Below are the 4 most recent journal entries recorded in blipntime's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
7:35 pm	I never get off my fat ass and do anything worthwile. I didn't go to the Unsane show, because I have been having problems with my ears and I think I might be losing hearing in my left ear due to a hereditary disorder. I did go see the new Star Wars movie, which was pretty good. As lame as it is, I have been literally waiting over twenty years to see the film. So now that I have that out of the way...now what? Seriously. I have to get a career going at something soon. I went to radio school only to find out that I can't afford to take a get-your-foot-in-the-door slot at some station and work my way up. I got mouths ta feed. And lastly, I can't stop thinking about having sex with black women. New development, but has become a recurrent thought. I need to find some ibuprofen. Current Mood: General malaise Current Music: "Custard Pie" Led Zeppelin (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
6:15 pm	Aw snap! I just got an e-mail today informing me that indie rock legends, UNSANE, will be playing tomorrow at the Conservatory! I thought they broke up. I got their best of/dvd earlier this year, since I lost my couple of Unsane releases in a housefire in 2001. I lost 600 or so albums, actually. So anyway, I had just been listening to them lately because I had regained an interest in this type of music and had renewed hope in starting a band of that nature, as noted in my previous message. So it just blew my mind! I am so excited. I had already requested to use one of my paid vacation days so I could spend time with my wife on her birthday, and see the new Star Wars movie. AND then I find out Unsane is playing too. Awesome. I haven't seen a decent concert since Melvins in Dallas in 2000 or so. I used to go see bands all the time, before the birth of my first child, in 99, but since then not a whole lot of bands have come through. I really should have seen High On Fire the few times they've come through, and I just found out I missed Men Of Porn, a Melvins spin-off band. I had gotten a Thrones show scheduled here in like 2000 and it got cancelled. Then I found out they (he) played some time later, the very day after. That was dissapointing. So anyway, I'm rambling. The point is I haven't heard any good NEW bands since 1994...any bands since I've liked were actually made up of members of bands that I was into prior...Queens Of The Stone Age would fall under this category. But I am now determined to at least contribute something. Don't go down without a fight. Other than that, work has been lame. I took some E the other night and it didn't do anything. Strong visuals, oddly, but no psychedelic effects at all. I develop a tolerance very quickly to things like that, I've talked myself into being straight on 10 hits of acid before, and I have heard you can develop a resistance to MDMA pretty quickly. My wife had a good time. I was just BORED. The first time I did it I can say was a pretty typical experience, mentally. Second time physically it was there, mentally it was a little more bland. Third time, I could tell it was working but I wasn't rolling at all, I was so un-speedy in fact I hardly said three sentences the whole time. I was just really blah. Like my seratonin receptors weren't working at ALL. The next day my legs were killing me....one good side effect is, after the first two times I did it, I really could not stand to listen to anything that didn't have a dance beat. And I had previously just been into rock for a long time. I started buying hip hop, and exploring that kind of music more. Which is fine. But I could NOT listen to rock. This time, with the complete antithesis of an ecstasy experience, I can now listen to rock with all the enthusiasm I had previously. Which I have to say is a big benefit. It's like after the two times I took it, I never really quite came down (I had been experiencing very strong after-effects) and now I feel like I'm not experiencing any after effects at all. Weird huh? I haven't done acid in years, but I did mushrooms recently, and I will say acid will always be my favorite. Nothing else comes close, intensity-wise. More bang for your buck as well, and of course as far as insights into your mind...very effective. Other than that, well, including that, things have been ultra dull! I slept till noon today. So points off for productivity. But tomorrow should be a good day. Current Mood: awaiting tomorrow patiently Current Music: "Hazmat" Unsane (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 15th, 2005
10:11 am	I'm depressed and optimistic at the same time. I've never really had friends that shared my interests...Music is my life, but generally, all of my interests are just a bit on the unusual side. Unusual for Oklahoma anyway. I saw a documentary on the Seattle music scene last night on IFC, and it blew my mind that there were a 1000 bands existing together, and all of them pretty much had the same musical interests as me. I've been in Oklahoma for 10 years and with one exception never even had an opportunity to play in a band. The one time I did get a band together it was my wife on bass, and my cousin on drums, and his major musical influence was Motley Crue and he couldn't play drums anyway. I'm terrible at making friends, but damn, you can't be creative in a vacuum either. My kids are getting to the age where they can subsist on their own if I leave a few cheerios on the floor, so I think I may be able to get out and try and become involved in whatever music scene is going on here. I'll be thirty next year, I have to give it one shot. I still love music, but what I would really like to do is get some sort of comedy troupe together and peform. I can do stuff by myself, of course, but without any kind of encouragement or input whatever I put out would be just as self-absorbed and backwards as any of the creativity you see on the internet. Social interaction is a necessity. In Seattle a lot of your audience were other bands...I don't know if that applies to Oklahoma. I haven't been to a local show here since probably 2000, and the scene seemed to be a little bit better then. But this may be myopia on my part. At that point in time, we had been getting shows by a lot of bands I liked. By 2000 though most of my favorite bands had broken up. The Green Door had opened, and everything seemed to be in more of a renaissance period...however, the local record stores despite their best efforts never had anything I wanted and what they did have that was cool, I already had. So with two kids in tow, I distanced myself from the whole thing. The Spy came back and it gave me a little hope, but three months before I graduated from broadcasting school they went out of business, and the radio thing has fallen by the wayside in favor of steady gainful employment. I'll give it another shot I guess... Hail hail rock and roll. In case someone IS reading this... My favorite music includes AC/DC, Acid King, Alice Cooper, Big Black, Black Sabbath, Breeders, The Cure, Devo, Earth, Jesus Lizard, JAMC, Gang Of Four, Led Zeppelin, Melvins, Ministry, Pixies, Shellac, Queens Of The Stone Age, Soundgarden, Tool, Thrones, Neil Young I haven't heard too many good new bands since I graduated high school. Current Mood: Early morning doldrums Current Music: "They Don't Want Me" by Wall Of Voodoo (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
5:17 pm	Okay so I joined this live journal thing... When I was a kid, and I am talking like, over 10 years ago, back when I was in high school...I was on the Prodigy bulletin boards and I met a lot of cool people. Since the advent of the Internet and the proliferation of chat rooms, I pretty much gave up on the online community thing. But a friend of mine told me about this, and she seems to like it, so I figured I would give it a shot. I just switched to a night shift, and basically lost contact with any and all of my handful of friends. I need some kind of interaction...I may be a curmudgeon, but I'm not made of stone. Anywho. So I guess I'd throw this out there, participate in a couple of communities, REGIONALLY, because truthfully, I am a little old to get all attached to people I have no understanding of culturally. I live in Oklahoma, so knowing there might be some like minded individuals out there could prove comforting. And then update my 'blog. Yes, I put the apostrophe in there, because that is the closest the word will get to be grammatically correct. And this will be the only time you see me use the word, as well. The entire exercise should at least prove useful as some kind of catharsis. Tantrums and breaking things has gotten old. -James Current Mood: Jaded reserve Current Music: NP:"Nothing To Say" Soundgarden (Comment on this)