| A revelation of mind and the revolution of pedals |
[28 May 2008|06:38pm] |
Well hello e-world,
Recently I've become seemingly distant from everyone I'm friends with and angry towards people I don't know a great deal about. My patience is dwindling and, in a strange turn of events, has taken my confidence hostage on the way down. At the beginning of this month I stopped my nightly retreat to the local gymnasium in order to properly focus on my studies for the end of the Spring Semester, recently I have pressed the reset button to that activity and have upped the volume on the intensity of my workouts. Don't get me wrong, the high treble of the stationary bikes positioned on the third floor still occupy the beginning of my night but I have added in some bass from the foot steps on the treadmills ten feet away on that very same floor to increase the respiratory function and bump up the heart rates. I miss my friends back in Mesa and wish they would all come visit some time in my little brick house.
I think I forgot how cathartic it was to write in this piece of the internets I could probably go on and on about what I did today but I'll end with this... Today on my way to Nordstrom for work I heard, "Love Isn't Always on Time" on the radio, it made me the happiest I had been all day.
Love everyone and everything,
Eric
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[14 Apr 2008|12:55pm] |
“A Brief Explanation of the Connection between the Gila River and Montauk, New York”
The Gila River's mouth leading to
the mouth of the Gila Monster
like every sharp razor in it's feverish jaw
cacti leap from the ground nursed by Ironwoods in the humid air
creating a shade like a towel dropped on the floor
in a bedroom occupied by two lovers
jeans the only barrier between the two
such as a fisherman is separated from his love
of the deep and mysterious murky blue
by a boat that has brought him there
reunited in Montauk, New York along the Atlantic
the fisherman and the ocean
no sharp razors or sweltering sun
only the fisherman and his inamorata
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[22 Dec 2007|12:16am] |
I have the coolest little brother ever.
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| Where are we now, and are we there yet? |
[25 Nov 2007|04:53pm] |
If you keep your life changing nothing becomes normal.
On Saturday I went to a funeral reception for my other grandmother that passed on Halloween. It was 40 degrees Fahrenheit in the small city of Sierra Vista located south east of Tucson. There was snow on the mountains and it was raining. Everything was beautiful.
A few days prior I was discussing a urge to move to Sweden with my friend Audry and her friend Jose (I guess he could be her boyfriend but I don't think it's official). They both suggested that I get a job working for IKEA because IKEA believes strongly in transferring their employees across the country and around the world. They then told me that if I did get a job at IKEA I could possibly be transferred in as short as a year. Bringing me about nine years closer than I had previously had thought would be the time frame for moving there. I got really excited and pressed on with questions about it for the rest of the night.
Bring us back to Saturday, as I looked around and saw all the trees, the plants, the mountains and then my family. I wondered if I would be able to cope living in a completely different country/environment/culture without having my friends and family somewhere near. They are my biggest supporters, my reasons for living the way I do. After all, someone has to be there to be a positive in case of negatives. Right?
I guess the whole point of this entry is to tell you all how much I love and appreciate everyone of you.
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| I found this while stumbling, if you aren't stumbling already I suggest you start |
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I cross post these all the time between livejournal and myspace so if you read one you've probably read the other. But repetition is the best way to remember something. But repetiion is the best way to remember something. But repetition is the best way to remember something.
( 39 things to do )
and yes, I'm listening to unwritten law and enjoying it quite a lot actually. I was going through a retrospective moment musically, the other things I listened to...we won't discuss ;-]
Love everything, everyone, your heart is the door, don't lock it.
Eric
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[05 Oct 2007|01:09am] |
This week has been amazing , I've never been this full of joy in such a long time it's refreshing and I hope it doesn't end anytime soon. Today we turned in our projects for Interior Design. I found out that we had to give a presentation on our Color Scheme.
