AnyGivenDestiny

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:27:27 GMT

Im in a financial bind.

Today I sold my very first and only Electric Guitar. I sold it because I planned on upgrading anyways, so my plan was to sell it when I found the right guitar to buy, as to not be without a guitar for any real length of time. But I am so broke that I decided to just sell it now and buy a guitar when I can afford one.

But Man, watching someone else walk away with that guitar was like watching someone else kiss your girlfriend (or boyfriend) (or tranny) right in front you. I honestly felt like crying.

Music has indeed taken a hold of me.

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:34:17 GMT

EY O!

Just wanted to let you know that i have posted a song on my myspace page that I worked all semester on. I never worked this hard on a song. So if you wanna hear what I have been up to, check er out!!!!!

www.myspace.com/musicthornberry

-Chris

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:08:31 GMT

SAN DIEGO IS BURNING DOWN!!!

Attention Giants Fans

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:00:42 GMT

Hello All, this message is especially for those who are Giants fans

In 1989, the Giants went to the world series as you all know. That year, Kevin Mitchell won the Most Valuable Player in the National League.

Today I struck that same Kevin Mitchell out.

That is all.

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:59:47 GMT

I got to take my first nap of the semester yesterday, I started in August. It was sweet.

Im so tired!

1 Year

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:00:58 GMT

Well, I am 2 days shy of my being down in San Diego. So lets check in with the report...

I am really really really happy. The happiest I have ever been. I miss all of you back home, but leavin the bay area was just what I needed. I can not really believe how much can change in a year, but pretty much everything in my life is now different. I am twice the musician I was(despite that not saying a whole heck of a lot), baseball, which when I came down here was my focus, is now 100% completely out of the picture, and I am at peace with that. I am thinner and healthier, I am almost completely self-supported (my dad still helps me out, but i try not to take much from him although he is more than willing), and have a major that is more suited for me. I have a job that I enjoy and that everyday I develope a new connection that could help me in my career. I have warm nights, a room twice the size of my room back hom, inspiration, and a year extra of wisdom.

I doubt you care too terribly much, but I sure hope you are happier than a year ago as well! All of you!

-Chris

Days of Old

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:58:21 GMT

Seems like a long time ago this was our home away from home doesn't it?

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:20:46 GMT

Hey! Bay Area people! Brennan and I are coming up the 18th through the 22nd! We should do something! I need to see people, cause I dunno when Ill be back up, and I want Brennan to meet ya'lls and ya'lls to meet Brennan! So ya, lets make it happen! Ka'peesh?

Aww crap

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:22:25 GMT

Ok, I need advice..ready??

So I have been working at anthology about a month and a half now including training. I love the people, I love the managers, the jobis cake, and i LOVE the venue.

But I am not making that much money, and my typical shift is 8 hours or so.

So I went to BJ's restaurant (I dont know if there were any in nor-cal, but its a deep dish pizza restaurant, think on the level of CPK in terms of price and quality) to see if they were hiring servers. I talked to the manager who really liked me, but said because I had been out of high volume restaurants for so long (almsot two years) as a server, he'd probably create bad blood for those already working for BJ's as bussers and such etc if he brought on a new kid to instantly be a server.

But he seemed pretty poised to hire me as a Server Assitant, the same job title I have at Anthology. I talked to him about the money, and he said it was pretty simliar to what I make at anthology, but in about 5 hours instead of 8 or 9. Also, my guess is it would be a year or more till I was able to be promoted to server at Anthology, at BJ's I think I could make it happen within 6 months for sure. THen i'd be a server like I want to be. The Restaurant is much closer and the people seem really cool there too.

So what do I do??? I hate switching jobs again, but i don't work in a restaurant to work like, career like hours (c'mon, 8 hours in a resaurant???). But id be starting all over once again, be leaving cool people and cool venue. So I just don't know. What do i do????

Thanks!

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:55:14 GMT

So Member that one time I wanted to work real bad and was mad that I wasnt working.

I worked over 50 ours this week, in fact after tomorrow, ill have worked nearly 70 hours in a 9 day span. After tomorrow, 40 of those hours will have been in 4 days.

Im not really complaining....but Dayum!!!!!

Why Bo, Why?

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:18:00 GMT

After season 4 of American Idol, I loved Bo Bice, that I went to the American idol tour to see him, but he was sick.

