The Relm of Lord Nice Arms

I don't think I need to wait until the end of the year

2008-12-31T04:12:55Z

To tell you all about my year.

Before we begin, I'm not depressed. I'm just really ready for this year to be over.

Pros

I have a fantastic boyfriend who I love and who loves me
I saw some more consecutive shows this year than any other
I met some really great people.
I work at the IMAX but all my friends still work there too!

Cons

James died
So did my cat
I got canned from my first real job
I am incrediably poor.

That's a pretty heavy list of cons.
2008 can go fuck itself. That's all I'm saying.

YES WE CAN!

2008-11-05T23:56:16Z

For the first time I can remember, I am proud to be an American. I am proud of how admiatly we made oursleves heard, of how quickly we united. We have been a country reprisented by an arrigant, ignorant, power hungry individual for the past 8 years to the rest of the world. Now we have a sincere, cool headed, foward thinking individual who I honestly think will help portray us with respect and dignity.

People in Seattle were litterally dancing in the streets last night. They closed off entire blocks of Downtown and Capitol Hill to let people celebrate and bask in that amazing night. Never in my life have I even imagined that people would be this united, this inspired by one man, let alone a politician. We were a force last night, a community, brought together by need for change, and the hope that Barack Obama would be the man to pave the way to it. I honestly can't believe how happy I am, becuase I can honestly see that the future will be brighter than it has been since my adolesence.

The war in Iraq started when I was in Middle School, the people I went to highschool have gone through deployments there, and several may be going back. I have more than a few friends, and a boyfriend, looking for employment. I've had friends who've had to postpone finishing school, moving places they want to go, to get married, all becuase of the last 8 years of this administration. I went to England two years ago, and only talked when it was nessisary becuase I didn't want people to know I was an American, I was well aware of the stigma we carried around the world. I am aware of the negative affect we've had on everyone we've come into contact with just becuase of that Fucktard Bush not being able to close his stupid, selfish mouth.

But now, we have the promise of Obama. Here is a man who just by campagning, got thousands of people to rally for him in Berlin. He gave hope for our good name in other countries before he was even elected. I cannot imaigne all the good that will come when he gets into office. A man who has clearly established a team of those who are best at what they do, making thought out decisions, and brought to us a retirect of finding common ground for everyone he talks to, even those who didn't give him thier vote. A man who will listen, and decide a best course of action, wieghing the consequences of his actions.

I am so excited, becuase the beautiful dream that America is supposed to be, is all that Obama represents. Unity, Hope, Progress. I am so proud to have had this been my first election, to say that I played a part in giving our country a chance a real change.

YES WE CAN!

I'm just bored, really

2008-09-29T18:32:04Z

So I thought I owed anyone who cared a decent update.

First off, I need recommendations.
I am in desperate need of new music. Every time I see a Radiohead LP that's under 30 dollars, I feel compelled to buy it, and do. But, the sad fact is, that as much as I would love to make babies with Thom Yorke, I can only listen to the same band so many times.
So far, I'm downloading the Fujiya and Miyagi album, and Fiest's Let it Die. Any thoughts?

I also signed up for Netflix, and so far have finished off watching A Bit of Fry and Laurie, which is delightful as always, The Triplets of Belleville, (which I always call Triplets of Bellevue), and sadly enough I watched The Wall for the first time. I wasn't entirely convinced. The songs didn't really follow what was going on, it didn't make a whole lot of sence, and I wanted to slap Pink. Maybe it's just becuase I wasn't stoned.
Any thoughts on what to add?

My birthday is on the 3rd, and I'm going to go see Jamie Lidell. I like his music, but William REALLY likes him, and insists he's a great preformer, which I believe, so I'll go. AND THEN I am having a costume party on the 4th, the theme being the incrediably broad topic of Your Favorite Historical Figure. Thusly, I will be Freddie Mercury. I spent this weekend going to thriftstores and buying plastic jackets and mustaches. Clearly, it will be a grand affair, although I don't know what to do with everyone once they are in costumes.

I bought Lego Batman, and got stuck after playing for 10 minutes. Seriously?

My boyfriend is house sitting in Fremont for a friends of his family, and they have a hot tub! And said I could use thier washer and dryer! I am sadly and more excited by the latter than I am by the former. Free laundry that is garenteed to be dry the first time it finishes is quite the luxury! I feel like I am going on vacation!

My boss isn't here today, and said she may not even be in tomorrow, which I feverently hope is true! Any time she isn't here is a garenteed day of being left to my own devices, allowed to do my work in peace, without having her soul sucking stress transferred onto me for the sake of my own misery. Hurray!

Radiohead at The White River Ampitheatre

2008-08-21T18:05:18Z

If anyone ever wants to make a playlist for the best night of my life, this would be it:

01. 15 Step [Ed encourages the crowd to participate in the 'Yay!' chorus]
02. Reckoner
03. Optimistic
04. There There
05. All I Need
06. Pyramid Song
07. Talk Show Host
08. The National Anthem
09. The Gloaming
10. Videotape
11. Lucky
12. Faust Arp [Thom messes up lyrics several times, starts singing Neil Young's "Tell Me Why"; Jonny tries to follow along but can't quite get the chords. Phil comes out and drops an American dollar bill out in front of Thom and Jonny and runs away laughing. Thom and Jonny crack up completely to loud cheers. Thom tries again, says "Fuck it!", but then continues and finishes the song.]
13. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
14. Climbing Up The Walls
15. Dollars and Cents
16. Nude
17. Bodysnatchers

Encore 1
18. How to Disappear Completely
19. Arpeggi/Weird Fishes
20. Idioteque
21. In Limbo [Tambourine accompaniment by Nigel Godrich. Thom, 'This is Nigel', Ed, 'He makes our records.']
22. Street Spirit

Encore 2
23. You And Whose Army? [Thom dedicates to the people who demonstrated against the WTO in Seattle in 1999]
24. No Surprises
25. Everything In Its Right Place

I stole the accurate setlist from atease.net, those crazy obsessive bastards.

I mean seriousy. Fuck. That set list actually happened. During Pyramid Song, I lagitmatly cried. Cried. There were tears. Holy fucking shit.

radiohead and all their constituants are god.

