you never learned, the rules have changed since we were nine

long time no post again, and all apologies.

the month of april has been an interesting one; there have been trips to foreign lands, holiday and birthday celebrations, and a decent amount of interesting happenings. the weather's gotten an awful case of identity disorder and keeps flipping between scorching and somber. luckily, its about that time when it's mind gets made up and we enjoy the outdoors much more. in just the past few days when we've had a high of at least 75 i've realized just how much i appreciate nice weather. winter was so long and bleek, boring, depressing, that i nearly forgot how beautiful it can get in this neck of the woods.

i want to make sure that i get out more and bike, rollerblade, play basketball and football, and just overall exercise. pretty much my order of priorities goes: job, gym/exercise, relationship, school. though, in reality, my job is what's getting me to school and school is always the number one in the shadows. if i can secure a decent 25-35 an hour job that pays well, then i'll have money to hit the gym and work on getting in shape. at the same time i'll be trying to diet. then, seeing as i'll actually have money for dating and such, i'm rather sure that my focus will go back to the female species, though it's really always an option. and then i'll be back off to school, likely in florida. time to start putting things together.

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Eight days a week...

so, the month of april has definitely had its high points and its low ones. the month started off great with three concerts in four days; Stars was alright but i guess i was expecting more. Minus The Bear and Portugal the Man killed it, MTB played everything ive wanted to hear them play live and i got a setlist, and Portugal played both older and newer songs and put on a great showing. the Big Sleep were alright but they did a lot with a minimum amount of things at their disposal; Explosions In The Sky were fucking rad, they played a lot of songs i knew and played most of their really intense stuff. they ended the show with Memorial and blew me away. i was pretty damn happy.

but then the lows come in to balance it out. saturday was a bummer to begin with because earlier in the week our show had gotten postponed. we made up for it with a mini-ish show in fran's basement, then we headed to forestview and then to james' house. i left james' and went to frans to chill and the like. unbeknown to me until literally last night, the brother of a friend of mine passed away on saturday night. the wake was actually today and i paid my respects. i feel pretty bummed about that whole experience, though i definitely know there are those who feel a hell of a lot worse than me and my deepest condolences go out to them.

and in my other petty news compared to real situations, ive got a paper due on thursday and a documentary due ASAP, but essentially some time next week. pertaining to the documentary, im taking my camera with me this weekend when me, j, and fran (hopefully) go to toronto to see Autechre and stay over drinking and such. im trying to think of some topic that i can interview them about and get b-roll in the city for but im drawing a blank. we'll see what i come up with.

and as for friday, id like to celebrate my bday a bit but i doubt itll happen unless somebody else sets something up. im not too keen on making my birthday big as i get kind of embarassed with all eyes on me but something small would be cool. if anything i hope i can hang with people on sunday when we get back from toronto.


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