HEY HEY HEY echo the musings of the Great Philosopher Fat Albert. It's OffClark here again airing out the dirty laundry of another epic episode.
*RAPNG HYMNS*
Been sellin computers from the summer to the fall,
now it's winter and u kno i'm tryin to ball
no one got rich workin in the mall;
and it's type lame, still feel like a beginner in this life game,
O-dub spit that life game to caress you like a night rain,
or smack the -ish out you like a night train,
I never feign, act or re-act only attack.
Pimpin my degree like ho's strollin on the track
phat backs and smooth kitty kats get laid flat.
lil finger traps, that swallow your whole wallet
and never give it back.
WOOT.
It feels good to be an idiot some days.
So Blue Sky has been going great, i spend an about 30 hours a week here and another 20 at the apple store, which isn't too bad right now. I am working on a rebranding campaign for a college, so i spend alot of time sitting at my desk saying to myself "Would I have read this if i was 17?". I need to be a little more focused as far as reading and rereading alot of stuff on typography i have collected. Type is probably my weakest skill. But i can write decent copy. My Boss man has been pretty positive about the work that i've cranked out written and visual. But he's a pretty super chill guy anyways. Sometimes it worries me, I'm neurotic like... COUGHMYDADCOUGH.
I'll be like, how is this? He's like yeah it's cool.... OR i'll send him a write up or improvements to a website that need to take place and he's like This is Great, go for it. And i just look at him like, please find something wrong with this so i know you're breathing. He does give me good critique about the conceptual direction of my stuff sometimes but it's Really subtle. But subtlety, i can work with. Now those obtuse bastards that shop in the mall, that's another story.
OH yeah so i'm in a band, kinda. I started playing with friday and dan on sunday and we got up again last night. It was fun, we definitely hit it off. I need to listen to more music, just to get some other rhythms and progressions in my head. I also need an amp, my poor aiwa's are not loud enough anymore although my set up is more versatile that a mothaf@cka... Any sound, garageband or logic has it. Really, no forreal, seriously, it does, no; really i've never seen anything like it.
BTW you know why christmas is whack? Besides all the commercialization and shit like that, i mean for ME, Personally... Because people say "what do you want for christmas?" and i'm like you'd be mad at me if i told you. People (friends, family, anybody who'd even buy you anything) dont want to know what i really want, because it costs money. My first skateboard for christmas, somewhere around 1997, was bought by myself because my mother refused to spend that much on something that would get "messed up". I have received a computer before for christmas so i can't say this is a law of nature. BUT, the things i want are rarely granted because of their.... i don't know. all of this in saying it's christmas and i want a new (or used) bass guitar and an amp which probably wont happen. also a scanner/printer would be useful. That's really about it, ipod nano maybe.
But the thing i want most is the thing least likely to be afforded to me. Isn't that how it always is? Isn't that what it means to be a grown-up? To be a freakin adult? The things you want most are the things that you have to provide for yourself because those things are in your own best interest, not somebody else's. You can't count on someone else to provide for you. You are you, they are them; your goals are not theirs and you can't ever expect they will be. The best you can do is make your goals align with someone elses. To get done what you both are trying to do. [Which is a beautiful type of subversion (or bribery) which i may write about another day.]
peace out to my nano punks and ipod touch metal heads, stay away from that soft scoop frozen yogurt.
Happy Birthday Vivian and Grandmom Gwen (who will never read this if someone doesn't print it out, which is not what i'm suggesting.)