I’d Like That
John Mayer… When I was in middle school I was attracted to John Mayer’s music. It was a guilty pleasure that I didn’t want any of my friends to know about because I felt obligated to like only rap music. Rap > everything else.. that’s what my friends used to tell me. Wish I knew how to handle peer pressure back then.
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Social Networking & WordPress/Tumblr
Now that I don’t have a Facebook, I really do feel like I’m closer to my blog. No more headlines that’ll read, “I’ve neglected you, blog.” One thing I like about not being in an online social network is that now people who really want to contact me will have to contact me through my phone instead of Facebook. I felt like Facebook was starting to be the place to contact people and phones were being phased out. “Hey what’s your Facebook.” “Don’t have one. Here’s my number.” That sounds so much better.
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My Birthday (5 Days)
I really don’t know what to do on my birthday anymore because of my car situation. I’m on a fucking budget now. Only way to get my car is to not do anything for a month straight. I could probably squeeze in $5 a day to do whatever, but that’s still kind of pushing it. Fuck having bad credit! I wish I could go back in time and cut up the credit card my mom gave me right when I turned eighteen. STUPID!
More Than A Stance: Don’t Be Annoying
Original Article: Don’t Be Annoying: Identify Any Song On Your Own
You drove 10 hours to the jam, paid an extra $15 to bring your camera in, and asked some random girl to film your crew’s first battle. You drove the 10 hours back home, transferred the footage to your computer and uploaded it to YouTube. You waited for feedback from your peers on how you did and what you should work on. Instead, you got four people asking “wutz da song?”
It’s one of the most frustrating comments you’ll see on YouTube videos, and yet it’s tough to find a single battle posted online that doesn’t have someone asking some variation of that question. Sometimes it’s asked nicely with a “please” (or more likely a “plllzzzzzz”), but most of the time it’s just demanded.
The reason it’s so frustrating is that most people don’t even try to find the song themselves. If they did, they’d realize that it’s really not that hard. Below are two methods for identifying a song.
1. Search For The Lyrics
One of the fastest and easiest ways to identify music is to simply listen to the lyrics and search for them on Google. If you hear the words “your mighty mighty body baby” in the song, type them into Google like this. Make sure you use quotes so that it searches it as a complete phrase instead of searching for each individual word.
2. Use Song Identifying Software
If you’ve got an iPhone, then you probably already know about Shazam. You hit a button, it listens to whatever music is playing, and a few seconds later it tells you the name of the song and artist. So if you have an iPhone, hold it up to your computer speakers — it’s that easy.
If you don’t have an iPhone, you can use Tunatic. Tunatic uses your computer’s microphone to listen to a song and identify it. If you have a webcam, you have a microphone. Otherwise you can buy a cheap one at Walmart for under $10 — a small price to pay for endless song identifying. Just hold the microphone up to your speakers and hit the search button on Tunatic, and you’ll have the song title in a few seconds.
Hurry Up And Get Here
My Life Online
I deleted my Facebook :]. Life feels much simpler without it. I felt like it was taking over my life because of how much I was using it. Sorry to all of my relatives that used it to keep in touch with me! You guys still have Perry and Sean lol. I actually also deleted my MySpace. I haven’t used that shit in days so I figured I might as well delete that too. Although I don’t receive much feedback on my blog, having my blog is good enough for me :].
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My Breakup
It’s really difficult.. mentally and physically. Different groups of friends look to see where I’m at by pointing out girls and asking if I think they’re cute. NO. That’s how I answer them… blunt no’s. Sometimes it’ll be a yes with a “whatever” attitude though. My heart just isn’t fond of anyone else and I don’t think it will be for a long time. This actually reminds me of something.. There has only been three girls that have mesmerized me EVER. First being Michelle, second being a girl that lives in Cali who I met back in ’06 and third being a girl who I met last year in April. I barely even know the third girl. I’d like to get to know the third girl, but I find myself having difficulty approaching her all the time. I’m not saying I’d like to get to know her cause I’m looking to get with her. I’m saying it cause I think she’d be an awesome friend. That’s in all honesty. Writing all of this makes me feel like I have a giant wall up for anyone who wants to come into my life. I was never this way before Michelle. I find myself being whatever about everything when it comes to a girl meeting me. “Hi, I’m Ashley.” “Hi, I’m Eric.” “Nice to meet you.” “You too… k bye.” If my conversations with girls were put in their simplest form then it would be like that all the time. It’s kind of funny to me. Yup, Michelle has left her mark.
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My Car Situation
Turns out that my credit is so amazingly bad that I can’t get a car with a $1k down payment. So fucking depressing to me. I went to the dealership all the way across fucking town to find out that I have to put down half the price of a car that I want as the down payment. FML. I’m so emo about this. I went to Easy Life to get a drink afterward. Sochy had asked me how I was doing and I told her I was depressed because of my car situation. Right before I left she hoped that my night would turn out better. I hoped for that too, but NOPE.. FUCKING JESUS RAISED HELL ON ME. The night just got worse lol. I’m so fucking unlucky with a lot of things in my life. I don’t know how I live with the kind of luck I have. Michelle knows how unlucky I am with everything. She always laughed at how bad my luck was and, for some reason, it always put me in a better mood when I heard her laugh. God, look at me reminisce. Anyways, looks like I have to save $3k more to buy my car. That’s about a month and a half. That also means I won’t be going out for that time. If anything, I’d have a budget of $5 a day to go out.
