Sons of Day

Tom and I were at a concert last night. Bands Sons of Day, The Thirsting, and Hyperstatic Union all played. I had not even heard one song by Sons of Day, but they rocked the house. They are 4 brothers from the Ukraine. They are so cool. I bought the CD and got it signed by all of them. Go to their site and by a hard copy of the CD.

Here is a video of their song "This Place"

Haha.

You make me laugh Patrick. And you also kick butt ;)

Friends

Hey Everyone,
I have really cool friends (like Tom, he kicks friend-butt). Just thought you'd like to know.

Patrick

At War With the Mystics

A few weeks back I picked up the Flaming Lip's latest album, "At War With the Mystics." The album is very brilliant, much up to this band's caliber. First of all, the Flaming Lips are known for being weird and out there, especially music wise. Naturally, once you break through that first layer of "weirdness" you'll find deeper meanings to most of their songs, especially songs such as "Do You Realize" from "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" and "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" from their latest release.

I personally enjoyed this album for a few reasons: the vocals, the fantastic effect the music has on you, plus some of the songs are pretty catchy. The lyrics are always good, if even a little weird. The art is pretty cool, nothing extraordinary, but pretty cool. They have an instrumental song on here called "The Wizard Turns On (His Silver Flashlight and Puts On His Werewolf Moccasins)" which is actually pretty fun to listen to, even if there aren't any lyrics. I especially get the feeling you get listen to the songs. You feel almost like you are floating in space... until you open you eyes again.

Alright, I'm gonna end this post with a video.

Video for "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song."

Life... (again)

I decided to look at the world through new eyes. If you look at the world with a frown on your face, something makes you feel cynical and depressed. Well the reverse is true too. If you smile, and then look around you, things seem to  be a whole lot happier as a whole. I was just sitting, with nothing to do, so I decided to feel good. I smiled, and just thought of how good I have it. I have friends (at least some of them) who really care about me and who I really care about. I have a loving family with no alcoholism or adverse poverty. I every day I get farther from the possibility of someday finding myself curled up in a blanket under a bridge. I everything I need, and really, when I think about it, I would not change a thing. Okay, I would solve world hunger and poverty and disease, but none of that is in my life. So yeah, if I could I would not change one thing about my life. See what happens when you smile???

-Patrick

Switchfoot Awakening

Flashback: Mr. Wendell

Ok, today I had a flashback. I was walking out of the classroom to get a stapler from the office, and I remembered how last year, every time some one left Mr. Wendell's classroom during class, as soon the door had closed, he would make some joke about him or her. “Look at him go, that dork!” “She has no idea she looks so stupid!” and other remarks were far from uncommon. Man I miss those days. In fact I spent the rest of the walk to the office reminiscing about by-gone tragically good times. Well, Mr. Wendell, suffice it to say we all miss you… a lot!!