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May. 29th, 2008 @ 01:33 pm If I Could, I Would, But Now It'd Do No Good.
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Grace Kelly - MIKA
Man, I got 99 Problems and a bitch is the hundredth one!





enjoy your times,




(: jake :)
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Pensive
Mar. 6th, 2008 @ 10:03 pm Probability: More Than Likely
Current Location: Windsurfing Nation
Current Mood: blank
Current Music: Stars & Sons - Broken Social Scene
Ahh,

it's a strange feeling.

to have the music drifting lazily from the speakers to my ears,

my rigid fingers poised at the grey clicks, ready for some thoughts to start pouring, flowing from my head to their tips.

And then drawing a blank card from the upturned top hat that is my mind.

I wonder how many blank cards i've put in there over time, blank thoughts, blank meanings, blank actions.

It all leads up to a blank existence. This life may be the last, but I do care.


I'm constantly chewing on the tip of my pen, but the ink never flows onto the paper, just into my mouth, making a black sticky cave, which only turns one massive, thoughtless pomp.

There are no vicissitudes to shift blame to.

My head used to be Vertiginous with ideas, and now it feels like an eerily placid lake, with a wispy fog of dread, gracing the mirrored surface.

Anyway,

I'd like to change all this intellectual idleness,

so;

If anyone has any advice, i'd gladly take it.

Sorry for the emo-esque post.

Thanks,


[jake]
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Pensive
Jan. 15th, 2008 @ 10:59 pm This is one for the good days. . .
Current Mood: sad
Current Music: Videotape - Radiohead
Why Does It always seem like things were better the year before? Not In A Whole Sense, but it does sometimes.

I miss Mosi Parties.

I miss riding around in Richard Provience's truck listening to Rap, and doing almost nothing while accomplishing chores

I miss riding around with Spencer in his Lesabre every weekend, discovering alot about ourselves while laughing the whole way.

I miss trying my best to sit next to Spencer and Sam Patton on bus trips so i could have engaging conversations with much hilarity.

I miss my innocent curiosity and questions.

I miss Daniela Gomez

I miss Dan Ford

I miss Matt Holzmacher

I miss Sam Patton

I miss Richard Provience

I miss Sammy Hardin

I miss Katie Peake

I miss Breana Collins

I miss Ada Thompson.

Those names are in no particular order.

I miss more than I care to mention

I miss my old troupe of people i used to hang out with.  That I used to know.

I enjoy, love , and celebrate all of the people i am with now, but I miss all too many.

Everything I do seems to be out of jaded, teenage "i'm growing up" ness... I miss when it used to be doing stuff just to do it.

I miss being under people, having them throw me advice while saying I am too young to understand.

I guess I just like being the "little brother" type person. But there's much more to it than that.

I don't know how we all drift, but we do, it's scary, it's sad, and it's strange.

I don't know how to go about all this,

 "Where do we go from here? the words are coming out all weird, where are you now? - When I need you. . . " - Thom Yorke.




Thanks,



♫ jake ♫
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Top Of Zee Head
Jan. 4th, 2008 @ 01:11 pm Let's Do It Once, Let's Do It Twice, Let's Do It All Night Until The Sunrise Comes Too Soon.
Current Location: sunship balloons
Current Mood: optimistic
Current Music: Sufjan Stevens
After i made my that post last night, I went on to write some really sad sounding chord progression and I stopped playing to eves drop on a conversation that was going on in the other room between a friend and the girl he likes (over the phone) it was about 1 AM, something like that.

as a side note, I'd like to add that I think those conversations hold a lot of raw self in them, you can really get to know a person having on of "those" conversations with that person you like, late at night, and all that.

anyway, he said something along the lines of  "This sounds weird " - (funny introduction and preemptive "I'm not really this weird if you think this sentence is strange - i also find those quite funny) - "...but, have you ever thought that if your parents didn't have sex right when they did, you wouldn't have been created?"

and I realized through that little snippet of conversation, how lucky I am to even be here. and how many other people could've been born instead of me, but somehow I was, I can't even begin to map out the chances of that baby being me.

So I eventually came to the conclusion that life is not too short, or too meaningful, but just too lucky, too fortuitous for me or anyone to dwell in fits of depression.

And I know that being sad and down and sick of everything in general happens, and I'm not saying that if you ever do get sad that you're stupid for not seeing this or that you should NEVER get sad again, I'll probably have another sad El-Jay post in a month or something,

What I'm saying is:


Life Is Lucky. 

I'm going to try this as I think you should too, next time you get so sad you can't stand it (sometimes i like to stay sad, it helps me think) but when you can't stand it any longer.

just think about how lucky you are to be here. how your life was based on chance.

if if that chance worked out in your favor. . . doesn't that mean that the cosmos, the universe, the anything is on our side?


I hope so,


I also hope that you all have a great day.