(except for Liars, who opened for them, and were a noisy, boring mess, but who the cares about the openers anyway?)

and Thom Yorke danced while wearing rediculous red pants.

I do not like

2008-06-30T19:02:31Z

anything made by or for a macintosh
People, specifically:

people on the bus who touch me in some way, accidently or other wise
people on the bus who smell
people on the bus who won't get out of thier seat when you get up at your stop, and just scoot over, therefore forcing the two of you to be sqawshed together in the isle, and causing us to touch
bus drivers who don't come to a full stop at thier designated stop, and when you get up to approch it, keep GOING, and make you have to run to the next stop

Bums who shake a cup with coins in your face and expect you to give them something for ABSOLUTLY NOTHING.
my vet constantly reminding me durring every interaction we have, that my cat needs her teeth cleaned for a huge fee, after I spent almost a thousand dollars getting her treated for her thyroid.
when the technican at work fowards all his calls to my extension, when i work in the dub room on the other side of the building and have no idea what the fuck is going on.
THE FUCKING HEAT. FUCK SUMMER
Protools deleating my shit. FUCK PROTOOLS DELEATING MY SHIT.

Animals!

2008-06-10T23:10:08Z

Man! It's time for a change of pace. Today, we're going to talk about my favorite animals. Not even kidding.
Becuase goofy looking animals just bring me such glee!

1. Sloths!
Man, I love sloths! They're all slow and goofy, like a drunken sailor in the form of an Ewok. Not to mention baby sloths are just darling. All they do is yawn, and fall over, and scratch. That's the life!

2. Tapirs!
I am so endeared to animals that have funny noses, so these guys are pretty great. They look like they have the feet of a pig, the head of a mouse and the nose of an ant-eater. What drunk guy came up with that?

3. Girraffes!
Oh girraffes. My mom says these are her favorite animal, and I have to say, they're up there for me as well. They look like absolutley nothing else, and they have BLUE TOUNGES! That's pretty cool! I've heard they use thier little nub horns for fighting, but girraffes are so mellow, not to mention gangley, that I can't imagine them engaged in any act of exertion. I'd just expect them to topple over if they did.

4. Tigers!
Tigers are an old staple of mine. I like them out of princiable becuase they're giant cats, but they've stuck around for me becuase they're an idosyncracy: a cat who enjoys swimming. Not to mention they're so dern pretty.

4. Moose!
And of course, moose take the cake. They are 1. goofy 2. Have big noses and 3. the plural form of thier name is the same as it's singular form, which just makes life easier for everyone! Therefore, moose are awesome. Apparently they're really agressive, which I can never quite imagine becuase they seem so ho-hum about things. Also, in order for me to find this picture in google images, I had to make sure to have it exclude the terms "dead, car crash, hunting," so I didn't have to look at anything dreadful, and it took out like a third of the results. Disturbing.

Huzzah!

does this mean I'm biapolar, or that I'm not sad anymore? Heavens no. If James were here, I'd be pelting him with videos of all the above animals on youtube, and I think he would take glee in my glee. So if he can't, someone has too.

lordnicearms @ 2008-06-04T10:11:00

2008-06-04T17:13:10Z

James hung himself the night of the 2nd.
One of the most important people in my life is gone forever.
No one knows why.

Becuase Rachel Says So

2008-05-21T23:36:54Z

I'll update.
She did point out the valid point that if we all updated on a more consistant basis, it would so much easier to keep track of everyone. Our dear friend Lauren moved in with her sister in Portland a couple days ago and I had no idea. But the timing (for me anyway) was perfect, becuase since I have a normal job now I get off on monday just like everyone else. So within the space of about an hour of finding out, I was well on my way to making plans to hang out with her and her sister and thier signifcant others.
I'm so thrilled! I saw her about twice when I was in Hawaii visiting DickFace, but I haven't just gotten to hang out with her since I graduated High School. I'm going to go buy my Greyhound tickets when I get off of work, which is also a first for me, becuase I've always been terrified to take the Greyhound. I've only ever been in the station here, and it's pretty gross. But I've been told by several people, William included, that the bus itself really isn't that bad. I was planning on taking the Amtrak, becuase I've always wanted to take the train extended distances, but it was pretty absurd. For one, the round trip price on the Greyhound is the price of a one-way on Amtrak, and somehow it still takes the same amount of time. Not to mention, my plan was to leave Sunday night, and the only train leaving Sunday was literally at 5:30 am. I'm probably going to be a zombie the whole time I'm there, but I'm so thrilled I don't care. I even asked to leave early on Friday, so I wouldn't have to go straight there from work, and I wasn't expecting very positive results, becuase it's not like I asked too far in advance. I was expecting her to let me leave half an hour early if at all when we first started talking, but now I get to leave an hour and half early! This is amazing!
So now I get to go home and rest, maybe eat, and then just have William pick me up, and it will be lovley.
I've actually been hoping to go to Portland for a long time now, since it's kind of a given that everyone from Seattle goes there at some point. I really have no idea how far away Eugene is from Portland, but I figure it's the next best thing.
In the meantime, I've been baffeled by the amount of people I know who are engaged/married. In Lauren's case it seems exceptable becuase they have the sence to wait until they get married until they actually get married. But I swear to God, people are effing morons. DickFace's best friend just got married, and he's 20. Everyone is either 20 or 21. In his case, if this is even the same girl, they didn't even get together until like half way through our relationship which means...they've been together...9 mounths? If that? And he doesn't have a job, by the way. WHO WOULD AGREE TO MARRY THIS PERSON?! Not to mention one of my best friends in middle school had what is obviously a shot gun wedding. They weren't together very long either, becuase when I talked to her about 6 mounths ago, she was still single. Now, she's married and pregnant, and the guy is totally unattractive. Which I find even more ironic, becuase she seems to think that she is the totall shit, so how she would lower her standards to such an ugly fellow is beyond me. People make no sence at all.
William's birthday is in the first week of June, and I've been totally stressing over what to get him becuase I want it to be absolutley amazing. So today on Ebay, I found this robot bank that eats your change. It sounds rediculous, but my dad actually had the exact same thing when I was a kid and I thought it was amazing. And when I asked him what his favorite animal the other day, he asked if robots could consititue as an animal. I think, in this case, it does, and am quite thrilled about it. God bless you, ebay.
In other news, I've been working on a meledy of In My Time of Dying by Led Zeppelin, and Nutshell by Alice in Chains. Now, I think that the idea is fantastic, and it will never be perfect, becuase I'm just working in my apartment. But I can't wait until I am actually finished.
And now I have to get ready to leave work.
FAIRWELL!