"Hi, I had the tetrad scheme, I chose blue, orange, red-violet and yellow green, this is my wall, the ceiling, flooring, bed sheet, pillow and computer chair. That's the end, thank you"
I also through in some stuff about how the cool colors would help lower the stress levels of a teenager and how the brown walls represent the earth and the blue ceiling was the sky and how that was going to inspire creativity in a world where teens are constantly being told not to be creative. I was hoping for at least one chuckle....not one.
Everything lately has been clicking together like the cylinders on a Lego brick,
1. Moved out and still alive
2. Doing well in school
3. Have a job
Unfortunately Lego doesn't make a 3 cylindricle brick. It's been over a year since I have had any sort of romantic relationship with a female. But one can only hope and if it's meant to happen it will. I believe firmly in allowing the river to flow on it's intended course.
In other news...I bought soy milk today, I'm going to try it on my cereal to see if it tastes the same. For the milk I went to the, "Party Safeway" on Broadway and Rural, I was originally going to grab a half gallon of skim milk but saw that this was practically the same price and figured it wouldn't hurt to try..so bottoms up!
Well it's time to go to bed now, I wish everyone the happiest of weekends.
The moment you love, you are unlimited.
Eric
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| The only tool you need is kindness. |
[02 Oct 2007|11:28pm] |
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I read that today on my tea, that's right, I read my Subject line off of my tea. It's something I do every night now, sit down before I'm about to go to bed and start typing and sipping away at some tea (not get my Subject from my tea.).
To recap from yesterday, I was worried about having to ask for Tuesday off next week, my Literature and Film teacher had no problem letting me come go in Monday to take the reading quiz for, "A River Runs Through It". For Interior Design I had a bit of a problem, for some reason this morning when I woke up to my cell phone chirping at me to wake up at 7:30, I looked at it and thought, "That sure is silly, why is my phone alarm going off on a Sunday?" I then proceeded to turn it off and go back to sleep. And this is the problem. I later wake up at 10:00 to Jeremy texting me asking, "What day is your orientation for Nordstrom?" I reply with, "Shit, it's not Sunday today."
I got out of bed as fast as I could and started freaking out. I got dressed (There's no time for a shower when your next class starts in 30 minutes (I suppose there is but I couldn't have accomplished it in the mental state I was in). I got to school fine, I was only a few minutes late and had not missed any of, "A River Ones Through It"
I was thinking about going to see if I could find my teacher for Interior Design but decided against it, I may drop the class. I don't want to because I really enjoy everything that I've learned in the class but I don't have access to the necessary things to complete my project, like a printer.
Goodnews is that I got the job at Nordstrom Cafe and after Nordstrom Orientation on Tuesday I will begin work on Thursday. It will be my first time working in food service outside of Big Surf (Which reminds me that I need to go get my food handler's card).
Love everyone and everything,
Eric
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[02 Oct 2007|12:49am] |
I received a paycheck from Barne's & Noble, it was for $110.99 to mail it out they had to pay 41 cents. When Jim, the manager that handled schedules, told me that they were going to stop scheduling me after that I still had two more shifts that I could fill if I wanted. He also said that they would definately be willing to hire me back for the holiday season. I was hurt, I felt betrayed....I didn't go in for the shifts they had me down for. The first day, Melissa the store manager called my parent's house to see where I was at, she got my cell number from my mom and then called me and left a message (I was trying to sleep in my room at the time and the phone was in the living room). I called my mom back and explained the situation regarding my employment and she completely understood why I didn't go in.
I never called Melissa back about not coming in, I also have not gone back to the store which is why they were forced to mail me a check for $110.99. This is my form of fighting the man, I don't go into work. I haven't, "worked" since the Monday before finding out I was being let go. To think...I was going to purchase a book called, "The Bread Bible"
Let me tell you, not working is pretty sweet, boring, but sweet none the less.
Tomorrow I'll find out whether my teachers will allow me to miss class so that I can fulfill my American duty and join the workforce so that I may properly contribute to our capatalist system.
I may be nervous about tomorrow but there are very few things that we can do to stop the unstoppable.
