And So March Ends

I feel honored to be able to be the first and last one to post on this blog for the month of March. This blog has come a long way from the first of the month, starting with intros, and later going into deep quests for understanding of who we are and what we are doing in our lives through the use of words. It has been a very good month.

Today was good. I'm currently on spring break and today was Caesar Chavez day so Michael had the day off as well. So i made a trip up to the Loyola Marymount to pay a visit. It was nice. I got two free meals thanks to the food plan of Michael Heffernan. After doing some touring and eating we decided to go check out Dockweiler state beach. It was nice and sandy with a lot of planes taking off from LAX up above. Although the parking attendant made me angry. He wouldn't take my state park pass to let me park free because he couldn't understand that a State beach is the same thing as a State park. but i didn't really want to deal with a confused mex on Caesar Chavez day so i let it go. other than that it was some good Frisbee action. Loyola is a nice school. The have this awesome pizza place hangout with this Area 51 arcade game and stuff. Maybe it was the smashed pizza crust in the coin return or the pizza stains on the roof ceiling, but man that place was the shit! I may sound sarcastic but I'm not. I really did enjoy that room.




So funny. gotta love college.

So yeah today was great, but tomorrow is a different story. Today marks the end of the fun side of spring break. I still have a shitload of hw and studying to do and i must start tomorrow. Not fun.

The Garden Transformation

This is my new garden section of my blog. From time to time i will update you guys on the
progress of my corn garden i assembled. Here's some pics:




Foreigner song of the day:

"Dirty White Boy"

what a great title for a song. It really grabs your attention doesn't it? This song has a lot to do with its title. I'm just a dirty white boy!


I know this is starting to get to be a picturey post, but who doesn't love pictures! Here is some pics from the 3rd garage anniversary:

Should you be reading this?

Shortly after re-realizing Monday's were the worst day of the week, Michael began his blog. 

I really need to stop starting over on these things. I've done it about 3 times so far. If you are reading this thats means I didn't start over, or if I did I kept this line in. The weeks are going by rather quickly aren't they? January wasn't that long ago was it? But then May isn't too far coming! All I know is that at this point I am going to have one insanely overloaded April. It's likely to be the busiest month of my entire 1st year of college. I could type it all out for you but I think that would just be cruel torture for all of us(mainly me.) Well I had a good weekend, most of you know because you were there. And then I had a nice family "event" on Sunday/yesterday. Always good to see your (extended)family. 

I had quite a big alteration in my Literary World though. It was an impulse really but I am glad that it has occurred. I somewhat just realized I've never detailed my book reading order that I have planned out and knowledge of that would help what I am saying make sense. So here's a quick catch up. I have about eight books lined up that I still need to read for their first reading. I also have a few lined up for a re-reading, these mostly include the "favorites" that I've listed in a pervious post. This shift that I refer to is that I have chosen to re-read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. I think I last read it early Junior year so it of course was crying out to me! My apologies go to Mr. Cormac McCarthy and his Border Trilogy. I promise that I will complete you soon, summer for sure! So as you can tell I have a good amount of reading material for the next few months. Once all this school work disappears I will be very happy. Hopefully I don't run into any MUST BUY MUST READS. Well I'm sure if I do then they must be pretty important books! I am starting to get back into the habit of reading before going to bed and I am very pleased about that. Another habit/routine I hope to be starting is Daily writing. I want to do 30min-1hour writing sessions in order to get some of my ideas down on paper/electronic paper=Microsoft Word. So far today that doesn't look like its going to happen, but I am blogging so maybe that counts!

Well I think thats about it for me today. Lets see if I can find anything interesting to end with:

(I rummaged through old school papers/High School, which I'm not all too sure why I have them in my dorm room but whatever, and this is what I found for you!)

I am assuming all of you have the magic ability to click on the picture and it will take you to another page and you can view it in a larger size. If this is not the case please cause an uproar so that I can hear you and address the problem. Or shoot me an email. 