I like

2008-03-03T20:58:18Z

The things you hear from my apartment.

I am right across the street from a hospital, but I almost never hear sirens--a comforting fact.

Instead, every night after I get home from work (which is very late), I hear a train. I have no idea were it is or were it is going. The only tracks I can remember seeing were down by my school, which is far too far away.

Every day at 5:30, and on Sundays at noonish, I hear church bells from down the street. I am not religious, but I think it is the merriest and most delightful of things.

And most of all, I like that when it rains, since I am on the top floor, I hear it pitter-pattering on the roof.

I like that hearing these things cheers me up, both in their consistency and the fact that my favorite sounds are so near my home.

New Journal!

2008-02-27T06:55:40Z

Hello everyone!
Just spreading the word that I've created a new journal to reflect my thoughts on all the fancy reading I've been doing latley. In addition, occasional thoughts will be heard on the likes of movies, music, and video games.
My wealth of good taste can be found at:

literatemoose

the long winded battle of apartment hunting

2008-01-12T02:18:37Z

These past few days have been so fucking dramatic, I swear to God. It's so much trouble just to get a fucking apartment. My first place was so straightfoward. "I want this place = application filled out = approved =put down a deposit = mine." Never again will I have such a smooth transaction.
I applied and put down a deposit for an apartment in 1st Hill. I kind of assumed that since I had good credit and I wasn't a criminal, and it wasn't some huge corperately-run building like the one I am in now, that there would be no problem. But of course there had to be an income requirement and since I dont make more than three times the amount of rent each month, here we go again.
They didn't care, either that I have a savings account that I pull from, since it's not considered income. Even though that's were all my money GOES anyway. Of course, on top of that the co. that was doing the application screeing couldn't get a hold of my old landlords for a refference, so I had to call them and make sure they could get in touch with each other. Then my parents had to cosign the lease. Just as I get off the phone telling my dad to fill out the application online, the landlord calls me and tells me not to, that she might be able to get me in based on me just being able to pay 1st and last month's rent up front.
THEN I realized I had fucked up the application and said that I started working at the IMAX in Nov. 07 when I really started in Nov 06, so they thought I had only had it for a few months= no reliable income. So I had to have my boss Dave fax them a letter saying how long I had been working there. Then it didn't go through and he had to send it again. This is all, I swear, within the course of like 2 hours time. I had just woken up, and it had already been "a long day."
Right after I finished all that crazyness on the phone (this was the 8th), I had to go get my eyes checked, and hang out with a friend who was in town. They ended up dialating my eyes, which I had no idea they were going to do, and Ben was already waiting there for me. So I had to walk around Seattle with him for like 5 hours, blind.
Thankfully though, on thursday everything finally went through and I got approved, and today I filled out all the leasing paperwork and got my keys.
I was planning on lying about having a hamster at all, since they want a deposit on him and the cat, which normally landlords dont even care about. I didn't tell her I had one, but now I'm so paranoid she will find out I think I will just end up paying for it next month.
Now we just have to move all my shit over there, probably next weekend. But barring all the paranoia and the insanity, I think it will be a very nice place, it reminds me of my first apartment.
BLEEEHHHH

A Year in Review, Vers. 2.8

2008-01-03T08:08:21Z

Dear Arms,

I address you now, with a year in review.

Turned 20 (and had a pretty cool birthday party)
Graduated college
Got Pro Tools
Saw 2 fruitful relationships
Fell in love, got my heart broken (I believe those two go hand in hand)
got an apartment (that I am about to move out of)
Got a cat and a hamster
Went to 3 concerts (Decemberists, Regina Spektor, the Police)
Had an Internship
Got two jobs (the IMAX and the radio station)
Discovered how badly I want a wii
Saw 3 states other than the one in which I hold residence

My resolutions are as follows:

1.         To get laid, and not have it end in misery
3.         To drink only coffee that I make at home
4.         To find a new apartment

And finally,

5. 2007 can seriously blow me. I resolve that 2008 will supremely kick ass.

_fin.

borderline proffessional

2007-07-14T02:12:57Z

So this has been the first week of my graduating quarter, and I've gotten through it relativley unscathed.
My first class is phosiology which bored the fuck out of me and has a work load big enough for me to consider switching to another class.
Portfolio went well, bc my proffessor was in a suprisingly good mood, but I was sitting around school for like 7 hours waiting to book my studio time. I got ahold of the guitarist in the band I recorded and he said he would be avaliable when i needed him, which is pretty awesome.
I booked even more time for Advanced Recording Techniques, so I have something obserd like 50 hours of studio time.

In other news, I have my first porffessional job interview. I was at internship one fine day, speaking to the engineer who I think is oddly attractive and more than twice my age, and he asked if I had any job leads. I told him no, bc well, I hadn't. BUT, I said I was glad for suggestions. He told me that they had openings at a company that is very similar to the one I intern at, and who a couple of past interns have gone to. The engineers I am closest to are both still friends with one of the interns there, and say that we infact both so alike that it is likley when we meet that the universe will implode. Which, appart from being a little disturbed, I find comforting as they are friends with her, and she has a job there.
Moving along, John (engineer guy) emailed engineer girl who I am very like, and she said to send email in my resume. I did so, and for several days I got no responce. I was actually in the process of mentioning it to my internship, when they called me back and set up and interview for Tuesday morning (!).

I'm actually quite nervous about it, being alot of other interns have gone for the position and they haven't gotten it, and I know they all have really good work. Infact, every time I tell someone that I got an interview, they say "Wow, Dan/Paul/Jesse didn't get hired??" So that alone makes me concerned. It's a dub room assistant, as far as I am aware, and being that I am an audio student, I really don't know a whole lot about video, and they copy tapes and duplicate things and stuff. So I really have no qualifications that may help me. And until I graduate I can only work part time.
But the fact that I've had fantasies all week about walking into my job and telling them I'm quitting in loo of a job that actually applies to the degree I will soon obtain makes me quite happy.