Remember that you're always loved,
Eric
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[01 Oct 2007|02:11pm] |
To put it simply, I would feel good.
I've never felt better in my entire life. I'm living with two of my best friends, I'm constantly surrounded by people that I love and care about. School is going wonderfully, nothing is perfect but as long as it goes well I can't complain. I recently got let go from Barne's & Noble due to conflicts with my school schedule and theirs. That same night I came home and applied to three places, the other day the last place I applied at, Nordstrom's Cafe, called me and invited me in to interview. It went well and the manager said as long as I can go to the orientation I should have the job. This is good because it pays $1.50/hr more than B&N, downside is that I won't get that sweet discount on books. The only problem with orientation is that the orientation for Nordstrom's on a Tuesday afternoon during school. I'm hoping my Interior Design and Literature and Film teachers will understand.
I have been looking at buying a bike, with all the stuff so close to me here it would save me money to ride a bicycle everywhere....well maybe not MCC haha. Plus a bicycle would help me further define these sweet legs of mine =].
Speaking of saving gas, on my way to get gas I thought about selling my music equipment and maybe going into a different field. I've thought about short film making or photography, I've always wanted to get into that kind of stuff. I guess if I sold my music stuff I could get into to both huh?
I'm thinking about moving to Sweden in 10-12 years. I'm not exactly sure where my life will be then but I think I might like it there. So as a result I've become interested in learning the Swedish language. Anyone want to learn Swedish with me? Think about it, we could go to Ikea and understand what the hell everything says.
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Well well well, what have we here? I'm done painting my room at the house and soon the carpet will be going in, and then I will be going in. Interestingly my music equipment has already made the twenty minute journey and is loving living in something older than itself. The tile looks fabulous and I love the color of my room, I'll take a picture and post it up for people to see.
I need to pack up.
School has been pretty sweetacular, I'm taking english, interior design, literature and film, yoga, and pilates.
The other day I got the best, "under-bottle cap" message ever. It was on the bottom of a Honest Tea cap and it said,
"Three Things in
human life are important.
The first is to be kind.
The second is to be kind.
And the third is to be kind."
-Henry James
Love everything and everyone
Eric
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[05 Aug 2007|01:48am] |
Fiesta burrito > any filibertos/wanna be fili b.
Ever.
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| Moving?! Me?! |
[23 Jun 2007|08:56pm] |
I'm moving out of my house into my grandmother's. I'm going with Aaron and Angel..
We will start to move her stuff and fix it up and hope to be moved in within the next month. We will of course be having a house warming party and you are all invited
It's pretty retro which = siq!
Well I'm driving to flaming kabob, so late
Love everyone and everything,
eric
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| I stopped saying, "I love you" for fear of attachment |
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Today was the end of the first full pay period of work at Big Surf, which was June 1st through today (June 15th). Hours accumulated...128 hours 38 minutes plus 51 minutes that need to be added on because the time clock punched me out at 6pm when I left at 6:51. Too bad I won't see that check until the 10th of next month. Oh well, this summer should be pretty good paycheck wise. However I have been working seven days a week, six at Big Surf and one at Fitness Works, thus far I haven't noticed anything changing my health except for a slight cold which could be from anything really.
I really miss going to my yoga/tai chi/pilates class but I'm thinking about asking for a half day on Fridays at Big Surf so that I'll be able to go to it again.
With working so much I really don't have time to feel lonely anymore which is cool, I saw Samantha last week. I got her and her friend Ryan into Big Surf, it reminded me how much I love and miss that girl, but overall I'm happy for her. She is moving to California to go to hair school out there, it's sad to think that I probably won't see or hear from her again after she moves.
I purchased a bass head, it's a Ampeg B-25 vintage goddess. Angel and I are working on the cabinet for it which is going to be a 2x15" with a removable cover that I will keep the head in. It's going to be SIQ!
