Of interest:

Chad VanGaalen - Molten Light

I remember seeing some of his videos a while back, but I just rediscovered them...he does the animations as well as the music. wonderful.

i applied for an internship for R5 Productions - gotta help out the independent music scene, right? perfect, perfect, i'll be swimming in bliss if i get it; perks include free admission to all shows, hangin backstage, etc.... and all they want the intern to do is to manage their facebook group.  is this a gift from the gods?  anyway, i shot an e-mail to sean yesterday but have yet to hear back. i guess i shouldn't get too hopeful.

the past week is fuzzy, i barely even remember it. besides a few late nights spent writing essays, it's been fine, it's been good.  i wish i had a better sense of my friends...everyone is a busy bee and it seems that i only see people in passing; i only know about their lives in fragments.

i'm missing school tomorrow for districts. i doubt that we will make it to states, so after this, i'm free!!  free from running and running and running and running!!  i'm surprised how involved i got...i guess it spawned from using running as a coping mechanism (physical pain to override emotional pain - basically an athletic alternative to slitting one's wrists) - and then pushing myself with the team.  but by now i'm glad to finally cut back on running.  and i have high ambitions for the free time i will acquire from the lack of practice - i intend to do some oil

 paintings, read more for leisure (right now I'm reading Gunter Grass' The Tin Drum), work on squitty (the t-shirt company), make a full scale stencil for a wall in an abandoned house, write letters to far-off friends, write songs, practice the drums, and get MORE SLEEP!!  i think i'll also cut back on computer time, because all of these aspirations are too exciting to pass up.

the to-do list, condensed:

productivity ftw