in the sink then use the bathroom.

The good thing is Monsters of Folk. Take Bright Eyes, throw the singer from My Morning Jacket in there and add M. Ward and you've got Monsters of Folk. They are playing a show in Oakland at the Fox Theater. I can't remember when since I got too excited when I saw Oakland was on the list of tour dates. Cool bands don't really play Oakland venues. They'll occasionally hit up the Oracle, but that's usually some really famous band I don't really wanna go to the fucking Oracle to see (I hate the Oracle).

The Honorary Title is gonna play Bottom of the Hill in September. Like I haven't been to Bottom of the Hill enough times. LET'S GO AGAIN!! :D

Someone is doing karaoke somewhere near my house. It's really loud and really bad. Did I mention I have a horrible headache? It's switching from like old 80's power ballads to mariachi stuff. What the fuck?

I watched this movie called "Sylvia". If you can guess what its about and who stars in it, you could win a pony. Except if I could afford a pony, I probably don't need to blog about my headaches.

I also watched "Sex Drive". It's another one of those "I wanna get laid, but instead I learn important life lessons and that girl who's my best friend ends being more than just my best friend" type of movies. I guess I kinda liked it but not really. It wasn't very funny in my opinion. When a movie like that isn't funny, it's just shallow and 2 hours of random tits and cocks (I happened to have watched the unrated version which promised a lot more tits and cocks in the first minute of it). What I liked about that movie was probably Amanda Crew and Seth Green.

Very well little brother, very well.

-Allan

Windows Media Player

Have you ever been just bummed out for absolutely no reason? Yes you have. I was feeling like shit yesterday. I think I'm recovering from whatever the hell that was, but who knows?

I watched "Mysterious Skin". It was a good movie. That scene where that crazy guy basically rapes him is like the funniest/saddest things I've seen in a while. Funny because he was just yelling "SLUT!! SLUT!! RAWR!! SLUT!!!" the whole time and I find random screaming funny. Sad because well....the kid got raped.

Matt Embree plays the exact same guitar as I do. Except he's in the RX Bandits and rips. xD

Speaking of guitars and playing, I've learned a good handful of songs by the Strokes. If Nick Valensi ever dies for god knows what reason, call me Strokes. We can work something out.

Okay. Time to attend my Cabal Players Anonymous meeting so I can kick the habit.

-Allan

This Goes on the Record

I should probably start doing stuff. July went by fast and college hell is ever so close. Maybe playing video games all day and not sleeping or eating right isn't such a good idea.

In other news, I kinda learned how to play an acoustic version of this song called "Morning Exercise" by an awesome little band (well, maybe not "little") from Oakland called The Heavenly States. Okay, the song is like only two chords (F and Bb I think), but whatever. Go buy their album "Delayer" and tell me I'm a dummy and can't learn things by ear.

It's amazing how much awesome music you can find by listening to Break This City. Hard Girls? Best band ever that I keep not going to see live. There. That was another plug. Do I get paid yet?

So for whatever reason, I've had to convince a good handful of people I don't drink (baby blood that is). I tell them that and they always respond like I've just killed their first born child or something: "WHAT?! You DON'T drink? How? Why? Adverb! SUBJECT!" I'm always reluctant to respond with "I'm fucking seventeen you fucking asshole. Why is that surprising that I don't do something that kinda isn't legal at all for someone my age?" Am I missing out on something? Are folks my age actually just fucking getting wasted every other minute and I'm just that out of the loop? Am I giving my generation too much credit? Will anyone ever know all the lyrics to "Hey Sandy"?

When there's nothing else to talk about, we talk about drinking and drugs motherfucka.

I have a crush on Gwyneth Paltrow. Thanks Ironman.

I have a bigger crush on Zooey Deschanel. So much so, I will cut you if you bad mouth her in the comments section (which probably makes you wanna do that). I wanna see 500 Days of Summer. It has Tommy from 3rd Rock From The Sun in it too. Remember that show? Wasn't the best? There's this awesome video of them pretending to be Sid and Nancy (you can find it through wikipedia). Zooey is wearing a rabbit lock. I dorked out really hard when I saw that cause it basically is the exact same one I'm wearing....all of the time. Then I hid in my closet, lit the candles on my Zooey Deschanel shrine, and sacrificed a vegan hipster kid.

