This is a screenshot from the videos I posted today. This kid, I tell ya. Not only was he naming presidents, but .... he was NAMING PRESIDENTS! Hahaha. I have not been updating LJ as of late, but I wanted to make sure I blogged this second of film because he's amazing and I love his face. YAY

Jack Johnson - Fall Line

And by the way
you know that hope will make you strange
make you blink make you blank make you sink
it will make you afraid of change
and often blame
the box with the view of the world
and the ones that fill the frame
i turn it up but then i turn it off
because i cant stand when they start to talk
about the hurting and killing
whose shoes are we filling
the damage and ruin
man the things that were doing
we gotta stop, we gotta turn it all off
we gotta rewind and start it up again

because we fell across the fall line
aint there nothing sacred any more

somebody saw him jump
but nobody saw him slip
i guess he lost a lot of hope
and then he lost his grip
now hes lying in the freeway
in the middle of this mess
guess we lost another one
just like the other one
optimistic hypocrite
that didnt have the nerve to quit
the things that kept him wanting more
until he finally reached the core

he fell across the fall line
aint there nothing sacred any more

Current Music: JJ

She lifts her skirt up to her knees
Walks through the garden rows with her bare feet, laughing
I never learned to count my blessings
I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Walk on down the hill
Through the grass grown tall and brown
And still it's hard somehow to let go of my pain
On past the busted back
Of that old and rusted Cadillac
That sinks into this field collecting rain

Will I always feel this way?
So empty, so estranged

Of these cutthroat busted sunsets
These cold and damp white mornings I have grown weary
If through my cracked and dusty dimestore lips
I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me

Lay your blouse across the chair
Let fall the flowers from your hair
And kiss me with that country mouth so plain
Outside the rain is tapping on the leaves
To me it sounds like they're applauding us
The quiet love we've made

Will I always feel this way?
So empty, so estranged

Well I looked my demons in the eyes
Laid bare my chest said do your best destroy me
See I've been to hell and back so many times
I must admit you kinda bore me

There's a lot of things that can kill a man
There's a lot of ways to die
Yes and some already dead who walk beside me
There's a lot of things I don't understand
Why so many people lie
Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me.

Will I always feel this way?
So empty, so estranged

Tags: ray lamontagne
Current Location: the couch
Current Music: Ray LaMontagne

Wow -

So it's the last day of class.
I've finished them ALLLLLLL forEVVVVEEERRRR
And I really feel like celebrating.

The End

--Rinz

Sitting in my history class right behind me is a girl who is convinced I don't know how much she's enjoying her breakfast. Every time she takes another bite, I hear this series of slimy sucking chewing mouth sounds and I'm about to snap at her to shut her mouth already and eat like a decent human being.
There's another chick sitting next to me who is also enjoying her gum in my ear... so it's shaping up to be a very annoying and nails-down-the-chalkboard kind of class. Hopefully the gum flavor will fade and opera chewing woman behind me will finish her food already. Daaaamn.

To the world out there reading this journal message:
Please, if you can, keep your mouths closed when eating food. You are most likely bringing others around you to the point of murder when you enunciate the chomping, smacking, and squishy components of your food.
Seriously.

She won't stop. I have never met this girl but I believe I hate her.

Grossed out,
--Rinz

Tags: annoying, food, mouth, noises
Current Location: History Class
Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: gross

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071127/us_nm/usa_bombs_dc

I am slowly losing faith in the brainpower potential of America.
Who builds a bunch of schools and a day care center on an old bomb training field?
Good one, Florida.

Yikes

--Rinz

Current Location: My couch

I love no school for the next 6 days! YIPE!
Time for tofurkey!

So I sit here in my first class of three this Friday.
I will be done by 1pm and then onto an awesome long weekend.
I'm off Sat, Sun, Mon, and Tues - which is great. I will have
tons of time to write my papers that are due next week.
It totals to 5 papers I think.
But, they are all 4-7 pages though so I'm not sweating too much.

It will be a nice break from school and stress
and the hate fest that seems to pop up every once in a while
to roll around with spikes in my brain.

So pretty much, I'm done with school.
I'm back into that desire to escape somewhere.
I just want to up and leave where I am,
travel around the world,
and teach and help people who are less fortunate than I am.

It's hard to have that feeling when there are 5 papers due
because I know where my responsibilities lie
therefore a quick jet across the globe, may not be the best
thing for my GPA right now.

But I guess I can fantasize about it in any case
mmmmm palm trees.
mmmmmmm Africa.......... :-(

Hey, can I ask you readers a question?
Was there ever a moment in your life when you realized that
an ideal getaway was no longer the white sandy beach with palm trees,
but instead a place to visit where you could actually do some good?
I know Puravidayo went down to South America to do some good
as far as biological study goes - which is awesome.
I just think I would be so super bored with the sandy beach.
I feel nowadays that I'm sitting around being a blob TOO MUCH.
If I were to get up and out of America I'd want to help others out.
I think that would be so much more exciting and rewarding.
Maybe I'll look into some programs for this summer...

Who knows really.
It's funny how our generation seems to have a lack of knowing where their going
and what they are doing with their lives.
Ahhh I love being a statistic of history.


Pieces,
--Rinz

Tags: life
Current Location: HI 176 Class

Why can't people get along with themselves and others?
I know that's one of those cheesy questions
but - let's face it, it wouldn't be cheesy
if so many people didn't think it enough to say it.

Stupid. I hate the weather and I don't get life.
I don't get how people can love each other but have
nothing to say about it. I hate being uncomfortable.
I hate having a family that argues but every family does.
I hate cults. I hate that movies tease me about what I
should expect out of reality because it's never a movie
and no matter how many wonderful scenarios I play in my
head, they never get acted out. Directors are lucky bastards.

I miss Madz and I hate where she's at. She should be free to
do what she wants with her life at 21. I hate feeling foreign
when people speak spanish... scratch that - I hate feeling stupid
for never paying attention in spanish class. I hated my spanish
teachers. I hated them after one hit on my best friend in middle school.
I still don't know what the fuck that was about...

I hate having cancer on in the back of my head all the time
I should have gotten over that shit by now
I hate being in a bad mood because of it and being unable to explain
why I'm not happy. And then I get super happy when I realize how
awesome life is and the fact that I'm still here... I hate how
cancer is manic-depressive.

I hate people who honk their horns and sirens that do more to
deafen people than they do to inform them. I hate car alarms
because the people who made them were probably as annoying as
the sequence of sounds they decided to "go with"

I don't know what to get people for Christmas
I have no money so I can't afford to buy into expected consumerism
I want to make something but I need money to buy the supplies
And Rory never wears scarves

I can't get out of the submarine on Riven
Why do my bad moods always seem to be annoyingly hilarious?
What's up with meat?
Why did I shred my thumb on the cheese grater?
Why aren't there any bandaids in the apartment?
More Sirens.
I wish I had a pet. I miss my old ones.

Silence in the apartment. All I hear are sirens
and tromping around. Blegh.

Current Music: kitchen sink

It's raining today
It's been raining all day

Now it's dark
Still raining

Why?
It's Boston
Beginning of November
Rain

I'd rather it be snowing
But Boston never changes like that
It just rains and grays
and rains and grays some more

Rain drops over and over
Seattle-esque

Coley and Kev are in town
Too bad it's raining
She's sleeping
I'm waiting
Watching the rain

Too much rain

Current Music: rain