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.