My interview is 10 am on tuesday! Wish me luck!

I am making the most important mix cd of my life

2007-06-13T07:22:16Z

and I need suggestions.
It's for my first go at sex, so please nothing agressive
Here's what I have so far:

Marvin Gaye-Let's get it On
Jeff Buckley-Hallelujiah
Explosions in the Sky-your hand in mine,
Sigur Ros-Untitled 8,
Sundays-Wild Horses,
Mazzy Starr-Fade Into You,
Death Cab-Transatlanticisim,
Beatles-Across the Universe,
Beatles-I want you (She's so heavy)
Stevie Ray Vaughan-Lenny,
Incubus-Dig,
DMB-Crash

Any suggestions? Josh is coming on friday!
And if anyone says Feel Like Making Love they will be shot in the foot.
We are looking for gentle, with meaning.

lordnicearms @ 2007-04-14T22:19:00

2007-04-15T05:26:03Z

Dear Arms,

Easter was aweful. I came home from work saturday night to discover that my hamster had died inexplicably, for no apparent reason. I was quite tramatized. I called my mother wailing at what was I believe 4am her time, trying to figure out what to do, as the next day was Easter and I knew all the vets would be closed. So my mother suggested the even further tramatizing idea of placing him in the freezer until I could bring him into the vet, which is what they do were she works at a shelter when an animal dies suddenly. I hated the idea, and hated the idea of him sitting in my apartment unnessiarlily for 2 days if he didn't have to.
So I called my friend Lynn from work at like, 2am and left a message begging for her to give me a ride to the emergancy vet the next morning, becuase I didn't want to have to take him there on the bus.
My friend Brian came over and comforted me for a bit, which was very nice of him, and I called and left a message on the machine at work and told them I wasn't coming in. I knew that I worked a wierd shift the next day and that when I got off, if infact anything was open durring the day, it would be closed by then. And it's not like I wanted to go to work all devistated anyway.

It was the most bizzare thing really. He was only like a year old perhaps, he was pefectly heathly, he'd been on this fancy vet food forever, I had just cleaned his cage out. The only thing I coudl think of was that I left the window open and even then it was like 70 out, unusually warm durring the day, so there's no way it could've gotten THAT cold. I really have no idea. And I miss my little friend.

I am sure that I will get another hamster eventually, when I feel as though I won't kill it, since I still have all of his stuff. I have considered getting a rat, but the cage I have I think would be too small, and I do miss Linus. We shall see. At least I still have my cat Nora to keep me company.

Anyway on Easter Lynn thankfully called me back and we dropped him off at the emergancy vet which is open 24hrs and got him cremated. I am expecting to hear back from them soon on when I can pick up his remains.

On a lighter note, I came to work today and found a note in the back stating they had caught some old man masturbating in the IMAX durring the movie The Alps, which is just wrong on so many levels. For one thing, there's nothing...entincing about the story line. It's about this guy who's father tried to climb them like, 30 years ago and fell off and died. And so now he feels the need to climb them, with his family in tow, to like, exorsize the demons of his ad being dead or something. Now, who would get off on that I'm not entirely sure. Not to mention a family cuaght him durring the movie apparently, and had thier kid with him, and didn't wait until AFTER the movie was done to say anything. None of that makes any sence to me, I can't imagined being turned on by mountains or people dying on them, but whatever.

I need to clean my apartment.

A condensed version of very recent events

2007-03-30T20:11:03Z

Dear Arms,
It has been ages. I realize.
Josh came to visit a week ago, and stayed for three days. I had a wonderful time, and I am going insane about when I will see him again, which won't be until June. I haven't seen the kid since graduation 2 years ago, and we've been talking alot. We're basically seeing eachother with the tecnicality of a whole lot of space between us, and thus, I call him "my person."
I was incrediably apprehensive at first becuase over the past 2 mounths or so that we've really been talking, alot of things have been cleared up about him that made him instead a relatively decent person with good intentions, which is never something I expect anymore. I feel like it's James and I's relationship but in reverse at times. And..sane. I was terrified of us being involved in any way for a long time becuase I didn't want that to happen again. BUt he's made the effort to get on a plane and see me, which is something that James never did.
He's going to try and move her by Spring, I assume he means by next year since it's spring...now.
And while i look foward to having him around, I want him to move for the right reasons. He's told me that he wants to move so that we can be together. Okay. He also says he wants to move so that he has a chance to grow up, and he feels he's done all of that that he can in Hawaii, which is all well and good. But I'm just too afraid that he'll be focusing on us more than anything, becuase it's not fair that he sacrafice everything he enjoys to come here, even though he's said he loves this city. I keep reminding him that we have to make ourselves happy as individuals before we become happy as a couple, and he seems to be willing to wait hand and foot as long as what I will end up doing as far as living and jobs after graduation. Which is good to know that he's serious, but he has to have somethng of his own. And as much as I want this to turn out well and to work, I do love him. But as grown up as I have become I'm not grown up enough to completly settle down.
Hopefully he will get his degree there and move when he is finished, I will keep up his ass to do so. And I'll help him find his own place, bc I have found that while I loved having him around, I need space. I need time to myself to breath.

We had fucking awesome pizza, went to this qtr's graduation ceremony since alot of my friends that go thier pre-reqs out of the way graduated this quarter. We shopped. He got this massive cool tattoo of a dragon on his bicep and when he went in I got the one on the back sholder that I got when Rachel was here touched up. I always felt that it had come out too light, but now all is well. We had great talks together about alot of big stuff, which I don't nessisarliy want to relate here haha. We went to the market, and went clothes shopping which I never do. We didnt really do anything special, but being around him was very nice.

He called me tonight however, and informed him that basically a group of guys...beat him up for no reason while he was going for a run. I guess he was stopping outside the Rec center in Kapolei were i used to live to get some water, and a group of guys who were loitering aroudn there started hastleing him for no reason, ran after him and beat him up. He got to the doctor thankfully and filed a police report, but he has to go back in the morning for X-Rays. Jesus Christ.

