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"It took me twenty years
to get a guitar in my hand.
And now that I do,
I just want to sing it for you
like it's never been said to you.
There is nothing else that I know how to do."

a great song is like a perfect wife

I fucking love the song relentless by audrey sessions. Its inspiring really. Its everything I look for in a song: good structure, good lyrics, nice progression, nice build up, great vocals, killer chorus, and plenty of emotion and meaning behind the song. Its like a perfect formula. Its like your perfect spouse.

In life, the only thing I'm picky about is the music I listen to (and the women I fall for...sometimes) Lots of factors go into me liking a band. Both live and recorded. And the bands recording has to be good. I'm a sound freak and I partly blame that on my brother. He is my inspiration as a musician and definately the most talented and smartest musician I know. It might be in the marotta blood too because my great great(?) grandfather was a composer in italy.

I'm really feelin this shuffle right now. And yessss death cab just came on. Transatlanticism is one of my favorite records of all time. Total night driving music. There are few albums that I can call close-to-perfect, and this definatlely is one of those albums. And I'm glad to see death cab as rickys song-of-the-blog :)

kill the messenger

I love weekend tours. Its like having the joys of playing out of state without the stresses of whole months long tours, when you just get sick of everything and wanna go home.

Friday the show was crowded and fun. After we stayed at quinnepiac university to the lovely hospitality of jaymie and her roomates. I had dairy queen for the first time and was very pleased.



Now we are drivin home from VT. The van is dark and the music of jacks mannequin is playing through the speakers. The show was real fun and we sounded tight according to the other bands. I have so much fun playing with tc. I enjoy the music we play very much and Its easy for me to get into and rock out.its a great feeling to share the stage with your best friends and play to your good friends and new faces. My dam strap came off my guitar but thankfully dobbie was right there to fix it for me. And we duck taped it during red letter. Good teamwork. Speaking of teamwork, they played after us and they were awesome and nice dudes. We are driving on 87 south, just passed the crossgates mall, so its nice to see some familiar surroundings.

I made a twitter, so that means there's gonna be like 7 ways that I can connect with people via the inter and mobile web. I like it. It gives me something to do when I'm bored.

Now mae is playing and it brings me back like 2 years ago, when I listened to the everglow for the first time and I loved it.

On the way to the show some 16 year old kid cut us off in a mitsubishi 3000. I went flying from the office. My hand still hurts I think I bruised my insides. Thankfully it didn't effect my guitar playing.

I think that's all for now, might blog later just to make this ride go quicker. Maybe I'll take a nap.

-j

tiny vessels

as im sitting here watching my favorite black-nineties sitcom, the fresh prince of belair, i should endulge you viewers out there of my night that was pretty eventful.
basically andre and i drove around aimless in wonder. we we did 35 in a 15, went 'splorin, got pulled over, and got advised to put our headlights on, watched movie credits and ate some tbell. pointless but fun.

i wrote a blues jam today. gotta add some words and structure it up.

and i wanna say that i love erica martin. shes the best pretend girlfriend ever and im sorry i pretend hurt her :(

movie night tomorrow?

sleep now.

jay later.

traitor

did my best to avoid the red-cliches

jays facts of life.
actually more like random nonsense from today


valentines day. nothing special as usual. the only woman that gets a card from me is my mother. and she always gets me chocolate anyways.

im hating my job more then ever

i applied to 3 schools today

the mlb channel is awesome. i can watch it all day. i just watched world series recap: 1997. i cried when the yankees got knocked out in the playoffs that year. true story. granted i was only 7

theres this mentally challenged woman that shows up at my store every once in a while. she just walks around, hitting on people (girl or guy) and making you feel terribly uncomfortable. whenever we see her in line we pretend we dont see her so we dont have to bear the trouble of ringing her up. first she starts out with a really stupid joke, usually a michael jackson one. then she gives us all names. i got called sugar lips, ac/dc, and num nuts. she called the girl that rang her up hillbilly girl and long legs. she told the kid next to me that he should be on pimp my ride, then called him afro man.