Thanks Again!,






♫ jake ♫
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Pensive
Jan. 4th, 2008 @ 01:05 am Disconnected Dots.
Current Location: before all hell breaks loose
Current Mood: discontent
Current Music: Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead
I've been weird lately.

I'd like to say that my mood have been random and one moment i'm this and the next i'm that; but that would give it more of a nihilistic sense of not meaning much other than i'm a teenager.

It's much stranger than that; I'll be sitting in a movie and enjoying it, it's over and somebody says something, and I completely despise them for what they just said. For an hour or two, I'll completely hate people, have no desire to talk, I just want to sit and . . .  I don't know, do what? I don't know. I haven't done much of anything recently, I've felt so useless. It's a strange thought, but have you ever had the creeping feeling that your life doesn't mean that much and a lot of people's heads would be clear of a dark cloud or some chaos would leave the world, or some lives would improve if you weren't apart of it all?

Or have you ever been sitting in a group and thought, "What am I doing here?" or "Who are these people?"
Lately I've felt like nobody really knows me. That leads to me thinking that there's nothing really to know. Other than fictitious jokes and what else? I have no clue. Blegh, I don't know.

Things have been good, I suppose, but why this rut? I don't know.


Say you have this other side of you, but you don't know it. And it lives as a star. This version of yourself, composed of nothing but pure energy and thought. And by some galactic, cosmic accident, you, down here, imperfect, human, flawed, opinionated, ignorant, whatever.. by one of these universal accident, you look up at the sky, and you stare directly at yourself, in the sky, the star you. Pure Energy and Thought.

You see yourself.  If you were the star,

What would you say to you?

One sentence. The Best Of You, all Of you, pure energy and thought.

What Would You Say?






Thanks,





♫ jake ♫
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Top Of Zee Head
Jan. 2nd, 2008 @ 02:34 pm Hey Hey!
Current Mood: weird
Current Music: Face The Facts - The Little Ones
The Flaming Lips


on New Years




was amazing.



how was yours???
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Guitar Dress
Dec. 31st, 2007 @ 07:07 am I met you on the radio radio.
Current Location: OKC At The Flaming Lips Show!!!
Current Mood: giddy
HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!





[jake]
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Wayne Coyne bubble
Dec. 13th, 2007 @ 04:08 pm Why'd You Have To Get....So Fuckin' Useless?!
Current Location: Banquet
Current Mood: apathetic
Current Music: Positive Tension - Bloc Party
Tags:
It's about that time when I decide to start listening to music that reminds me of cold weather.

I.E. :

• The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Clouds Taste Metallic
• Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
• Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
• Broken Social Scene - "Almost Crimes" , "Anthems For a 17 Year Old Girl", "Shoreline"
• Vince Guaraldi
• Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
• Elliot Smith - XO
• Feist
• Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape
• Frank Zappa - "Muffin Man"
• Jimmy Eat World
• Jon Brion


and more!!

I'm kind of at a stop as far as writing goes.

How Are You??



[jake]
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Pensive
Dec. 10th, 2007 @ 09:38 pm Scat?
Current Mood: blank
Current Music: Jimi Thing - Dave Matthews Band
I have nothing really to update,

but


I figured I'd update all the same...


How Everybody??


Feel Free To Comment and tell me!

[jake]
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Goofy Face
Dec. 2nd, 2007 @ 01:57 pm We Are Moving Closer Towards Your Own Betterment!
Current Location: The vibrations of a moving bass line
Current Music: Oh MJ - The Little Ones
Hey Hey El-Jay Users!


Despite my random ups and downs concerning existential funks, I've been pretty well!

My grades could be better! But the indie band i'm in ( The Morning Tide ) is sounding better every day! i'm starting to get some alright creative ideas.. and things of that sort have been whirling about me.

I can't help but dance and smile as I sing. : D

Music is what brings me joy, I'm quite sure of that. My mirror is beginning to take a definite shape.

I'm apprehensive to say that I'm great though, because I don't want to be surprised by a coming wave of shittiness... so i'm just going to say that i'm okay, and things might be lookin' up.


Where would happiness be without sadness though???




Love,





[jake]
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Wayne Coyne bubble
Nov. 22nd, 2007 @ 07:41 pm Cause' It's Hard To Say What's Real, When You Know The Way You Feel.
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 - The Flaming Lips
I guess it's too cliche to everybody on this little blogspot to wish everyone a happy thanksgiving...  but I say..


Eff That! Celebrate! Have Fun! This is one of the few days in which EVERYONE has a reason to shout to one another : "YES!!!" or "Happy Day!!"


so.. in the spirit of happiness...


HAPPY THANKSGIVING THURSDAY!!!



[jake]
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Wayne Coyne bubble
Nov. 15th, 2007 @ 09:39 pm I Never Ever Stop Wondering..
Current Location: my mind
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Requiem For O.M.M. 2 - Of Montreal
While sitting in Mr.Traverse's room after school, making up for lost time in lit mag, I decided to look through my El-Jay in hopes of finding material.

