9 posts tagged “update”
Ohayoo!
So, not much to say really. Life's life. Yadda yadda. Lots changed and still changing since last post, etc etc. Busy busy.
But I still find time in the day to get down with the sickness and rock the funky beats. Observe:
Quick 'n sloppy preview clip mix of some material I've been working on. Everything's au naturale, produced and engineered by me. Ain't no premade loops in there. And, of course, everything's a work in progress, and don't pay any
attention to the composition of anything because it's all just slapped
together carelessly. That phatness 1/3rd of the way through (tentatively named Trick Dog), I just started it a couple of nights ago; not even adequately realized, yet but it's thumpin' and delicious enough to preview. A couple are kind of dated, and I should prooooobably go back and overhaul them. Might even be able to get a couple done in time to drop at fanime.
Oh yeah! I'm spinning at the fanime dance. No idea when though. Come... check it... out? I feel a bit wrong asking anyone to actually go to fanime on their own free will... but I assume a good portion of you reading this are already going, so... yeah! Go to the dance, foolies.
Nap time. Payce.
I feel like I should write on recent happenings. Or on something, anything, whatever, just an excuse to write. Tons of things here and there happening everywhere, and it's awesome. But obviously before I go any further, best of all - it's cold, it's crisp, it's December. It wins
Black Friday was epic. Ngo and a handful of the usual suspects from last year's outing were in attendance towitness the miracle of camp-out gaming... in Mike Ngo's trunk. If there was better way to spend my time sitting on my butt out in 40 degree weather all night in Sunnyvale anticipating impending doom, I sure as heck didn't spend enough time thinking of it.
As always, it was basically just for the experience and not so much for the consumer whoring. Well, ehh... mostly - I made away with a set of Logitech 5.1 THX speakers for $50 and 500 gigs worth of external HD goodness for $80 after rebates, which compared to last year, was pretty much awesometastic. And at this rate, I'll theoretically be up to 2.5 TB by the time next BF rolls around... ayaa. Somebody suggest me more useless crap to download so I don't feel guilty with hundreds of unused gigs.
Keeping on the pointless-standing-in-line tip, Anthony, his friend and I made it to Santa Ramen's grand re-opening this past Saturday. I'll tell ya, not many things in this world can get me motivated enough to wake up before the crack of noon on a Saturday, but for keeping my fandom true and business continuously contributed to my favorite restaurant, I would've given up a winning lotto ticket. Honestly dude. My loyalty runs deep.
Whilst fighting off the urge to slice the throats of all the "friends" of the first party in line cutting with them (which is more intricately documented within my Yelp review), the feeling was that of everything I was expecting it to be - the same crack-in-a-bowl deliciousness even God himself could not deny, now served within finer ambiance and a sleeker decor. Everything consumable is more or less the same, as it should be. The only changes, outside of a slight price hike, are just more kinds of sprinkles on the icing on the cake. We almost went again for dinner, hahaha.
Other than that... ehh. Not too much else interesting to dwell on, I guess. Life's been going as great as it could be. Still unrelationship'd, so nothing to report on that front. Maybe soon though. I think I'm pissing off some other people more than I am myself about not caring... yeesh.
I'm liking my new living arrangements for the most part. I'm saving a good chunk of scratch on commuting by living within walking distance of a Caltrain station and a T-line stop. Also getting more into the music producing thing, bit by bit. I think I'm almost regretting not taking the LA job opportunity, but don't let me fool you just yet ;D... I'm really just getting jealous of the LA dnb scene and not being able to brock out with Devon in it. I've got nobody here that shares the same affinity for the scene nearly as much as I do, and it being probably my most major hobby now, it's a kick in the nuts going alone to clubs in the bay to see dj's rinse out. Sigh.
Yeesh, this is getting scattered. Oh! One more thing... I might actually be moving to Tokyo sometime in the near future. I'm not letting myself get too excited or anything... but it might as well be the coolest thing ever. =D Hooray for possibly un-borifying Keina!