And not that this seems to relate at all, but I keep seeing Ryan everywere, which is very...unsettling. It's not that he's stalking me in any way, becuase he's far too unmotivated for anything like that. But he's been talking to me online out of the blue, just when I think I've finally gotten him out of my mind, and today when I was going to my friend's apartment building he was convienetnly wating outside for someone with a 6 pack. Lovley. And I found that he's seeing someone, which shouldn't bother me but does. I'm sure eventually they'll see that he's a lazy ball-less little boy despite his outwardly lovely appreance.

Also, I am on spring break now, I've taken the whole week off from both internship and work so that i can relax and do whatever the fuck I want before I go back to school. I also found that I got straight B's this quarter for my final grades, and am relishing in how overall awesome I am to have pulled that off despite my assloads of stress of having school, work, and internship, equalling in no days off ever.
If anyone would like to hear my multi track, let me know, and I will upload it.

Love,
Me

Interview

2007-02-14T08:45:34Z

Dear Arms,
I hath been interviewed by Danny, and this is what has become of it:

1. Who is your favorite film character and why?
well, I think the first time I ever fell in love with JUST a character's portrayal, was probably Jude Law's character in Cold Mountain for some reason, and Joaquin Pheonix in the Village, and i think it had to do with thier innosence if that makes any sence. BUt I think I would have to go with John Cusack's character in High Fidelity, bc he's so relatable to myself. I could have real conversations with that hypothetical person, I would be friends with him, and if I were a man, chances are I would be shockingly like him. But I would like to think I'd be...not so dickish.

2. If you could do anything at this very minute, what would it be?
I would be in Picadilly England, walking around with and eventually having sex with, a gorgeous young british man who was sweet and called me "luv" and had a mohawk.
DanOhugsTrees (11:42:22 PM): haha
DanOhugsTrees (11:42:27 PM): excellent answer!
guitaristonarock (11:42:40 PM): I think so
guitaristonarock (11:43:23 PM): oh, and he has to say "you know what I mean?" several times throughout the conversation while smiling adorably, as it seems all proper british boys do

3. If you had to choose between becoming a bank robber or an arsonist, which would you want to be?
for the crime question, I think I would go with bank robber. I do like to play with fire, but I'd like to think I'm not a distructive person, and to be honest I wouldn't get anything out of being an arsonist. At least if I were a bank robber I would be getting money out of it, and I wouldn't feel like an entierly evil person if I just robbed a bank. Honestly, who wouldn't do that if they had the chance, and knew they wouldn't get away with it? On the other hand, I think the average stable person doesnt' think about destroying buildings. Or maybe they do.

4. Either you have your sight taken away, or your hearing. Which would you be willing to part with?
ok, well 4 is easy. I would go with loosing my site bc I plan to make a living off of my hearing, and music as made far more of an impact off of me than anthign I've seen. Actually Lori and I had this discussion once, were the first thing we though of when we imagined loosing our hearing was never hearing Jeff Buckley again.

5. Favorite album of all time?
guitaristonarock (11:49:41 PM): i need to go look at my cds
guitaristonarock (11:49:46 PM): bastard :P
DanOhugsTrees (11:50:05 PM): you love me
guitaristonarock (11:50:20 PM): i do, I can't lie
DanOhugsTrees (11:50:31 PM): :P
guitaristonarock (11:50:55 PM): ok
guitaristonarock (11:51:07 PM): actually I'm not sure why I didn't think of this sooner
guitaristonarock (11:51:10 PM): Grace
DanOhugsTrees (11:51:25 PM): ohhh wonderful choice
guitaristonarock (11:54:15 PM): that album is perfect, there's nothing I would change about it, nothing that I wish Jeff would've developed later on. Considering it's his only like, studio release, it's brilliant. That album is a combination of everything I want and aspire to be in music. All the songs are authentic and heart felt, he didn't engineer a couple love songs for the sake of tracks, he wrote and felt them all, barring perhaps the covers and even then they were better than the origonals. Everything on there flows and feels right, and you know that his talent was raw. You don't sit and wonder weather or not they auto tuned jeff's voice, you just know he was that fucking great.

I am lame and so I tag

2007-02-03T03:09:20Z

Dear Arms,
I realize how aweful I have been in keeping up with LJ, and how lame I am for posting a meme instead of real entry, and I've had a crazy crappy mounth of January, for which I will have to post. But for now:

Once tagged by this entry, the assignment is to list 10 movies: your 5 Favorites & your 5 Guilty Pleasures. Then, pick 5 of your friends and tag them. No tag backs. This explanation should be included.

Favorites: (no real order here)
1. Notting Hill
2. Highlander
3. Spinal Tap
4. Amelie
5. The Lord of The Rings Trilogy

Guilty Pleasures:
1. Waterworld (not even joking)
2. Hook
3. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
4. Mrs. Doubtfire
5. Fools Rush In

That made me sound like I'm 6 or something.

But, here's a recap for you.

1. Ryan and I broke up--he's a bastard and a liar
2. I moved--so technically I live in 2 apartments
3. I started intership and now have no time for nothing ever

the end

Happy Holidays!

2006-12-27T08:16:50Z

Dear Arms,
I hope you all enjoyed your holiday. MIne was quite and laid back, and my grandparents and aunt were here, which is more or less what I consider my entire family. It was nice. I got to listen to my Oma sing horridly off key to Christmas songs out of joy. Good times.
I came home tonight, however, to find that the cat had up chucked on my Jon Stewart book. It prompted to release this message to him.