Instead, I found pieces of my old self : ) , parts that I had recently dropped, or that had left me for a time.

I had forgotten why i wanted to play music, why I liked what I do, Who I was. Who I Am..

I'm still "picking up the pieces" , but, I feel much better, almost like I should cry to refresh myself, or at least take a long shower..

Hopefully I'll get back to me, and be the Jake that I am comfortable with, and the Jake that I strive to be (this sounds kind of weird)

but still,


I enjoy thinking... and I hope that, the thinking doesn't so much flee from me, as linger, but transforms into pondering and playful thoughts; instead of dark and dwelling poisons inside of my inner cosmology.

I'm surprised that re-reading old entries [slash] flicking through past thoughts, could be so refreshing or inspiring.. : D


I just figured I'd update that little bit...


Thank You for Reading and Commenting!





Enjoy Your Time!,







[jake]
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Top Of Zee Head
Nov. 14th, 2007 @ 09:11 pm Is It Always This Dark??
Current Location: blue.
Current Mood: insignificant.
Current Music: It Overtakes Me - The Flaming Lips
Insert I Feel Bad About Life, The Universe, and Everything El-Jay Post Here.









I'm So Small...Do I Stand A Chance??





[jake]
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Wayne Coyne bubble
Nov. 5th, 2007 @ 07:55 pm Candy Coated Dreams
Current Location: my desk!
Current Mood: curious
Current Music: Summer's End - Foo Fighters
Today was one of those days where you wake up, hesitantly, and realize that you're in a great mood already, and there's no way it can go down.

You dance your way to the bathroom to brush your teeth, shower, do your business..

All the while humming some happy tune.

I had a good day today, just upbeat most of the time.

On top of that - I got a Malajube CD, which promises goodness. and the new Foo Fighters, which could be the best CD they've had yet ( judging on terms of consistency in the content of songs)

AND

my dad bought tickets to The Foo Fighters show in January or February.

Dexter's more captivating than ever.. Weeds is on tonight, which, also promises goodness.

Hopefully tomorrow won't let me down.



Have A Good One!,




[jake]
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Wayne Coyne bubble
Oct. 31st, 2007 @ 10:30 pm Makes Me Think. Do You Ever Wonder, Just How Lucky You Are??
Current Location: Up Above The Daily Hum.
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: She Don't Use Jelly (Live At The Oklahomo City Zoo) - The Flaming Lips
Do You Realize??  That you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize ?? We're floating in space
Do You Realize ?? That happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize??  That everyone you know someday will die

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round


Do You Realize??
Do You Realize ?? That everyone you know
Someday will die.

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round



Do You Realize?? That you have the most beautiful face





Do You Realize??
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Top Of Zee Head
Oct. 28th, 2007 @ 06:17 pm It's all a mystery.
Current Location: murky
Current Mood: I don't know
Current Music: "Fight Test" - The Flaming Lips
I've been thinking too much

about my last post, music, people, and myself - my inner workings, i can't figure them out.


My Grip Is Slipping Slowly

On All Instances Around Me

My Grip Is Slowly Leaving

It's Left Me For Nothing.


an interesting short film that's got me questioning
http://www.youtube.com/v/asyWVtoCjNM


and a new The Little Ones song! for all of you!

http://www.youtube.com/v/0WE



Have a Nice Day,


http://www.youtube.com/v/RKDZ6yubitM

[jake]
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Wayne Coyne bubble
Oct. 14th, 2007 @ 01:10 pm If you're listening...
Current Location: sinking into sweet uncertainty
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Sweetness - Jimmy Eat World
Tags:
Something that's been on my mind :


It's not exactly a bittersweet occurrence,

Just a little beautiful.

Everybody seems to be walking into their own distances. Their own worlds.

I used to see myself and everyone i know all walking into the same sunset ; But With every word I read and every picture i see, I realize that even though our paths started the same, we all picked different hills to climb, different vantage points of that same sunset. And all this should seem obvious because i'm not finding out through an exchange of words in person, rather than livejoural, AIM, myspace, facebook, ect. But it hasn't been to me, I don't know why.

And although it seems melancholy,

I can't help but to feel happy for all of them.



All Of You.


I hope your way is sprinkled with smiles and excitement,




[jake]
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Top Of Zee Head
Sep. 25th, 2007 @ 09:22 pm C'mon, "He made Thrilla' "

So....

I forgot how amazing this music was.





enjoy,




[jake]
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Wayne Coyne bubble
Sep. 6th, 2007 @ 10:34 pm The Kinks!

I like this song! hahah




[enjoy]
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Sep. 4th, 2007 @ 07:25 pm Good New Foo.

New Foo Fighters!

it's pretty good!



[enjoy]
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