ok so music is another thing to look in to

OK so I'm am still looking in to all kinds of things now that I am out of college and have decided that I must learn more and more about random things that I don't feel that I have explored enough. So the other day I decided that music was one of those things that I should add to the list. So here is the starter list that I have made over the last two days compiled from several Friends that I think have unique out looks on music.

• The Arcade fire
• At the drive in
• Cattle decapitation
• glass jaw
• Hank snow
• cursive
• holy molar
• negative land
• guapo
• sleepy time gorilla museum
• download
• Mr Bungle
• Tom Waits
• John Coltrane
  
• Nick Cave
• Golelin
• Morphine
• T Bone Burrnett
• Guapo
• Iron and Wine
• Ghost Hand Observatory
• LCD Sound System
• Dandy Warhols
• Silver sun pickups
• Chromeo
• Richard Wagner
• Mike Oldfield
• Muddy Rivers

That is the start of the list if anyone wants to add to that list please feel free to comment and help my musical boarders be broadened.

Police are stupid

Ok so I am at UAB's ceramic studio with my girlfriend making sure she is not carried off. For those of you that don't know her personally she is 4'11" tall and could literally be carried off. any how there is a person in her class that has a personality/mental disorder and he decides to get drunk. So as the hours go by and he becomes more demented and talks to various invisible people, slams things on the tables, breaks beer bottles on the kilns, breaks old sculptures, writes messages that are illegible all over the boards, and cusses out the other students. I finally had enough. I called the professor and got no answers.... I called him again 20 min later, no answers. 30 more min go by and he starts cussing out Ashley, my girlfriend, because she asked him a simple question. So I called campus police to deal with him. in about 1 min 3 cops were their asking me questions and pulling this guy out of the studio. in 3 minutes their were 12 cops there I guess for back up or because they were bored. some how the man in question, who is in his late 30s, starts telling the cops that me and another person were not students in the class, which was true. I tell the cop that I am there to make sure my girlfriend is safe he told me that it didn't matter and me and the other guy would have to leave.... so I left, the other guy left, and the drunk guy left. All this happened at 11:00 at night in Birmingham AL. Our wonderful city fluctuates from the number 9 to the number 11 most homicides in the United States every year. In the campus news paper they tell how many people are mugged, how many cars are broken in to etc every week, it usually takes up a few pages. I digress I called the cops and I wound up getting thrown out that's kind of messed up. Oh well I will go have breakfast over at the professor over that studios house in the morning and tell him what all happened. Did I mention that I have taken 13 classes with that professor and house sit for him on a regular basis? We will see tomorrow.

home to Tokyo

so my friend Teaki or Takeru is moving back home to Tokyo on Monday. I am going to hang out with him for the last time tonight. I have known teak for about 6 years now he is a very charismatic person who has this crazy ability to make most people want to help him. but he let some paper work laps and all those that wanted to help him could not so he has to go back home for an extended stay for the first time in many years. I must say that I will miss him a lot but hopefully he will get his paper work fixed and will come back in the next year. On the bright side, if it takes him longer then I can go see him if I don't get into the JET program!

As of late

So the semester is over and now I am worrying about how to retain all of the information that I have learned over the last 4 months untill I get to my next class in the fall. I think that I will use lists that I am making from Iknow.jp.co along with videos from a web sight that my sensei told me about that her husband was the host of http://www.gpb.org/irasshai. These videos are really funny in that I cant believe how bad this is funny and they were filmed in the late 80s to early 90s so that just adds to the atmosphere. but there are a nice number of these videos so I will give them a shot in the interest of not loosing what I have learned. more over I will communicate with Ashley as much as I can that does seem to help us both in our studies.

I would like to send out a huge congratulations to Sean from the blog flyingsound. He was accepted into the JET program and is awaiting assignment. The more people I see achieve their goal in getting into JET and the more people I meet that have been in it. The more I feel that it is an achievable goal. All I have to do now is wait for application time and get to it. It is kind of scary, this single goal has become the main focal point of my life as of late. Most things that I have done as of the last 6 or so months has been with the thought "This can or could help me get into the JET program or could help me if I get into the JET program." I hope that it is not all for naught.