Already making plans to attend these boxing shows in 2010: 03/05 at Morongo in Cabazon, CA: Martin Honorio vs. TBA / Rico Ramos vs. TBA / Mike Dallas Jr. vs. TBA - televised by ESPN. I've been following the careers of Ramos and Dallas since they turned pro in San Jose in 2008. 03/06 at Agua Caliente in Rancho Mirage, CA: Arthur Abraham vs. Andre Dirrell - part of Showtime's Super Six tournament televised by Showtime 03/13 at Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, TX: Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey - HBOPPV in the biggest event of the decade due to taking place at Cowboy Stadium 03/19 at Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, NV: Brandon Gonzales / Karim Mayfield double-header - both are NorCal fighters I have been following for a few years. I hooked Karim up with these promoters in Reno who will likely be working with my brother and I on shows in the Northern California region in 2010. 04/17 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA: Andre Ward vs. Allan Green - part of Showtime's Super Six tournament televised by Showtime. Ward-Kessler was an amazing event, I expect this one to be no different. What is nice is out of all of this, I will actually make money due to the amount of writing I will be doing about these fights. Also, when I cover the Pacquiao fight I'll get a visit to my parents out of it who live in Tyler, and I'll be taking my dad along with me to the fight. He'll love it. March is going to be a wonderful month.
Rant: My dogs absolutely refuse to pee in the snow. I hate these puppy pads! I can understand though, we have six inches of snow and they are weiner dogs. Rant #2: Two of my friends from rehab have already relapsed. This is not looking good for me. Rave: I get to leave this shit hole town on Saturday to go to Memphis. There are more chances of me staying sober when I am in a different area code than my mother. Rave #2: After my court issues get settled, I am moving to Ft. Lauderdale! I can't wait!
Rave: turns out the XBox is still under warranty through September. Just got off the phone with tech support, and they'll repair and ship it for free. Here's hoping...
"I'm not looking for a commitment, but could you not sleep with other people if we're sleeping together?" I hate women. In what possible world is that a reasonable statement?!
Rave: Surfing TiB from from my iPhone while on the office shitter. Best way to burn the last 20 minutes of the day. Edit: Rant: Fucking value brand toilet paper. Might as well have used fucking sand paper.
Rant I either have a nasty cold, or HIV. Rave I think HIV is out since I'm in a monagamous relationship and I don't share needles Rant The monkey bite looks infected.
Rant: So, I'm doing RPM with a friend (record an album during the month of February.) I think at this point I have one song pretty much written/ half recorded, with a few other germs of ideas. My lack of progress is... well, due mostly to that fact that one partner gets really whiny whenever things don't work out, and the other partner has been doing schoolwork (which I should be doing). But yeah, it's tougher than I thought it would be, not particularly the actual music but more the managing of my singer/ rhythm player. He's a good singer, but when something goes wrong/is hard/etc, he just kind of shuts off and gets mopey that he isn't a super genius and that his first forays into actual songwriting aren't super amazing work. I do most of the actual music writing, he's a good lyricist but he sometimes comes up with chord progressions that he shows me that tend to be shot down by me because they're... really basic sort of "look at my bar chords!" It's not because I need 100% creative control, just that I'm looking for the best sound that anyone comes up with, and when it happens to not be that thing he showed me, he again gets mopey. He isn't 1/4 the player I am (I'm not being hubristic I swear!) so he complains that "I can't write anything good because I only know bar chords" to which I yell at him WELL DO THE THE EXERCISES AND SHIT I TOLD YOU TO DO MONTHS AGO AND THAT YOU SHOULD BE PRACTICING RIGHT NOW and then he sheepishly admits he hasn't been practicing that stuff for whatever reason. Blah I guess I'm just ranting here in this convenient rant space, don't take it as me being like angry or anything I just get frustrated when people stop working and start moping and blame it on not being magically born with great songwriting talent (which nobody fucking is) and not the fact that they haven't been practicing. Everyone's first songs suck. I do enjoy the process, I just wish that this unnecessary aspect of it that has just become apparent didn't exist. So you wrote a bad riff, write a new one and quit dwelling on it AELKJRTSDFSDF
Rave Just got back from Yuk Yuk's Great Canadian Laugh Off. I was the only first-timer tonight and I started by giving a "Cheers" to the crowd but my rapid-fire 4 beer buzz caused me to splash beer on my shoulder. I shook it off and killed it, getting a surprisingly huge ovation and a lot of congrats after the show . The only joke people didn't like was my closer about hitting my wife, but they're pussies. I placed in the top 4 but a repeater won. I have one more week to place for city finals, guess I'll give it a whirl again. My buddy recorded it so I hope to see it soon.
