what i think of during halloween

"happy halloween!!! he-he-he-he-heeeeeeee!!!"

...yeah, idk either.

MIDTERM DOMINATION

you'd think that i would've stopped doing this after high school...

but i can't help it because i've never done so well academically before. therefore, i shall flaunt once again:

Music Theory I: A

Aural Comprehension III: A

Keyboard Harmonization II: A

Fundamentals of Music Technology: A

Writing the Essay (Essay #1): B+

Statistics: B

Electronic Music Synthesis: ?

with the exception of stat, everything here = yum. as for the last one, i'm still waiting to receive that grade since i took the midterm just yesterday. unfortunately, that grade will probably be the one fatal chip on my clean slate. oops.

anyway, here's a new music video from a lo-fi band i recently discovered: no age.

"losing feeling" by no age

cute. hehe.

vinyl worthy #1

logos by atlas sound

yes, i know, the album cover is strange. but it's quite apt since bradford cox is a strange dude in the first place. come to think of it, that's probably why logos is such a fantastic album.

racing, chasing, never pacing, always facing the end

a few days ago, an experienced audio engineer came to my student seminar class to talk about his profession. he said something very provoking:

for every second you don't improve yourself, someone else beats you.

competition is everything these days. so many people are well-qualified for the same job, but only one of them can get it. you can only reach your goal by beating everyone else to it. otherwise, you'll always be straggling behind, constantly trying to catch up to the pack.

if you want to achieve greatness, then you can't stop. for time is always ticking, your competition's always moving--nothing ever stands still.

i don't know if i'm ready to embrace such a monumental dedication. if i were, then i wouldn't be typing this entry (unless expressing my uncertainty helps me put some perspective on my life).

suburbia

even after only about a month and a half, home feels so foreign to me; parsippany has never sounded so tranquil as it does now. my house seems like a mansion, the town looks more spacious than i once perceived it to be, and the air smells wonderfully fresh.

i never realized how much the city life has consumed me. maybe i am changing more than i thought, slowly morphing into an urbanite living in the fast lane.

sitting on the couch in my living room, i feel time slowly trudging along. i want it to speed up, but it doesn't. it just goes at its own pace while i go at mine. the tick-tocks of the analog clock above the television seem to resonate more than they should. and as the morning sun synchronously rises with the steady rotation of the second hand, i sense a difference from night and morning, a difference not readily apparent within the perpetually bustling streets of manhattan.

it's nice to be home again.

19.

why is there no totoro halloween costume?

i don't think i'll ever fulfill my dream of becoming a big, furry forest sprite that flies on a spinning top and rides a nekobus. (another question: why is there no nekobus halloween costume?)