Tomorrow is Cesar Chavez day. I have no class. That is some serious wrapped in awesome. 

The Enemy's Gate is Down

I guess i should start off my blogging career on this site with an introduction of who I am. My name is James Lonsert, I have had an interesting childhood. When i was in 6th grade i moved from Cali to South Carolina via car! Long trip i know. Then two years later i moved back again via car. Anyways, personality wise im very easy to get along with, shy at times, but if one of my friends ever needs help im always there. Im not adverse to sharing my thoughts on current issues such as abbortion and what not, but i rarely do so because people find it abrasive. Hmmm What else is there....O i geuss hobbies is a good place to go. Soccer, Chess, Videogames, Videoproduction, and other physical activities. I dont really have much more to say about myself, and im limited on time so I guess this intro post is almost done. Just a few more things that i want to adress.

1. I will be starting my song of the week. I know the other great bloggers are doing the "Foriegner" song of the day, but they will run out eventually. As such im starting the song of the week.
My song of the week is........................Every Breath You Take by the Police

2. In future posts in an effort to get this blog more publicity i will be titling my posts with controversial issues, and talking in breif on those topics. This way if someone googles those issues they might see this blog and comment.

Well its time for my farewell, I have a soccer game to go win.
I wish you all a good week, and a safe journey to werever you go.

The 33rd post

Today this blog surpasses my old blog in the quantity of posts. It also marks a month in entirety since I finished up my business there. I think this calls for a moment of reflection.

I've been drawing again.








I'm super pleased with how that tree turned out. And the I think terror montage really deserves a full-view. But no pressure.

The reason why I've been drawing a lot recently is because I have things to attend to that I don't really want to do. Econ homework comes to mind. Also the pressure of finding a job. Now, unlike many of my friends, I have not had a real job yet. I've done some odd-job freelance here and there, but actual employment. I think not.

My family is going to watch the old Flight of the Phoenix tonight. I've been wanting to see it for a couple years, but I just never got around to it. I have good feelings for it.

I had to buy a little book called the Zagat Guide for my film class that lists a bunch of movies with a little review for each one. For Whom the Bell Tolls was ranked really high, so that's also on my list of films to watch.

So I was listening to Pandora radio today, and there was a song that started with something resembling "I didn't know what to write for this song. Words can't describe what I'm trying to say. I don't know how I feel about what I'm singing." And you'd be amazed at how many songs are like this! I can't believe it. If you don't have any reason, insight, or general emotion for the song you're writing, why would you write a song? And if you don't know how to express yourself with words, mayyybe writing isn't the best choice.

Earth Hour!!

I turned my laptop down to low performance in a gesture of respect.

Traffic Commotion

I've been a very lucky commuter. I commute 4 days a week most of the time, and i rarely get stuck in traffic. My schedule is designed around traffic. But lately, every time i make plans that involve straying away from the schedule, traffic comes to haunt me. Like on last Friday, i went to go to a finance meeting/ Fullerton baseball game. my normal 30 min commute went to almost 90 mins. and then yesterday i got stuck in traffic in the morning. a good 20 extra mins added to the normal 30 mins. Traffic! i know i will probably be a commuter my whole life, but I'm worried i will get worn down with traffic too early and get bad road rage. Let's hope not.

So yeah, I'm on SPRING BREAK!! and it feels so good. but ever since i got out of my last class it has been nonstop. Got out of class, went home in some traffic, got home, 5 mins later went back on the freeway up to Disneyland with James lonsert and tolga (we had to take an alternate route to D-land because there was a major accident on the northbound 5), got to D-land, had fun and ate and stuff, went to Albertaco's on the way home (surprisingly pretty good), got home around 8, interacted with parents, watched office, did a bunch of stuff on facebook, went to bed like 11:30 or something. So i was awake a little over 18 hours the whole day. I was exhausted. Got up at 12 today. Today was more running around doing errands. Got my allergy shot, got shibby mice, went to target, went to green thumb for gardening supplies, fed shibby, made brownies, watched Silver Streak, and now I'm here. Busy Busy Busy. but its good. good to be off from school. Disneyland was really fun. We went to Tom Sawyer's Island at one point, and i haven't been there since i was like 10 so that was interesting to see it again. I was upset to hear they changed it from tom sawyer's island to pirate's lair. how gay is that. they've made a lot of changes since the last time i was there and i was a little disappointed. my childhood memories are gone! too many changes. o well. its all in my mind now.

