My Heart's On Overdrive And You're Behind The Steering Wheel...

Jim - My Aunt died this Wednesday at about 8:00 PM... She had lived with us for 3 years.

Annie Lou Cunningham (1932-2004) R.I.P.

Ahh yes... I love the smell of new material... music material for my line-up that is.... over the last 2 days I've been working on 2 new songs for my EP... Yes... It will be an EP now that I'll have at least 5 songs. Don't get me wrong - The two songs are FAR from complete... I could keep improving them for a good 2 months (sorry... I can really stretch things to pull out my full potential). I mean... Nick Crees will tell you, I wrote "Just For Fun" a year ago now and I think I've reached the point where I'm satisfied with how is sounds musically (I spruced up the bridge alot). "With More Sorrows" is my first project to record and I just added a little more too it (last minute crunching). I Didn't think I would have a solo part in that song, but I decided to add one after I heard the recording of it and I played along with it... Experimenting on how I could alter the sound, rhythm and other stuff to make it sound better. Well... I added a pause in the middle of the chorus and a lead part on the verses and I liked it better... Umm... "They Don't Know The Half Of It" is a very new song on the list anyway, so I'm still working on some things with it... although I already have a lead and cool things that happen in the chorus... The lead in "They Don't Know The Half Of It" is 10x more mature than the lead in "Just For Fun" and "With More Sorrows" (although the lead in "With More Sorrows" was written after this lead, it's not supposed to be really complex... just to add to to flavor).
The there's my Blues unlyriced song, which I need to work on. And my acoustic jazz song. I still don't know If I'm gonna put "Flickers On" or any of my piano music on it yet... I might as a bonus hidden track.. haha... I suck

I went to the mall this week and bought some shirts and went to Journey's and bought some cool beans shoes... My mom doesn't like them, but oh well... she doesn't have to wear them. I also bought 2 more Pins for my Bookbag that say "Music Lover" and "Can't sleep. Clowns will eat me."...

They took my precious car away... ::sniff::... so that it can be fixed. Oh well... it'll be good as new when it returns... I almost left my Josh Groban CD in there... but I saved it.
I can't wait until Open house on Wednesday. Open house always marks the restarting of my life. This time it starts my Junior year in HS. C/O '06... WHAT WHAT?!?!... or not... I can't wait to see my schedule

I know I'm gonna have Chorale period 7-8 and Musical Theatre period 11-12... I've had Literature period 9-10 for 3 years in a row now and they'd better not break tradition!...Aaaaand!!!!!!........

NO SPANISH!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!... I know... I'm a maniacal freak... but I'm soo happy I don't have that to weight me down... I have other things to worry about... People said Chem was HARD... I've never had to study for science in my life... will this end the trend??? DUM DUM DUMMM... but then again... they said bio was hard and I didn't have to study for that either... hmmm...
Oh well...

I get my License a week from today... Aug 6th: First Friday... but I won't be here for it... From there, we leave straight to go to Florida to my aunt's funeral... they are transporting the body there... I hate Funerals... I don't want to have a funeral when I die... I want a party!... Seriously.

WHOO!!... I started talking to Emily (one of colleen's friends at Richmond). She's cool... I wanna be just like her when I grow up!

I've been making my posts longer... but now they're more spaced out... hmmm...

Leave some nice notes and I'll give you a hug!
::Daily Lyrics:: - wanna kiss you every minute, every hour, every day/ You got me in a spin but everything is A.OK!/ Touching you, touching me/ Touching you, God you're touching me/ I believe in a thing called love/ Just listen to the rhythm of my hart/ There's a chance we could make it now/ We'll be rocking 'til the sun goes down/ I believe in a thing called love/ Ooh! Guitar! ~ "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" - The Darkness

Reoccuring Episodes With Each And Every Kiss...

Jim - Well... I would have my license now, but I found out I have to make an appointment... anyway :( ... I went to the mall yesterday to get some shirts and pick up some buttons for my new bookbag that came in today... I hate L. L. Bean stuff, but this book bag was the buttload. It isn't like the typical L. L. Bean book bag that you see 1/2 of the school with... it's very different. It's big so I'll be able to fit all my stuff in there... probably even my lunch and PE clothes for next year... grr. WHY MUST WE TAKE PE?!?!?! anyway... the monogram says "JIM" haha... awesome stuff. The buttons I have for it are my "The Used" one, One that says "Just because people don't understand you doesn't mean you're an artist", and one the has the "rock on" hand symbol on it ( \m/ ). I plan on adding to the collection over the course of the rest of my school years...

I'm debating whether on not I'm going to use my money I saved for my new guitar... I could use it to fix my car... my mom freakin' wrecked it... the guy wants a freakin' $1,100 to fix a little scratch dent thing on the door... and it is little.