Dear Mr. Stewart,
I am a loyal fan who has recently perchaced a handsome hard-back edition of you book, America: A Citizen's Guide to Inaction. I was pleased to find, in addition to it's sleek graphs and many informative chapters, I must issue you a gold star in the mastery of your cover.
Not only is it a lovley portrait of a handsome man such as your self, exibiting all your prowress via cocked eyebrows and endangered American mascots, it also has the ability to shield itself apon all sourts of weather and wear.
I found this out when one night, I had the misfortune of discovering a my cat's narly hairball spew across it. One would then think that the book was lost, in favor of better days. But behold, Mr. Stewart, the joy I found when I applied but a moist papertowel to it's front, and all was restored!
My point in all this being: I, as a reader of many fine books, (despite thier apparent lack in "truthiness," as it were) am aware that hard backs are installed to further protect the book from potential and horrid use, such as this. And in this situation, sir, you have sucseeded with flying colors. Congradulations!
My Love to you Always,
Lord Nice Arms

Eat Your Collergreens

2006-11-21T05:20:25Z

I am updating from work, which is probably not the most promotable behavior, but whatever. I have resigned myself to the fact that every day that I do not have school I will have to work, but considering that circumstance, it could be much worse. The job is easy, from what I have heard is impossiable to be fired from, which means it is reliable, and I enjoy working with the people.
I worked the laser shows saturday, which was an interesting experience i must say. I saw most of the laser shows I have already seen again, so I want to come and see the rest of them some other time since I will be spending most of my time at consessions here at the IMAX. I basically just tore tickets, opened the doors, lead people in, and then watched the show and made sure no one had an outburst or that no one turned on thier phone. There was a series of heavily intoxicated people as the night went on, I'm not really sure why they were even sold tickets, but whatever. And at the end of the night it was discovered that someone left a bag of shrooms. No, I did not take them. Good times.
The next morning I had to come back and work consessions, which was insanly busy since this new movie Happy Feet opened. Today it is much less so.
Ryan and I are doing well. I was a bit concerned for a day or two since we were both so busy we never got to see eachother and he was obviously stressed. But then he got a cold, which made him slow down, I think. And this sounds mean, but I'm kind of glad he did, becuase he needed to. Now I think I am catching it, but it is a perfectly expectable sacrafice.
I am going with him to his Uncle's house for Thanksgivving, which should be interesting. It means his dad will be back in town. I like his dad, but it seems as though an endless stream of words flow from his mouth at all times, and there is only so much I can take. Plus I feel akward when giving or recieving affection of any kind, becuase I know if I were in front of my parents, he would be killed, so I assume the same punishment will fall apon me. In addition, I'm not entirely sure if his uncle knows I am a vegetarian, so I don't know how much I will be able to eat, but I am told he has dogs I can play with so I think that will make up for it. I'm just happy I get to spend more time with him, and I and thrilled he is willing to present me to the masses of his family.
His birthday is coming up and I am not sure what to get him, since anything he has expressed intrest in getting that doesn't involve audio gear that is insanley expensive, are practical useful things like belts and clothing. Black clothing at that, he wears alot of black. I'm really not complaining, it's what he likes and I coudl care less really what he wears, but he's a bit pickey, so I'm afraid of being shot down on my first gift try.
I had a dream a couple nights ago that he and I got married and that I got thier late bc I was stuck in traffic or something of the like. I am not sure how to feel about it, or what that means. For the first time in my life I'm not prancing about proclaiming the need to procreate with him.
School is going ok. Since we have off for Thanksgivving I now have 2 weeks to catch up on my electronics hw which is something I need. I dread that class and hope I don't fail it. I had to record a multi track for a class and it ended up sucking really bad bc the band was bad but it was the only thing we could get on short notice bc we had to find someone with drums and everyone else flaked out on us. I have a partner but being that he had to go out of town on short notice I think I will be doing it all myself, which is probaby gong to add up to about the same as what it would have if he would've actually contributed something, bc for once I actually know how to work stuff better than he does. Oh well.
I had some time to edit it at school last week, and I like to think that I upgraded it from "Shit" to "Crap," and so now I am proud.
And I'm shutting up.
Good times.

And the song birds keep singing like they know the score

2006-10-31T08:30:31Z

Dear Arms,
I was going to update anyway, and apon coming to the site to do so I had the strange, and rather boasting thought that I think I'm becoming more mature.
Honestly, now that I've said it, what the fuck does that even mean? It's like what I read in a Hugh Laurie the other night with Lux--like I'm an alchoholic trying to convince himself that he's not going to drink anymore. I suppose it just means I can support myself being alone without crumbleing under the wieght of having no restrictions on my behavior whatsoever. IF that makes any sence. Like last night I was at my friend's dorm in my old building so that I could use his laundry machines for free, and was thinking to myself, amoung other things that I have faired pretty well.
Honestly.
I've paid every single bill I've ever owed on time, even if I have overdrawn a couple times. I pay rent and live in a decent apartment. The only time I skip classes if I feel as though it will be a geniune waste of time to go, like if I have a phycology or some shit were the last assignment I did was to do a 5 second sketch of a brain and turn it in to prove we were present. I have a decent place, I've made friends with respectable friends who don't do serious drugs and who I can trust. I'm pretty frugal for the most part, although I'm not perfect about money. I've seen people I know, over the past year I've been here, go from doing almost nothing wrong to becoming practical alchoholics and/or hard drug users. Half the people I started out with have dropped out. So yeah, I think I'm doin pretty ok.
I still hold grudges, but the ones I've had the longest I'm starting to let go of. I'm curious now about old boyfriends and old aquientences becuase I know I've grown and wonder how they have. Not becuase I wonder if they are squandering thier lives in misery without me. Although, for one case in point I still do. I deserve to be angry at him the longest.
I am very happy with Ryan. Happier, I think than I have ever been. And I'm sure everyone says that when they are in a new realtionship simply becuase they are at the hieght of some new euphoria, but I think that it really is true. I love(d) James, and very much, but more or less the entire relationship I was lonley and miserable and sucked into his hole of self-loathing. Now I have someone to finish my sentences, and who is, thus far, perfect. Honestly. There is so little wrong with him it scares me.
People keep asking me if we're in love, and I'm never entierly sure how to answer them. I have insanley strong feelings for him, and we're clearly on the same emotional page and everything which is fantastic. But it's all really early, and I don't want to jump ahead and say stuff too early just bc I think I might be, or want to be, and freak everything out. I can tell you this, if I'm not yet, I will be.

