Morning Entry
Mood:
caffeinated
The following entry was written on paper.
Good freakin' mourning. It is now 0409 hours. Now playin' on my iPod is the 12th song on my "DS Artist of 2005 Nominees" playlist, "Witness" by
Tori Amos. I have completed the Sudoku and Jumble puzzles in Tuesday's edition of
The Bakersfield Californian.
It's 0412 hrs. Now playin' is the d Dubb remix of "The Slam" by
tobyMac f/ T-Bone.
I have taken my
Seroquel after midnight, according to my father's suggestion. That hasn't really helped me fall asleep, though. If I play all eighty-two songs of the playlist on the iPod, the sun will be up well into the mourning. Tori Amos returns with "Cars & Guitars." It is now 0416 hrs.
Am I the last person in the world to be writin' w/ a pencil & paper? If I were any other human being, would I cope w/ my insomnia by turning on a computer & begin typing? Back-to-back Tori -- now playing is "The Power of Orange Knickers" featuring Damien Rice.
In case you're wondering who the DS Artist of 2005 Nominees are, they are the recording artists that I have been listening to throughout this year. The six artists who are nominated for DS Artist of the Year are Tori Amos, tobyMac, John Cena & Tha Trademarc,
Falling Up,
Brooks & Dunn (whose song "Whiskey Do My Talkin'" is currently playing) and the only inactive DS Artist,
Vertical Horizon. That means that a nominee has not had a hit song during this year, but I've spent a few moments in this year listening to older songs. In other words, I have been listening to CDs from all the six musicians, but the CD's by Vertical Horizon weren't released this year or even the last six months of the previous year. It's 0428 hrs; now playing again is Tori Amos, this thyme with "Toast."
Tobymac is bac w/ another d Dubb remix, this time of "Hey Now." Its the 18th song playing on this playlist.
Around me are pencil sketches of
Bonnie Bernstein, the sideline reporter for CBS Sports. I never thought that I wood be making illustrations of female human beings. Earlier, I was sketching Beanie Babies. & back when I was a kid, I used to draw cartoon characters and stuff from the video game "Super Mario Bros. 3." Now playin' is "Keep Frontin'" by John Cena & The Trademarc featuring Bumpy Knuckles. It's 0436 hours.
Now playing is "Moonlight" by Falling Up. Twenty down, sixty-two 2 geaux. 2 think, what got me riveted in music is counting down the songs. & now it's a song from the band's "Crashings" album. Its called "Jacksonfive." Ever since
Rick Dees and Casey Kasem were off the heir in Bakersfield in 2003, my family hasn't really blamed them for my troubles or misadventures. Now playing is the original version of "The Slam." You may have herd it in the trailer to "The Transporter 2." It's 0448 hrs.
I must've spent under six hours online over the past week. That's cuz Jasmyn is in town for the holidays and sleeps in the den. That's probably y I've been unable to get to my website & resume blogging. I have seen Anna's blog. Like most bloggers I'm sure, she writes like she talks. But that ain't my style, yo. Now playing is "Make It Loud" by John Cena. I think this comes from my frustrations with the English language. Now playin' is "She Likes to Get Out of Town." by Brooks & Dunn. Kix Brooks is singing in this one. It's 0454 hrs. I haven't even used up ? of the iPod's battery life yet.
There are also four golf balls on my desk. I use them as Chinese exercise balls. The only difference is that they don't chime & stuff. Currently playin' is the title track to Tori Amos' L8est album, "The Beekeeper."
Back when I was a boy, English and reading were not my favourite subjects. I can't recall if I ever flunked those subjects prior to high school; I could ask my Mom & Dad about it but won't. I was not born to write creatively. I remember school days where I had a creative writing assignment & I'd spend the whole damn thyme staring down a blank page. To prove that I was struggling w/ the thang, I would write down "The" as the first word. And I think that's y I'm amazed about the fact that Anna can maintain a blog, much less a website. It is now 0504 hrs as "Burn for You" by tobyMac plays. If there were blogs around the time that I was 13? years old, ther'd b no stinkin' way in hell that I would make a blog, because I would h8 writing. I ain't sure how my baby sister's doing in English and reading, but I'm sure she could be better at it then I was when I was in the eighth grade. The twenty-eighth song playin' is Falling Up's "Ambience." It's 0512 hrs.
