I don’t feel equipped to write about such a writer. I don’t feel that I could say enough, or would say to much and would just end up sounding abstract and strange. So I digress until a later point in time, when I am more intelligent and on a poetic level might be able to look up and at least see the bottoms of his feet.
untill then,
levi.
Tonight we rock.
I’ve played a good number of shows now in my lifetime, and I still get those goose bumps when I start thinking about the next show or even the next practice at times. I still get amped and excited that I’m going to get the chance to go totally base with my emotions and get a little caveman like on life. That’s what its about to me. It’s like a chance to get up there and forget about the way people think you should look or feel or act and you just do your thing the realist way you know how. That explains why 95% the pictures people take of me live look like I’m in the middle of getting my face kicked in. It’s not a pretty picture, but it’s a beautiful experience.
Levi.
What do you do when people bug you, how do some people seem to get on your very last nerve, whether it was intentional or not? Do you turn the other cheek, do you lash out and serve up a beat down, or do you try to seek out some sort of understanding as to why they act that way towards you, or others? All I know is that sometimes people bug us and I think 9 out of 10 times it’s you that has the problem. A lot of how we think of people whether in a positive light or a negative comes from our own outlook and opinion on life and situations in general. So maybe the next time someone bothers us, don’t slap, don’t turn the other cheek, and don’t kill yourself trying to figure out what makes them tick, but instead step back and look at why your “ticked” it may have more to do with you than you’ve… never thinked.
Levi.
Why is it that sometimes the most simple things in life are so DIFFICULT?! Such as, printing a flyer for a show, why cant you print it out exactly the way it looks in Photoshop without having to adjust margins and re-size the image a million times?!! Not fun, not fun at all. Maybe all the excruciating pregame work is there to make passing the flyer’s out seem like the most fun you’ve ever had, or maybe all the frustration means the show is going to be the best show ever. Who know’s, but HEY ITS 2009 I mean I thought we were going to be on Mars by this time cant we at least have border-less printer’s standardized?
Would this be too quick of a subject change?? I want to go see UP this weekend, I mean how good does that look, and in 3D GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK PIXAR YOU PACK OF GENIUS FREAKS!, thats the future of film! I picture Pixar as a pile of nerd’s all spewing creativity and great ideas like its they’re job. wait it is they’re job…. awesome. I would love to do a soundtrack for that company, no payment needed, at that level of artistic proficiency I’d work for free and then they would be like ” hey who are you and what are you doing in Michael Giaccchino’s seat?” And then Id be like “Michael Giawho???, My name’s Levi, hello, very funny, you guys must be pulling your own leg… remember I do all your score’s, eh”... and thats when security show’s up and the dream end’s. Oh well.
Levi.
OK 15 minutes…. GO
I am currently at work and am not looking to make a habit of killing my 15 minutes of freedom by posting on live journal. BUUUT, for a sad and pitiful reason that, momentarily, you will become privy to, I JUST HAD TO!
First, to understand why the fore mentioned paragraph/picture affects me in almost a personally degrading way, there are a few things if you don’t already know; you need to know, about me:-)
My 9 to 5 (outside of rocking my own and others faces off) is working as an IT (Information Technology) specialist for Whole Foods Market. For those of you who don’t know what this entails let me paraphrase The All Knowing (Wiki) who paraphrased the ITAA (Information Technology Association of America). IT is “the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware.” So to say the least I spend a minimum of 5-6 hours a day (not including home use) inside a virtual environment called, MS Windows.
I am also an avid PC gamer which is entirely different than console (Xbox, Playstation, Wii) gaming, why? Because PC games typically rely on MS Windows to be the liaison between the game and the utilization of the computers hardware and peripherals. Its almost bad vernacular to use the term PC, technically Mac’s, Linux and UNIX based systems are PC’s also. 99.99% of the time when we say “PC” what we really mean, aware of it or not, is, Windows Based Platform Machine(s), but that would make for a crappy acronym so I digress, PC it is.
I am also that guy who defends MSoft when Justin Long hops up there slicker than grease and makes MSoft user Levi look somehow like the most socially discouraging member of the Borg’s evil empire. Listen I’m a Die Hard fan but honestly I don’t care that you were sidekicken’ it opposite John McClane, you choose to flaunt you flag on the wrong commercial BUDDY AND IN MY WORLD YOU CROSSED THE WRONG LINE! lol… but really.
I am also boyfriend to the most wonderful human being, wonderful except for one little thing… Her and Mr. Long would probably be best pals slobbering up extra dirty martini’s talking about they’re ILife’s while listening to ITunes on they’re IPods, going through IPhotos on they’re IBooks while IPuke and ask for another round of, no, not martini’s sorry I don’t drink, BULLETS! HELLO! If one won’t kill you six will!
OK so you get the idea I was born and raised using PC’s (Windows Based Plat… you get it) and bottom line is you can’t save the galaxy on a MAC so Ill stick to my gun’s.
Over the past few years I’ve watched Microsoft take different blows to the gut, which they left wide open. OS’s crashing at public unveilings, constant virus jokes (which they’ve improved on greatly! not the jokes the security, smartass), numerous compatibility issues with release of Vista and a lifeless awkward attempt at a viral add campaign starring our coke bottle hero Bill Gates and usually (usually being the key word) very funny comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Oh well, whatever, I stood by and defended.
So let’s get back to the regretful task before us… I arrive at work at 9am, check my work emails. 9:30am grab a banana and an 8oz. container of milk for my cereal and head back to the dungeon where my office is located. This is where my 15 minutes of free time begins. Commonly I would check my emails, eat my breakfast and get back to work but this time I decided to stop by the Olde MySpace to see if I had any messages. But not today… I arrive at the MySpace and low and behold MS Zune has a new add campaign taking up the whole entire top half of the MySpace login/homepage. It looks great! Their taking the smart guy approach to attacking the IPOD and ITUNES by posting interesting little factoids about how economically unsound it is to invest in an IPOD or ITUNES. They even have a live actor “Wes Moss” playing a financial advisor telling the “truth” about how much money you don’t have to spend! It looks smart, smart until someone failed the 5th grade spelling B…. Oh well, your still and always will be, my Microsoft.
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Cost of production for this add, probably between $25-50,000.
Cost of having it posted to the MySpace homepage, probably between $15-20,000 a day.
Levi.
Footage from Million Year Echo @ Hard Rock Live (Orlando) and scenes from Reykjavik trip to see Sigur Ros in November 2005.