All in all its been a good start for spring break. I hope it stays good the rest of break. However, i have an excruciatingly large amount of hw to do this break. like i mean a shitload. BIG. so bad. but i decided not to even start to worry about it till Monday. that way i can enjoy the start of spring break and then deal with all the shit later. so i need to make these next couple days count. I don't think i will be at peace till summer. just too much school stuffs to worry about. ok to lighten the mood let me try and scrounge up a picture or something to post. I already posted all the D-land pics on facebook so hopefully i can find something good. And blogger hates my videos so I'm stuck with pics. but before i find a pic:

Foreigner song of the day:

"Starrider"

A very good foreigner song. One of the best ones from their very first album.

For Blake:


George Costanza:


Sorry James had to post this when i found these:


Here's the first stage of my future garden that I'll be updating you on:


Auf Wiedersehen!

A life in sight

We really are at the threshold of life. A point in life where things shift from dependent to independent. But it's easy to believe that we won't truly be on our own and will always have people to support us and guide us. That is mostly true. However what does this independence, this proof of worth, really come down to? Is it to show you got a college degree? Or to show you can make money and manage a lifestyle? For a lot of people that may be all they need. Yet I've never been able to shake a truth that I believe. That I have this essential desire to prove that I can be someone that makes an impact. I honestly consider this my driving life force. So this is what I think about when I think about the future and my past experiences. What it's all going to add up to. Something, right? Well as long as I have something to say about it then Yes, yes it will. I think about writing. I know that I want to write. I know that I want to teach as well, but writing is that unflinching desire that runs inside me. Can I do it? Am I good enough? These are all things I still consider unanswerable. I still have time to figure it all out right? 

Well, Stephen Crane was a famous writer and a great one at that. He died at the age of twenty-eight. Twenty-eight! While I greatly admire this I am also filled with quick panic. Could I write something as profound as one of Crane's works in my lifetime, let alone before the age of thirty? Again, I cannot answer that question. Not right now at least. All I know is I have a lot ahead of me and I will do my best to fill it in ways I find productive and fitting. So I think about legacy, I think about life. I think about growing up. What could be a more beautiful way to reflect upon my childhood and growing up than to relate it with the recent arrival(and not too long arrival of the film) of the trailer for Where The Wild Things Are. Hopefully everyone had a chance to watch it yesterday. I know I did....more than ten times. That trailer and that book and hopefully that movie, gives me only the greatest bittersweet feelings about childhood and imagination. I consider myself a very imaginative person. While I have yet to distribute this imaginative creativity through my medium of choice, some of you may have experienced this fro me at one time or another. I can't go an entire class period without drifting off into space or fighting some futuristic war or sailing in a boat in stormy waters. I can't look at someone and not try to come up with an interesting reason for who they are and why they are here. I also consider myself to have some childish aspects that tie into this imaginative sense. I can't wait to have a child of my own to play toys with. I still watch Spongebob. I at one point memorized the entire script for the Star Tours ride(that might just be the geek in me). But then I wouldn't consider myself childish in other sense of it, the immaturity sense. I see a lot of that these days. Now I'm not saying that I don't have immature tendencies or instances, but I am saying that I see a definite lack in maturity in my present setting that I was hoping would have ended long ago. Alas here we are. 

So what am I trying to say? Life, is a complex and terrifying road. With good and bad complexities and terrifiers. We all pretty much lack a definite sense of direction but we do have strong intentions and desires that will hopefully lead us down the right path. And thats really the best we've got. Even so, we are all full of worth and that's important to understand. So who knows how our lives are going to be in four years? Ten years? Yeah there's a lot of important things to figure out but thats the challenge. We all need a good challenge with the formidable opponent that is Life. 

p.s.

