For your listening pleasure: http://orkespantaibarat.bandcamp.com/album/orkes-pantai-barat-ep. This is the debut ep from the internationally renowned Orkes Pantai Barat, Southern California's only (as far as we know) keroncong and other musics ensemble ( Read more... )

Maybe it's because I went to that pseudo high school reunion over winter break, or perhaps because I've been thinking about old friends recently, but I've been growing nostalgic for my high school days. I'm even contemplating getting the movie Orange County. Joe's temporary return from Asia only makes things worse given his proximity to OVHS. ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3iryBLZCOQ

Is something a question if it has never been asked?

It's not just me ( Read more... )

It's 3am as I write this here in my room. My cage. My prison. I can't sleep again. A dim desk lamp and the gray blue glow of my monitor cast faint shadows on my walls. There is a street lamp outside my window, but I can't see it. My blinds are shut to keep the street lamp out. It is malicious. It is deviant. The street lamp hates me. All ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a while and quite frankly I hadn't planned on doing so either. There is such a huge number of significant events that have happened in my life I just had to post none of them. That's right, I don't want to talk about a single one of them. Yes, unfortunately the only thing I seem to be able to think of is the same thing that ( Read more... )

Many thoughts and mixed feelings are swirling through my head right now but what is mainly on my mind is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Kurt Vonnegut was, is, and always will be my favorite author of all time. His writing style left me captivated from the first moment I picked up Slaughterhouse Five in early 2001. I spent the rest of my high school ( Read more... )

Today I have a new enemy. His name is Taylor Bell. He has stolen what is rightfully mine. Jack Beat has been, for the past four years, my alias, my avatar, my handle, the name to which I hold dear and true as my own and no one else's. Now I find that this devious Canadian has hijacked it away from me for use as his own handle (see: neopets). ( Read more... )

I'm tired and I think I'm not the only one ( Read more... )