L.A. Part 2

Today I decided to try and see if there was other people out there that feel the way i do about Los Angeles. My hope was that by reading what these people had to say it would put  alot of the things i’m dealing with in perspective, like frame the issues i had so that they didnt seem as big in the scope of things. Too bad after reading them it put me another step in the wrong direction. The most interesting article I read was the following:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-ali-binazir/is-los-angeles-the-toughe_b_379298.html

This article was framed from the context of dating, but i noticed alot of overlap on the topic in the realm of making friends. I currently have no interest in dating because i feel like it’d give me a reason to stay here, but not a good one. But even in meeting people here i’ve found that the kids i meet are either as the article describes, shallow, or their so starry eyed by Hollywood and the entertainment industry in LA that they are blinded by all the bullshit going on. For those kids i truly feel sorry because they’re the ones that fall the hardest in this city. Usually as soon as they realize that there’s a reason not everyone in LA lives in the hollywood hills, and that if you wanna survive here you put up with alot of shit.

Not sure this was one of my better ideas, but it wasnt a total loss as i came to an interesting conclusion about where im at in my life. Everyone in Los Angeles has a “If it wasnt for ______ i wouldnt be in LA” situation. I’m just trying to figure out if I want to fill in the blank.

Life in Stupid L.A.

Figured i’d start posting on here again as to not spew all my hating on Facebook and Twitter. I’ve been back in L.A. 10 months now and i can honestly say im not very happy i made the move yet. For some reason I thought all the things that bothered me about this city in High School when I jumped at the opportunity to go way the hell away to school would somehow be different. Turns out they are all still here, and many of them have become worse than before. However Its proven quite difficult to overlook the opportunity i’ve been given by my family at work, to one day own 3 dealerships, be my own boss, and eventually retire somewhere awesome. So i’ll sum up life so far here in some bullet points.

• Traffic here is terrible. 45-60 minutes daily for a 23 mile commute. Caused entirely by the unintelligent people that inhabit these lands. And gardner truck, they drive soo slow, and there’s soo damn many of them.
• $$ Everything here is expensive, you pay premiums for everything because why? The weather? The Lakers? still trying to figure that one out.
• The People: everyone in LA is soo important you have no idea. People do dangerous things while driving just to pass one more car, nobody is polite AT ALL, yet they have no problem bitching to you, or asking you for discounts on everything. I dont know if this is the write word but i find the people here to be rather hollow. Almost every person i have met here simply wants to know what you do for work and im sure judges you based on that. I’d love to find someone here that can sit down and have a decent conversation about something, anything really. Or maybe someone who sits down and asks “what are you good at” instead of “Where do you work” Either would be fine
• The skiing: im seriously gonna go nuts if more 50% of my days next season are at Big Bear. I dont even count Mt High as a ski hill which is why its not included. Getting a season pass there is like settling for the fat friend.  Mammoth supposedly has decent skiing, however Im told if if i wanna ski anything good i have to go to Tahoe, 8 hour drive. I could seriously write an entire post about how many negative steeze points everyone that rides Big Bear gets. No camo cargos, no jeans, no starter jackets and stop tucking your fucking pants into your boots.
• Sports: The Lakers are a bunch of overpaid divas who lack moral character. There i said it, bring it on all you kids reppin LA. The one team i didn enjoy supporting, until recently, was the Dodgers. I dont know why but i always left dodger games happy about where i lived. I think its the only time everyone in LA is actually nice to each other and gets along. But after the recent incident in which an opposing fan was beatn within an inch of his life, i really have no interest in being associated with them. It further proves the point that nobody in LA knows how to behave.
• Work: I fucking love work, except for that chachbag that called me a liar today, he can go fuck himself. Its the only thing here i’ve found worth investing my energy into. I get alot of freedom to try things in marketing and some of my ideas have proved rather successful. Its the only thing thats really kept me going since the move,  and even that’s seems like its starting to fade. Im finding it harder and hard to want to take care of these people here when they’ve shown be nothing but negatives.
• I just wish I knew how to ignore all the bullshit and stupidity that goes on in this city and just enjoy living here like everyone else seems to. Am i missing something, or does everyone in LA hate living here but just puts up with it because there’s lucrative jobs to be had?

