This Sunday I'm finally recording. A great guy named Chris Phillips is taking the time to record me and mix some songs, which is really helping me to get up off my ass and move and push and work for this. The goings are slow but I'm still pushing. It'll get easier.

I've done some reading from a book entitled "Good from Great" and the concepts in the book really got the wheels turning which led me to a thought that I really feel I need to express in some way. So I'm going to return to another stream of consciousness journal and hope for the best.


I'm picking up remotes cuz I'm too anxious to turn of the sounds that are rattling around preventing profound statements from flying forth out of my head onto the paper be it meta physical, physical elsewhere. I'm finding that neither here nor there can compare to the daring dreams I've stated and the absurd demons my mind has created. Road blocks thought up on my own with the sense that I've grown while I've known all along I can't just stroll along or roll along, I've got be moving on.

I'm coming to a point in the night and in my life when I'm too tired to write but too stoned to light up to ignite what embers rage. I wake up running but still wondering how much longer I push my giant flywheel around again until I can build up the momentum to sit atop my flywheel and squeal with joy. Sometimes I still feel like a little boy, when I sit back and enjoy this love my toy is whatever guitar I dream of, of whatever song I scream of and of what the life I hide in fear of.

I don't got it tonight. All I know is that I've been trying to get out of school to really work on my music. And so after college I started pushing but now I'm working a full time job. Having a job hardly prevents me from my music and I still push harder. I'm still building and organizing and making sure I really am prepared before I throw myself out there. I always have improvements to make. What confuses me, though, is that I'm seeing so many people being satisfied with "content." I feel that "happy" and "content." Being content means satisfied not necessarily happy, being content has twinges of maintaining the status quo and believing everything is good enough where it is. What happened to drive what happened to self-improvement to self-enlightenment and most of all to self-motivation. Why are dreams of the majority of the people around me to just rinse repeat? To simply go along the same pattern everyday and not pursuing anything. Having a family and children and a white picket fence are for those that have nothing better to look forward to. There's so much life to be had so why not just take it? There's so much love to be spread around through your smiles and through your struggles and satisfactions why not just TAKE IT?

What is it about tradition and status quo that causes so many people to be drones without some sort of goal beyond raising a family. I never realized that life went birth school career death. Life is school life is education life is where we learn where everything happens. You can life a fulfilled life just by pursuing a dream. If you are always pursuing something then you will always have something to look forward to. I'm not one to criticize other people's lifestyles and that is hardly what I'm doing. But I just find it so hard to believe that, with some of the greatest minds in the world past our time where are all the brilliant movers and shakers now? It just seems like society has given up. There's no way to properly express in words what, exactly, this is, that I'm trying to express.

Sometimes you meet someone that slips you back into some alternate world where you wonder how they would change your life or could change your life if you were to even go through the effort of being with them. If you even had a chance at being with them for that matter. That's when the past comes back to haunt you and you think back and the conditioning history has created for itself and think it's just not worth it.

When I consider these things, I wonder is it all passion that drives me, or is it fear of the latter that makes it so much easier to put myself out on a limb for passion. Compared to the fear of love, there's nothing to be afraid of in the world.

This was a rough night to think,
Much Love & goodnight
-LA

I mean to post this yesterday and somehow it didn't go up so now I have to cut it short because I don't feel like going through a lot of info.

Bullet points again

~I will be recording with a producer and laying down 2 tracks for free.
~I will be recording with my friend, Wayne Hsu, again to finish up a full demo
      Ere go I intend on getting a legit demo up within the next couple of months latest
~I play out in the city on the street for some spare cash so you can probably find me on a nice day at Reading Terminal Market, Rittenhouse Park and Olde City (at night).
~I am working on a live demo to be organized so that I can start doing gigs around the area so keep a look out for that.

I will keep everyone updated as time goes on so keep checking up.

Much Love
-LA

Banana Republic at Oxford Valley Mall is running a coupon offering 25% off everything in the store this Friday. I happen to have a copy and posted it right underneath

But I will be performing at the Banana Republic from 6-9 to support the event. Come by and check out some live music and a great sale, of course.

Happy Hour coupon print-out is right here!

Hey check out my profile for SHOWS.
I am NOW a performing artist. I'll be out and about the city playing.