Today, I went and bought tickets to see Bo Bice tonight at the house of blues. I got a call about an hour after i bought the tickets to tell me that the bastard was sick again the show was canceled. I mean honestly, how do i try twice and he gets sick twice and i get no bo? Geesh.

I just wanna see some Bo!

Mon, 28 May 2007 09:09:52 GMT

I've discovered a band.You've probably never heard of them.

They are called Death Cab for Cutie

Im sure non of you have ever listened to them, or tried to show them to me saying i might like them but me saying "no, i dont really them actually", all the while you were expereiencing the euphoria that is death cab.

But anyways I love them you should do the new thing and listen to them too, like i do, and you probably dont, specially like, those in the Robert and Karen circle...;)

Night!

Apartment

Fri, 25 May 2007 07:10:55 GMT

OK, so I am now a little more of a man. I am living in an apartment, not a dorm! No meal plan, no cleaning lady, just me (and JV Matt Kevin and later Scott). It is a tiny little 4 bedroom apartment, but it is only 1500 a month and about a mile from campus, which is sweet. We will still be looking for a house instead of living in a apartment, but for now for the price, it is a pretty nice. It is in an area that reminds me a little bit of the nicer parts of San Pablo (i know right), but I feel plenty safe and everything. We are about a block from Ralphs and a bunch of guitar stores, and it is pretty fun feeling like I am actually living on my own.

I have been doing training for my job this week (if you dont know about my job, I will be working at a new Venue/Restaurant that is going to be amazing. To give you people who know a little about Jazz history, we have Ramsey Lewis and Chic Corea, among others, coming this month, so this is a world class music venue that I get to work at.) Todays training went something like this. Arrive at 9 AM, sit around till 9:20, take an easy test, go over it till about 10:15. Sit around till about 11:45doing absolutely nothing, then get to smell teas for 45 minutes. Then an hour break for lunch, then come back and drink about $50 worth of Whiskey (a bunch of samples) then for an hour listen to the head kitchen people talk about kitchen stuff. So needless to say, it is easy and I am finally going to get a paycheck again! I am actually really excited about starting the job, I should make a good amount of money and it should be a really fun experience. And no school!!!! Woo!! (BTW, i somehow managaed to do basically no work, go to about half the classes, and still pull off a 3.06, bringing my total college GPA to 3.58 doing pretty much minimal work. Oh ya.)

Ya...

"Naked Lockout"

Tue, 15 May 2007 20:19:00 GMT

Well it Finally happened.

MY extremely paranoid roomate came back to our room for just a minute while I was in the shower, and deicided it was VITAL he lock the door with my keys inside.

Apparantly they have a name for it : "Naked Lockout"

I was 28 hour away from moving out! Why couldnt have waited two days to not happen!

It was times like those I wish I was more attractive...

Times have changed

Thu, 03 May 2007 09:50:57 GMT

Nobody forget that K?

All Things Must Pass

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:35:43 GMT

Nearly 4 years ago, I received an IM from VictmOfObsession asking me about the Beatles. Seemed rather insignificant at the time, but it would have a lasting impact on my life and would bring me to this day.

Today Veronica and I parted ways for what is most likely an eternity. There are hundreds of things I could say right now, but I will instead attempt a metaphor as to what happened to what I thought was a life partnership.

Picture a ship sailing the sea. The way I view a break-up is like that ship encountering treacherous waters. I see huge waves, raging winds, pouring rain, with maybe some thunder and lightning doing a call and response. The waves beat on the boat, taking it down piece by piece. Everyone on board knows whats happening, until one day the big wave comes and just splits the boat in two, and at the point, everyone drowns, but noone is surprised.

The way ours worked was quite the opposite. Picture the calmest sea you can, maybe almost like a secluded lake. The day was sunny, the winds were calm, but unknown to the members of the boat, there was a small hole somewhere on the bottom, a hole noone knew existed, a hole noone could find, and a hole noone could fix. The boat sinks so slowly, that noone on board noticed until one day, they are under water. So they look at each other bewildered that they are under water, but decide to ignore it and just go on living like nothing is different, until one day, without warning, both people fucking drown.

Since I suppose this is a public forum, I'd like to say a couple of things publicly.
Veronica: The last 3 1/2 years have been far and away the best of my life, and I could only hope that I made you close to as happy as you made me. I love you very much, and in one way or another, always will...

