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Mar-21-2009

Music and the Whatnot.

Hey, long time, no posts. I don’t think a soul has ever read my blog, so like I care what embarrassing things I say/show? I don’t even know why I’m typing this, but writing is fun, regardless of who does or doesn’t read it.

So, anyways, I’ve written and recorded some rough songs! I think what I’ll do is post the link to the song, and post the lyrics underneath. It should work. My songs are “My Dream”, “Stay Away From Me”, and “Here’s to You”. “Here’s to You” has cool guitar, but sadly my vocals are not that fit for the punk genre. I do think, however, that my voice sounds okay, and possibly “pretty good” in the other two songs, so I hope others agree with me. Heeere we go…

  •  ”My Dream” An acoustic piece about a feeling that all guys have once and awhile. This is not relevant to me currently, but the feeling has happened in the past… It needs to be recorded again because of quite a few mistakes, but everyone will get the idea from this recording, at least. 
  • Stay Away From Me” More of a work-in-progress piece that can be taken into several ways. I have my own meaning for it, and maybe I’ll share them later. I actually really like this one… It’s actually not supposed to be acoustic, I was just too lazy to record my electric guitar at the time.
  • “Here’s to You” In my opinion, this is a great pop/punk rock anthem. My vocals in it are not the best, but the lyrics are meaningful and the guitar in it sounds pretty sweet. …Well, in my opinion :)

Lyrics for:

“My Dream”

[Verse]
I’ve been climbin’ up mountains
And I know how these things go
Life comes toppling down when you scream

Cities burning to ashes
Planes fall into crashes
and I don’t know why I feel this way

[Chorus]

But I’ll say
That you mean to me
The things you never say

And I know
In my heart
That these feelings are not
goin’ away

[Verse]

When you think of the things that I said
Do they keep you awake in your bed?

The leaves, they are fallin’
The seasons are callin’
But I know you will runaway

[Chorus]

But I’ll say
That you mean to me
The things you never say

And I know
In my heart
That these feelings are not
goin’ away

“Stay Away From Me”

[Verse]
Look at all the normal people
Walkin’ on the streets
They don’t know what is
Going on around their feet

They’re hiding it
They’re not showing shit
Things are worse
Way worse than they appear

[Chorus]
Stay away from me
Get the hell out of my head
Because I know now that you
Never were who I am

You coward, you are hiding
To others, so misguiding
But now I know that you
Are so not what you seem

[Verse]
They all drone to something larger
And he is not a stranger
He is someone that you
Were supposed to trust

What happens when your comfort
Becomes your total vulgar nightmare?
It’s all corrupt
It’s too corrupt

[Chorus]
Stay away from me
Get the hell out of my head
Because I know now that you
Never were who I am

You coward, you are hiding
To others, so misguiding
But now I know that you
Are so not what you seem

“Here’s to You”

[Verse 1]
Everything that I see
Makes me wonder what is wrong with me?
What I define as true is
Something different to you and

I know these things are not okay
I wish that I could just delay this
Stupidity that’s going on…
Just what the hell is going on?

[Chorus]
Things here just are not the same
And I want to know who to blame
For these tragedies,
Insanity,
These stupid, motherfucking vanities

Are clouding what you see
Our whole messed up society
Just look at all the damn debris
Yet you’re wondering what’s wrong with me?

[Verse 2]
You told me once that this would happen
But you know I’ve always been a skeptic
I guess it always seemed to me
That common sense would be more common

Why do people do these things?
No, really, I wanna know
Why can’t they just attach to strings
and finally be in control?

[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[Chorus]

Posted under Misc.
May-24-2008

Laptop

Well, I know I posted earlier on my old laptop that was going down the shitter, so I decided to show my new one off.

It’s a wonderful HP Pavilion dv2500t notebook. Has Windows Vista (despite what people say, I actually love it and have very few issues with it), 2GHz, 2GB RAM, 140GB hdd, and it’s just pretty sweet. I regret the low processor speed on it, but it’s still okay.

