Just a reminder to everyone that the band Owl City is playing tomorrow night in Nashville. They will be at the Rocketown venue @ 7:00. So if all you Memphis/Nashville friends are free you should make the drive to come see the show!

The start of this week has been a really awful and sad ordeal for me. Which is why I'm so glad to be going to this show tomorrow. Owl City has a way of lifting your spirits and making you feel amazing, even after some of the worst days. Lord knows I need it right now.

I promise I'll explain what's been happening when I get home. However at this moment, all I want to think about is having a good time and dancing at the show tomorrow night.

Speaking of awesome music, your muzicon for today is 1901 by Pheonix. I can't stop listening to this song. The video is pretty badass too. Go youtube it kids.

"Summer vacation" is over. Even though I'm no longer in school, I still feel the same foreboding feeling that comes around the start of August. That things are coming to an end, and other things are beginning.

As soon as I got back from Colorado, at the end of July, I started the job hunt process. I've found most of the design firms in the Memphis area already have a full print design staff so unless I wanna change my career to strictly web design it's gonna be a tough hunt. I had a job interview with a company called Joyce Signs on the 12th. The interview went really well and I'm hopeful...but I won't hear back from them until the beginning of September.

That's a long wait. Luckily I'm still working at my family's bookstore about 20hrs a week, which should hold me over until I find something. I'll keep my fingers crossed. In the meantime, I've been working on orders as a member of the Owl City Street Team. For those who have never heard of Owl City, it is led mainly by musician Adam Young. The sound is beautifully imaginative pop, that's full of bright lights and color. It makes you smile and dance whenever you hear it :). Most of my duties deal with creative ways to promote the music.

Recently, babykittylove and I worked on
( this ) in a public park in town where it could be seen. We'll also be heading to the Nashville area on Sept 9th to see their first show of the tour! For those interested, here's the line-up for the entire tour:

I seriously cannot wait!

recent music video's and songs I'm currently digging:

( Music Vids! )

the first "free-time" art doodly in awhile. I've missed them.

I drew this while listening to a song called "Saltwater Room". I <3 Owl City. He makes me wanna go have Christmas on the beach. Where I would be completely surrounded by lights. It's a Winter sounds from a warm heart; just perfect and so what I need right now.






other things that make me happy:

Flight of the Concords, new season premiere coming soon in january. I can't wait.



Balloon shop's new video. thank goodness such cool people live in memphis:

It's so cold outside & I am in love with it. Despite the fact I was called into work today, there is just something crisp about leaving a bookstore into the night air that makes me tingle. It also gave me an excuse to buy a leather jacket today. and drink hot tea outside.

Know what else is nice? Having a weekend that doesn't involve slaving in the art lab till midnight. I love my major but I've never had my weekends sucked away like i have this semester. It's been several weekends in a row since I've actually felt relaxed or relatively cheerful in manner. I hate driving but I catch myself feeling like I should be just out of habit. So I'm trying to remind myself that I like having chill time. This is a rare and fleeting moment and I should be savoring the fact I have nothng to do.

I also can't pull myself away from my new Dell XPS. It's so freaking fast compared to my old computer (known as Clunker) and I've loaded it with a 9 cell lithium battery and a ton of memory and hard drive space. I now have a video card so nice I can finally become an online gamer again without my computer wanting to commit suicide. I installed all my adobe programs today and it hardly took any space. To Clunker it would have been an atomic bomb. Just Beautiful. Only thing that sucks is I can't transfer my music until I get an external hardrive, pretty much 17GB of music took up my old computers space, which is a pretty huge file to transfer.

Christmas is gonna have to come a little earlier. : )

For those that are interested, I'd like to go to a haunted house next week sometime. These two I think sounded the most promising here in Memphis: www.hauntedweb.com
and www.nightshademanor.com.

the more people that come, the more we can grab onto each other haha. So check out those sites and give me some feedback!

Is anyone doing anything exciting for Halloween? I can't decide if I wanna party it up or not. Most of my Halloween party experiences have been horrible and I want to forget them, it would be nice to go to one and actually have a good time.

ah, it feels so nice to type in good ole lj again. Maybe I'll do some artsy things tonight that don't require grading! I'll leave ya with a couple of videos I'm enjoying lately:

This is all of want to listen too. This is where I wanna go.



New Kids on the rock!


Find more videos like this on Hollywood East TV


Jan, this is the video i was trying to find last night when we were talking about Kenshin. The other anime the clips are from are Berserk:

Sometimes I worry about my boss Chung-Yu at the violin shop. He doesn't take care of himself at all & my co-worker, Thomas, and I are afraid he's going to work himself to death. Today I come into work and start finishing the mailing list that we're sending out to music universities across the US (ones with violin, viola, & cello programs anyway)

so he's standing there talking to me and working on the email to attach to the mailing list when he stands up and ALMOST FALLS OVER. I freaked out & he explained he hasn't really eaten anything today because he drives from Arkansas early Thursday mornings to get to work on time.

I make him go out & eat since he has an appointment in an hour.
Everything is cool, he's busy with appointments for the rest of the afternoon, then at around 5:00ish, the same thing happens AGAIN, after his appointment leaves. The man has another appointment in 30 minutes but he won't cancel because he's too nice and loves people.

I left him with Thomas when I got off at 6:00, and prayed the whole way home that he didn't pass out in front of the clients. I worry because his family lives in Arkansas, so if something happened and Thomas and I weren't there I don't think anyone would know.

agggghdfgjdfkgjd
poor man needs a break. There's no way I could do what he does, I probably would pass out from stress.

He did show me something pretty cool today. The parents of one of his students sent him a video of their daughter's violin recitals in Washington. The girl is 8 years old and is currently playing one of Chung Yu's 5/8 size violins.

The song she plays, Fisherman Festival Song, is so beautiful. It really brings out the cheerful bold tone of his violins. This girl is like a musical prodigy, she has dancing & piano videos too:

woo
another night up till 3:00, good morning folks.

I'm trying to get myself out of this hermit-state that I've put myself in lately. I had one of those horrible colds that you sometimes get in the summer that lasted for about 2 weeks, and each evening after work I just came home and went to bed right away.
Now, it's finally gone and I can't seem to get motivated to call my friends. So if you read this please try to get me out of my cold recovery funk and out of my house.
On a happy note, while I've been sick I discoved a hilarious anime called Lovely Complex. Finally a romantic comedy that isn't typically predictable. I'm tired of fluff anime where all the romance seems like fantasy and you as the viewer can't relate to it at all. Now that Avatar is over, I've been looking for something good. The situations in this one feel more real and believable, it's quite charming and I'm completely addicted until I know what happens next. Plus it makes me laugh so hard I actually cry---I mean look at these faces:

( WHAAAT!? )


ahhhaahahaha >-<. *breathe*. They make me laugh randomly all day. People gave me looks in the mall, it was wonderful.


My mom is out of town tonight and my dad is out rambling around the house because he is a worry wart. I don't think he knows I can hear his footsteps in the kitchen, its really disturbing; like a ghost. Mom isn't sick or lost or anything but whenever she's not at home, he always looks like he's lost. I guess it should be sweet but I'm not used to seeing my dad like that--he's always so tough and loud and the boss of the entire house all the time. If mom wasn't here to break us up everytime we fight I think he would fall to pieces. He needs to go to bed, I'm already having enough problems sleeping.

Especially since I need to get up in about 6 hours for church
motivation motivation motivation
I need more of it.