heart songs

hello interwebs. so i was listening to the song "heart songs" by weezer the other day (which is the bomb). the song is about all the songs that the lead singer, rivers cuomo (aka the coolest guy ever), listened to growing up. the lyrics go like this-

these are my heart songs
they never feel wrong
and when i wake, for goodness sake
these are the songs i keep singin

so i began to wonder, what are my heart songs? so i decided to make a list, enjoy.

5) check yes juliet- we the kings
this song is awesome, because i would like to think that i helped discover this band, but that is a blog for another time. its also ridiculously hooky, and the music video is one of my favorites.

4) the geeks get the girls- american hi-fi
this is my anthem. the lyrics are totally hilarious and true, and the song isn't bad either.

3) my freeze ray- neil patrick harristhis is my number one shower song. its from dr. horrible's sing along blog, which i highly encourage every one to see.

2) i want to hold your hand- the beatles
i think that thom, from nick and norah's infinite playlist said it best-
"Look, other bands, they want to make it about sex or pain, but you know, The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand."

1) don't stop believin- journeynuff said.

well there you have it followers, those are my jams. until next time, stay classy.

everybody get dangerous

man, i really suck at this.

well, interwebs, i am going to try make a post of some substance. it is on the subject of illegal downloading of music. i have been a longtime music thief, and for the most part i had no moral problems stealing hundreds of songs off the Internet. then, this man changed my view.



for those of you who do not know, that is ronnie winter of red jumpsuit apparatus. this dude is totally awesome. he overcame a lot of stuff, including a crack addict mother, and alcoholic father, both of which were abusive. anyways, i was listening to an interview he did for the ap podcast where he said some stuff that made me think. essentially he said that when the band was first starting out, they couldn't make any money, and when people downloaded their music illegally, they couldn't afford to eat. this made me feel extremely guilty. i've heard this said from people, but never from the artist directly. while it has taken a while to finally set in, i am putting my foot down.

from now on i will not download any more music illegally. i will also start getting rid of my pirated copies of songs, a few at a time, at least one a day. i figured that this will give me enough time to replace the songs with legitimate copies.

well that's my beef for this time followers, stay classy.

im gonna need more sleep if i wanna fight crime

hey, look at me, being on time and everything. that makes one week in a row. let's see how long we can keep this going.

so today i have been a little frustrating so i'm gonna go on a little bit of a rant. apparently i am the official technology guy in my family. this is not a title that i asked for or wanted. since this responsibility has been thrust upon me, whenever any electronics in our house begin to go awry, i am called to fix said problem. i am not however a technology genius. many times i have no idea how to fix anything, and then my family proceeds to get mad at me.

so here it is everybody, i hereby denounce my title as technology wizard. no, i cannot make the internet faster. no, i don't know why your navigation system is'nt working. no, i dont know how to make the wii stop doing whatever its doing. i quit!

there. i feel better.

in other news, i have started watching the tv show leverage, and its awesome. for those of you who don't know what the show is about, just watch it. its kinda hard to explain. its sorta like robin hood meets oceans 11. i have decided that my future career is gonna be like that, where i do something awesome, and help people at the same time. however, my job as a super hero isnt going exactly as i had planned, but ill keep you loyal readers in the loop if anything comes up.

well thats it. oh and another thing, i have also decided that i needed something cool to say at the end of my blog to wrap things up. im gonna be experementing, tell me what you think.

peace.

poop in my soup

ok, so it is official, i suck at deadlines. i probably should have realized this given my entire high school career as a homework slacker but i will try harder in the future to be more on-time.

for my blog today, i will list a few phenomena that are witnessed during the summer time in fairbanks, some are good, lots are bad. lets get started.

shirtless dudes- these guys come in two forms. the first is the bro. the bro is the type of dude that believes that the more people that look at his pecs, the cooler he becomes. he probably just got off work as a cage fighter and all of his tapout t-shirts and tank tops are at the dry cleaners.

the other type of shirtless dude is the creepy gross guy. this guy is probably in his mid 40's and is allergic to fabric and class. he doesn't wear a shirt because he wants to work on evening out his farmers tan and he doesn't care who sees him in all his beer-bellied glory.

there is a very small group of shirtless dudes that are either a group of gullible emperors or they actually are wearing shirts, and your x-ray vision just kicked in.

