In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

So. It's Wednesday (boutta be Thursday by the time I finish this) and I'm pretty bored. I'm also discovering how boring Xbox is, there are soo many other things I've been doing, and I haven't even thought about getting online in the past week (i got online earlier today but that's because I wanted to see if Tyla was on).

Reading.

I'm guessing this is gonna be a new 'thing' I have. I like it too. I never did like reading because my parents were always soo forceful to me reading when I was young, that I started hating it, but, being able to find a good book, it's wonderful, I'm not a hermit anymore.

By Senior year also, I'd like to have a car (parents said that if I get a summer job, they'll get me a cheap car) and if I do, I can drive because I get my license in May :) And you know what that means, right? I'm driving to Borders, and spending my weekend evenings there :) I went into Borders one night with my mom around 10ish and it was soo peaceful, I fell in-love with it :)

And I'd like to be able to grow a beard by then :l it's an obsession I guess.

So. Tuesday. My mom got home early and she asked if I wanted to go to the baby shower of one of her friends, so I was all liek 'k.' We got to the house (may i point out, it was a mansion) and everyone got settled down, the wives started laughing and talking, and I seemed to be the only kid there. So, I went to the living room, sat on the couch, and started watching Discovery Channel. After about 5 minutes, 3 guys walk over to me, introduce themselves, blahblah, and then all 4 of us end up watching Discovery Channel. After some of that, one of them asks me if I wanna go to a party at the house next door. I said sure; but I didn't even care about what my mom had to say, so we left. After about a 5 minute walk, we got to the house. Holyshit, another mansion. We went inside, everyone was chill, smelled like weed and booze, and they said to meet them outside in like, 2 hours because their moms were leaving too (one of them was the son of the lady we went to, so he lived there), so I was all like 'aight nigg' and all that black slang. Ironicly, I go over to the couch, which strangely enough was empty even thou there were people standing everywhere with those corny red Dixxy cups full of whatever floated their boats, I dunno what they had, probably alcohol for the most, and turned the TV to Discovery Channel. Fun. After say.. 5min (everything is in 5 minutes lol) this girl walks over to the couch, and sits down really close to me, like, legs touching. Then you know, she said 'hi,' I said 'hi' and it was all really happy, it was a really good mood. We started talking about life, what we like, bitches, and then it came to bands. Now this. Is where I fell in love. She asked what bands I like and I told her 'Ohyou know, Radiohead, Death Cab fo~' she cuts me off but responds with 'OMG! I LOOOOOVE RADIOHEAD ANNND DEATHCAB!' :D:D:D:D, and she didn't say that just to have some connection with me, she knew what she was talking about. We talked for about close to two hours about music. It was.. amazing :) Later into it thou, she started to lean on me while we talked facing the TV, because at the beginning we were facing each other but I guess she got tired or something. Really, I felt butterflies.. it was cute (: Butuh, the guys from the Baby Shower house (i really don't remember their names, one was Joey I think?) yelled at me that they're leaving, so I was all like 'ok, I'll be out.'

I get up, and then she gets up to, and she like, came really close to me to hug me, and there I felt something (it wasn't my dick), something special I guess you'd say. It was a really deep hug... When I let go of her, she didn't. Eventually, she let go, but her hands like, how to describe it without making it sound funny, but her hands were on my cheeks. That's when she kissed me. I was like. Euphoria... It wasn't even a quick kiss, it was loooong. And it felt amazing.. And I wish I could experience that again, because I probably won't in a while.. After that, she look at me and smiled (i hope i did too :l) and then she just stood there watching me as I left.

I walked back to the house with those 3, said hi to my mom, said bye to everyone, and we were on our way back home. Funny thing is, my mom didn't even seem to notice. And all I could think about that night, was how good I felt while I was with her.. and the kiss.

You know what kills me? I didn't get her name.

Kenny Ken.

Tonight will be fly. But now we have to murder you.

:)

I'm a Reasonable Man.

First, to start off another part of my highly depressing blog, guess what today is? Jonny Greenwood's Birthday!!!! :D :D :D :D From a totally non-gay standpoint, he's still cute for a 39 year old. Yes, I just said that. And that's because he is. <3.