I feel like I should blog or something. I'm kind of at a loss for words, though not in a bad way. Just don't know what to type.
At the moment though, I'm a glitch hop head. Maybe I'll post some sometime. It's delicious.
So life's feeling like it's set to perma-idle. Every day (though I'm not sure if I can measure my living schedule by "days;" more like the amount of time I'm awake) turns out to be exactly the same as the previous, and it just depends on how much I'm feeling like teasing the overage line on my bank account whether or not I eat. Ha. I'm decent at getting out of the house once in a while, as dawdling at bowling night proved yesterday. I somehow successfully maintained a jogging routine for a couple of weeks some time ago as well. I'd really like to pick it up again, actually, if I could tear myself away from my 360 (pathetic: yes). Most notably on that accord, it's a drag not being able to go to the gym, reasoning that I could spend my $1.50 more wisely on something other than a few mile bus ride.
I'm hoping October redeems everything horrible about August and September, thus far. I have skyrocketing hopes for the month, though I'm sure they'll run out of gas and spectacularly crash soon enough. Wait, what? Aren't I Kevin Mitchell, Mr. "Ginormo Optimistico?" ... eat it. You wouldn't have a speck of the thought had you (or any human) been close to me recently. I've got nobody, and nobody's got me. No matter how much I loathe and despise it, that's how I'm rolling nowadays.
In retrospect and all honesty, it's not too far from the truth to speculate that that's how I've felt for as long as I can really remember. The spot everyone has for that one (or few, if you're blessed) really close buddy, chum, comrade and shit-shooter has been empty for so long, the switch for the no vacancy light has been rusted over completely.
Sigh. I hate the feeling of feeling like I should elaborate. For not having a blood brother, girlfriend or other person close to me, I blame nobody for this but myself, no doubt. That whole deep interaction and sharing of thoughts/experiences can't be put to good use if you've no practice, logically. I tend to give off the completely wrong impression a lot because of it. And, I see my stubbornness come full circle now in that I realize, in all of my family, friends and countless acquaintances, I can't even find someone to even attempt to open up to. Not at all due to them being unsuited or unworthy, mind you. See, I'm so stubborn, I feel sometimes that if I don't provide some sort of entertaining comment or something of good use to another person, I'm basically a bother and waste. I won't even put the effort into striking up a conversation if I feel like I can't contribute something positive, useful or I cant impress a person through it. It's really hard to paint the scenario I'm trying to convey, but I don't think it's too hard to grasp the idea that I'm retarded.
So to sum it all up in some sort whack way, if you're my friend and I come off as or just seem obnoxiously superficial (and/or lacking talkativeness), chances are it's not due to absolutely anything you aren't doing to get me to interact more -- I'm just a moronically stubborn introvert. And I need to fix it.
End random thought. Change needed. Vox is always so intuitive at bringing out the useless in me.
All this change and decision making, it's getting old. Don't get me wrong, I love and welcome change, but holy crap, it never stops this year for some reason. It's running me dry.
I'm really glad I went to svgl last night. It felt good to randomly shoot the shit with cool people again into the early hours of the morning, reminding me of how much I dig spur-of-the-moment happenings and chilling like that. Well, my developing cabin fever may have some influence, but... eh. It was a nice throwback. Hopefully it wont become such a rare occurrence, I could use more time out of the house...
The drive home was pretty awe-inspiring as well, watching the sun rise up and over the cliffs and hills of Half Moon Bay exposing the sweeping fog bank over the tide of the bay itself so serene. Funny to mention, the "6am yeah we were talking" lyric in Long Shot Penny played right when the clock hit 6:00. Not to mention nearly all of the traffic and speed warning lights throughout the windy curves of highway 1 seemed to be in sync with the song, which was almost creepy. But mostly awesome though. Man, I love driving.