I’ll keep you posted when i know more

420

Im curious to see if anoyone other than myself noticed the weather outside today. When i awoke it was dark, gloomy and kinda rainy. Yet as soon as the beloved 420 came and went the sun came out. I feel this is great representation of the “holiday”. Actually i wont use the term holiday, lets go with gathering. Celebrating 420 is a dark cloud that surrounds boudler every year on 420, and honestly im glad its over. Personally i have no problems with people using drugs in their home or whatever it is that proponents claim to want. But i feel that going out a delibratley breaking the law and publicly smoking weed is kinda going about it the wrong way. I personally have never smoked on 420, purely out of my own life principles. I feel that recognizing 420 as a “holiday” or partaking in the event means to me that i place enough value in my life on a drug as to take time to celebrate it, and that will NEVER be the case. When the use of drugs becomes that large of a priority in your life as to skip class, work or whatever to go use it, to mee its sad. Addiction occurs when people begin to put drugs in to high a priority in their life and as much as people think weed isnt addictive, it is. It may not cause the health problems that harder drugs will but think about the social consequences it causes. Skipping class to go smoke, skipping work to go smoke. These things although they seem like small events in the long run might just be that one thing that could put you over the line. I dunno i guess i just find it amusing that people still hold durgs on such high regard, and im not sure if i’ll really ever understand why. Most likely beacsue i wont allow myself to find out. Call me stubborn but i think there comes a time in everyone’s life where you need to just be a little mature and this would be one of those times.

-Brian

Wouldn’t this be nice!

Have Posted in a really long time, and i want to start again so here we go. Interesting view on life if you ask me. But please dont ask me. Its annoying.

I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should start out dead and get it out of the way. Then, you wake up in an old age home feeling better every day. 
You get kicked out for being too healthy; go and collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. 
You work 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. 
You drink alcohol, you party, you’re generally promiscuous and you get ready for High School. 
You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a baby, and then… 
You spend your last nine months floating peacefully in luxury, in spa-like conditions; central heating, room service on tap, larger quarters every day, and then, you finish off as an 0rgasm.

-More to come soon! Cuz ya know, i have alot to say n shit  yo!

New Years Resolutions

I know its kinda cheesy but i read somewhere that if you write goals down your 3 times more likely to stick to them.

1. No more bad for you food. Like candy and stuff with lots of butter and gravel and rocks…what?

2. Workout/Exercise Everyday. At least something, bike trainer, irongym, swim. Whatever, just get off my cute ass and do something.

3. Produce my own electronica song. I know the software and confusing as shit and its probably gonna take me a while but i like electronica alot and i want to be able to say that i can make my own music not just listen to it and i’d love to be able to play it live for everyone.

4. Make a concisous effort to spread good karma. Im not talking get all “my name is earl” but just start with little things like not driving like an asshole, or just not making fun of people that dont get my jokes.

So there they are. Feel free to kick me in the shins and help me out with this k!

R.I.P. Vans Warped Tour

What the fuck happened to the Vans Warped Tour? It used to be one of the best festivals around to see some great punk rock  and now every picture of the bands playing, with the exception of a few i will discuss later, is a bunch of fucktard hipsters with sleeveless shirts, srtaight bangs and big floppy vaginas. When i went to warped tour you know how played? Pennywise, The Offpsring and Bad Religion along with a bunch of other awesome punk and ska bands. You know who plays now? Here’s a few of my favorite from this years’s lineup: Breathe Carolina (gay name), Bring me the Horizon (not possible idiots), Everytime I Die (can you please make this time the last time and stay dead), I See Stars (impossible becasue i havent punched you in the face yet), and finally pierce the Veil (im guessing some gay jonas brothers vriginity reference)

What the fuck Seriously. But i was glad to see a few punk bands still in the lineup and keeping the spirit of Warped Tour alive such as The Casualties, Reel Big Fish, Sum 41, The riverboat Gamblers & The Dillinger Escape Plan. Can someone start a new punk festival? Im down to pitch like $5 on that.

