I am back
So I was looking at the date from my last post to this month and I guess I have been away from my blog for over a month. I don’t know why this is. I guess I have been busy or un-inspired to write something. I wish I had a better writing voice than I did, personally, cause I would love to put out something that was worthy of writing rather than just typical blog drivel. But either way, I am back. I plan on blogging a little more (not a lot since I don’t want to promise what I can’t deliver) these days but please realize that I am busy now.
1. I am teaching with 4 different high schools. For whatever reason, my percussion teaching stuff has exploded now. I attribute it to making the right connections and knowing the right people (thanks to Lee Rudnicki, the craziest motherfucker I have ever met. We totally have to have dinner sometime!!)
2. I am writing for several high schools now. I always felt like my writing deserved a little more recognition but never knew how to get it. Now I realize that I just have to put it out there (DUH CHRIS!!!) and people can appreciate it.
3. I am looking for a steady job. If any of you LA cats know of something that can utilize my skills (PC Tech, Music Writing [not just drumline], video editing, digital photography, digital audio, etc …) then just hit me up on email ( chris.rodriquez@gmail.com ) or call me if you know my number. I am willing to do grunt work and I am getting a lot of drumline work (teaching, writing, etc…) but I gotta pay the bills somehow so let me know.
4. I now run a parkinglot website for DCI and DCA drum corps. http://www.parkinglotsounds.com If you would like to donate to offset the bandwidth cost just head to the website and click the paypal link to send some money my way. Even just a $5 donation would help the multiple gigabytes of downloads I get a day so there you go…
Anyway, like I was saying earlier, I don’t want this to end up as typical blog bullshit so here’s my contribution to society (whatever the fuck that means…)
Love everyone. That whole 6 degrees of seperation doesn’t just work for Kevin Bacon. You may not realize it but someone, somewhere has a profound connection to you and you never know what that might be. With 6 billion people (plus) on the planet, why make enemies? I know this sounds so LIBERAL (since when did that become a curse word) but life is precious and genuine relationships are few and far between. I miss all my Bakersfield peeps so much everyday and sure I have great new friends here all through out L.A. but it’s those bonds in the pits of California that I remember and cherish so much. I guess this did end up as typical blog bullshit but damn….I am lonely for the old ways. Hanging out with Nacho on a friday night at Edwards, catching someone getting a blow job in the movie theater. Or drinking way too much with Linda and not remembering where the car is parked. Talking the philosophy of human nature with Paul and debating who is COOL and who isn’t. Fuck I miss that so much.
LA is fun but I guess I still see it as a sea of faces that I don’t know and will never ever remember…It has afforded me so many opportunities but also robbed me of the simple joys…
It can never take away the simple joy of getting drunk with Alyssa and laughing about how lucky I am to be alive and with her however. I guess I can still take solace in that.
Damn I am drunk…
Vodka is yummy…
Death Cab for Cutie is awesome but they totally should’ve done more original stuff on their iTunes session…
Nacho, please tell me you got extra tickets for Sufjan Stevens at the Wiltern…
I am hungry …..
more drinking…
fall asleep….
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July 22nd, 2006 @ 1:27 am
Its so funny to read this blog and somehow i feel the same way about Southern California….I remember thinking to myself that i really do think that there is something in the water down here. People are just a little more cold…a little more “asshole-ish”. I guess there are times where i find myself being a dick here and there. To be honest…..i just get tired of negative energy around me….it doesnt help me what-so-ever. Most of the time i think how to turn alot of my negative energy around me into positive motivation. Remember this….the only constant in life is “change” and “death”……sorry to be so dark. I think your move to SoCal is just another chapter in your life where you are moving on. These rites of passage are here to make us great…..and you’re daring to be great. We all go thru changes and phases…..even tho they can be awkward at times. At the very least…..you met some cool people down here (i hope…only you really know that)……I really dig this post dude……your right….love people…..i need to tell that to myself more often…..thats including certain ppl in drumline as well…..to be honest…this is the right stuff for me to be reading right now.