I went to go see Regina Spektor on the 26th at the Moore Theatre, and then again at Easy Street Records for free the next day. She is FANTASTIC in everyway, very nice, and very clever. I didn't recognoize a majority of the songs she played bc I only have her newest cd, but reguardless I loved all of them. And normally when people play old songs that I don't already have I don't like them, but such is not the case. Alot of them were Bsides she hadn't released, but I looked up the lyrics and everything and I think I have a majority of them:

It Ain't No Cover
Genius Next Door
poor little rich boy
carbon menoxide
the flowers
Us
Sailor Song
your honor
ghost of a coorperate faliure
Fidelity
Better
Samson
On the radio
Apres Moi
(20 years of snow)
Hotel Song
That Time
Edit
Summer in the City
Music Box (ES)
Baby Jesus
(folding chairs)
Dance Anthem of the 80's (ES)
prisoners
Your Honor
A Field Bellow

She makes me want to play piano. After Easy Street she did a signing even though she had been stuck in traffic getting there and had to leave directly afterward to go to SanFran after she was done. And she was still curtious and jovial to everyone.
I talked to the drummer at teh record store show when I recognized him from the show earlier while I was waiting in line, and we had a nice conversation about how much I liked the show and how he throws drumsticks and cymbals, and how she is so modest she doesn't even think people really like her music, which is impossiable.

And in a final note, everyone should go to Jack in the Box and try the Pumpkin Pie shake. It is remarkable accurate and thus, is sex in a plastic cup. I infact interupted Rachel JUST to tell her that very thing. Go. Now. Do it.

And then tell me how wonderful you though it was,
ME

lordnicearms @ 2006-10-10T17:45:00

2006-10-11T01:08:40Z

I found out yesterday that my great grandmother died. I was on my way back from school, and was going to get my wallet and go have lunch with a friend when my mom called and told me. They had already had her in a home for a couple of mounths, and they had told me she wasn't doing well, so it's not like it came as a huge surprise. That and the woman was ancient--she just turned 98 on the 30th. Which in itself kind of freaked me out. She was only that old for what, a week maybe? People on my mom's side of the family tend to live an incrediably long time, which makes me optomisitic about my own standings. I have a 100 year old great aunt who is my hero. Regaurdless, that said, My great grandmother's husband has been dead for upwards of 20 years.
So all this has got me thinking about deep, lifelong stuff. Like what I would possiably do if I were in her position. I mean, she married him when she was 19, and he died shortly after thier fiftieth wedding anneversery. She was with him since she was a kid, for 50 years of her life, and then she had to go without him for the rest of it. I cannot imagine what that would be like. Sometimes my family tells me that I have certain attributes from her and my Opa Christian (I call my grandparents Oma and Opa). They tell me that I have Oma Elsie's eyes, bc her's were gray and mine were hazel? They tell me I have Opa's teeth since Ive never had any dental issues to speak of. My birthday is right around the same time her's is. And I've always wondered if she and I were alike, but I was never able to tell, becuase it's not like I knew her when she was young.
I feel really guilty becuase I never went to see her last time I was home. She was in a nursing home and not doing well, the whole prospect just...creeped me out. I didn't want to see her in that position, not to mention a whole bunch of other people's parents who were probably going to lead a very lonley existence there. And now she's...dead. Being as she was so old as a child I kind of assumed that she would be there forever, and for the most part she was. And now all of the sudden she was gone.
My mom called and told me yesterday and suddenly she's like, prompting me for all this information I don't have, like berievement policies for the school, which I was certain didn't exist but she didn't believe me. They didn't. She wanted to know my schedual for what seemed to be the next mounth to get me out there, which I can appreciate, but I didn't really know what to tell her. I have to book studio time for two major projects that are going into my portfolio when I graduate, that I can't really afford to miss, but I can't really afford to miss a funeral either. In that respect I felt selfish and confused, but I knew anyone in my family would prompt school before that, even though I would feel like I was a bag of shit if I didn't even see her before she died AND missed her funeral.
Suddenly i have all these things to take into account, and I know they can't put this kind of thing on hold just for me, no way. But it just shocks me how quickly they can put services together like this. It just seems so...rushed? So now I have to leave friday afternoon and come back monday night in order to attend this. And the whole act of the funeral scares me. I have nothing to wear, and I know that by some traditonal right there is going to be an open casket, in which case I will not go up. The last thing I ever want is for the last time I see Oma to be dead and in a box.
This is the first time I've ever attended a funeral for someone in my family. My dad's mom died but they didn't ahve the money to ship me over to the East Coast from HI at the time, and I don't really know my dad's family that well so it was just kind of assumed I wasn't going. I dunno. And I'm not sure how I feel, but I know I'm not the best at grieving and I know everyone in my family is going to be very open about it and I won't really know what to do. Seeing people that upset just makes me feel akward and uncomfortable, especially if it's my family.
So I spent the first half of my day being emo and fretting over John Lennon's untimley demise. And then the rest of the day being emo about my grandmothers very timely demise. Not to mention, when I asked the exact reason why she died, I assumed to hear old age. Apparently it was cancer in addition to that. Which I heard nothing about, which made me want to snap my fucking mother in two peices. She said it wouldn't have made any difference since she was doing so poorley already, and treatment would have killed her anyway. But pardon me for thinking that cancer is still a rather major issue?!?!? Now I don't really think I'll be able to trust my mother again. Honestly, she's just like her mother now. She doesn't even tell you what's wrong until it's so wrong you can't fix it anymore. Or, in this case, dead.

Oh yeah, and happy belated birthday to Sean and John Lennon. They are the eggmen. Coo Coo Cachu.

Ode to Spiral 7b

2006-08-20T10:27:11Z

Dear Arms,
Holy crap!! The Seattle Public Library is INSANE! I suggest a new princiable, in that, for every 15 minutes you spend in that crazy, crazy building, you alot yourself at least 45 minutes to get the fuck back out. You think coming in is simple enough. You go in the door, and around the corner and you look up books in the catalouge. Then, you go up two floors looking for a directory so you know were "biographies" are located. Then you think "Spiral 7b." Can't be that hard? Right???
You then go up down the elevator, then realize you're not were you ment to be, then go up the escelator only to find that it is directly connected to ANOTHER escelator and you have no way of getting off in between, so you despirately wimper as "Spiral 7b" passes you by through an omnimous wall of plexi-glass. You get off and go around in circles trying to find the turn that will take you into the room with 7b, and realize that you have to go through the a pointlessly small additional room devoted entirely to books about "aviation."
Finally, you just give up, say fuckitall to SPIRAL 7B, and then go attempt to check out the one book you found that you kinda wanted. But you can't.
Becuase you have fines.
Take my card?
No.
Why?
They only take cash, check, or money order.
WHO THE FUCK PAYS FOR THIER LIBRARY FINES WITH A MONEY ORDER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?,
Not Me.

