Hey all - just reminding you to catch this week's edition of "Becca Bandit and the Controversial Cuban's Radio Extravaganza" tonight from 6-8 at UCLARadio.com. The Controversial Cuban just drove in from Northern California this afternoon and will be playing some songs from the road trip playlist. And as always a wide mix of unabashed rock of ALL ( Read more... )

Hey all - just reminding you to catch the 2nd edition of "Becca Bandit and the Controversial Cuban's Radio Extravaganza" tonight from 6-8 at UCLARadio.com. Hear *brand new* music from ALKALINE TRIO, DEATH BY STEREO, COLDPLAY, SYSTEM OF A DOWN and (get this) LIMP BIZKIT. And as always a wide mix of unabashed rock of ALL styles (everything from ( Read more... )

Hey everyone, be sure to listen to the Inaugural First Show of the Quarter for my radio show, "Becca Bandit and the Controversial Cuban's Radio Extravaganza!" It's from 6PM to 8PM tonight and it's ridiculously easy to listen to. Just go to http://www.uclaradio.com and click on the bright ' ( Read more... )

Hey anyone interested in seeing Slipknot and Shadows Fall tomorrow night - metal mania - I have 2 tickets to sell for $100 even. Get back to me, email at dtoyos84@ucla.edu, or call at (714) 350-7234. Thanks =)

Winter Quarter 2005 at UCLA has come and gone. I think it was the busiest, most fulfilling quarter I've had thus far at UCLA. My grades lowered a bit, but I think the tradeoff was worth it. I have been consistently happy now for quite some time. I have a part-time job at the UCLA North Campus Shop in which I am currently getting trained for ( Read more... )

If pictures are worth a thousand words, then here's fifteen thousand to sum up a few highlights of January 2005.


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Last night Chris and I watched The Party (1968), probably one of my favorite movies of all time. Despite having a high rating on IMDB, I have found maybe 1 other person that really enjoys this movie besides myself and my family, and it disappoints me. No one has any appreciation for simple humor, humor that doesn't have to involve vulgarity. Not ( Read more... )

Making waves in the news recently have been some controversial claims made by two university faculty members in the United States. First is this professor Ward Churchill, whom people are up in arms with, who apparently likened "victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to a Nazi mastermind" (Daily Bruin, 2/7/05) to insinuate that they were ( Read more... )

I do NOT like my Econ professor very much right now. Sure, the reviews said she came off as a bitch on the first day but that just served to "weed" out the slackers and she became friendlier...which I believed, until the midterm today. What the hell was up with that test?? I didn't finish because at the end she was literally screaming at everyone ( Read more... )

(8:45am) a very, very strange six hours. aiming with someone and feeling sleepines set in, laying down in my clothes to get a little shuteye before showering. (2:30am) waking up in my clothes 20 minutes before an economics review lecture. (7:37am) going back to sleep to finish my dream and then coming here to find that someone's made a very ( Read more... )