RAVE" 1 klonopin and two teaspoons of Codeine = everhthing n slow motion. Nice buzz. Finally. a Decient hgih Ahhhh.
Rant Sometimes I wish lighting people on fire was an acceptable form of public expression. Fuckin shit- talking bitches, they seriously make women look bad. Unfortunately I have qualms about beating women, slowly though they are starting to disappear.
Rant: I hope the refs from tonights UConn-Syracuse game die in a fire tonight. "Oh shit, Syracuse already shot, UConn rebounded and is heading down the court for the last shot in a tie game. What is that Boeheim? You called timeout awhile ago, well, we believe you. UConn, give them the ball back and lose." Rant: Of course Calhoun is on medical leave and the assistant coach just stands there and drools.
Rant/Rave?: My newly shaved head makes me feel like a mobster. Hell I think I even look like one when I put on a suit. Case in point: Hell, I already got in one brawl since I shaved it, but apparently the ladies like the new look a lot more than the old one. Bloody fuck.
As far as I know, I was good (woke up alone...?). And obviously since I had nothing to do I went out again tonight, so I'm shiiiiity again. I'm sure there's plenty of stupid little things I could rant about, but fuck it, I'm gonna savor every moment of my drunken happy-ology.
Rave: Just removed the branding from my mobile phone, so I can now specify that it uses an alternate carriers network (with better coverage). Rave: I bricked it on my first try but 3 seconds on google told me how to "unbrick" it. I thought the term 'brick' had some implications of permanence, but apparently google can solve anything. Rave: I now get coverage in my house after two years of missing important calls, not receiving invitations to events and my phone's poor coverage indirectly cockblocking me. Rave: My carrier has to pay for all the time I spend roaming onto the new network, i.e., from now on. Thats a rave in my book. I wish the internet was a tangible object so I could hug it. I think it would be warm and fuzzy.
Rave: And the wednesday tradition lives on. Steak and a bottle of Pinot Noir. Only I decided to spice it up a bit since I've been watching Sopranos a lot lately. Simmered the steak in some tomato sauce I made over the weekend and chopped it up and and ate it with some fettucini. Fucking delicious. Rant: I live in a fucking terrible area. For the last two hours my neighbors have been sitting outside bitching about crack pipes and cops and the fact that the landlord is rousting them because they haven't paid rent since October. And the wind is just carrying their voices straight into my room to the point where they might as well be sitting on my couch. I want to go say something, but as Rickety Cricket said, "Watch out for the crackheads, they WILL cut you."
Rant Suspicions confirmed that John Mayer is a douchebag with the whole Playboy interview. Saying he has a "hood pass", dropping the N bomb, talking about sex with Jessica Simpson. "But he's such a good guitar player!!". So what? He sold out his style to hit mainstream and lacks any humility. Douchebag.
Rave: bitchin time in Playa del Carmen, back to the states tomorrow. Rant: upon my return I head straight to the doc, I shattered my collarbone yesterday. A bunch of us were touring Cozumel on scooters, hauling ass at a whopping 50-60mph. My kickstand came down, not sure if I didn't kick it all of the way up or if that was a malfunction. That fucker caught the asphalt and created quite the accident. Rave: I was wearing a helmet. By the looks of, I would be grotesque or dead if I didn't wear it. Crazy person Rave: My left side looks like an extra for Zombieland. Rant: Roadrash hurts a bit, as do my ribs and collarbone, obviously.
Rant: Thanks to the big, poorly insulated windows I sit next too, it is really fucking cold in my cubicle. I've got a space heater running on my desk and I'm wearing my jacket and I'm still freezing. Fuck you cold weather. Rave: I don't live in the North East and so I'm not completely covered in snow.