If anyone wants to hang out I'm pretty much free all the time, and if you have a Wii I've got my own controllers so give me a call or text message and get me out there. For now...I'm going to Zia's to look around.
Love everyone and be thankful for everything,
Eric
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| Wouldn't it be nice, I want to be an actor |
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It feels good to know you're loosing weight by putting on a shirt that used to be tight.
It doesn't feel good to be hung up over a breakup that occured 7 months ago.
It feels good to wake up each day and be thankful for everything around you, despite any negative attitudes of people around you.
It doesn't feel good to feel like you're wasting time in school when you don't know what you want to be doing in life.
It feels good to hug my kitties.
It doesn't feel good to let someone's words change my attitude.
It feels good to make someone smile when they're sad.
So I've been thinking about going camping up northis a lot lately, though everyone around me hasn't expressed a real interest when I bring it up. I may just decide to go camping by myself, I don't know what it would be like. I have gotten acustomed to going and watching movies at the theaters by myself, it's relaxing and lets me watch the movie. I really would like company on my camping trip but I don't know if I would be relaxed, I tend to get really flustered and, "anxiety-acious".
Yesterday after my pilates/yoga/tai chi class I took cats that belong to my boss from one home to the Friends For Life shelter place, it was quite the adventure. The lady that was holding the cats while my boss was between homes was kind of awkward and made me uncomfortable when we were leaving. Maybe it is because while we were rounding up cats on of them peed on her...maybe? Once we got to the Friends For Life building (Further referred to as, "FFL") the people had us fill out paperwork on these cats that we didn't know diddly about, so I had my brother Bryce do it. Once I diivulged to the woman that we had three cats she took quite a hard stance on the fact that they were only able to take in the two cats that my boss had gotten from there, leaving me with the cat named Steve. I accepted that I would have to continue on with Steve and went back to my house to drop of Bryce and give him his $5 of the $25 my boss had given to me as payment for this task. After dropping off Bryce, I set off with my co-pilot, Matt Bowman, and picked up a friend of his named Katie. At Katies house we got good old fashioned dihydrogen monoxide for Mr. Steve and then took him back to Fitness Works where we had to tape the box up as if the box contained a tazmanian devil before we could send it with another employee to the human society, unfortunately Steve's existance didn't seem to bright from that point.
Today my car smells like cat.
Remember to be thankful for everyone that has touched your life.
Love,
Eric
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[01 Apr 2007|10:47pm] |
So yeah, these are all basically things I've written in the last few months. If you know me I don't write especially long stuff, these are more likely to be used as lyrics.
"She says I drink too much water"----------------
Low end defying, earthbinding roots to an, "E."
She asked, "What do you play?"
It was something I couldn't understand
I would reply with something oh so smart and oh so sarcastic
A reply with, "I'm going to go so you can get back."
A reply with an embrace and you drove away
"I'll meet you at the flagpole"---------------------
We'll exist as seeds waiting
for Summer monsoons to let us grow
Let's bloom like poppies
at the next available moment
I'll be the reds you can be the oranges
An all out brawl of rainbratic proportions
Petals touching petals as the wind forces our fight
"It's fun to break a leg"-----------------------
Tonight, lets take McKellips home
It's Spring and the orange groves tickle my fancy
The air between is unlike any other,
it's cold and to the point and the smell is sweet with the fragrance of future fruit
Afterwards we'll reminisce about what we miss the most
and I'll tell you your kiss is like an orange grove.
"Say, 'Guarro'" ---------------------------------
Pushed down like a dying saguaro
You wouldn't have done this had he been alive
He once had thick flesh and sharp spines
that hurt as much as your
But he's nothing more than a skeleton now
over 200 years old he has
seen worse things in life
I'm not sure if anyone witnessed it, but AdultSwim has been saying that it was going to show the whole "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters", well they showed the first couple minutes and then the movie shrunk to about a 1/2 inch by 1 inch box and AdultSwim carried on with Futurama taking up the whole screen.