Ooooh, it's early. I've never been to Tartine around opening, I think I might go check that out for once. Oh god, the thought of a hot, fresh baked morning bun is killing me already...
Also, the world's #1 drum'n'bass dj Andy C is spinning in the city tonight. I wish I'd planned this more appropriately ahead of time... the dude is godly. I'll go. Alone or not, I'll go. =p
So, I figure after almost a month, I should post something for the sake of posting something so I can say I posted. For the sake of posting, of course.
July is going to be awesome. Incubus, Daft Punk, possibly Magic Mountain and/or Disneyland, possibly moving, and whatever else happenssssssssss. It's bound to be one of the greatest months ever. Though so far this year, April's been by far the best month yet. Even on top of the news of my office closing and me out of the job by July, it has treated me better than I could have ever asked forl. I couldn't be happier, nor more thankful than I am right now. Just goooooooing with the flooooooooow. Yayuhhhh.
Speaking of Konami SF closing, there's a good chance I may actually be relocating to LA during the summer. It's absolutely nowhere near set in stone at this point, but who knows what can come of it come June or July when more details emerge. I love my job, I love my company, and I love what I do, so I won't be pursuing a position at another company so quickly just yet. Konami's got the gaming side of me monopolized, as there isn't any other publisher/developer's library of games I can think of that match my interest in what Konami's got.
We shall seeeeeeee what ends up happening. OH! And also, anybody that's reading this in the LA area and plays DDR, there is a possibility of step data creator positions opening this summer in Konami's LA office. Yes, making steps for DDR, officially. Contact me personally if you're anywhere near interested. =P
Aaaaaaaand before I forget....
GO SHARKS!!! TEAL TOWN BABY!!!
Yeah, I know I haven't blogged in forever lately, as some have noted. Aporogies!
Honestly, nothing has stricken me as blog-worthy much lately... I've not been home as much as usual these past few weeks, and since my blogging is usually the result of a blinding case of boredom at home, the equation's evidently been broken.
Tonight was awesome though. Went through old cd's and had a goot laugh at everything I found my old case (NOW #1!!!). But one cd in particular basically JUMPED out of it's fitting and into my dvd drive wanting to be ripped.
I DON'T REMEMBER!
Picked up a new phone over the weekend - a W810i. I'm very, very pleased with it so far. =) I need to find a cheap pro-duo stick somewhere...
And guess what? This also means I lost all of my contacts. AGAIN! Stupid phones not letting me be able to save my contacts to my sim card... bleh. So, I guess since Vox is all public and stuff, call me or text me (with your name) if you can, pretty please. Thanks yosssssssss!
Anywho... I made a kickin' dnb mix last night, but upon listening it over after finishing recording it, it seems Traktor dun fugged everything up and placed a cue marker on the 120,000th beat of the 2nd song or something, rendering it impossible to write to a wav. Lovely. Oh well. =( I'll try and make another soon...
I should probably get to bed now. Been having a randomly hard time getting to sleep this past week. Again. I feel pretty tired right now though, and... I think I'll take advantage of it. Or at least attempt to!
Oh! And a quick song share. I think I stuck this tune somewhere earlier in a post saying it wasn't all it was hyped up to be, but it's really been growing on me during the times I've listened to it off and on. It's absolutely beautiful. A song I wish I could really, actually, take a morning drive with...
Oh man. Yesterday was the greatest. Nothing like mid-week one-day socal trips to magic mountain! (happy birthday... AGAIN Brian =p )
a small highlight:
I also got a full on-board video of a ride on goliath (a big no-no if you're caught I guess, too bad I saw where the on-ride photo was SUCCKKERRSS). 8D I'll put it up later when I have time, along with some other funny stuff... but it's time to head to good ole WORK! and... and it's really weird. I kinda feel like wanting to go in to work today.
I have absolutely no idea. Anywho, another post later with more funnies, I promise!