-Brian

“Intelligent Dance Music”

Recently i have been hearing the word “Intellignet” being used to refer to certain types of Electronica music. I have to say that i think the use of this term within the realm of any kind of music is a bunch of elitist bullshit. Especially in electronica, which to me is about a global music genre that knows no language barriers and brings people together for the sole purpose of enjoying music and dancing. To break down the term intelligent dance music I first though about what intelligence meant. To me its the ability to comprehend, think and learn. To me these descriptive words are really not something that I would want associated with music. Music is the most basic art form around. You can make music by clapping your hands, banging two sticks together or mixing CD’s and all people have to do to understand it is use those things on either side of their head. To say that your music is intelligent would imply to me that I just wouldn’t understand it or have to actively work to understand and appreciate it and i honestly find that somewhat offensive. As much as i enjoy activley listening to music if artists started calling their music intelligent punk or intelligent i dont think i’d take them seriously, i’d most likely just say, i dont care how smart you think your music is, play something that sounds cool. I also think the term intellignet is a majority of the time misused. I’ve heard the term Intelligent used to describe several genres of music such as minimal, downtempo and any other music that in my opinion lacks energy, the ability to engage listeners with ease and pretty much anyone that’s “not spinning stuff from beatport” or have trouble classifying what they spin. Also when you can use the same term to describe Drum & Bass and Minimal i think that give the term just a little to much flexibility. The term “intelligent” in dance music is used the same way that “alternative” is used in rock music. When people say they listen to alternative i always ask them “Alternative to what?” The same could be said for “Intelligent Dance Music.” Is all other dance music retarded? Are we retarded if we listen to it? See what im getting at? People that refer to their music by this term should really find a new word to use instead of sounding like a bunch of douchy elitist hipsters that have already ruined indie rock.

Chav Remixes that never made it.

The Final Chavdown
The Chavtown Ladies
Srgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Chav
Chav on Eileen
Dont Chav for me Argentina
Chavburger in Paradise

Oh god im bored.

-Brian

“School” Starts

Its funny cuz i dont have school anymore, Get it? thats why theres quotes. Anyways since school has begun everyone else has returned to class while i have finally gotten settled into my job at Pearl Izumi. It was kinda strange when everyone was buying books and doing homework and all i did was wait until the next day when i get to go back to work. So working in the warehouse at Pearl Izumi. Where to start. Here’s a basic rundown of work. I push a cart around pulling orders, putting them in boxes and then on a shelf for the shippers. The End. It’s honestly in no way engaging or interesting and i have to say i feel bad for hte people that work there who arent college age kids who just want a job with a sweet pro deal. Like theres legitimately people that work there that could probably be my dad and like work there full time. ANyways i’ve found myself reading books on marketing and advertising as to not turn stupid form my mindless work. I have however found things to do to keep myself amused at work so that i can not put my head in the microwave at breaktime. I like to steal people’s carts. Because most of the people there are like……whats a good way to describe them…….weird, they all have like, “Their cart” that they use everyday. I dont have one of these becasue i dont care so sometimes i go take other people’s carts. They get all like mad about it which i think is funny and are all like “gimme my cart back, my t-shirt is from hot topic.” My favorite cart to take is one of the shippers, who will remained unnamed, cuz he’s japanese and yells and i cant understand him. He then like takes the cart from me and says “go geee otta won” So anyways as im sure you can tell aside from my own jokes i make to petrie and my commentary about my co-workers that i keep in my head, work is……work.

The next few months i think will be super fun aside from work becasue theres a ridiculous ammount of good tunes coming through. Last weekend i chose to miss the CU vs. CSU game to go see Blink-182 and Weezer in denver.  Seeing as we lost to state and losing to state is the only thing worse than hooking up with a teammate. So Weezer was honetly one of the coolest live set’s ive seen, really talented group of musicans and Blink-182 blew me away. I have to say the encore of their set was by far top 3 best shows ive ever seen. Travis Barker’s drum platform was lifted on cables’ about 30 ft off the stage and started spinning while he played a bunch of his tunes he did with DJ AM, soo badass. Then once they put him back down the rest of the band came out and they played Carousel and Dammit. Absolutley fucking amazing. Since Blink-182 i was able to catch John Dahlback at Beta. Really talented DJ who threw down a really fun set. Christie hooked up guestlist for me and Chav and Petrie which was sweet so Thanks again!  Aside from that….i dont really do much except for count down the day until i can wax my skis. I kinda wanna go to some video premiers this year seeing as i didnt go to any last year. Im thinkin Poor Boyz, Level 1, TGR and perhaps Warren Miller. Well aside from that, i met all our neigbors in our building who are super cool. And we’ve been tearin up the new polo house with live DJ’s and sweet parties. That is all for now.

