90 In the Slow Lane

The past three days, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, have all been pretty cool. On Saturday my friend and I went to the Long Beach Towne Center to go to the Gamestop over there to get stuff for our games because it was being released there and you get it via their wifi. However, we were both shocked to see that when we arrived it was gone, completely vacant. Someone even told me they were there last Monday so in those 4 days the whole store up and left. After that, we ended up driving to a different Gamestop and received it there. He was hungry so we went to the Carls Jr. right over there and ate. There was a group of like 4 kids who couldn't have been older than 13 that had an air horn and blew it off twice while we were there. I wanted to punch them in the face and then eat them.

On Sunday I didn't do anything. I woke up at around ten and did nothing until about two and went over to my friends house because our other friend had come over. All we did was play a little bit of Halo ODST despite my not wanting to because I hate the game. And that was all I did Sunday.

Today, Monday, I had my first piano class. On the way there, there were two people in the bus sitting near me, one guy was Pakistani and the other Chinese. The Pakistani guy was talking to the Chinese man the whole time and about mildly interesting things. He was talking to the Chinese man about how he arrived in America when he was 7 and frequently travels back and forth to England and the U.S. He talked about what he called 'Mother Tongue' which was the language you speak to your mother in. His example was his native language was called like Udlun but he speaks to his mother in English so his mother tongue is English. He also talked about what language he and the Chinese man did Math in which my Uncle had done once. He is Japanese and does math problems in Japanese but says the answer in English. As for my Piano class, it was really enjoyable. One of my friends is actually in my class too. We learned all the keys today and their placement on the piano. My teacher is really good and really nice. I estimate she is about 60 because she was around for Ed Sullivan and the Beatles for her teenage/ early adult years but she looks like she could pass for 50. My class is mostly girls and there are 20 people because there are only 20 pianos to play on. There is one older lady who talked a lot during the class and seems like she could be a bit annoying or just a slow learner, only time will tell. My favorite part about today, as we were going into the class, a girl found out she didn't get in but her boyfriend did. And she asked "What time does this class get out?" And I answered her and then she followed me in and asked where I lived to see if I lived close by to him so I could give him a ride home but I told her I take the bus so, that was no help to her. I just thought it was funny because I acknowledged her and then she asked me if I could drive her boyfriend home. People will never cease to amaze me, or strangers at least. They are the most entertaining breed of people out there. Screw John Walsh and his say no to strangers policy. Anyways, I shall leave you now. And if you're wondering why is the title '90 In the Slow Lane,' its because on my journey to the Gamestops my friend was driving 90 in the slow lane.

Back to Cypress

I went back to school yesterday. I only had one class and it meets only on Wednesdays thus making it 3 hours long spanning from 7-10pm. The class is American Ethnic Studies and I take it with my friend down the street so its nice having a ride instead of taking the bus especially since sometimes my classes don't follow the bus schedule very well. However, this time around it seems to work a bit better than last. Today I had to wait an hour for the bus because I got out of my U.S. History class half hour earlier than expected. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have school from 8am-12:20pm so I take the bus at 7:27 to get to my first class of the day which is Philosophy. 3 of my friends had the teacher that I have now, one thinks hes the best, another says he sucks, and the third friend is impartial to his greatness/ not so greatness. I think he is pretty funny since I was the only person laughing at his cleverly crafted jokes. My second class on Tuesdays and Thursdays is History of Rock and Roll which I also take with my friend down the street. That class seems easy but you actually have to do stuff which is odd, or I found it odd. You have to do a research paper about a band and read a "book," more like a magazine, about rock music and do synopses of the chapters for the test. The teacher is also cool and speaks with a powerful voice much like my Ethnics teacher. Going back to that class, the teacher is black which is a little silly and my friend and I were joking that we would be like the only white kids in class but there is actually a good mix of races since it is an Ethnics class. My last class on Tuesdays and Thursdays is U.S. History. My teacher is a no nonsense kind of guy and takes his class seriously which is good and bad for me. I like learning history and I feel like if he is super strict then he will be a good teacher. The bad side, there is a lot of writing assignments. I hate writing because I can explain things verbally 10x better than me writing it down on paper and trying to explain historical events. The only class I haven't had yet is my piano class which is Monday nights from 6-8pm. I only want to learn piano to see if it will help my guitar skills and also learn fun songs on it, or cool rock songs.

I have been playing a lot of guitar lately as well seeing as how Call of Duty and Starcraft 2 do get a bit boring since my computer dies if I play Starcraft or I do too well/ too poor when playing Call of Duty and just quit. I have been practicing a lot on The Day That Never Comes by none other than Metallica. They have fully fueled my interest and passion in wanting to learn and play guitar along with minor influence from Slash. However, I have been practicing the song on my classical guitar because I broke my High E string on my electric one and have to go get it restrung because I don't know how to do it and found no tutorials online how to do it. Its not too bad practicing on it though, although it does sound a bit different because it can still sound loud with no amp plugged into it so thats nice. I look forward to practicing it a lot more when I get my guitar fixed withing the upcoming week if I sell the stupid World of Warcraft expansion on Ebay that I bought only to make money on. I have also been practicing on a few other random songs from games or other bands that I like. I broke my guitar string playing Knights of Cydonia by Muse. I felt like seeing if I could learn it and I broke my string because I was tremolo picking and bending it simultaneously and then SNAP off it goes at 3am. I miss my other guitars, I sold my first one and the other one snapped in half vertically except for the body. Hopefully if I find a place to work I can spend the majority of it on music supplies rather than more games. Anyways it has been fun resurfacing on this for a bit.