See I didnt just lose a Girlfriend today, I lost a best friend as well.

College

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:38:02 GMT

See, these are the days I am real happy to be in college, cause this what it is all about.

So its starts with my playing some baseball, with a NASTY freakin curve. In fact, there was one point that i loaded the bases (with some help from errors) with only 1 out. I decided i didnt want anyone to score, so i threw SIX freakin curveballs right in a row, and struck two fools out! Crazy.

Then hang out in the dorms, go get some in and out, yadi yada.

Then, at 10 at night, head to a freakin recording studio in the music building. I stayed there for rouhgly 5.5 hours recording a song. This song is for the American Idol Songwriting Challenge. Ya, fat chance of winning that crap, but I had a song that seemed like it would work. In Fact, you should totally go check it out! www.myspace.com/musicthornberry . !!!! Lemme know what you think, but dont judge it on the singing, cause my voice was SHOT so by the end especially it gets real bad. So anyways, I come out of the studio on to a dead campus at almost 4. Thats what college is all about.

Now its approaching 5 am, and I am happy!!!!!!

Nuts

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:38:22 GMT

Kinda a crazy weekend, with no alcohol. Let's recap.

Friday night, Veronica is working the 12AM-6Am shift (Ok technically Saturday Morning), so I decided to leave for LA at 2:30AM friday night (Ok technically Saturday Morning). Get there at 5 and all is good, get to sleep sometime later that morning.

Saturday comes, and I can tell Veronica is not going to be happy until she is home for Easter, so about 5 O'Clock we decide to drive all the frikkin way home that night, and we leave about 6:15, get home at 11 (pretty good time if I may say so myself). Get to sleep lil after 3 that night (Ok technically Sunday Morning). Get up 9:30 for Church in the first time in ages, and yadi yada days go by.

That night I get the bright idea that instead of leaving Monday morning, we'd leave Sunday Night. SO we did about 11:59PM (just to avoid the techinical confusion). I was already running on a couple of days of little sleep and lots of energy drinks, so I was pretty tired for the git'. Anyways, about 4 AM as we are approaching, I didnt think i was gonna make it another mile. But got through it (With a grand total of 3 energy drinks that night, 5 total. I know, I know, but better than crashing my car). SO we get to UCLA a bit after 5AM monday morning, and I have a great idea that Ill just chug through it and drive to San Diego right then, instead of crashing at UCLA for the night. So I did. Made it! But it is now 8:30ish, and I haven't slept in a long while, but I dont really want to. Its like, well ive gone this far, why stop now???

ITs over!

"Keith Richards: I snorted my father"

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:04:20 GMT

Yes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_en_ce/people_keith_richards

Strange Weekend

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:39:07 GMT

This was a fun, but rather strange weekend.

it started on Friday. I took my first trip to Mexico, for the sole reason of getting some authentic tacos. My friend Matt lived there for 11 months building houses for the homeless, so he knew the area, and a little of the language. So it helped. And yes, they were pretty awesome tacos for about $.50 each.

But man, It's so hard to believe that people, overall happy people from what I could see, could live in those shacks. Like something id seen on TV all the time, but in real life it was quite a shock. And just right across the boder, about 15 miles south. So crazy.

That night I went to KPBS, the PBS station for San Diego, and volunteers to answer phones for their fundraising thing (you all know, your watching a PBS show, and then they piss you off for 10 minutes by doing bad acting and trying to get you to donate money). It was quite fun actually. I am going back on Saturday for their Open house, and yes, I am going to be dressed up as Clifford the Big Red Dog. Should be fun. Im doing it because i need 10 hours of community service for one of my classes, and this is a pretty cool way to do it. I am going to do my best to intern for their radio broadcast department.

Then I started drinking.

I ended up staying up till like, 7 in the morning, and then getting up at 3 in the afternoom. That nigiht we turned on Wizard of Oz with the volume down and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. I needed some weed for that! It was pretty cool the first time through the album, but then the rest of the movie didnt really sync up much.

Then today I had a baseball game yadi yada. 8 K's in 5 innings, pretty fun.

But ya, good stuff.

I have a new song on www.myspace.com/musicthornberry its an Elton John cover of a relatively unknowen song "talking old soldiers" that I just love. Take a listen if you can!!!

