Jazz

Jazz is something that I have just begun to become a huge fan of. I've always enjoyed it. But really only when i saw it on tv r something of the sort. When i went to Atlanta this winter break I got the opportunity to see a live blues/jazz band as i ate some amazing ribs at a small joint in the wonderful ATL. I have never experienced jazz till then i believe. Getting to see their emotion and hearts spilled out on that stage that was more like a really small corner in a small room. It was perfect. I could see how much they loved their instrument and what they were doing. It reminded me of why i loved music, how i could release everything out on to some chords, cymbals and drums. It's so much to comprehend about it I cant explain the feeling at the moment. maybe after a few more hours of listening to miles davis i can come back here and attempt to state how it makes me feel, for now, it's bedtime

Procrastination

Procrastination... Everyone does for the most part.
It's a teenagers worst habit. Most of us do it.
It's so great to do, to just push everything to the side and forget about it and not stress.
Then it comes up....
And everything hits you ten times harder, stress, how hard it is, how much you have to do, and how many assignments you have to do. So we start and finish it all the night before, which makes for a long sleepless night, and a paper half as good as it should have been.
Procrastination is a horrible habit, and the outcome sucks.

Repetition

Lately, I've been thinking about the repetitiveness in my life.
It's crazy how many things i've done over and over again.
In school it seems like every week we do the same thing over and over again.
I understand the repetition is supposed to help you learn understand to help you learn and get something done.
But after a while that tasks looses it's meaning.
Like our economy, We (America) printed so much money that now our money isn't worth much. And now we're in a recession and in debt.
So does repetitiveness help much after a while? i stand in the middle. I know it helps but i need change. just like any great musician will change up their style in an album to keep people wanting to come back and for more. No one wants to buy an album that sounds exactly like the preceding one. Yet in repetition there is something learn and you do become good and efficient at the process.
It is time for change however, tired of doing the same thing over and over again each week with a different title. i know the process. it's boring now. i'm not learning it's just something i do because i have to. mMy hearts not in it. It's time for change don't ya think?

Foooood!

So.. in case you don't know me.. I freaking love food.
Favorite thing in the world for sure.
All of it! Except fish.
I enjoy making it too! It's a fun thing to do.
Food is definitely in my favorite things to do list.
Just in general it's great.
SOo coool that i'm making a how to make an omelette pamphlet!
I'll give you one if you'd like:)
Would you be interested in buying clothes with my name on it?
Tell me and.... i'll make some and have it for sell at cafe press :)

2/5/10

Well i had a crappy sleep last night but.... i guess thats how it goes.
My Dad has always told me that you can't always make everyone happy.
You can't help everyone do what they want, just can't. If you could there would be no hunger, no hate. There wouldn't be homeless. There's just so much that wouldn't be. Just like there wouldn't be a lot of bad stuff, however, there wouldn't be a lot of good stuff. Sometimes executive decisions have to be made even if they hurt someone. When your working as a group not everyone is perfect. No one's perfect actually. but you gotta make things happen. You need the right people with you that you can mesh together perfectly and make it happen even if you lose some of the most talented people, and sometimes, sadly friends. It's just all about drive. Going in the direction you wanna go in and making it happen. In the end being honest to yourself and not trying to make something happen when you can't all be one just makes for a very hard bumpy road with lots of curves. Always just have your goal in sight, always in mind. Let that encourage you, make, and take you.
I hope you understand what i'm talking about if not... hit me up sometime and i'd love to just talk to you.
-jon

12/28/10

I just got done reading "The Things They Carried" By Tim O'Brien.... Probably one of my top ten favorites i've read.
The book was incredible. Based on Tim's life in the war at vietnam. It consisted of all his war stories and his buddies, how they had fun together, and died. The upbringing and the downfall. Throughout it all he talks that as an older man he goes to sleep and thinks and writes about back when he was younger. He relives some of the most epic nights of his life and writes about them. He writes how no true war story is true and how all fake war stories are real... Trip huh? Go read the book you'll understand what he means ... it's insane how some of the most terrifying parts of stories are the true parts and the little things are what just makes it sound better. Anyways.. he ends the book with the sad story of his first love and how as a 9 year old his first love dies from cancer. and how he saw his first love's dead body. His first real dead body. I'm not even gonna lie on the internet.. I'm an enough to admit that i teared up reading it. such a powerful story. I began thinking.. if he remembers his childhood and teenage years so well, does everyone? He mentioned how him or his friends regretted stuff, they did, did not do blah blah blah blah. I hope when i get old i can write or tell stories of how i lived my life to the fullest and did what i felt was right and was a great positive influence for my peers and generation! like i said before my favorite quote says... "Life is a ride, don't waste your time waiting in line."

Life's a ride, Don't waste your time waiting in line.

All my life i've met people, and have talked to people everyday. I've seen/met/hung with all kinds of different people from your school nerd to tech geek or tech genius to musicians to your jock to deuche bags i mean anything you can think of i've probably been there. I've been able to see them grow into great things or nothing or even become less than what they were are or could have and can be.
I'm soo tired of people just getting lazy and taking easy way outs. Everyone was made and built to do something in this world. Everyone is needed to make this world function. from the plumbers to the rich inventor dudes to the government peeps.
EVeryone has something to do. So when people say they have all the time in the world.. i disagree. We don't! Times running out every second stop doing nothing with your life and do something. i'm tired of people just giving up and not doing anything. We gotta live life, Do something with it. We can't just wait and see someone live it for us. it's our job to live our own life. It'd our experience. You can't go to an amusement park and watch someone ride it for you and say you had the same experience they did.
So go do what your destined to do. go fulfill your dreams. don't let someone do it for you because the truth is.. they can't.
I hope i said that the way i thought it.. :/