Books I want to read

2006-08-19T07:11:48Z

Dear Arms,
These are the books I aim to read in the near future. Do with them what you will.

BrokeBack Mountain by Annie Proulx (I saw the movie today, and while it wasn't quite what I hoped it be, I'm anxious to see how true it was to the book, and it being as short as it is, I can't not read it.)
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie (I heart Hugh)
Revolution at the Table by Harvey Levenstein (Suggested by Justin)
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Long way down by Nick Hornby (I adore Nick Hornby's writing, I actually re-reading High Fidelity right now)
How to be Good by Nick Hornby
'Tis by Frank McCourt (I have always nearly finished this, and never have)
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt

Getting Smarter by the Second,
Me.

I stole this from everyone else.

2006-08-18T01:05:21Z

1. What bill do you hate paying the most?
Internet. Actually, I take that back--rent.

2. What's the best place to eat a romantic dinner?
Anyplace that is free.

3. Last time you Puked from Drinking?
No, but apparently I will puke from eating anything fried.

4. When is the last time you got drunk and danced on a bar?
I don't need to get drunk to do that, silly.

5. Name of your First Grade Teacher?
Ms. Sellars. Man, she was a bitch.

6. What do you really want to be doing right now?
I'd like to be working on my school project, but it is refusing to work.

7. What did you want to be when you were growing up?
an acheologist, and then a writer, and then a rock star, and now this.

8.How many colleges did you attend before you settled on the one?
just this.

9. Why did you wear the shirt that you have on right now?
Becuase I haven't worn it in a long time and it kinda sourta matched. But not really.

10. Gas Prices! First Thought?
Is why I don 't drive.

11. If you could move anywhere and take someone with you, who would you take?
I would either move Lauren here, or move to Britian and just take everyone there with me. Open invite!

12. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?
lgjlkdjsgkljsgkjkgjkj gk make it stop.

13. Last thought before falling asleep last night?
Oh christ, I have to wake up tomorrow.

14. Favorite style of Underwear?
As long as it's not riding up my ass.

15. Favorite style of Underwear for the opposite sex?
Boxers. Really, though, anything that isn't tighty whities, I'm ok with.

16. What Errand/Chore do you despise?
dishes.

17. If you didn't have to work would you?
no, I would just do what I plan to do for a living for fun.

18. Get up early or sleep in?
Sleep, but not so long that I feel like I've wasted my entire day.

19. Your Favorite Cartoon Character?
fucking Batman.

20. Favorite NON sexual thing to do at night with a girl/guy?
sleep

21. A secret that you wouldn't mind everyone knowing?
um, if I didn't care about people knowing it, I wouldn't exactly keep it a secret, now would I?

22. What was your First Car?
nada.

23. Your Best Your Momma Joke?
that you swore never to utter the words "your mama" in my pressance again.

24. Your Favorite Lunch Meat?
the soy kind

25. What do you get every time you go into a WAWA?
I like to mix the coffees around and get a soft pretzal.

26. Beach or Lake?
Lake, I hate coral.

27. Do you think Marriage is an outdated ritual that was invented by people who died at 20?
I don't think it's nessisary for everyone to get married anymore, but it is still something I would like to do eventually.

28. Who do you Stalk on myspace?
I browse random pages occasionally, but I do not stalk.

29. Favorite Guilty Pleasure?
um...chocolate? That was lame. Nothing to feel guilty about twoards choclate.

30. Favorite Movie you wouldn't want anyone to find out about?
uh...normally I just qoute movies obnoxiously until someone tells me to stop.

31. What's your drink?
tea. Gingerale. but not together. Oh OH! sparkling apple cider. YES!

32. Cowboys or Indians?
Indians fucking rule.

33. Cops or Robbers?
"Peach cobblers" I will join the consencus here.

34. Do you cheer for the bad guy?
if I find them witty.

35. What Hollywood star do you think resembles you best?
Apparently, next karate kid. But if people really want to flatter me, they will occasionally say Natalie Portman.

36. If you had to pick one, which cast member of Lost would you be?
I used to be in love with charlie, and then he stopped the drugs and just got winey. The Korean couple are the only people i can stand now.

37. What do you want when you are sick?
lay in bed and watch tv

38. Who from High School would you like to run into?
lauren. and rachel. together, at jack in the box, like that.

39. What radio station is your car radio tuned to right now?
i don't listen to the radio.

41. Stiffler or Oz?
I liked that nerdy guy that slept with stiffler's mom

42. Norm or Cliff?
Norm

43. The Cosby Show or the Simpsons?
niether. I just wnat to watch family guy or the daly show.

44. Do you Like the Person who sits directly across from you at work?
stop capitalizing unnessiary things. "Like," and "Person" are not that important. And I don't have a job.

46. If you could get away with it, who would you kill?
whoever stole my bike. Or the crazy man next door. Deffinetly him.

47. What Famous person would you like to have dinner with?
hmm...john mayer or Chris Walla.

49. Have you ever had to use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose?
no, but that doesn't nessiarly mean I haven't set things on fire.

50. Last book you read for real?
I'm re-reading High Fidelity right now.

51. Do you have a teddy bear?
I have a Hephelump named OshKoshBeGosh.

52. Strangest Place you have ever brushed your teeth?
Um...in a sink?

53. Somewhere in California you've never been and would like to go?
Alcatraz

54. Number of texts in a day?
I dispize texts.

55. At this point in your life would you rather start a new career or relationship?
a career. That will make me feel cool a whole lot faster

56. Do you go to church/synagogue?
No.

57. Pencil or Pen?
pen

58. Describe your favorite Day?
my favorite day? Uh...Christmas??

59. How many jobs have you had?
3 1/2

60. What would be your "dream job"?
engineer/producer or some kind of lable representative

61. What do you want to achieve in life?
putting my name on projects I am proud of.