So yeah. I've been thinking a lot and I think this blog is the amazing product of all of that though. Sorry if I started sounding like a life coach or school psychologist. Both of which I'm not or plan to be. I consider this just one soldiers message to another. In the war of Life. 

(I'm sorry I couldn't resist the metaphorgasm.)

All of this thought resulted in another project: a photo collage! 

So please take some time to look at the collage and think about what my minds been thinking as well. (It's big so I didn't want to put it in the post so heres the link---> Life/Collage )

>can you guess where I am, literally? Figuratively I'm the Ballon Kid with the Robot! 

Creative Titles are Hard

What gloriousness is this! Where the Wild Things are Trailer:





Not only do they use one of my favorite Arcade Fire songs, but that font is incredible isn't it? I can't wait to see the whole thing!

I've been drawing like a madman. Or is that a bored man? I do not know.








And! I finally figured out where my animation is going. Which is always a good thing. I still have to do it, but the hard part is always figuring out how to do it.

I have to make another movie. But before my loyal actors start groaning, I need to inform you that, for once, I'm not going to be able to use any of you because I have to film over spring break, and I'm going to be in Virginia for that entire period. If it makes you feel any better, it's probably going to be one of my more..bad.. films.


Things have been weird at Chapman. I think my school enthusiasm is starting to taper off due to the growing need for a break of some kind.

I need to start applying for jobs soon too. It's kind of sad that I haven't had any real employment yet. I don't know where I want to work, and I'm not sure if anyone would really want me.

And I keep thinking about next year. Because I have no idea how it's going to work. I'm going to live off campus with my grandpa, but I don't feel like I know him that well. And living with him raises a bunch of interesting questions, like..where/how do I eat? Do I still go home on weekends? How late can I stay up? What if I have night class? What do I do when I'm bored?

And then the year after that. Study abroad.. The more I commit myself to it, the more it seems impossible that I can pull it off. And then what. When I graduate, where do I go? What if I still suck at animation? What if I don't even want to do animation anymore? Where do I live?

So many questions.


I took some pictures of Glory, the dog.







They make me laugh.

Happy birthday. and that goes double for you.

Damals. I wanted to make this a good blog since my last one was short but I'm afraid this might be a short blog. I'm just a busy man, you know? For once my excuse isn't school....well.....partially school.....i do have a sociology essay that i haven't even looked at that's due tomorrow, but that normally wouldn't be a problem except it's my sister's birthday today. yeah. so my nights pretty much gonna be spent celebrating with the family. plus she wanted to see a movie this afternoon. and i couldn't just say no, so i went. and just got back. so my essay time is dwindling. school time is going crazy this week because my spring break is next week. so close i can taste it! but before i embrace the joys of break i need to get through the next couple days.

In case you were wondering, the movie i saw with my sister was I love you, Man. it was surprisingly good. I'm glad i saw it. it wasn't to over the top teen comedy where they show a penis and laugh or anything and it wasn't to dull comedy. just right for my taste. i would recommend seeing it.

Moving on. Can anyone guess what today is? Anyone? you in the back? No? Fuck people c'mon. Yes it's my sister's birthday but it's also someone Else's birthday. A very special someone. A someone who has been with us through the good and the bad, a friend who requires recognition. still nothing?

Happy Birthday Garage. It's been a great 3 years. 3/24/06. At first i thought it was 4 years old. but after 5 mins of looking at records and doing simple math i realized its been 3. I think we should do something for the Garage. He gets lonely these days. we owe it to him.




It's nice to look at these old pics and videos and listening to the song "Changes" by David Bowie. Good times. We will never forget you garage. Ever.






Cause i know you all love Foreigner

Foreigner song of the day:

"Double Vision"

A great foreigner classic.

yeah so i tried to upload a video and failed miserably. i waited half an hour for it to upload then got fet up with it. stupid blogger.

