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[Jun. 26th, 2007|06:10 pm] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| |  discontent | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | Lemon Jelly - In the Bath | ] |
So... life's kind of gotten away on me.
It's been about 12 weeks since my last post. wow, busy much?
School's out... for good. I've graduated, and I'm not quite sure how I feel about that yet.
I've been partying lots... and i mean lots. I would almost say too much if I thought there was such thing.
been playing/writing much music. stoked on that.
yeah... other than that. not much to say. Coachella was an absolutely rad, life altering, new person making experience. I'm going every year from now to eternity.
Shambhala this summer anyone? I think so...
Europe this fall/winter anyone? methinks it's likely...
Sacred geometry, cymatics, and crop circles? I nod in approval... |
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[Apr. 1st, 2007|12:24 am] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| |  weird | ] |
phew, it's hard work becoming a new person!
Riley's currently undergoing a massive overhaul of everything.
a re-examination of his beliefs and morals.
a restructuring his future plans and life.
and a total revamp of his personality.
wow... have we ever been busy!
PS- Happy 50th birthday to my MOM!!!! love love love! |
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[Mar. 30th, 2007|12:46 am] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| |  hopeful | ] |
gosh... mountaintops are probably one of the most beautiful things in the world.
even moreso when you have someone to share the beauty with <3
love for today.
love for tomorrow.
love for me.
love for you.
love for the world.
life is lovely! |
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| DnP and me in Kimberly? |
[Mar. 26th, 2007|12:09 am] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| |  drained | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | Shpongle - Levitation Nation | ] |
Time's are good.
Change is good.
So, I finished school on thursday... now I have like two weeks off.
And I just got back from a rushed trip to Kimberly!
Amber and all the guys from Drunk and Pretending are going on tour to alberta and back, so I hitched a ride out with amber and we partied hard!
It was me, the band(Dan, Mike, Chris, Sean, and Dean), Amber, and amber's friend Jamie.
It was a freakin' blast... I would do it all again in a second.
'cept spending $100 on booze for one night. That's not cool... but when you're at a punk rock show, listening to a band with a name like "Drunk and Pretending", how can you not???
Hot springs are wonderful for the skin!!!
I am stoked on sleep right about now. |
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| daily(nightly?) contemplations. |
[Mar. 2nd, 2007|01:26 am] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| | excited | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | TOOL - AEnima | ] |
After spending some time jamming, and before enjoying some flagging in the front yard, I had this satisfactory pondering while partaking in a cagarette.
Generally speaking, a musician is someone who can play an instrument here and there and writes songs to portray their thoughts, opinions, or story.
An Instrumentalist, on the other hand, is an individual who has gained an intimate understanding of their instrument and knows every aspect of it. Instead of writing songs, they compose masterpieces, through which they channel all of their emotion and understanding of the instrument desired.
I think that I might be ready to take on the task of becoming a bass instrumentalist.
But now that I think I'm ready, it just shows me how far I have to go.
Oh well, I'm willing to take the journey. |
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| wow, love for everyone! |
[Feb. 28th, 2007|03:51 am] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| |  grateful | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | Radiohead - I am Citizen Insane | ] |
So now is a pivotal point in the life of Riley.
And I'm rather excited about it!
many changes are coming, many plans to be made, many changes of previous plan to be made as well!
I feel that I've found my calling in life. I want to drop everything and just help people. I'm stoked on dedicating my life to this. I think that it'll really work out. Now to just keep motivated with it.
all that I can say is that the mayan calendar has changed my outlook on life and the universe... and for the better. |
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| It's Time... |
[Feb. 25th, 2007|05:07 pm] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| |  peachy | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | Velvet Acid Christ - dead [death wish mix] | ] |
... for another ( mother fucking shaving extravaganza!!!!~ )
So there you have it folks... party's over, go home. |
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| So this is what it's come down to... |
[Feb. 20th, 2007|11:08 pm] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| |  cynical | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | eels - it's a motherfucker | ] |
Pan's Labyrinth is the shit.
waaaaatch it...