I am currently the new host of Open Mic Wednesdays at Mad River in Manayunk.

So come see me out every wednesday there.

I'm also playing this sunday at Octo Waterfront with a band I'm starting to get together with.

Show up! The more people I bring out the better it looks. AKA more gigs I get.

Let's do this right. I'm doin the legwork! You just gotta show up. Also look out for pics from a promo shoot I'll be doing and videos of my performances!

Much Love
-LA

A quick heads up to everyone...

Every Wednesday at Madriver in Manayunk I'll be found jammin out.

Often I'll spend a good deal of time playing my own stuff.

But you can see me jam with some of the fine rockin gentleman of Addison Grove or, as those who came last night saw, the badass awesomeness of The Tracers.


Need a recap?
Madriver in Manayunk
   Wednesday
   11-2
Me rockin

Other awesomeness includes:
The Tracers
Addison Grove
Plus drink specials...Awesome drink specials.


Questions? Interested in comin' out? Get at me!

Much Love
-LA

I hate urinal cakes.

They don't smell good. When you piss on them it smells like soap and piss. And nothing smells good when accompanied by piss. And if you've eat asparagus at any recent point FORGET ABOUT IT.

Not to mention guys will sit in their own farts. What makes you think the smell of piss suddenly scares us off?

They merely act as a piss reflector. When I'm wearing nice clothes and have to pee, when I leave my sight from the stream to the wall, I always manage to hit that one spot where it makes the urinal magically piss back at me. Leaving me with a stream of my own down my left pant leg.

My theory: Get rid of the cakes. They're a waste of money. And if I'm going to piss on my pant leg, I'll do it myself, without the help of a bar of soap behind a plastic cage

So I watched Role Models today with some of my buddies onDemand. What a fantastic surprise. It was a funny movie with a bit of the "heartfelt" twang build in.

In other news, I just got done listening to Eminem's song "3am" off of his soon-to-be-released album "Relapse"...now I'm no critic...so I'll keep this short.
-I love Eminem. He's a passionate writer and marketed himself in a great way. Many of his songs are catchy, many are crazy, and most are downright disturbing. That's why I love his work. He says what he thinks and is himself. That being said...there is no doubt that, for the most part, he is doing the very same thing on these latest few tracks released. But I am NOT getting these new voices he's "trying out" and I suppose a part of me just wants that old "Slim Shady" sound back. Regardless, he's not on his A-game right now I don't think. He was gone for awhile and the anticipation built up, with all these album release dates being pushed back it didn't help that out much. He's still putting new stuff out there, and it's GOOD. It's not GREAT, but it's definitely GOOD. He's gonna get hate, he's gonna get love...and I'll forever have more love then hate...I just want to hear the rest of the album!



MY LIFE
I'm almost done college
I'm moving back home for the summer
I'm still working out every day (though I'm sick)
I will soon be FREE and making a bonfire of my old notes and books. Who's with me?

4 years flew by and in these past 4 years I've found myself better then I ever could have imagined. I've been shaped and molded and grown so much more confident in myself.

This chapter of my life is about to end...and to think, I'm only 21 and I have so much life to live right now.

I need to figure out a date for my grad party. It may not be til July so that my cousin, Ben, will be in. Your thoughts?!

Much Love,
-LA

My savior and the only reason I'll stay alive this week...and be asleep in 20 minuted.

No it's not a drug...if you don't know, look it up.

Much Love
-LA

I feel like my blog has gotten more hits than my actual site.

Quick updates because I've gotta make dance practice:
-I'm competing for Mr. WCU here on campus. Dance practice is for that (yes I'm dancing in a cast with a broken ankle)
-I finally wrote a new song over the weekend. It felt great.
-I have been going home because of family, this weekend because my buddy is coming home for the weekend, then before ya know it the cast is off
-I'm still sticking with the diet even though I can't work out as much.
-I'm ready to be done school and I'm extremely close.
-I do have some great friends and I'm starting to see it now that I'm coming home more.
-The ankle pain is pretty bad still...but I'm dealing.
-I'm starting to design my own website though I can't do much after that design phase. I want a major upheaval again. I haven't had that in awhile.

Thanks
Much Love
-LA