The Forgotten Title

Weird. I think I'm loosing me edge. I had an edge! And now it's getting lost. I am not happy. But I will try my best. 

Today was windy. Trees were freaking out. One even snapped. Would you believe me if I said a windtorn tree was the highlight of my day? 

Lets move on. I think I had a pretty large shift in my movie world. This weekend I re-watched two Wes Anderson favorites, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. I have always considered Rushmore the better of the two, most likely because I felt like I could relate better to Max and his high school life. But after this weekend I would honestly have to say that The Royal Tenenbaums has inched its way up past Rushmore. I was pretty astounded when I made I came to this conclusion but it only has good meanings. As for all of the other Wes Anderson movies, they all are at a very high level of appreciation that makes it hard to distinguish one over the other. However as it stands now, Tenenbaums reign superior. 

I think you want me to steal some Where the Wild Things Are pictures from another website. 

it's probably the best thing coming out this fall(that we know of so far) along with The Road. 

Funny thing too is I'll be 20 years old when I go see this. 

I very much enjoy my refined sense of childish desires/actions. 

I can explain that further if needed.

(also I took a food break while writing this thing...in case you were wondering.)  

And go buy some stocks, the arrows are all green. Something about houses and banks getting government something. Why wait!? you only live once. 

That's that. 

Yeah Sundays....

are kind of boring. 

Remember that time I told you I met Jeff Goldblum?

And when I tell my grandchildren they will be proud! 

Sunday Madness

A hand

otherwise a pretty mellow day


also, in the world of Pokemon, I would be a common.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 1,884 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

I went on a hike today

It was the perfect weather for going on hike. Cloudy and a tad bit chilly.





We saw a huge-ass beetle. Seriously.




And we saw this baby mouse. I think it was a baby mouse at least. It was kind of big for a baby mouse.



You'll probably need to enlarge it to see it. It was difficult to get a decent picture. And there was a beehive. And a bunch of bikers. A duck. A hawk. Some loud crickets. All-in-all, it was a pleasant experience.

I also saw Jaws today. My first time! It was pretty scary and I'm amazed it only has PG rating. I mean..there was a gratuitous amount of blood. Even if it was that overly-pink kind.


I guess this is going to be a picture post. I didn't mean for it to be, it just kind of turned out that way.





There you guys are after a hard day of filming. Blake just never managed to calm down enough to take a decent photo.





That's the bird that hit the sliding glass door. It was just stunned, and it eventually got up and flew away.



That's my new info-card thing for this year.



and that's John.

Play Ball!

Ok. so this is going to be a very short blog today. not just because my last one was super long, but because once i finish this blog I'm going to Fullerton. It's the Finance Association potluck/tailgate/baseball game today. From 5-10. long. and with Friday traffic i need to leave a little after 4 to get there on time. I have to bring something so i decided to make brownies.

Today was pretty productive. I woke up like 10:15, did comp stuff/wake up till 11. Cut down tree/prepare a future garden from 11-1. showered, made brownies/scrambled eggs and sausage for lunch/breakfast, and then read geology. now I'm blogging. So yeah i was pretty house busy today. Now starts the fun half of the day (hopefully). i dont know how this potluck thing is gonna go, I'm a little worried. should be alright though. So yeah, my future garden. I used to garden when i was younger. Planting corn and other edible veggies. but i haven't done it in a couple of years. i saw a gardening commercial on tv yesterday and it sparked my enthusiasm to do it again. So i spent an hour clearing this dirt patch where i used to garden preparing the soil and stuff so i can plant seeds next week. I'm really good at planting corn. Its my favorite thing to grow. Corn takes 90 days to grow, so i plan on taking pictures once a month and posting them on the blog so you can see the evolution of my garden.

Just for kicks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdTJy0zqD0E

Foreigner song of the day:

"Long, Long Way from Home"

This is my 2nd favorite Foreigner song. so good.