You may have won this round AdultSwim, but we'll see who wins next.
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| How the heck did that happen?!..oh and Aaron you need to check this cd |
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So, Saturday I went to the "Tree Fest 07" at The One Place in Phoenix, it was quite the adventure. Angle and Anne joined me to this festive fest where as we were pulling in we saw our first celebrity of the night, a mister Spencer Reed of Awake and Alert fame we chatted with him when who else do we see but Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World just chillin' outside. It was at this point that we all asked each other what kind of night this would be.
We didn't go inside the venue until The Go Reflex played but while outside we listened to Neba who is a band that needs to be experienced they are insane, and De Capulet who is kind of like The Format if they were 18 and from California and not very good, it was acoustic stuff so meh. Then we went inside and saw the legend himself Mr. Bob Hoag and his wonderful, "power trio" as their bassist coined. They played such a good set and people even knew the words to the songs, and I felt like I was back in High School it was sweet, sweet indeed.
After The Go Reflex played Angel talked me into staying for one of Oh Doctor's songs, not only did they rip the whole, lights and fog machine thing that The Draft Catharsis did 2 years ago. Anyway after that nightmare, we went outside and talked to Spencer who was just chilling with who I'm told is the president of his record label, Five One Inc. this little Japanese guy who is super nice. Anyway Spencer told us how he was able to get a show on Saturday at Sweetcakes (a local pastry/cookie, sandwich store), he asked Angel if he wanted to play the show (I think, I missed this part so hang with me) Angel said yes and came over and asked me if I wanted to play a show and of course I said yes. So we tell Spencer sure after which he informs us that if we suck he's going to clown us. Angel then gets on the phone and calls Marty, and Matt Bowman (of Eaten by Wolves fame).
The following night (Sunday, February 10th 2007), Marty and Hunter (of The Wiggums fame) show up at my house and we set up the drums, keys and my amp and head over to Alex Adair's house (Of "The Loft" fame) to pick up Angel's amp that Matt Neber (of Matt Neber fame) left there. We then headed back to my house at what time would probably be best described as....7pm wait a while then Angel and Matt Bowman showed up at my house, set up and we began. So far we are working on a song that we were doing back a year or so ago. The line up is..
Angel - guitar/vocals
Marty - keyboard/official band hottie
Eric - bass/awesome guy
Hunter - drums/Dragon Force
You may look at this and think...bass? Eric McSherry doesn't play bass, well I do. I will also point out that it sounds pretty awesome going through my twin reverb, it is of course my brother's bass, I think it's called a "Precision Bass Special" or something, it's an intense guitar, my fingers are sore but my hopes are high that we will be able to pull this off by Saturday. Wish me luck this may be the shortest amount of time a band has ever had to put something together, I don't know but if it is I really want a Wiki page dedicated to it.
I've got to get to school.
<3 ksweetSPRthxbye
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So, luckily February is here right? No. The only thing I look forward to at the moment is getting that stupid certificate I've been working on. The one I don't really see myself doing anymore. I wish I knew what it was that I want to do for a living. I thought about it a little bit yesterday during my walk from bio109 to my car, I really want to do something with music still. I thought about being a rep for a record label, like the people that go out and scout talent and talk to the bands. I figure I get along well with people, I like to think I have a varied taste in music.
But then I realized that I had no idea about how to become that, so I quit dreaming and drove home. I really would like to get back into performing music, I've discussed it with Matt Neber and we both want to make something...we don't know what but we know that we want to make it (and that's what matters right?).
I've been feeling especially lonely recently, it's been fun. Anyway
I have been looking forward to March, "why?" you ask? Well, for spring break I'm planning the ultimate adventure, no not Mexico (which is so 2004). I'm going to Utah! I'm going to visit Aaron and Kori, and see Something in Portuguese play 2 wonderful shows, and play plenty of Wii! I will be making the trek in my wonderful new vehicle which should make the trip fun, it feels like March is way to far away.
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