And those are the only words that I can formulate at this given moment. |
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| laha! |
[Jan. 23rd, 2007|12:17 am] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| |  overjoyed! | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | Depeche Mode - Dream On (Dave clarke acoustic version) | ] |
alright... here's the deal.
EFF going to Europe this summer...
Guess whose going to California this spring to see ( this ) amazing lineup!!!!!! <3 <3 <3
Coachella here we come!
oh yeah, and BENNY BENASSI TOMORROW NIGHT!!!!!! *bouncejoyseizure*
omfgilovelifeandeverythingaroundmerightnow!!!!!! *mouthfroth* |
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| today i... |
[Jan. 11th, 2007|01:06 am] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| |  accomplished | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | Starflyer 59 - play the C chord | ] |
woke up
ate breakfast
drank coffee (x1)
went to school
drank coffee at school (x2)
went to the bank
went to Welk Mart and shopped with Amber
went to Revolver and bought Manda and my tickets for BENNY BENASSI!!!!!
realized that I forgot to get a parking stubb and got a ticket
went for coffee with Amber (x1)
went back to the bank
payed off the parking ticket
went back to the school
had more coffee with Amber (x2)
went to class and got stoked on David Bottrill (heck yes TOOL!)
had a break
went to my other class, which was a gong show because nobody (including me) brought their hard drives xD
bummed around the school for a few hours
did some fire spinning with Azn Dave (i think i hurt my shoulder) ¿_¿
deepthroated a banana to demonstrate my skillz to Azn Dave
drove home
ate a bun and drank a glass of milk
wrote this
wow, i dronk a lot of coffee...
the end |
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[Jan. 7th, 2007|06:04 pm] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| | accomplished | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | Apoptygma Berzerk - You Keep Me From Breaking Apart (remix) | ] |
weird dreams...
I was in the parking lot of this building that was being renovated and there was this skinny little oriental kid who told me that somebody gave him a hand-me-down car, but it was inside the building and he needed my help to get it out(he didn't have his license). I went in and there was this weird little Dolorian, like from Back to the Future, only it was dark red and tiny! Like, I'm talking smaller than amart car tiny. Anyways, we pack inside and I tried to drive it out, but it was standard and had this bizarre digital shifter thingy. I can't drive stick... but I managed.
We got it out to parking lot and I was rippin' around in it when I saw Captain Jack Sparrow fighting a bunch of people off! So I ran over and handed him a bottle of Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum. He guzzled it and we chatted for a while. Then he invited me to chill out with some of his pirate buddies and make merry. I politely declined and wandered around the strange town for a while instead.
strange. |
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| belated New Years post. |
[Jan. 5th, 2007|12:09 am] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| |  contemplative | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes | ] |
Hhhhhokay, soh...
here i am, sitting at my desk... typing away just like I've done every year.
It's doesn't really feel any different... doesn't it ever? is it suppose to?
Another year has passed decause it's the only way that we humans can gauge our progression, evolution and growth. If there wasn't this concept of time, people would just live and die... without "our" conception of time, perhaps our lives would be just a blink of an eye. There would be no holidays, no weekends, no vacations, no birthdays, no zodiacs, no history. People would work every day of the week (though a 'week', as we know it would not exsist), and we would have no thoughts of past nor future. What has come to be and is yet to come would be trivial and unimportant. We would live completely in the now.
if I may be so bold as to quote my friend Jonas Tiller Berry:
"The VERY COMMON mistake of presupposing that time is a liner function of physical reality: Time is an abstract concept created by humans to measure the growing or decaying process of everything around them including themselves. Time is an idea we as humans ignorantly force upon reality. Time might just as well be happening all at once, everything that ever happened all happened at the very same instant. Humans feel as if time is passing in a liner process, assuming time has a beginning and an end. Everything is relative; a lifetime for a fruit fly is: generally 24 hours - a human life: generally 80 or so years. A lifetime is a lifetime. If one once again stepped outside of human time, one would notice that everything is happening at a very different pace than normal human chronology allows."