End of Summer

Its been a while since i remembered i had a blog, cuz i’ve been busy……….not..beating off? Anyways here’s the scoop on the rest of my summer and what i’ve been up to in the past few minutes.

Last few minutes:

–scratched my foot cuz it was itchy and you know how i feel about being itchy (I hate being itchy more than teammates)

–wrote a blog post for Collective Motions

–Listened to the song “Clap” by Wolfgang Gartner

Rest of summer:

–Helped my friends move in to all their sweet new houses, such as the Rape Den and the New Polo House. I didn’t actually move shit into the polo house but i did didnt throw empty beer cans all over the living room the first night they moved in so i guess i did didnt techinally move something inside the house.

– I started working at Pearl Izumi in Louisville. Its not the most glamorous job in the world, i think being the mouse at chuckie cheese would be worse cuz little kids would kick you in the shins and you cant do it back, but it pays pretty good and i don’t have to work fridays for weekends so its do-able.

–Met with some investors for ::Collective Motions:: that want to drop up some cash for new equipment and to get our project off the floor. We recently incorporated Collective Motions LLC. so i have my own company now yay!

–Shows: Hit quite a few good shows the end of summer. Aside form tuesdays at Abo’s on the Hill with ::Collective Motions::, if you haven’t come yet im gonna keep sending the fuckin facebook things to you every week until you do and if you leave our  group i will hunt you down.

–Summer Began with Benny Beanssi’s surprise show after Global Dance at Redrocks, i can honestly say i didn’t recognize one song the guy played all night but his set was soo legit!

–I saw Bassnectar throw the fuck down at Boulder Theater in a latenight show that went until 4am. Pretty baller kinda diggin D&B now.

–Hit Bloody Beetroots & Simian Mobile Disco at the Ogden.Despite what Chav said after Chavtime in Chavtown Chavy Chav Chav, Simain Mobile Disco was better than the Beetroots, granted i saw the beetroots b4 so thats why. ANyone that plays in spiderman masks is badass. The place really needs a new sound system cuz my ears were ringing for 2 days after and i hate that almost as much as the above mentioned itchy thing.

–After that i hit DJ Dan at Beta, by far some of the heaviest tracks i’ve heard. Chav and Chan had to go outside during the set because their sally’s and Chan wet his pants from the bass.

–To top it all off Savoy and Pretty lights on Farrand for the welcome week show. I know what your thinking, no i dont go to CU anymore so they were welcoming me to school but i have an ID and got in anyways so fuck you. Kids ketp crowdsurfing atht eh show. Only stupid douchy kids from Boulder would not get the fact that you don’t crowdsurf at an electronica show for the following reasons. 1. Your ruining my fuckin dance party when you land on my head. 2. Everyone is rolling face and has neither the time, energy for the attention span to hold you up. 3. I will take your shoe and throw it. Dumbasses aside, the show was amazing. Savoy brought it hard, and I had a pretty sweet dance party during pretty lights.

–I have to say it feels kinda weird being in boulder and not going to school anymore. Everyone was soo excited/nervous/stressed about school starting and all i had to look forward to was work. Felt kinda unattached i guess you could say, but i felt better about it when I had all my friends over b4 and after pretty lights. Really nice to see everyone and it reminded me why i decided to stay in boulder instead of move home.

– Now in my normal fashion to distract you from my last point, prety much so you dont think im a pussy and chicks will think im cool, here’s my words of nonsense for you all to enjoy.

– Theres a robot on tv brushing its robot hair sayin “im a pretty girl, im a pretty girl……” He’s a boy that silly robot.

– I like this video of the Pedobear from Entensity.net http://poststuff4.entensity.net/082109/flash.php?media=pb.flv

– And now a joke: What do you get when you cross an owl and ang a bungee cord????? My Ass.

Alrightcya!