It is late. Yes. 2:50 in the a.m.

Hi.

-Allan

P.S. I really wanna write script to a movie that goes completely backwards. Fuck that whole Eternal Sunshine steez where it's all out of order. I'm going backwards. It'll probably get stale within the first three seconds.

Oh girl, the lights are on

Hello.

I'm sad because I miss seeing DESA playing music live. That's actually something that has been bumming me out. I miss seeing DESA activity. They haven't done anything in well over half a year now. The last show they played was like in December of 2008 and haven't done anything since. Don't break up on me now.

Other than that, I think I'm fucking losing it? I wish for Senior to fly by as fast as it can. I don't care if its suppose to be one of the better years of high school. Fuck that. I just wanna know if I can get into college. Then hopefully get the hell out of here because I can't take here anymore. There's nothing going on for me. I need distance from my parents before I actually start hating them for driving me crazy.

I hate having so much free time.

Here are some things to lighten up the mood:





-Allan

Happiness Hit Her Like A Train

For the past two (possibly more) days, I've woken up doing rather odd things. Like I kinda hopped out of bed and started dancing for god knows what reason yesterday or the day before that. I eventually snapped to it and was like "Huh?" This morning, I woke up panicking and ran to the door because I thought my dad had forgotten the keys again and was knocking on it. He wasn't. I still have no clue what that banging noise was. One possible theory is that it was the drums for the song that was playing when I hopped out of bed. Me, being confused and discombobulated, probably mistook it for someone banging on a door. That's the likely thing to have happened since it would also kinda explain the dancing. I hope it gets crazier and crazier.

Other than that, I've been up to doing a whole lot of nothing. I learned you shouldn't play the arcade versions of DDR barefoot because the screws sticking out of the pad will probably give you blister and make it hard as hell to walk.

The song "Ye Old Hope" (I don't know if it is actually called that) isn't on the Florence and the Machine album! I have a demo of it. It's a fucking great song. It got cut from the album though. Because of that, I can't 100% love the album. Maybe high 90's.

I missed out on seeing Hard Girls again last night. I was too busy running around screaming non-sense in public. =/

Last thing. The Matches are going on hiatus. They will play their last show on August 23rd at the Fillmore in San Francisco. I'm probably most definitely going. It will probably most definitely be a sad night.

-Allan

Every Man That I Fall For

Yup, this is what it feels like if I were actually dead. The blog would stop and you would never know what happened to me. Luckily for you, I'm still alive. Hooray me!

I want the Florence and the Machine album. It doesn't come out here until the 14th and I can't download a good version of it to keep me happy until then. My UK fans should do me a favor and just send copies to my fanclub.

Someone's status on facebook was something like "I downloaded music illegally, but I'm okay with it it because it keeps my favorite indie band from making money which thus means they can remain indie and I can pretend like I'm friends with them still". Just less words. Really? You do realize that they need to fucking pay bills right? And because people download albums now, they can only barely make money by touring a lot and touring a lot in my opinion brings more attention to any artist than any number of plastic discs. Plus, why the hell would you want to keep a band you like from succeeding? I guess the real message in that is fuck you.

The person probably didn't mean it like that (my money's still on they did) and if so, the choice of wording totally pissed me off.

My friend's website is up:

French Press Films

They do moofee-like things and whatnot. Have a business that's needs stuff like this done? Wanna hear people scream "Fuck" while they film you? Yea you do. Don't believe anything on the Bio page though. :D

I've managed to push out a song. Like actually. It's done. Ready to be heard and laughed at and everything. It's about little boys. My god, I am a creep. D:

I've returned to playing Cabal Online. An hour or two in and I think it was a bad idea. Mainly because I'm pretty high level now so there's very little for me to do by myself (i.e. grinding, dungeons, sex). I have to make new "friends" since all the old ones probably realized doing this is a waste of life. There's a ton of new, useless features I really don't wanna learn. I'm a dork.

Now to return to rolling a giant ball thing around and picking things up.

-Allan