I think the reason y I despised readin' and grammar was because I was just a couch potato. I would rather watch cartoons and play w/ my toys then write about, um, I dunno, spending a week on vacation or something. It's 0515 hrs. Twenty-nine down, fifty-three to go. Now playing is "Diverse City" by tobyMac.
I also know for a fact that freewriting or whatever could get me in hot water. The first time that I left a college disgracefully was when I had 2 maintain a journal for my creative writing class. Realizing that I was melting down as a student w/ falling grades and dropping classes, I maid my final journal entry a really nasty one, filled w/ expletives and such. The thirty-first song playing is "Marys of the Sea" by Tori Amos. It is now 0522 hrs.
I have b4 me notes for a future blog post. They mention old school, Stevie B, Art Laboe's Killer Oldies, the R&B group Surface from the late 80s/early 90s, etc.
It's 0527 hours. Now playing is "Mother Revolution" by Tori Amos, the thirty-second song on the DS Artist of the Year Nominees playlist. However, it's only there because of a glitch. In a haste, I disconnected my iPod while it was upd8ing the software all night so that I could play it in my car on my way 2 my beeswax law class. [Now playin' is "Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning), one of only a coupl'a songs by Vertical Horizon on the playlist.] Did I have a choice? Yeah! I coulda just listened to the AM radio! Now, I screwed up the play count on iTunes. And I talked about it w/ Dr. Urias, my therapist. It's 0534 hrs; I better arrange a appointment w/ her soon. Now playing is "Goodbye Pisces" by Tori Amos.
I better remind Anna to put up a link on her website to my website. It's been a slow few months. Thirty-four down, forty-eight to go.
Currently playing is Brooks & Dunn's "I May Never Get Over You." I'm lucky enough or so 2 write voluntarily after enduring all the lessons on the proper ways to use punctuations such as commas, semicolons, and ellipses. I can remember in the fifth grade those damned five-paragraph essays Ms. Musser maid us write. Now playing is the other Vertical Horizon song on the playlist, "Underwater." And I have two drawings of Bonnie Bernstein beneath the surface on blue paper. It is now 0544 hours. Anyway, I used to end such essays with "goodbye and an ack-ack-a-dack to you." I got that from a episode of "The Flintstones."
Currently playing is "Searchlights," the opening track on Falling Up's "Dawn Escapes" album. I remember some B.S. from my Mom telling me that I would get "cartoonitis" or "carton-nineties" from watching too much animated series. I was like, what the ?&$# is she talking about? Well, maybe I succumbed to it, for I was still watching cartoons well into jr. high. Now playin' is "Ireland" by Tori Amos. It's 0550 hrs. Thirty-eight down, forty-four to go.
The 39th song playin' is a five-star fave of mine: "Intro the Gravity" by Falling Up.
I would probably get a nice, red F on these sheets of paper if it were turned in as a assignment that required no "stream o' consciousness" writing or no improper use of homonyms, numerals, & characters. Falling Up continues playing as the next song from their "Dawn Escapes" CD, "Flights." It is now 0558 hrs.
As I look at all of the baseball caps my Mom has bought for me, I am reminded of a Xmas carol. On this day, the fourth day of Christmas, my mother gave to me thirteen baseball hats.
My iPod has now played the number of songs that Casey Kasem's successor, Ryan Seacrest, would play on a countdown. Now playing is the Shortwave Radio mix of tobyMac's "Burn for You." It's 0602 hrs. I haven't heard "West Coast Kid" or "Don't ##!? with Us" yet.
I was about to end the evening by reading the Bible, but I did that on Tuesday. According to the pamphlet from
St. Philip the Apostle, we would begin reading from the First Letter of John. That was cuz December 27 honours Saint John. I think that's one of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Now playin' is "Jamaica Inn."