attractive lady construction workers- this summertime blessing is one that i recently discovered. until about a few weeks ago, i thought that all construction workers were the second type of shirtless dudes, however i soon realized that i was wrong. she stands there in her orange pants and vest, her arms, perfectly tanned from standing outside holding her slow sign of hours at a time. while she may not be extraordinarily attractive, when placed next to the rest of her crusty co-workers, she is a shining golden goddess of beauty, and makes the painfully slow drive behind the pilot truck bearable.

canoeing- this is something that i just discovered recently. up until this afternoon i had never stepped foot in a canoe. this summer experience is one that i approach with mixed feelings. the feeling of floating down a river is a very relaxing and quite fun, however with one misguided stroke of the paddle, your afternoon can turn into instant lameness. this is what happened to me, and right now as i type this, my shoes are outside, stuffed with newspaper drying in the sun.

lazy summer days- these thing are so awesome, they deserve their own line of clothing. for those of you slackers (like myself) who have no job, this is how you spend most of your summer. you wear your pajamas for days on end, with no reason to put real clothes on. you have memorized all the commercials on your favorite channel. by the time you wake up, your breakfast is considered lunch. and while these days are epic, there is always the impending doom of the return of school that you push out of your mind until mid august.

well that is the end of my list interweb, i hope you have fun reading it. stay classy.

i suck at blogging... and chopping wood

apparently since i did not provide myself with any sort of deadline of when my next post would be, i kinda blew it off. however, this will not happen again. i have made the decision that from this day forward, i will post a blog every thursday, from now until i get some sort of a life.

as i expressed in my last blog, i did not know what kind of blog this would be. i had pretty much decided against the sort of thing where i just tell you about my week, as my life is incredibly monotonous and my readers (all three of you) would probably fall asleep and hit their heads on the keyboard. as much as i wanted this blog to be deeper than a catalog of my comings and goings, my talent of hurting myself has once again surpassed the lameness of my everyday life. let me explain.

two weeks ago, my church youth group had arranged a service project at some lady's house. we were going to be stacking split pieces of wood in a large shed. this took about two hours to complete. as we were waiting for some lunch, my leader, mike said something along the lines of, "let's have a manly contest!". he then proceeded to take an ax and chop a section of log into four pieces and challenged us to do it faster. as i took my turn, i noticed that the ax was very sharp and slightly shorter than the one i use at home, nonetheless i began chopping as hard and as fast as i could. at the end of one of my swings, the ax went right through the edge of the log and into my ankle. this made a large cut through my pants, shoe, shoelaces, sock, and skin about an inch long and deep enough to see my tendon.

my first thought was, "holy crap, that's gross" and i tried my best to not pass out. mike's dad then put toilet paper on it and tied a dirty towel tightly around my ankle to keep me from bleeding all over the place. i got into the back seat of mike's truck and we set off for the emergency room.

i did the logical thing and decided to call my mom and tell her what happened, but not only was she not home, she did not even have her cell phone. seriously? i could have hacked off my own foot, and my mom has no phone. i called my dad next, and my parents left the garage sale they were at to come to the hospital.

i could go on for a whole lot more, but i won't. to sum everything up, i got a few stitches, dad bought a lawn mower, everything turned out ok, the end.

anybody out there?

ever since i started this blog on monday, i have been wondering what kind of blog it would be. would it be a funny blog, a serious blog, or the kind where i just tell you about my day, ect. for help with this conundrum i decided to click through a few of the already available blogs on this here website to try to get some ideas. instead of giving me ideas on what i should do i have received plenty of ideas of what i should not do.

for example, this blog will not be about my spouse or children. it will also not be about gardening or how to fix up crappy real estate. it will not be about art, photography, and it will certainly not be a lesbian book club.

well there is an example of what i will not be writing. in regards what i will write, i don't really know yet.

as i type this i think to myself "why does it matter what kind of blog it is, no one reads it" and i may be right thinking this. but the fact that i have zero followers brings to mind the image of me shouting into a big hole, because while no one may hear me, i am being very loud, and there is some therapy in that.

hello interwebs

what's up? i'm austin and this is my magnificent blog. i am only making this because i need to have some sort of journalish thing and to help facilitate my summer homework for my ap english class. nevertheless, i fully expect that this page will be teeming with eager fans, eating up everything that i have to say, like some sort of crazy word shark. buckle up, it's about to get awesome.