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My Subspace
The whole Desert Breeze area is bad subspace besides Easy Life. If Easy Life didn’t have mango slushies then I’d consider it bad subspace with the rest of Desert Breeze. You got lucky Easy Life ;]. “Why do you like Easy Life so much?” “Because Tea Planet or Tea Station (whatever the fuck you want to call that gay ass place) is filled with incompetent employees. Plus, Easy Life is pretty much down the street from my house AND it’s cheaper. The girls there are really nice too. Good subspace.”
Day 8 — Your best friend
I already clarified this. My brother, Perry Crooks, is my best friend. Read more.
Day 7 — Your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush
[Late cause I wasn’t home all day.] Michelle Kim: We were together for about three and a half years. (God, I’m fucking relapsing already.) In all honesty, she was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. I don’t know of any girl that compares to her. She’s made a big impact on my life in so many ways. Three and a half years is a really long time to get to know somebody. She’s really the only person that understands me. Michelle really is an amazing person. I loved her with all of my heart and I still do. I can’t finish this.. I’m feeling tears.
Day 6 — A stranger
A stranger? I honestly don’t know how to answer this one, but I can’t leave this 30-day challenge without a post for each day.
Day 5 — Your dreams
My dreams consist of subspace and seeing my crush delivering packages for amazon.ca. Just kidding, lol. “I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don’t have one, then you are never disappointed.” Just kidding again, LMAO. That was a quote taken from the movie Dodgeball. Vince Vaughn said it.
Currently, I’m attending the Academy of Arts University and will graduate with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Web Design & New Media within three years. That’s if the world doesn’t end in 2012… Once I have my degree, I’ll apply for a few well-known web design firms as a web designer or developer. Hopefully I’ll get hired so I can make that $50-100k a year. On top of that I’ll to use my knowledge of code to create an interactive/dynamic web template that will make designing professional-looking websites easy for people who don’t know how to code. For example, if someone wanted the background of their website red; all they’d have to do is type in the word “red” in a textbox labeled “background” and click a save button. I’m actually already working on this project and it’s been a pain in the fucking ass so far. I’m gonna sell this template online at a fixed price so that I can make $20k+ a year. Once I feel like my income is high and steady; I’ll look into becoming a philanthropist. I feel that becoming a philanthropist won’t ever come true though. Only because I’d have to be hella fucking rich to pursue that kind of title.
Becoming a well-known b-boy is something I dream of as well. It’s harder than being a web designer though. The art of b-boying is almost impossible to achieve unless you eat, drink and sleep b-boy. I’ve been a b-boy for four years and I should’ve accomplished more than what I currently have. I plan to be known on a national level. It’s so fucking difficult though…
Day 4 — Your sibling
Perry (left), Sean (middle), Me (right)
Perry James Crooks: This is my older brother; older by a year and a half. I’ve lived with him my whole life before he joined the USAF. I was actually supposed to sign up with him, but I was too caught up in a relationship that ended soon after he signed up. I really regret my decisions back then. Perry’s actually almost done with his 4-year contract. He’ll be back home and into the Reserve on Nov. 28, 2010. It’s gonna be good times when he’s back. I don’t only see him as my blood-related older brother, but as a true best friend that’s been true to our friendship since day one. People sometimes think that Perry and I are just best friends because we don’t look alike (at least that’s what I think and that’s what most people think) and the way we act around each other. I’ve told many people that we’re actually blood-related brothers and those people are like, “WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” and explode. Perry’s done so much for me as a brother and I’m thankful for everything. I love him to death and I wouldn’t hesitate to take a bullet for him.
Sean Crooks: This is my younger brother; younger by three and a half years. I haven’t lived with him my whole life. Back in the day when my mom and dad were on the verge of separating, Perry and I were separated from him because of the decisions my mom and dad were making about who should live with who. This went on for years and it fucked up the relationship between Sean, Perry and I. When Sean, Perry and I finally lived in the same household it was a little weird because we couldn’t really relate to Sean. Perry and I felt like he wasn’t our brother because he was raised in different societies. Perry and I we’re raised in the most ghetto places ever. I learned how to cuss at the age of seven. That’s how bad those places were. Sean, on the other hand, was raised in places that Perry and I like to call the easy life. He ended up being the spoiled brother while Perry and I didn’t take everything for granted. It was like this for a long time. It wasn’t until Sean started going to high school four years ago that I actually took the time to get to know him. I would’ve started later, but Perry left for the USAF so the only person I could really talk to at home was Sean. We’ve made a lot of progress these past four years though. And I can say that we finally have that connection of being true brothers. Despite the fact that we’ve only really got to know each other these past four years, I still love him to death and I also wouldn’t hesitate to take a bullet for him.
Unforgettable
Unforgettable, that’s what you are
Unforgettable, though near or far
Like a song of love that clings to me
How the thought of you does things to me
Never before has someone been moreUnforgettable in every way
And forever more, that’s how you’ll stay
That’s why, darling, it’s incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too
The Big Hit
“NOT SOME GODDAMN ALOE VERA BULLSHIT” LMAO! One of my favorite parts in this movie.