The Absurds of Friendship

Unfortunately you have caught me in a day where I lack any sense of blogging ambition. Just like Richard Halton when he climbed Everest. He just simply didn't want to climb anymore that day. Maybe tomorrow he told his sherpas. Maybe next week he told fellow adventurer Jorg Tejhim. However for me it's just a blog-less day where the best I can do is write about my inability to provide any worthwhile discussion. Is there a correlation between my failed blog attempt and my current state of melancholy? Eh. Probably. I'm sure I'll snap back into form in no time. Well I do have this for you.

Always good for a laugh. 

Well I'm running out of things to not say. I could not tell you that the weekend is close and that that's always nice, having time to sleep in. I could not say that I know school is keeping everyone busy and I wish them the best to persevere through. 

I feel that might send the wrong message. I will critique one thing. My one thing of the day! When I seem to be struggling in my own mind I start to alter the appearances of the people surrounding me. Like today, when I think about happiness and what its takes or when it breaks, I start to perceive that everyone else is in this sate of suffering. As if they are all unhappy as hell but trying their bests to fake it. Is this me saying I think the people at my school are fake? Probably not. Is it me saying I am fake? No. Not at all. 

It's probably me just being creative in my complaints. 

that is all

March 18th, 2009

Pandora Radio and I have a long history. I first met it under the recommendation of one of my sister's friends back in early 2000 something. At first I was fascinated, but soon grew weary of having such limited control over what I was hearing. Every couple of years I would return, but never stick with it for very long.

Anyways, recently I made a new account, and I'm actually quite impressed. They seem to have caught on and acquired some music I find enjoyable. Or maybe my music tastes have just changed. I don't know.

Uhm, let's see. Jaymay is a new singer/band that I like now. Let's see what Pandora has to say about them:



Hey, thanks Pandora!


It's funny how some kids just go so overboard with trying to be college..y. I mean, yeah, it's fun to be a college kid, but it seems to me that a lot of people just try and get the look and habits down without really doing much of the college part of it. Like homework. Essays, projects, studying. Instead we have flip-flops. Thermos of coffee. Pens, quasi-reliable newspaper, salad in tupperware. Khaki shorts.

I don't know. Maybe I'm too judgemental.


I think I'm getting a sore throat. Let me rephrase. I have a sore throat. But I can't tell if it's going to be a long-term thing I need to worry about.

The class average on my econ test was a 69 percent. But he gave us the standard deviation of the scores too, which was 16 percent. 16!! That's the really scary bit. That means like half of the class was getting below a 69 percent. I got an 86, not to brag, but just because I know you're wondering.

Which puts me on the horribly stressful A-/B+ border, I'm sure most of us are familiar with.

I have more to say, but I need to leave for dinner..

So maybe I'll be back tonight to add.


--

And I'm back to add.





Just some sketches. I like the second one.

I have officially decided. I have a sore throat. And it hurts.

So that's not great.

I watched a movie this week called "The Fall." It was really good, and by the same guy who did Pan's Labyrinth and The Princess Bride.* Tarsem. Yeah, that's his name. I think a lot of it may have went over my head, but from what I gathered, I liked it. And would recommend, since it looks like it was very expensive to make and that it didn't make much money.

Speaking of movies that didn't make a lot of money

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._and_Canadian_box_office_bombs

They even highlight the ones that did really poorly.

I show my movie tomorrow (I think.) We were supposed to watch it on Tuesday, but that didn't pan out. Hopefully, everything goes according to plan. I showed it to my InsideTrack coach Jessica. She thought it was sad. I'll let that sink in.

OH WAIT, THERE'S NOTHING TO SINK IN.

yeah, pretty much, I'm running out of things to say. But I want to keep typing so

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1213#comic




Everytime I try and write something I'm distracted by how much my throat is annoying me. Sore throats are the worst, honestly. And I get so freaking many of them! And no one every believes me when I have a sore throat. But I just have to get through tomorrow, then I have to weekend to get my shit together, so to speak.



*lies