And now I leave you with The Day That Never Comes, its not the video because Youtube forbids embedding it so its just the studio version.

My friend said I can't treat this like a red-headed step-child and ignore it so today I will tell you about music that I like, Call of Duty, and my love for WWII and other times throughout history.

As for music, I like mostly everything except I have extremely low tolerance levels for country, rap, hip-hop, and sometimes pop or girl music, i.e. Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers. What I really like are some Punk (cause my uncle is the only original members left in The Vandals) Classic Rock, Rock, Heavy Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Death Metal itself, and lots more I guess. As for bands, I like bands that came before the 80s the most or during the 80s because then music sort of started to suck. I like it for the way it sounds the words have some influence but the sound is what I like the most. Metal music is somewhat soothing to me because I like fast sounds that are loud as fuck. So yeah, and then Metallica and Guns N' Roses are pretty much the reasons I wanted to learn guitar. Guns N' Roses cause I like Slash because of his top hat, and Metallica cause I <3>

Call of Duty, PS3 LunchBoxChronic, is awesome. I love it. It's better than Bad Co. 2. So the Map Pack came out May 3 for us PS3 and PC users. Have to say that the game modes I've played don't make the maps fun, I've only done Headquarters on Storm and that isn't fun then I did Search and Destroy on Salvage and have yet to play on Bailout. But I still love Call of Duty cause I rape at it, as of right now I am 5th Prestige level 40. My brother and I sort of compete to see who can do more challenges. I care about leveling up he likes his Kill/Death Ratio. Mines 1.13 his is 1.33 but I beat him in 1 on 1 games. Done about 10 days around 12+ hours on it and have around 2800 headshots and like 3600 assists, longest killstreak of 39 on Headquarters on Sub Base using the FAL w/ Grenade Launcher and Thumper, Scavenger Pro, Danger Close Pro, and Commando Pro, Predator Missile, Harrier, AC130 for killstreak rewards, I sort of raped that game. Only died cause I ran for an unneeded scavenger pack. This will be it for Call of Duty for now. I have many more stories.

History is like now my #3 passion because Music and Call of Duty have managed to pass it up. For WWII I focus on the U.S. mostly and Germany, don't know much about the Pacific War Theater or too much about Italy and the battles in Northern Africa. But I just love everything about WWII, the guns, the countries, the games they've made off of it, everything. By far my most favorite war to study. I just fucking love history, its amazing. There's people that say history is boring and its probably because they don't know a lot about it. But I love U.S. History and World History is somewhat annoying because I know a lot of that too, just dates and time periods or eras I have trouble remembering but people and events I do well with. Dates if I really like them I can easily remember them. Well yeah, I sort of suck at elaborating what I like so I am going to end it here. Adios.

Just Getting Started

So I just felt like making this because someone said I should so I did/ am currently doing so. For this first post I will explain how I view myself, what I like to do, and how I presume others view me. First of all I feel like I am a sort of O.K. fun to be around person. I tell many jokes varying from "Dead Baby Jokes" all the way to key moments of saying "Thats What She Said," but then again, who doesn't? I also tend to say many racial jokes but I do not believe myself to be a racist, more of a stereo-typist because I laugh at hilarious stereotypes that are in society whenever I see them. Also, I kind of tend to be an asshole through my joke making. I don't try to be, it just happens. But whatever, I'm not going to deny my asshole-dom, I accept it fully.

Now as for what I like to do, I like playing Call of Duty on PS3 (XBOX is for losers), I like playing guitar, mostly Metallica and other classic rock but I'm best at Metallica, and I like to create ideas or logical statements. Don't know exactly what I just said right there but I sometimes do. I started playing guitar May of 2009 or possibly April. My cousin taught me a bit but then decided to get into some drugs and then stopped so I stopped taking lessons from him and taught myself using tabs. The song I play best is Master of Puppets its also one of my most favorite songs. Don't know the guitar solo yet, gonna take a while for me to learn it too. As for Call of Duty, I think I'm pretty bad ass at it, I mean, I have my moments. Its really fun. Call of Duty is my drug. If at any point when most people would resort to drugs, Call of Duty and Metallica are there to make it better. Proud to say I'm going to be the only person in my family (not counting cousins etc.) to make it through high school completely 100% sober. Its my goal in life to never drink or smoke, but I won't smoke thats what my Asthma is for.

Continuing stuff about myself in this paragraph, I am currently faced with the decision of going to a school in Missouri where its free to work (cofo.edu is the school website, go ahead and research it) or doing what I want to do which is either don't go to college and save money, or join the Marine Reserves or actual Marine Corps. My mother is entirely against my choice of the Marines but I want to and its voluntary so I can sign myself up for it. To close this paragraph up, I will be 17 7/12 tomorrow in case you were wondering my age. :)

I presume people to think of me as an asshole/ sometimes loser cause I don't go out much to parties or what-have-you, but it doesn't really bother me too much because I've gotten used to it. Don't know how to elaborate any further because I never really wanted to make this in the first place but oh well.

This about closes up my first entry. Congratulations to me. If I continue to do this, expect some more awesome stories about me, Gilky the Self Proclaimed God.