Today has been... most acceptable. Passed the driving test. But. That's not very surprising really :l But then I got to see how Catie likes to eat pizza while she drives, and I did kinda fear for my life for a little seeing how she had my life in her hands. Hell, I hope the pizza was good ^___^

After that though, I got home and did absolutely nothing.

Until I drove my mom to Bloom. Then I felt happy. And I wonder why people call me weird. It feels good to drive though, I guess it's a relaxing feeling, music in the background, no one is saying a word. All I could hear is the music, and the road. Felt good bro. One has to enjoy the small(ish) things in life.

And now. I sit here in my room, watching movies. This in turn, gives me time to think. Which is not a good thing necessarily.

And now I understand how it felt. And now I can actually say that I fully understand, and accept that you did what you did. Because I feel it too.

And thus. We're moving on ladies. You can't dwell on it, because life moves on.

My Neighbor Cthulhu.

It really would be nice to have someone there for you.

Like Spinning Plates.

Today, we will talk about the majestic beauty of music.

When I say music, I don't mean "music," I mean music, in it's most complexly layered form. There are bands who will have vocal, drum, bass, and guitar. Then, there are bands like Radiohead.

Really, no matter what other bands I will grow to love, Radiohead will still always strike me, like, every time I listen to them, I grow on them, and their musicality.

It's truly a beautiful thing, really. When no one else will speak to you, music will, and it will speak to you in the ways you want to be spoken to, ways that some people would never.

Lets talk about layering. I'd love to point out that layering, and depth add immensely to a song. Now, this doesn't mean that Radiohead doesn't have simplistic songs, because they do, and even those songs make me want to make love, but still, there's something about them, especially those heavily layered songs, they're beautiful marvels. Lets say we have Thom's voice, Jonny's lead, Ed's rhythm, Colin's very obscure and lightly volumed bass, and Phil's drumming. That combination alone is amazing, but, when you add in electronically modified/played pieces into the song, it adds a depth that is unthinkable. You can have a synth playing in the background of the band alone, and it's like pure ear sex, but when you add even more than a synth; the band, synth, electronic beats, MIDI modulation, and ring modulation, fuuuuuuuuck. It's just indescribably beautiful.

I'm guessing another factor of the beauty would be the various effects which Jonny and Ed have to their guitars. Jonny's effects are based on his guitar's capabilities, these effects are run going from his guitar, pedalboard, and finally to his amp. These guitar driven effects come in the form of metallicly encased boxes which are turned on/off through a footswitch, and are fine tuned to specific calibrations through knobs (See the bottom two pictures, my pedalboard is like Jonny's but not as large as his, because I'm not rich enough to afford everything), he also has 3-4 keyboards, all with different purposes, on stage. One is a simple keyboard used for more basic songs. Another is a "French Connection," which is like an ondes martenot (One of the first "synth" instruments; besides the fact that it's a keyboard, it can play notes to no end, for lack of a better explanation, a sustained note/s.) and two others can process Thom's vocals and further process the guitar. Jonny first used an original Ondes, but over time, he acquired the French Connection which is a much more modern Ondes, and is much more practical for use in the band. He also has a Mac running Max/MSP, which again is another effect processor.

Ed on the other hand has his effects based on Thom and his guitar. He has very complex effect pedals which can manipulate Thom's voice to, in itself, add effects to Thom's voice. He has a Fender Strat modified with "Sustainiac" pickups which like the ondes, creates sustained notes, so, instead of strumming a chord with the pick, he can simply put his fingers in the chord position, and the guitar will play like a synth. Ed is very complex, but I haven't read as much on his as Jonny.

I'm sorry lqtm, I can get really carried away with this kind of stuff, it's majestic in its own way..

Below, are my effects so far; the topmost (Black pedal labeled; "Shredmaster,") is the newest acquestition. The bottom is all my other pedals besides the Shredmaster, since it was the last one I bought, and I don't have a picture of all of them together, so just imagine the two pictures combined (: . I also have a self custom build Telecaster, which, besides two small things that I need to add on, is exactly like Jonny's guitar, which is a late 80's Telecaster Plus.