for some reason, I always seem to have an arsenal of questions about the life and the universe... but I never give the answers any thought myself. I never try to figure them out... I sometimes find that I'm somewhat dissappointed in myself for always relying on what others say about any given subject. I need to start thinking for myself, and taking everything with a grain of salt. For once I would like to think through a problem on my own rather than taking bits and pieces from other peoples opinions to formulate a frankenstein belief of my own. sheesh...
wowza, what sitmedownandthink sorta night... |
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| hyyyyyyyper! |
[Dec. 30th, 2006|02:59 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | mah home. | ] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| |  giddy | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | none? | ] |
guess who's going to Europe for a month this spring? squeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!~
^_^;;V
my passport should be arriving any day now, and all I have to do is save enough money for my ticket, lodgings, food and partying!!!
soooo excitable!
so, yes.
su_su and twissie, wanna maybe try to hang out? or something... >_>
so far on the list, Ireland/England, Czech Rep. and Croatia!
heehee, I'm bubbling over! |
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| A Funny Thing Happened Today... |
[Dec. 20th, 2006|12:30 am] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| | amused | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | Goldfrapp - Ride a White Horse | ] |
So I was at school this evening, and had to use the washroom. Naturally, I went into the men's washroom to make use of the urinal. As I walk up to it I notice that one of the stall doors is closed and I hear a voice speak from behind it saying
"Hey, how's it goin'?"
Being my usual friendly self and not wanting to cause awkwardness, I replied with the common:
"Not too bad, how about you?"
He said pretty good and I figured that we were kosher, but then came the voice again:
"Watcha doin'?"
I didn't really think about it much but stated loudly "Urinating!", and proceeded to do so.
then came the confusing part:
"So i guess you're back from London."
I hesitated before I thought of an answer, and it wasn't until then that I heard another small indistinguishable voice that sounded as if it were coming from a small speaker. It turns out that the poor fellow was sitting on the john and talking on his cell phone. haha, that's watcha get.
I thought that it was funny anyways...
oh yeah, and at work while I'm slicing apples, I have to keep calling for someone to bring me more whenever I start to run low. Since it's a rather boring and monotonous job, my mind often wandersoff and I nearly call out very embarrassing things instead of saying "MORE APPLES PLEASE!!!" I decided to compile a list of all the things that I've managed to just catch myself from saying:
-more bicycles please!
-more school please!
-more magic please!
-more drugs please!
-no more drugs please!
-more music please!
-more animals please!
-more nicotine please!
-more lunch please!
uh, yeah... that's all that I can really think of. it kinda made me laugh. |
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[Dec. 17th, 2006|03:15 pm] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| | amused | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | Imogen Heap - Goodnight and Go | ] |
oh, by the way...
I found an old litebright in my basement.
it's pretty much the best day of my life. |
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| This Strangness of Late |
[Nov. 26th, 2006|08:47 pm] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| |  apathetic | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | Godspeed you! Black Emperor - When I first get to Phoenix | ] |
Hmmm, I don't suppose that anyone would tell me that it's normal when a man of barely two decades feels as though he's going through a midlife crisis? I do so hope that this doesn't mean that I'm only going to life to be forty. That would blow...
Alright, I suppose that an entry here has been a long time coming. I was putting it off as long as possible. I kept telling myself "there's nothing in this period of ten months that I will ever want to remember", but I came upon the realization that there's no way to gauge the good times unless you can compare them to the memory bad ones.
Now, although it may appear as such, I'm not labeling this period of my life as "bad", I'm just thinking of it as "less than optimum". I guess that every chapter of ones life deserves to be remembered, and this era is no exception.
Alroight, soh... lately, I've been living, working, schooling, and playing music. I've been getting the odd party in here and there, but there is definitely something major missing from my life. I feel nearly the same as I did when I graduated from high school; unfocused, confused, and stagnant. I feel as though any progress that I've made improving myself as a person in these last few years is slowly slipping away. I feel as though my life is being wasted. I fee a disparity in what I want my life to be and what my life is. I fee as though there are some major changes and decisions ahead of me.
