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so for my near-middle-of-the-week holiday, i journeyed to northern california to visit my first real college i went to after i graduated high school. i could hardly contain my excitement as evident in this picture:
when we finally arrived at the place (hours upon hours later), i was filled with a damning nostalgia of the shit that happened there. the santa cruz scent brought back my early hopefully memories of actually ever loving the place. anyway, here are some pictures.
this was my dorm! or part of/a building near my actual dorm. i couldn't believe i remembered how to walk there from the bookstore. i would've taken a picture closer, but that would have required me to walk further uphill. i'm not too into that.
here are a series of trees and such. i'd forgotten how nice it is to see so many trees, especially everyday when i went to school there for a while. and the air, it is too fresh. i started hacking up black slime as i purged my body with the mountainy atmosphere.
i know you can't really tell from this angle, but this picture was taken from in a mini clearing encircled by tress. i felt as if weird, possibly sexual, pagan rituals were held there. ceremonies held by witches? drug pow-wows?
and to prove my point i saw this not far from this tree-circle:
....
what the fuck is this? it's like a reliquary or something...a summoning stick or whatever..i don't know. it looks like crazy and maybe pagan.
back to more pictures! of the boardwalk and pier! but they're not totally amazing..but have a look anyway!
Whilst at santa cruz, i picked up this bum.
well, he looked like a bum, but Mr. Sharky McFly actually turned out to be the coolest shark i've met and i have no shame in admitting that i slept with him.
ok, that doesn't make me a whore because, you know, he bought me dinner first and i found out he's a dj from ibiza and an amateur freestyle rapper and a producer for atl hip-hop records and he went to uni at oxford. Absolutely impressive, how could i not take him with me? He's not going to be with me forever, though. Mr. S. McFly has to get back to work and he wants to kick it with one of my friends...i think they'l be roommates whenever Sharky stops over in l.a.
after the one day thing at the university, we headed over to Monterey. i had no intention of going there, but, much like a pregnant girl and a hanger equals an abortion, it was on the way so we figured what the hell, its inevitable.
i thought these were pretty flowers. there were some that had yellow ones, too.
kayakers to be.
sharky mcfly is a camera whore.
check out these dogs. they look like crawling, furry humans. afghan hounds? is that right?
lastly, here is a video of the drive along the coast. i don't know/can't explain the background noises, if any (i think it's the platters & incoherent talking). ignore them. IGNORE.
i would say this was a fun trip. the worst part was the long ass drive, despite the fact i quite like being cooped up in a vehicle for hours and staring out the window. and as much as it pains my brain to admit this, monterey is a nice looking place. i want to go the aquarium eventually.
we'll see if that happens. and if there are belugas.
After it all, I still feel nauseous; there's elation, but an impending fear, the dread of what's to come because i fucked up so hard last time. Shit. The greatest release came with but a small sense of satisfaction. No, wait. There was nothing satisfying about it. I couldn't let myself go completely. My expectations were so high.
It was sorely disappointing.
And the red-nosed. bearded, jolly head of Christmas-time is rearing it's head this way. Meh. I put up the tree today (the same tree from when I was five..or around that age). Suspecting it will be lonely. Without those electric-light lawn flamingoes to keep me company. Ah. Here are some interesting things.
Because, you know, people need to see these things.
It's a kermit orgy! or..some sort of masturbatory affair? I think I'm a little too much into the muppets after seeing that free screening of the lastest movie last month. I mean, I watched the muppet christmas carol (Michael Caine and Raymond Coulthard were quite cute i 1992) and i'm currently watching muppets from space. It's not bad. There are references from pop culture back when those sort of things were popular (dawson's creek, mice=spice girls, "the american way"). Yeah.
I thought this looked a little like Nemo, or maybe his mom.
I want the full size version of this.
Solidifying my obsession with wayfarers. My profound fascinations with frames. Freaky note: I'm missing a pair of glasses that belong in the front row there.
what i'm very well aware of: i haven't been here for nigh over a month plus two days and that normal blogs are chock full of visuals to attract an audience. well. i'm not exactly that kind of blogger who wants to rack up reader/visitor numbers with pictures, but someone out there, i have no idea who nor do i care to know, has criticized this lacking aspect of my web-extended life and, you know what? Fine. Here is a shitload of distractions to stare at in awe and/or longing while i describe them each with a short sentence.
This is from a t-shirt and the proceeding ones are also from clothing; the sunglasses and the rainbow mane make this zebra the hippest ungulate on the block.
It's a cute lion.
I might've liked to actually wear the t-shirt with this design when i was in middle school, going through that imaginary "rebellious" phase.
If you've been to ikea recently you'd know they're campaigning for kids to play with their soft, giant, manufactured food.
i remember seeing this on tv, but i don't remember if i watched it.
i like this necklace; it's themed for halloween at target, but i want to wear it all the time.
oh my god, this was at the 99¢ only store and i was all, "what the hell??" when i saw the name of this brand.
okok, so, if you look down about two or three posts from the past, i mentioned a sale that 2k was having and i was down to get some new threads. and indeed i did. i had ordered two new shirts, but one turned out to be out of stock (disappointment! it was hilarious). this is the one that i ultimately received:
yeah. that's david shrigley. seriously, i anticipate wearing this shirt when i feel as such.
check this out:
is there no less awesomeness seeing darth vader get bunny ear'd? OH. NO, WAY. this shirt was really a steal. less than $7 for it? hm, i think yes.
in reality, i have a collection of the best t-shirts--from elephant wangs to flipping the bird sideways. yeah, better be digging those out of the closet again.
hi!! "winter" finals are over and i can fulfill my spring break fantasy of staying home all day playing video games and going online! that's what my 13 year old self would relish..but i'm not exactly like that anymore. ok, beyond the fact that it's st. patrick's day (remember the last two years? i wasn't in america! and i was doing very much irish things, like drinking green beer and just drinking in general), i want to be consistent with what i mentioned in the previous post regarding interesting things i took pictures of in the library at my school. i've already put one up here.
these can be rather vulgar so please proceed with caution; other than that, start your guffaws.
i was shocked and disturbed to discover such illustrations and phrases scrawled on decades old desks. it just seems unfathomably that warped, seeming sexually deprived, slightly prejudiced individuals attend my school. yeah, it's a big place, but just going to this library increases my chances of running into these people. um. maybe i should find a new place to study/kill time before classes, but this is really the best library i've been to thus far--it's got that old timey charm with that slowly, rotting scent of old paper and quietness you expect..there are real books that are genuinely interesting! the downsides of this place, however, are the construction stuff going on (eg: noise and god-knows-what that floats along with the dust when they drill/paint/other construction stuff)and the less than decent wi-fi.
ahh.
despite being concerned about what's happened and currently happening in japan (i wonder if my '06 family is ok), i feel relaxed. also perturbed.