You are wise beyond your years bro….stay the same and be how you are…..whoever doesnt like like….send them to me….i’ll bash some balls. LOL. I will continue to try to make my voicemails more entertaining……
See you on the field…..sidenote to Alyssa…….(YOU ROCK MY SOCKS!!!..so does chris
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July 22nd, 2006 @ 6:16 am
I guess this is just a case of the right post at the right time? Either way, you’re one of the people that make the move totally worthwhile. Now if only we didn’t live 60 miles away from each other.
July 22nd, 2006 @ 12:36 pm
I totally agree with you on the death cab for cutie itunes session.
I hope you get a more steady job. That’s what I’m looking for too, but it has to work around my school schedule. Miss you guys!
July 22nd, 2006 @ 7:16 pm
its weird. a couple new fresno friends and myself have been feeling this same way lately. wanting to relive the old days in our lives. i hope work shtuffs works out for you.
and i totally agree:
“You are wise beyond your years bro….stay the same and be how you are…” bcz you, my friend, are awesome!
July 27th, 2006 @ 7:10 pm
So I was going to reply to this a long time ago, but it’s stupid why I didn’t, so I’m not going to explain…
Anyway…
I know you all keep thinking that I finally got out of Bakersfield. But the truth is I miss it a lot. It’s been a year and I still call it home. I miss the familiarity, I miss working at Delano, but most of all I miss the people.
There is not a day that goes by where I don’t think about my Bako- peeps (and yes Crystal I’m including you in “Bako- peeps” so deal with it). I miss you guys so much. I miss going over to see Chris’s family when I’m bored as hell. I miss Mom’s cookies; I miss making fun of Chris with Dad; I miss playing dominos, monolopoly, or whatever game with Art and Rose. I miss listening to Joe talk about the latest nerd thing or KR (I wish I was around to get to know you better you seem like such an awesome person). I even miss living with Anthony. I miss staying up late drinking and talking about the most intimate details with Anthony and JD. I miss doing really weird things (like Toe-Foo Fish Face and being road kill at Halloween) with Crystal. I miss running into Paul at Wal-Mart or where ever, and talking for a half-hour, saying I have to go, then talking for another half- hour. I miss bullshitting about everything with Linda. And I miss going over to Nacho’s house and talking to his mom (I always loved the way she calls me meja) and sister right before falling asleep on his couch.
This isn’t to say LA isn’t without its charms, but I am defiantly having a hard time adjusting. I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have Chris here with me… But I guess at this point I wouldn’t be here with out him.
Well I guess that’s it— is it a bad sign when my comment is almost as long as the blog post in the first place? Am I trying to take over Chris’s blog or what?
August 21st, 2006 @ 11:54 am
Wow. Slacker McSlackeyPants has not checked this website in AGES (yeah, that’s right, that’s me). But anyway, I can relate to you both on the missing home front. Remember when I moved to Fresno? Yeah. Same thing. I wanted more than ANYTHING to be able to drive over to my friends’ places and watch a movie. It never happened, though. And while we got down here occasionally for day trips (read: getting home at 3am for work in the morning) when we got a car, nothing in Fresno could replace what I could only find here in B-town. Maybe my first mistake was looking for some way to replace it, eh?
What’s nice about the separation though is that it really forces you to realize how much these everyday fixtures in your lives actually mean to you. I make way more of an effort now than I ever used to, and even when there is insanity happening in all of our lives, we’ve got the net to keep us all together (lame, but true!). Even here in our little armpit of California we’ve got empty spots. I’ve never found anyone that I can sit and giggle hysterically with quite like Chris and Alyssa. Crystal is still my best bitching-buddy, even from 300 miles away. But you know, I probably would have never noticed had we not done so much city-hopping after high school. So in that respect, it’s good. We all still share the love. Bakersfield, LA, Fresno, or San Diego can’t take that away.
So does this mean we’re doing Vegas this year?