Saved all my money to buy a new guitar
Then I got ripped of by the guy who fixed my car
I think I've had enough
I think I'm giving up

Man... I know Relient K wrote those lyrics for me...
I've been doing a little recording and I'm working on the "With More Sorrows" Recording. I think I'm gonna do "Just For Fun" next. I'm not an AV person, and I'm still experimenting on recording and where to place things to get the right sound, less buzz, less clicks, etc... These are just experience recordings so that when I go into the "studio" (haha) with Adam (my producer! yay!), I'll know some things to help things move along a little faster... I did a perfect recording earlier today until my mom walked in the room making noise... I was flustered... but that's okay... I the equipment wasn't perfect and it turned out weird anyway...
Nothing else is really happening in my life... Besides voice lessons...

OH YEAH!!! Chorale Got Excepted in the national ACDA convention.

 

WE'RE GOING TO L.A. BABY!!!

 
Leave some nice notes... Word out, yo!
::Daily Lyrics:: - And I can tell you're going through the motions/ I figured you were acting out your part/ Once again, we're playing off emotion/ Which one of us will burn until the end?/ Catalyst, you insist to pull me down/ You contradict the fact that you still want me around/ And it's all downhill from here/ And it's all downhill from here ~ "All Downhill From Here" - New Found Glory

We'll Get In Anyway, Doesn't Matter, I Don't Care...

Jim - Great balls of fire...

I don't know... that's the first thing that came to my head when I started writing this entry. Like all summer days... I really don't have much to say... O'course, I could think of something to say being that things do go on in my life, but I don't have anything worth talking about...

So here I am, talking about not having anything to talk about... the twisted irony of it all

haha... okay... This entry is defiantly going nowhere... hmm
my rubik's cube is on my desk... this might come as a shock, but I haven't been working on the cube at all... at least not in about 3 weeks... I feel content with my experience with it and I'm moving on to rubik's revenge... haha... you'll see that in my hands this coming fall.

Drop the act...
Don't try to put hope where it doesn't fit
These stars descend on you and me
Consuming our world set on clouds
And inflaming the panorama of our life
Don't cry yet...
You only have three tears to spill
One for your kiss
And two for yourself
Save your tears, the well isn't full
Drown the pain...
You gave a cutthroat kiss "goodbye"
And I sink under this tide of sorrow
Keep in mind you're almost out of bounds
On the brink of oblivion

hmmm... I'm gonna go to Chelsea's show today in Evans... leave me some good ones (notes) and I'll ttyl...
::Wanders Off::
::Daily Lyrics:: - We ain't go no place to go/ So let's go to the punk rock show/ Darling take me by the hand/ We're gonna see a punk rawk band/ There's no use in tv shows/ Radio or rodeos/ I wanna get into the crowd/ I wanna hear it played real loud ~ "Punk Rawk Show" - MxPx

And You Can Speak Your Mind...

Jim - ZZZzzzZZZzzz....
The Voice - OKAY!!!!!!... It's time for a REAL post... Jim... Jim?... JIM!
Jim - WHAT?!?!... HUH?!?... oh... hey..
The Voice - I was saying, It's time for a real post...
Jim - ...aww... Come on... I've been busy... and you know I have no life outside of school.
The Voice - true true, you don't have a life but you need to say SOMETHING!... people probably think you're dead!
Jim - Oh, alright...

::clears throat::... WELL!!... It's been awhile. TO be honest... I've been wanting to post something... but the combination of being lazy and nothing really going on in my life, I... well... haven't. Umm... Between working on my art, writing my poetry stuff (speaking of which, I got the Editor's Choice award in the compilation my poem is in), working on music (jazz, yo!) and reading books (rereads, school books, new reads, and music research for my on career as well as Chelsea's), I've found little time to do anything... Not that what I'm doing is nothing... but it's just... not fulfilling at times. But the book I'm reading on the music industry entitled, aptly, The Music Business, is very interesting... It covers MANY MANY things about being a professional musician form college to contracts to composition and record producing to distribution and sales of records... An amazing book by Dick Weissman - professional musician, recording artist, composer, and record producer.

I get my license in a little bit... my B-day was in Feb. But I waited awhile before I got my permit... so I'm ready for that... Or am I?... well... I'll finally will be able to stay after school for science club! WHOO!... and whatever else calls my attention... I don't think I'm gonna drive myself to performances though... with the stress factor, I don't know if I'll trust myself on the road then... but now I can pick up Colleen whenever she wants to go somewhere... cool beans...

Mrs. Myers said to email her sometime next week about my voice lessons...

OH!... you guys HAVE to get the Franz Ferdinand Album... it's too much sweetness... I haven't uploaded it to my PC yet, so I can't let you hear any of it... but I am putting a new song... and the winner is...
"Sidewalks" by Story of the Year...a beautiful song.

I'd like to thank ... err... whoever it was that got me off my butt to write this entry an--
The Voice - No problem, man... It's my job, yo...
Jim - errr... yeah.. sooooooooo... I'll try not to be lazy and update again soon... until then , leave me a good note!

::Daily Lyrics:: - don't need you to worry for me cause I'm alright/ I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home/ I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life/ Go ahead with your own life, and leave me alone ~ "My Life" - Billy Joel