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And On the Seventh Day, He Jammed Out

In an effort to actually post on this blog, I’ve set a weekly post goal for myself. Every Saturday, I’ll post the songs on my everchanging Spotify playlist reserved for songs that I am currently obsessing over. This playlist might as well be a reflection of my mood too, so maybe it’ll act as a little insight into what I’ve been feeling that week. Maybe not! Maybe it’s just good shit!

Seeing as this is the first week I’m doing this, I’m still not sure what this’ll look like. If I have time I’ll link to the songs on youtube or Spotify or something, but if not I’d like to at least post the titles and artists. I might even link to the music video! I also think I’ll sometimes talk a little about the songs, I mean this blog is about sharing my perspective, right? I will also be adding how long these songs have been on the playlist. I try to keep it to songs I can truly listen to over and over, and as soon as I’m tired of a song I remove it from the playlist. It’s a cruelty I must enforce.

 And so for our first installment of SUPER SONG SATURDAY (working title?) we have 32 songs!

1.     All For Love – Jukebox the Ghost (15 Weeks!) This is the first song by Jukebox the Ghost on this playlist but not the last. I was shown this band in my first semester of freshman year and in the winter I began to obsess over the band album by album. This one comes from their third album Safe Travels, possibly my favorite.

2.     I Am a Real Doctor – Posture & the Grizzly (13 weeks) Gah! Posture & the Grizzly! I found them when they released their album I am Satan of which this song is from. The band The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die tweeted it, and I absolutely fell in love with the entire album. This is definitely my favorite song from it. Check out the album opener though titled I am not a Real Doctor.

3.     Long Way Home – Jukebox the Ghost (12 weeks) from their fourth and slef-titled album. It’s fantastic and has many songs worth obsessing over.

4.     When the Nights Get Long – Jukebox the Ghost (12weeks)

5.     Hollywood – Jukebox the Ghost (12 weeks)

6.     All Time Low – Jon Bellion (12 weeks)

7.     A Part of Me (ft. Laura Whiteside) – Neck Deep (12 weeks) okay so this song was featured on this playlist for a quite a few months in the second half of 2016 before being removed from this playlist early 2017 only to find its way back.

8.     Idea / Intent – The Beths (7 weeks) okay listen, “The Beths” happen to be absolutely fucking fantastic. Just a fact. This song? Pumps me the fuck up. Great vibe, fantastic energy, all around a banging bop. I’m underselling it honestly.

9.     Sun in an Empty Room – The Weakerthans (6 weeks) This song is the one that introduced me to The Weakerthans, and I am so happy it did. I first heard the song in a podcast called Heavyweight (PLEASE LISTEN TO IT) and promptly looked up the rest of their music.

10.   Stay the Night – Jukebox the Ghost (4 weeks) NEW SINGLE FROM A BRAND NEW ALBUM FUCK

11.   Smoke & Felt – The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die (4 weeks)

12.   Last Night – Ricky Montgomery (3 weeks) You know, this guy as an amazing youtube channel. Hilarious blogs. Here’s the first one.

13.  67, Cherry Red – Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties (3 weeks) These guys sound just like the Wonder Years I swear

*okay so here i’d like to make a statement. After looking it up, Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties is a solo project by the front man of the Wonder Years. Way to go, Soupy. You’ve outdone yourself. and I feel like an idiot. Good music, tho.

14.  You Told the Drunks I Knew Karate – Zoey Van Goey (3 weeks)

Actually a pretty cute song with an equally cute and funny music video

15.   Carry Me – The Original Crooks and Nannies (3 weeks) so fuckin cute, and their music video is alittle weird but cute too

16.   Face – BROCKHAMPTON (3 weeks) ALRIGHT BROCKHAMPTON IS THE BEST MOTHERFUCKINGCOLLECTIVE EVER. Okay so I probably am not the person to be offering that kind of opinon,BUT I love these guys. With Kevin Abstract as their *face* and other fantastic memebers like Dom McLennon, Matt Champion, Ameer Vann, and Merlyn Wood they’re finna bout to drop the hottest albulm of the summer: Saturation. Here’s the vid:

17.   Dang! (feat. Anderson .Paak) – Mac Miller (2 weeks)

I actually dig the way this video was shot, like damn, look at those colors

18.   The Reasons – The Weakerthans (13 days)

19.   Reconstruction Site – The Weakerthans (13 days)

20.   Caroline – Aminé (10 days)

21.  Tambourine - N: Thyme – Nana Grizol (7 days) really clever title actually

22.  Heebiejeebies – Aminé (7 days)

23.   No Halo – Sorority Noise (7 days) Okay this song happens to have one of the best music videos I’ve seen. Directed by Kyle Thrash I immediately checked out some of  his other videos which were also good, but this one has been the best I’ve seen so far.

24.   Rory – Foxing (7 days) Why does this song keep coming back to me?

25.  Why You so Short? – bong mountain (7 days) Actually really cute, thank you Davina.

26.   Young and Happy! – Hop Along (6 days)

27.   Aside – The Weakerthans (6 days)

28.  Whatever – The Beths (4 days) Here they again! This time with The Summer Bop. Idk I love it

29.   Your Graduation – Modern Baseball (3 days) another Kyle Thrash music video

30.   UHF on DVD – Rozwell Kid (3 days)

31.   Gold – BROCKHAMPTON (3 days)

Although it wasn’t on Spotify I’d like to give a huge shout out to STAR by  BROCKHAMPTON, probably my song of the week, great music video and gets me hella hyped for their album dropping this Friday!

