Tuesday, July 2, 2013

currently listening to: i'm on fire by bruce springsteen

read "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" by robert pirsig

examples of some good shit:

when one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity.
when many people suffer form a delusion, it is called a religion.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. 
No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. 
They know it's going to rise tomorrow. 
When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

Peace of mind produces right values, 
right values produce right thoughts. 
Right thoughts produce right actions and 
right actions produce work which will be a material reflection 
for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, 
but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. 
The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, 
a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later 
where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.





















"a game for those who seek to find a way to leave their world behind"















music to keep in mind:

tessellate (alt-j cover) - ellie goulding
breezeblocks - alt-j
heartbeats - jose gonzalez
dreaming (the chainsmokers remix) - smallpools
how we breathe - pinback
bring you down (feat. george maple) - flume
love sosa (rl grime remix) - chief keef
what a shame (rl grime & salva remix) - jamie liddel
waiting all night feat. ella eyre - rudimental
not giving in feat. john newman & alex clare - rudimental
right here (andy c remix) - rudimental
indestructible (a-trak remix) - robyn
like the dance floor (feat. natalie storm) - a-trak & zinc
a baru in new york feat. gurrumul - yolanda be cool (flume soundtrack version)
real talk (cassian remix) - anna lunoe & touch sensitive 

Friday, May 31, 2013

currently listening to: public service announcement by jay-z

how lucky am i to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.   

the following is a collection of some of my favorite moments 
and all of my favorite people from the past four years.

 

on our way to vegas at the ripe age of 18


and on the way home 


singing bon jovi in florence




 yab



bringing style back to travel



shades and blades



the time gen cried at her birthday dinner



abuse in the vistas



san luis rey
where boys become men 












katris the rapist


traveling the world together





kisses from munich




tall boys on the metro



when we met ellie goulding


someone's 21st


when gen had a nose ring 


ob noodlehouse


san o camping


one of many champagne brunches


splashing with friends in vegas



drinking in beds in vegas


when some of us voted and obama got re-elected


usd takes on tiesto





sweater parties


threesomes


more noodles


beer hockey


playing dress-up




another formal



when kaity finished the LSAT


underage nights at the pennant


getting dogs drunk


buenos aires



coachella




vegas again



czech's special kind of peer pressure


and vegas one more time





i am so lucky and grateful to have met some of the most intelligent, kind, and beautiful people here in san diego. people who can also drink disgusting amounts of alcohol five nights out of the week and still manage to graduate and land impressive jobs. people criticize our school for being superficial, cliquey, and fake. sometimes these things are true, but i feel fortunate to have met genuine people with impressive ambition and big hearts. dance tutorials, inappropriate humor, dirty stories, a collective 1 million calories in fireball, 1,000 hangovers spent in bed til 2, and all the other recreational fun has all affected me for the better i'm sure. 

to those in san diego, let's all move two miles north to pb and pretend we're grown up. 
i heard alehouse is the new comber.
and to those moving away, it won't be goodbye for long.

i wish the best of luck to all of you and i can't wait to see what wonderful things you do next.