the changer is way too far from me right now

i had pizza for dinner

i made a sick mix cd today. mix cds are my shit

i got a haircut

tired

peace

-j

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37 sundays

my sunday described in 37-2 word phrases. sort of

sunday morning
gorgeous weather
rainy trestles
back cracking
practice spaces
astorias gyros
new jersey
texting friends
hilly parkinglots
metal bands
rockin out
delay pedals
volume pedals
good friends
singing along
heavy amps
fuck elmo
maybe baby
cold ghost
facebook mobile
jersey diners
sweet-potato fries
cherry cokes
ass holes
banana splits
28$ dinners
good laughs
mio malfunctions
interstate 80
lower manhattan
shart house
battery tunnel
backseat naps
tired eyes
long drives
early november
the break contest sucks.

i know that last one wasnt two words, i just wanted to throw that in there

all i gotta say is

listen to sigur ros. i dont understand what the hell hes saying, but hes awesome

delicious

Coraline was a pretty good movie. i liked it. the animation was insane considering it was stop motion and made by hand. some parts felt like i was tripping on acid, and some parts made me wonder if this movie was made for kids or not. plus it was in 3D which made it look cooler. me and andre were badasses and stole our 3D glasses instead of returning them. heh.

definitely wanna see it again.

oh and supposedly blink 182 is getting back together. i can really care less. unless they make an awesome sounding record, which im sure is not gonna happen, but one can only hope. itd be cool if they can tour and just play stuff off take off your pants and enema. id see that

anyways, gonna hit the sack and listen to some tunes, cause of work tomorrow at 11. excited and kinda nervous for sunday. hopefully all goes well

-j

jesus

that damn song is stuck in my head

Last night was interesting. First off I just wanna say I'm back to normal eating, and I never wanna eat a hardboiled egg ever again put it that way. It feels good to be back and not have to starve myself.
Last night at nates it was me nate andre erica colin nicky timmy tj and dylan. It was good seeing timmy again too. Before, in long island, ricky and andre went food shopping for our second dinner party ever. They bought waffle/pancake mix, eggs, bread, orange juice, nesquick, and other various breakfast material. Everything was real good. I love that waffle maker. After we were done eating we were just hanging around, and nate decides to follow through with the idea he had texted us all earlier in the day. He wants us to cover some kelly clarkson song. So nate decides how he wants to make this video as I'm sitting there learning how to play it on geetar. It was very simple and I picked it up pretty quick. After some test runs and line rehersals, we start the shooting for the verse. For the most part we all forget our line (I know I did). But after a little while we pull through..then it was on with the second verse. We change it around and move downstairs. All I can say is it turned into a silent dance party on the couch. Idk how that happend. As colin mentioned, it lasted for far too long haha. I'm really interested in how its gonna come out. All I can say is that we got some good footage.
The closer it got to midnight, the more it meant that we should head home.we say our goodbyes for like 20 minutes, then me andre and erica head back east. I played a sweet mix with some gabriel, shins, coldplay, mansions, relient k, and some more good stuff.

So now I'm at school waiting for andre to get out of his lab class, cause our teacher is cool and let's us out early. His is a hube. Deciding on burger king or mcdonalds for our lunch date, cause those are the only 2 places we have coupons to.

I gotta work tonight, so I may not blog. We'll see. Cheers.
-j

starving

day 2 of the diet is in full swing. its almost 5 and im starving. deciding when i should eat my dinner. today, my breakfast consisted of half a banana, a piece of toast and an egg. i hate eggs, but on this diet you get so hungry, you'll eat anything. went off to class with my old russian geology professor, who says nonsense most of the time. he uses the same phrases over and over and it bothers me so much haha. i came home, dicked around, ignoring my management homework till the last minute. for lunch i ate a cup of cottage cheese and 5 saltine crackers. ugh

i then had a good talk with one of my ex's. i havent talked to her in months and it was good catching up. i told her things that ive been wanting to tell her for a while and she did the same. i really messed up with that. i did things id like to take back, and she knows that. we both grew and learned from each other, and im glad shes happy now and i hope we can talk more often.