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I am Sixth and Tired of This

I feel like I’m a state of transition at the moment. Specifically, I feel like I’m losing a lot of my friends. I know that that’s usually what happens after you leave high school, still I thought I could avoid it, you know? Especially considering I was going to the same college as one of my best friends. And not only has the group I had in high school split, but the fantastic couple of girls I connected with this last year of college are going their separate ways too. It’s heartbreaking, even more so because I was dating one of them and long distance is a bitch (speaking from personal experience). I don’t know who will stick around, how much control I have over it, or how I will know when I have to be the one who says goodbye. All I know is that I love my friends, and when you love someone it opens you up to getting hurt when they leave.

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My purpose is to pass the butter

Recently, I found a blog that was titled “Journal of a Working Boy, or, Up from Sloth.” The name was a direct reference to the self-recorded chronicle of Ignatius J. Reilly’s life. Ignatius imagined the journal could be a “contemporary, vital, real document of a young man’s problems,” and was quite pleased with his work. It is important to note that Ignatius was quite the character, both figurately and literally; he takes pride in his unique outlook and attitude towards life, and he is also the protagonist of John Kennedy Toole’s amazing novel A Confederacy of Dunces. And just as Ignatius took it upon himself to use the resources around him (a red crayon and some lined paper) to bring forth his own experiences to the world, the creator of the previously mentioned blog brought unto us theirs. And so now do I plan.

That blog covered roughly three years, and we’ll see just how long I can keep this up. The most important thing would be to actually put things up. Even a post with nothing more than a passing thought I had in the afternoon would be better than a sustained silence. I will make sure I post, so that I or anyone or everyone can look at the experiences of a Working Boy and gain something, anything.

And that totally might mean posting posts with terribly structured sentences, and lackluster content. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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S4D

I’ve been feeling sad lately. Like, randomly I’ll just get sad. Maybe a trigger for me is reading, or hearing about being sad. I think it’s that I don’t want to be sad. I don’t want to be depressed. So, if I read or hear about being depressed it makes me reflect on where my mental health is at. My mom noticed that I wasn’t feeling good last night. I wasn’t. It’s awful that she can notice but I guess I just don’t do that good a job of keeping it under wraps. I don’t know why I get sad, or I am sad. I don’t like it. I don’t know if I’m depressed. I guess I still don’t really know what it means. I was thinking about keeping track of all the days I get those episodes of random sadness, and it’s been two days in a row now that it’s happened. It happened at my cousin’s house and I was up until three or four in the morning. I listened to music. I love music because it can be so helpful. Writing about being sad makes me sad. Sometimes. Other times it just makes me anxious. Or angry? I think I’ll keep doing it. It just might help.

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“I’m sure I can squeeze you in.”

I’ve yet to make real introductions, but one big part of who I am is that I am attending college. College is, perhaps unsurprisingly, very different from what my home was like. I plan to write a lot about what it means for me to be here, how this experience has/is/will change me, and why oh why are there so many white kids here? But all in due time. Recently I realized just how busy I am. Which is a huge change from high school. Back then, I was never doing much of anything. I had homework, but I rarely did it. I had friends, but I rarely saw them. I was in clubs, but we rarely met. The opposite is true now.

Classes at my college meet every day, the material is taught at an accelerated pace, and homework is assigned with the ease of a traffic cop dishing out speeding tickets. I have turned most of my homework on time, and my GPA is miles above what I ever earned in high school. My friend group is not necessarily big, but it’s never really been that big. (I find that, like at my high school, I am on speaking terms with many students. I am often greeted by familiar faces (though their name usually escapes me), and I don’t think I have many enemies.) There are about five people I consider my good close friends here. I had a similarly sized group of friends back home, but living on the same campus, getting together is much more easy and common. I have spent hours on end in their dorms, and I enjoy every second of it, but it can be exhausting. Being around people so often is exhausting. However, if I had to spend a Ludacris amount of time with anyone, I would gladly spend it with them.

But they’re not the only ones with a claim on my schedule. (Aside: I’ve never had a schedule before. It’s terrifying to me that I have one now, but they’re so practical and good!) These days, I find that I’m pulling up the calendar on my phone constantly throughout the day to make sure I know where I am supposed to be. And I’m not late at least 70% of the time. This is all shocking.

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Post 2/?

So, I knew what I wrote in the last post was bullshit. Or at least one bit was. I knew that putting something up would not make me suddenly feel obligated to keep posting. But I wrote it anyways to try and convince myself? Maybe. If I actually post anything, maybe you’ll see that I think I know myself pretty well. I write what I’m feeling and for the most part it’s honest and reflective. The thing is I don’t really like myself all that much. (That’s not true, I like myself. At least a lot more than I did a year or two ago.) So, sometimes I might write a few things to make myself feel better. Is that a crime? Probably not. So, let’s get to writing, shall we?

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Pre-Posts Post

I don’t know exactly what I should include in this first post. What I do know is that I should put something up. If I put something up, it’s more likely that I’ll keep putting things up. So, hi! Welcome to my blog! Here you’ll find writing by me, [undisclosed]. Most of it will probably be bad. But that’s okay because half the reason I created this blog was to better my writing. The other half is just to have an online record of my thoughts. So, let’s get started, pals.