I have listened to moor then ? of the songs on the playlist. I should think back to all those weekend mornings when I spent four hours taping Rick Dees and Casey Kasem. No downloading or mp3's back than. The Top 40 countdown hasn't been on the air since Feb. '03. I miss it still, but not as much as the last 2x that the countdown was off the air. For one thing, I ain't really into pop music. I can't stand Britney Spears or the Pussycat Dolls. Now playin' is "Lights of Reedport" by Falling Up. It's 0612 hrs.
What I miss when I listen to the Top 40 countdown is that I would be inspired to do a Top 10 list of my own favorite songs. I've even done Top 100 lists. I have compiled seven Top 100 lists, spannin' the years 1995-1998, 2000-2002. (The countdown was off the heir from July '98 to Oct. '99.
Now playing is another 5-star hit, "Contact" by Falling Up. It's 0619 hrs. I just picked up yellow ledgers or tablets of which I wrote down "the forty hottest songs in the nation!" Uh-huh. From May 1994 to 2003, I wrote down all the songs from #40 to #1. I had to used tape to keep the scribble pads from fallin' apart. (Now playing is "If It All Ended Tomorrow" by John Cena & Tha Trademarc.)
I heard on ABC News over the radio about a deadly shootin' at Valley Plaza, the nearest mall from here. When my Dad places today's newspaper on the breakfast table, I will probably see a "ginormous" headline about it. And maybe the Bonniephiles will mention it on their Yahoo! site, considering that I'm from Bakersfield. It's 0627 hours & the sky's still black. Now playing is "Running Game" by John Cena.
This willby the third consecutive morning of which I haven't had enuff rest 2 oversleep. Since a lot of us in the family like to sleep in, it would be unusual for my parents to see me up early eating breakfast. Now playin' is Brooks & Dunn's "That's What It's All About." It's 0632 hrs. Tis a good thang my classes don't start till mid-January.
As I look at an anime-style drawering of B?, BenchPower suggests me 2 make a drawing of her on the football field and stuff. I guess I better get around to it. I sure have been making a lot of "out-of-element" Bonnie Bernstein pictures, such as the one of her in a red babydoll. Currently playin' is "Catchafire (Whoopsi-Daisy)" by tobyMac f/ M.O.C. & Papa San. Fifty down, thirty-two to go. And the western sky is turning navy blue. Or as they say at the
University of Michigan...just blue.
Now playing is "Beantown" by John Cena & Tha Trademarc featuring Esoteric. A thing about this song. Listening to the second verse rapped by Tha Trademarc (a.k.a. Marc Predka) w/ all that stuff about the New England Patriots is like listening to the "Super Bowl Shuffle." You know, where the Super Bowl champions the Chicago Bears recorded a rap song or something? About as kitschy as when Bart Simpson did a rap song back in 1991. "Do the Bartman" or something. That song made it to the Top 10...but that's according to Rick Dees and not Billboard. Ain't it funny how the charts that provide 411 for Rick Dees and Casey Kasem's countdowns are
not based on
Billboard Magazine? But not "
American Country Countdown with Bob Kingsley." It follows the Billboard Country Charts. Now playing is "This Is How We Roll," by John Cena & Tha Trademarc. That's over. And now its "Bittersweet" by Falling Up. It's 0649 hrs.
I hope I don't have to take another Seroquel this morning, even if I havent't slept all night. Fifty-four down, twenty-eight to go.
Now playin' is "The Time Is Now" by John Cena & Tha Trademarc. In this song, Cena mentions his slogan, "You can't see me."
When I turned on my computer last knight, I plugged in the Zip drive and hooked up my mp3 player, expecting to catalogue sound samples or whatever. I didn't. I think I was writing instead & listening to this playlist on Windows Media Player. Currently playin' is "Barons of Suburbia" by Tori Amos. I think this song presents Amos' true alternative rock element or whatever that was once prevalent on her earlier albums. I'm gonna conclude this blog entry. It's 0657 hrs. Fifty-six down, twenty-six to go.
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