I Know I'm Small Time.

Sup BROmos? Oh nothing? Well, good! That means you have some time to hang out and read this. Some pretty interesting stuff has happened over the last few days. Some good and some not so awesome. I would venture to say that more things have fallen on the good side though, so worry not. This will not be a sad, broken down rant. So here are some of the good stuff I'll blogz about today. Number one: I got a job of sorts. Number two: I got a radio show on the student radio station. Number three: I made some new-ish friends at school that I think will help enhance the experience of being in ho-dunk Texas. Number Four: We might have some help booking shows for our band this semester.

So, Number One.

So, I had been looking for a job a lot last year and applied to millions of places and hardly got any responses. It may have been due to the fact that when I say millions, I really mean like 6. But that's besides the point. I did get a few responses letting me know that the jobs had already been filled by people who I can only imagine were smarter and more responsible. So, that was good. At least with those I didn't have the whole anticipation factor. Either way, the point is that one of those jobs I applied for finally came through. I had applied for a tutoring service that services the whole Bryan/College Station area. A student needed some help with a freshman level business math class and contacted me. FINALLY. So, that was pretty neat. The first session went well. He's a a good dude and is really in it to learn something and not just get his homework done by someone. I think I would prefer a job like this where we can work out our own times and such.

Number Two.

Last semester I applied to have a radio show on the TAMU student run radio station. Once again, I didn't get a response for what felt like years. The reason I'm guessing was because I was applying for the following semester (which would be now). So apparently it got approved and I believe it starts next week. That should be fun. I get to play whatever music I like as long as it is not charted in the top 100 Billboard or pop charts. I think this will be a fun experience. I can be boring at times, so hopefully I won't be all lame on the air. Maybe I won't talk at all and just let the jAmZ speak for themselves. Who knows. Honestly, there will probably be a total of 4 people listening to it at one time. I never listened to it much when I lived on campus. You can hear it on your TV if you have suddenlink cable service or via dem innernetz by visiting kanm.tamu.edu.
My show is on Saturday mornings from 10 a.m to 11 a.m.

Number Three.

I went to a Have Heart show a little while back with some people I barely knew. However, I had a really good time. It was really quite cool to be able to talk to people about stuff you can't talk to most other people at your school about. We shared a lot of music interests and other general interests as well. I didn't feel uncomfortable around them and didn't feel like I had to hold my tongue in an effort to not offend them. It was refreshing. They are all involved in a student organization called MSC Town Hall which is a music oriented student group for people who are not into most mainstream media. They book shows, have cultural type events and other things like that. I've met a good amount of people involved in Town Hall and it's really making me want to join it. They all seem fun and interesting!

Number Four.

There isn't much to this. Our drummer's old band mate is going to apparently help us book some shows around the area. That'll be sweet!

Some Un-awesome things.

I have a Management 363 course. The class consists of a regular large lecture conducted by the professor and a once a week small discussion group conducted by a graduate student. The large lecture is fine. The professor is really cool and gets her point across well. The small discussion group is pretty yucky. We are graded on attendance and on participation. Here's where the problem lies. Attendance is all OK. No problem with that. Participation is my problem. While in theory I think the idea is good, I don't think it transfers well in reality. As soon as the grad student announced that she was going to grade on participation, the number of people that began to talk and raise their hands was unreal. It got to the point where people decide to leave behind reason and logic and say absolutely anything to get their points. It was obvious that they were saying almost word for word what someone right before them had said. But that didn't matter as long as their voice was heard. There's a certain point where people are obviously fighting to have their voice heard over their fellow classmates and that happened a lot today. Maybe I'm not as competitive as I need to be. I don't like the pressure of knowing I have to say something productive instead of just letting it flow. I don't like not knowing whether I spoke often enough. It seems sleazy for people to just try and have their voice heard over other people's just to get a grade. Maybe I'm crazy and this is just what the professional business world is like. If that's the case, I don't know that that's what I want to do with my life.


School is starting to get hard again. Lots of reading and online homework assignments again. I always love the first week or two of school because it means that you still laze around and suffer no consequences. But now, it's about to get real again. Me no likey.

New JaMzZ?


Well Jay-Z's new album The Blueprint 3 came out just this week. I just listened to it and realized again why I Like Jay-Z so much. He's cocky, sure. But I feel like he also gives out his dues to those who are deserving of them. Most rappers these days aren't the most humble of people anyways. Either way, the songs are creative and have a lot of guest appearances from other artists who are popular in the rap/hip hop and R&B fields. It's most definitely worth a listen.

Polar Bear Club's Chasing Hamburg has started to grow on me as many people told me it would. The songs are weirder and less layered, but nonetheless still better than most of the music out there. Sure, some songs sound like they are featuring Santana, but so what? Everyone loves Santana, right? It's moving up on the list of what is being played most often on my Ipod.

Well, that's all for now. Bye, now.