anyway, before my second class, i finished the homework for it and sure enough i wasnt able to print out the assignment with my ancient desktop. so i finished it, emailed it to myself, drove fast to school (which probably wasnt a good idea because it was snowing), ran to the library and printed it out. wound up making it to my class in time and in time for a seat (its extremely overcrowded.) turns out i did the wrong thing for the wrong chapter. so in an effort to do the right thing, i scribble out a new assignment, even though its supposed to be typed. i do all of this while the professor is bullshitting in the beginning of class. a valiant effort. i even participated in the discussion of the homework to make it seem like i initially did the right assignment. turns out he didnt even collect it at the end of class. all that stress for nothing. ugh

at 7 me and andre are going matts grandfathers wake. me and andre were sad to hear that he passed away. he had heart and lung problems ever since i started hanging out with matt in 11th grade (2005), but he'd always get through them and be back on his feet. at one point i remember he was so close to death, and like a week later he was back at matts house, hangin out like nothing happened, fully aware of his surroundings and tellin me he was feeling great. he was pretty resilient, so i was sad to hear he passed. though mine and matts friendship ended kind of harsh, its still good to see him every so often and see that hes happy doing what hes doing. and his family has done a lot for me so of course im gonna be at the wake. thankfully i found someone to cover me at work.

so thats my night, if i get done with homework i'll be back blogging my little head off. i got something up my sleeve. heh

-j

i just wanna be pure

havent blogged over the weekend. finally got some time today cause i dont work mondays. i was gonna blog in the library but the interweb was not working =[ classes were fine today. in psych we watched a 2020 special from like 20 years ago and they showed a boy with epilepsy get brain surgery. its crazy because they had to keep the kid awake to run tests on his brain. one test they did, the doctors made him count and when they touched a certain part of his brain that effected his counting, the kid just blurted out a noise instead of counting to the next number, it was insane. and with a little vacuum tube, they literally sucked out the section of his brain where the epilepsy braincells were. it was gross but really interesting. and they showed the kid like years later and he was pretty much seizure free. rediculous.

because of the combination of my lack of physical activity and eating horrible as of late (holidays, superbowl) im doing this 3 day diet/cleansing kinda thing that i used to do. its rough but i know it works. for 9 meals (3 days) you eat a certain portion of a certain food for every meal. for example, today my breakfast was a piece of toast with peanut butter, a half of a grapefruit, and a cup of green tea. eating a grapefruit is disgusting btw. for lunch was another piece of toast, a can of tuna fish and a black coffee to drink. i hate coffee, that was torture. and for dinner i was "treated" with two measly pieces of chicken, string beans, beets, and an apple. i actually like beets, contrary to popular opinion. im waiting to have my half cup of vanilla ice cream thats for dessert haha. i guess you need a tiny bit of saturated fat in this diet, and the ice cream compensates lol. its sad that the one thing i look forward to today is the stupid cup of ice cream.

this weekend was a good one overall. friday me andre and johnson hit up a hofstra party at johns friends house off campus. it was pretty nuts. it got far too crowded so we left and hung out with some of johns friends from his greece trip. saturday was real fun, after being kicked out the dancer house party, me johnson andre ricky lo and diego went to another dancers house to hang and drink some more lefty beers. the acoustic guitar came out and next thing i knew i was playing it and we had a tc sing along. give me alcohol and any shyness i have about singing and playing the guitar in front of people goes away. its funny. then sunday was nates superbowl party. was lots of fun. im glad the hosts favorite team won. he was jumpin around, almost falling through the roof. i commend whoever brought the peanut butter chex bowl thing. i was all over those.

me and erica had a nice talk in astoria park before the game. we were on the water right next to the triborough bridge. we saw the sunset over manhattan, it was pretty sick. we talked about our lives and our futures and the summer and what the hell we are gonna do when all our friends leave us lol. i love our talks, theyre so comforting.

glad it was an eventful weekend. looking foward to a lot of things this month, and this spring.

i'll be back reporting on the diet tomorrow, hopefully i dont starve to death.