Here's the consensus: smoking is out the window, passport applications in the mail this week, no more partying/drinking/drugs, focus on music and scrimping every penny that you have for instruments and christmas presents, and actually SLEEP for goodness sakes! Sheesh, I really need to get my shit together.
The past two nights I've had quite amazing dreams... More often than not throughout the day I find myself wishing desperately that I could just leave my body and move permanently into the dream world. If there was some way that I could safely put myself into a coma, I'd totally give 'er. Everything is so much more inspiring, exciting, and creative there.
two nights ago I dreamt that I was in a small mountain village and one night my family was having a get together of friends. Well, I ended up going outside and looking up to the sky only to find that there were luminescent shapes and figures flying through the air above the town. They were all in a fairly straight line and they were flying north. I decided to investigate so commandeering my parents magic carpet, I flew to give chase. I few for quite a while but wasn't really able to catch up to them. Buy the time the morning came around I was still flying and was tired and cold. So I spotted a small village bellow me and thought to land for a rest.
Upon landing I found the village to be populated by evil cannibalistic barbabarians who wore strange boxes on their heads. No doubt I was frightened and ran away. They chased me(and some other people?) through the forest for a while untill we got to a cliff that was a bout 75-100' high. It also had this really huge weird gnarled tree growing straight out from the edge. So me and one or two others climbed onto the bottomside of the tree so that we were hidden from view. As the other person was climbing underneath the tree to wedge in beside me, they told me "you need to be canonized."
"what's that suppose to mean?" I asked.
"make yourself as small as possible... like you're preparing to be shot out of a cannon."
I was confused...
Anyways, we got away, I continued my search for the floating apparitions and found a semi-abandoned Christmas town. I walked into the first house that I found and was greeted by Mrs. Clause. She started thanking the heavens because the prophecy was fulfilled. Apparently good ole' St. Nick died a number of years back and his only child, the heir to christmas, had gone missing. She seemed to have the idea that I was Santa's son. How effed is that?
The dream that I had last night was interesting. I was in a large town with some friends, and we were staying at this really cool old antique/bookstore that had a few spare bedrooms. It was dope. We went out for Dominos pizza and met this really annoying as hell chick. I was talking to the antique/bookstore owner and we got onto the subject of Aleister Crowley. I mentioned that I had seen a few of his books throughout the store and was interested in buying one, but didn't know much about them and needed some suggestions. He paused for a moment and said something like "I know just the one you're looking for!" He took me into a back room, pulled a big Wolverine comic off of the shelf, and proudly handed it to me... I was like "what the WTF?" it was rather amusing.
Yeah, I don't really know what else to write... every time that I write in here I look back over it and think to myself "It's the same old dribble. Uninspired ramblings of a common everyday humanoid." and my hand moves the cursor over the close box of my internet browser... well, I suppose this time I can make myself hit the update button.
oh yeah, PS - I fucking hate winter. |
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[Aug. 26th, 2006|10:56 pm] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | the farewell party upstairs | ] |
So... yeah, 13 hours 'till the airport, and then another hour or two before she leaves...
what an odd feeling. |
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| So uhm, yeah.... how 'bout that? |
[Jun. 25th, 2006|09:44 pm] |
| [ | the closet mindset |
| | STOKED | ] |
| [ | todays inspiring noises |
| | Shpongle - Divine Moments of Truth | ] |
heh, another semestAr of school over and dumb with. I just realized that I'm almost halfway done the course and i thought to myself "wow, i still feel so stupid and inexperienced... when is the HARD work going to start?" I guess that i kinda feel guilty because it feels like no work all play ;D
Oh yeah, and this weekend I went on a random roadtrip to Edmonton to party, dance, and gong show it....
It was a celebration for the end of exams... sheesh, what a celebration it was.
72 hours of drinking == one splitting OUCH of a hangover. XD
ah, what an experience... now that's a good way to bond with schoolmates ^_~
so, uhhhh.... yeah... i think that's it. |
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