Oi

Panda Express

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:06:04 GMT

Seeming as there is a Panda Express on campus and my meal plan does work there and it is relatively healthy, I end up with a lot of fortunes from them awesome fortune cookies that taste like nilla wafers. Id like to share my last four.

-"Plan On having Fun" ALright I will!

-"You are the Connoisseur of Food and Drink" Restaraunt job anyone? Plus nice word panda!

-"A Refreshing Change is in Your Future" -Relating to my most recent post?

And my favorite, blunt innuendo from a cookie

-"Pleasures Await You By The Seashore" -Ill be at the beach!

-Cheers

Big Questions..opinions?

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:49:02 GMT

So lately, I have seriously been considering dropping out of college.

There are many reasons, but not the least of which being, I just don't give a Damn who Thorstein Veblan is (sorry, just a guy I have to know for my history test, just proving the point that I feel like I am wasting my time on a bunch of useless crap.)

This isn't a new thing. I have been toying with the idea of just sticking to a sound engineering school ever since I graduated high school (remember expressions?), but have stuck with the 'normal' college route thus far because it is safe. It is what everyone else is doing and what was engrained in me since I was little. I wanted to play baseball in college, that didn't happen, so now it's really like, whats the point?

So far I have come up with a very few reasons. It's so strange. The undergrad program I am in here is so absolutely perfect for me. Electro-Acoustic composition? Thats awesome! I should be stoked. but Im not. I feel like im wasting my time even in those classes. I would love to make a living making music, but I just know how small of chance that is. But I must have a career in music, I just have to. And engineering is the way to go. I know I am going to be good enough at it to make some sort of living at it, I just need an in. Well Im not going to get one here, and certainly not going to get any experience for the job waiting tables. It is truly a rock and a hard place.

I also am beginning to grow to hate the whole University system. Not just SDSU, but all the hurdles you have to jump to get your stupid degree is just annoying. And I hate how politcally correct everything has to be (for our "upper division GE" which is stupid enough, we have to take one that culturally diverse. OK, I can see that, but putting Women's studies as one of the option is just pure bull-shit and really is a great example of the political correctness I have come to hate. Nothing wrong with Womens studies class, its just not culturally diverse).

Even the music classes bore me and make me feel like im wasting my time. I am basically going to college (university) because everyone told me to. But more and more, as I become more and more sure of whats right for me (although in reality, I probably have no clue, i just think i do) and this ain't it. If what I am so dead-set on for a career is out there, waiting for me, why am I wasting my time and money on something that will not further that goal? I feel like I need to go out and make something happen, and sitting here at a University is not making that happen. I am 21 which may seem to young to some, but I have done absolutely nothing. Getting hurt in baseball really screwed me over because then I was late to music. I am now behind, and I have to catch up. I dont think this is the way to do it.

Arg.

Toodles!

Can you say Insomniac??

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:51:24 GMT

Here's the problem with a staggered school schedule....

Monday I dont have class until noon, so I dont get up till 11:00. This means I can fall asleep until like 2 or 3 monday night, but I have a 9 AM class on Tuesday. This leaves me exhausted on Tuesdays. Same thing for Wednesday (cept I have class at 11), so it happens Wednesday night just the same! So here it is, almost 4 AM, and I am wide awake, but have to get up in 4 hours. So annoying!!

Sick

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:15:28 GMT

So last night I went to be with a cold. I had a little trouble sleeping because I had a hard time breathing, as my nose was very stuffed and my throat was very dry.

After about 2 hour of unsuccessful attempts at sleep, my body decided it wanted to escalate from a cold, to the frikkin Flu. So starting a little after 3 AM, my body just starts shaking rapidly and violently. This went one for a little over an HOUR! So finally i bundle all up in sweatshirts, pajama pants etc, and about 5:30, a mear 6 hours after I went to bed, I get a little sleep.

just to wake up about 45 minutes later, burning hot. I then became very confused on what was going on, where I was, what I was suppose to do etc. Now its like 9Am, I got like 1-2 hours of sleep, I have the flu, and Im wide awake. Not to mention I have to miss all my classes again today, and I just missed a whole weeks worth two weeks ago, so thats not good. Its just not working out!

Grrrrrr

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:37:04 GMT

Hey Anna Nicole Smith died.

Weird.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070208/ap_on_en_tv/anna_nicole_smith