So today I found this hilarious trailer while looking for that video that Rachel had about zombies. I thought it was about prom but it wasn’t. Something better was about zombies and prom. Zombie Prom the musical! Zombie Prom Trailer!

Go watch it its sauceome. Also, my boss got me my christmas bonus. Which was a second 360. It’s Elite so im ballin’ now. I have a crappy Wii, two 360’s and a PS3. So random.

And today I am randomly going bowling when I expected to sit down and fix my PS3 internet issue.

Issue sounds like tissue. Maybe cause its one letter off. Ok time to brush my teef.

The wonderful thing about this blog is that I can randomly be talking about how cities hurt brains, then skip to how I bought a PS3 (to come) and about pretty much anything I damn well please.

Today, ARGH, today. I had a meeting that I was late to because, ugh because last night I was up late. Reasons out of my control. I tried to throw music in my ears to quiet the mind but it did very little to help. ANYWHHHHAY, today I went that meeting. It turns out I have a lot of random flash stuff to do that I don’t necessarily know how to do right at this moment. It scares the shit out of me. I don’t like not knowing what to do. I was freaking out till I got home.

Earlier in the day I randomly decided to get a PS3 because now that Brittney is back I will see less of Dave (and my 360). The scary meeting kinda made me want it less. But not less enough that Caitlin couldn’t talk me into getting it. She didnt really talk me into it but lets just say she did.

I went over to the old Best Buy and met up with her and yadayada dicked around got some nasty Jamba Juice that eventually, weirdly enough, started tasting good. It was pretty much fun times all around.

For some reason, the PS3 is sucking my internet dry. I gotta break into my router and shut that shit down.

Anyway, wrapping things up, even though I lost sleep over it last night I’m feeling generally better about things. The meeting didn’t help but it can’t keep me down that much. It’s still not easy seeing the name everywhere but I feel more optimistic about things. I also understand that this last paragraph doesn’t make any sense at all. EFF YOU I dun care.

I found this article through hackernews it links to a article on boston.com talking about how our brains get distracted and are not used to their fullest potential when with in a city and away from natural surroundings.

Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it’s long been recognized that city life is exhausting — that’s why Picasso left Paris — this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so.

This could explain why the city is so anti-john. I’d rather be in the woods than downtown with all that crap going on. It’s a nice place to visit or see in a passing train but I wouldn’t want to live there.

I’d rather live in the woods somewhere. In a cabin on a lake or near a waterfall. That would be nice. Instead of living in a cramped city apartment in a building thats entirely tilted to the left.

But the density of city life doesn’t just make it harder to focus: It also interferes with our self-control. In that stroll down Newbury, the brain is also assaulted with temptations — caramel lattes, iPods, discounted cashmere sweaters, and high-heeled shoes. Resisting these temptations requires us to flex the prefrontal cortex, a nub of brain just behind the eyes. Unfortunately, this is the same brain area that’s responsible for directed attention, which means that it’s already been depleted from walking around the city. As a result, it’s less able to exert self-control, which means we’re more likely to splurge on the latte and those shoes we don’t really need. While the human brain possesses incredible computational powers, it’s surprisingly easy to short-circuit: all it takes is a hectic city street.

That could also explain why I avoid the city. I am cheap. Well not too cheap. I just impusle bought a PS3. Thats for another post though.

Really, go read the article its very interesting.

I am just using this as a test. I know its shitty now but its better than it was before. I’ll slowly improve it. Maybe this weekend I will get a universal nav up top so you can pop between port. music and blog. Which will maybe force me to update both of those.

Right now, I am about to head back to Dave’s maybe talk him into going to Troy’s. Seems like there is something going on over there.

So I found this article on this blog called Life Evolver which talks about how social programming bribes us into believing that we need certain things to be happy.

From the article:

Do you constantly delay gratification to the future? Are you always looking to others for approval, and setting external goals? If so, your social programming is being used against you:
Ways Your Social Programming Can Be Used Against You

Money- “I want to be rich”

* Falsely believing that you will be happy when you make more money
* Becoming a workaholic to make more money

Status- “I want to be popular”

* Falsely believing that “once I obtain status, people will like and respect me”
* Trying to “keep up with the Joneses”
* Becoming popular with lots of people, but not building close relationships with individuals

Approval- “I want to be liked”

* Working at a job you hate to pay for your family’s high consumption
* Pursuing a career path that Mom or Dad told you to go after
* Not speaking up at work when you have a good idea, for fear of getting shot down

Power- “I want to dominate”

* Using others only as a means to achieve your goals
* Trying to one-up others, dominate conversations
* Pinpoint other people’s weaknesses and failures

I don’t want to be rich. I wouldn’t turn it down but I don’t force my self to do things to get more shit that I don’t need. I do what makes me happy. I am happy living a frugal life. More things = more stress.
I would be fine with a computer and a bike. I don’t need a lot of things people think that they need such as nicer homes, fancy new cars, tons of money, or worse yet… someone who has tons of money so they don’t need to do anything to get the money on their own.

Fuck I forgot what I was going to do with this so yeah. In conclusion, I’m a simple person.

So I just had an awesome dream.

I dreamt that TJ and I were HP cops. We rode around in a crusier talkin’ shit, going to peoples houses and telling them to calm the fuck down. We stopped at my sisters house and I told her to make me a brownie cake.

TJ had to stay in the car because we needed to keep the car running at all times. He said it would better if we had the night shift cause then we could leave the car and we could go to into donut shops and shit. At the end of the shift we went to my house and I sent TJ some fonts that were on my computer but not on his. I don’t know why.

Anyway, being a cop was ridiculously fun.