"Hey Ladies Fans"

I'm feeling good-o. Over the last month or so I've found that physical activity is ridiculously, ridiculously good for my mental health.

The title of this post is the title of an Ill Mitch track. I tried to look Ill Mitch up on Wikipedia, but apparently the closest article is "The Sexorcist." Uhh, right.

Here's another installment of "Why Does This Song Affect Me Like This?": I just listened to "Waterslides" by the Aquabats, and I guess I've tied it to certain emotions and times of my life...It makes me feel somewhere between pensive and nostalgic, if that's possible at 23 years old. At any rate, it's really a pretty song and somewhat of a departure from the rest of the Aquabats' oeuvre. Listen!

To bring this full-circle, I also like the song "Hello, Goodnight" by the same band. I just read on a website that: "Whenever I saw them live, before they played this one, MC Bat Commander started saying how if you're really depressed to just call somebody, anybody, that it'd be alright."

I really like the Aquabats, largely because they strike me as decent people. What other bands are like this?

What?

My mind goes in odd directions sometimes. Over the break, I had a lot of free time and "nothing" to do. So I would have some days where I didn't even get out of the house, which led to a general, not-easily-put-into-words sense of dissatisfaction with myself/what I've become/what I'm doing. This was a hard problem to solve, but today I started thinking about my married brother, and how he and his wife have been caring for their newborn and not really getting out and about. I had been thinking that maybe I was disappointed because I wasn't being social, but my brother and his family haven't been doing much of what I'd call "social" in the normal sense. So I revised my opinion into "You need to make somebody happy." This sounds really people-pleasing and unhealthy to my ears, so maybe I should revise it again to "You need to show love for somebody."

Unfortunately, now my brain has started asking me to fill in the blank: "If you show love for somebody, then finally you will __________."

I think the only thing stopping me from being an emo kid is that my mind likes to be more confusing than straightforward when I'm having issues. ...Also, I'm not skinny enough, and I'm too lazy to grab any Dashboard Confessional or whatever is emo right now.

(P.S.: I wrote one time in my journal about an emo-lookin' kid in the college concert band I played with right after high school. He bleached his hair or wore a different sweater or something, so I wrote that he went from "sensitive black" to "weepy orange." It occurs to me now that these would be possible "threat level" colors if Michael Chertoff (yes, I had to look his name up) went emo.)

(P.P.S.: The emo kid played euphonium, or "emo-nium.")

A treasure

ooooo.

Destroy!

I put up another comic. I noticed that I've only put up five (I think?) comics since I started my stripgenerator account. I don't think it's for lack of ideas; I think it has more to do with the fact that I go through this kind of Choose Your Own Adventure thing with each idea.

If you DECIDE TO WRITE A SONG ABOUT THE IDEA, turn to page 65.

If you WRITE A COMIC STRIP AND FORGET TO TELL ANYBODY, turn to page 24.

If you ARE ONLY GOING TO BLOG ABOUT IT EVEN THOUGH THAT'S KINDA BORING MAYBE, turn to page 112.

If you TRY TO BRING IT UP IN CONVERSATION SO AS TO IMPRESS AN ATTRACTIVE WOMAN-TYPE, stop reading Choose Your Own Adventure, dude--it STARTED being uncool in fourth grade.

If you PAINT A PICTURE OF THE IDEA, learn how to art first, duh. (P.S.: Can you place the "duh" in that clause anywhere else besides the end? "...learn how to art, duh, first." "learn how to, duh, split infinitives.")

If you BLOW IT OFF AND PLAY VIDEO GAMES INSTEAD, turn to page 32 for the umpteenth time.

destroy

I played this video game recently. To be completely honest, the reason I actually played it all the way through will be clear to anybody who watches 4:30 to about 6:20 and 8:10 to about 9:40 of this video. Again, oh my gaaaashh.

Also, I got a free synth today wooooo

Challenge and fighting

Item the first. The best thing to do when people hand you a flier with the expectation that you'll take it is to take it without looking at them, barely reacting at all besides grabbing it. Then wad it up and stick it in your mouth. Disappear around the corner. (This item is not based on something I did. I promise.)

Item the second. Do you know how people often find their phrase du jour and won't stop using it? For example, overuse of "awesome!" or "need more cowbell." Yeah, it's really annoying and everybody who does such a thing should be shot.

Mine is replacing "is it" with "it is" and vice versa. Maybe you'll like it too!

Destroy

I'm trying an experiment today. "What will happen," said I, "if I stare directly into the souls of the people I walk past today via their eyes?" Well, not too much. I feel mighty, though, because like nobody is brave enough to meet my gaze, even for a split second. NOBODY!!

What experiments do you try, friends?

Also, I've noticed that if I want human contact, most people aren't going to contact me, so I have to initiate everything. This is something I've noted before, and I've accepted it as my lot in life that I'm not the charismatic leader-type, but the notion's been really reinforced lately and it irritates me, making me take out my anger by giving passerby the EVIL EYE, I guess.

However! On the first of November, the band I joined will be performing at a sandwich shop...or I guess they have a more concert hall-type thing next door. Sammy's! In Provo! Be there, aloha.