Actually, got this months ago, but I totally forgot to post it here, so uh yeah.

Posted under Misc.
Feb-14-2008

Ah, Valentines Day

Quite the wondrous day, right? Yeah, I don’t think so either. But hey, I got an early release day from school and I’m happy enough about that so yay!

Anyways, I dusted off and pulled out the ol’ Wacom tablet and decided to give it a lil’ whirl.

I drew this because… well a photo would just be cruel to the viewers, of course.

Me When I Wake Up

Posted under Misc.
Feb-12-2008

Hmmm, New Theme and Spanish Video Gone Amiss

Well I loaded up a new theme. Why? I dunno. It’s really neat-lookin’, I reckon.

Today was a weird day… My spanish teacher flipped out at my friend and I. We created a video for our Spanish foods project, and we misspelled things to be funny. Well, one thing was the word, “cooking.” You see, we spelled it as, “coocking.” I don’t know if she found THAT offensive, or if she READ it wrong as, “cocking,” but she just totally ripped us a new one. She was like, “Are you guys trying to be funny?! Don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about!” and we’re just like uhh… what?

Well, she just stormed off and didn’t do anything, so I hope we’re not in trouble… Even if we do get in trouble, nothing wrong was done and it would be straightened out eventually. It was funny though, right after, a different teacher asked me if she could take the dvd and show HER classes. Kinda made me laugh haha.

There’s the video above (’coocking’ is at 2:40.) Feel free to post your comments.

Posted under School Stuff
Jan-31-2008

Never Forget.

RKMilholland, you are a god.

Posted under Misc.
Jan-26-2008

Hm, so

This blog sure works out great, huh? What with me not posting for months and months…

Yeah, uh, idk what to talk about really. Nobody even reads this anyways, so I can basically write anythCOCKS!

Haha, so I’ve been in highschool for a bit, yipee. Midterms were a pain. School sucks, no matter where you go. I quit drums and am taking up guitar. And I got me a sexy HP with Vista on it.

Aaand there’s a quick recap about what’s been goin on. Yep. Kthxbyebye

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Jun-12-2007

School is almost ovar

Woohoo, school’s almost done. Somehow I managed to pull an 81 on my science final, an 83 on my math final, and a 91 on my first part of my social studies final (my teacher has yet to grade the second part). So, I graduate next monday and I can’t wait! Today I had some class night where we got awards and junk, and I got a snazzy math pin showing how I’m one of the best in math. Yay? Then there was some slideshow showing how much of a retard I was but it was pretty funny.

Posted under School Stuff, Misc.
May-31-2007

Science Final

did not go so well. Ah, whatever. I heard a rumor that one girl got a 94, the next highest was a 73, and then the average of the papers were like 40’s. Maybe she won’t count them since everyone did so shitty? Hope so, but I doubt it. Ohh well, summer is comin’ ’round the corner.

Posted under School Stuff
May-30-2007

Finals!

Gah, anyone else hate finals? Yeah, thought so. Well, today I took my language arts/ literature final. That was a piece of cake, thank god. It basically had questions about a few stories we read, grammar, poetry, etc. But MAN. I have a freaking science final tomorrow and it’s driving me NUTS! I swear, I’ve been studying for around 2 hours so far tonight, and I still have PLENTY more studying to do. It is totally insane. I think it’s like 185 questions and the entire thing is worth like 2 test grades? That may not sound like much, but trust me, it can effect your grade INSANELY. So anyway, I’ve been studying up on cells, chemisty, skeleton, muscles, digestion, respiratory system, acids, bases, astronomy, evolution, etc, etc. Why am I telling you this? BECAUSE SCIENCE IS PURE, BITTER EVIL. Actually, no, but I forgot a helluva lot and I just really need to study haha, so I guess I’m blowing off a lotta time here. Hey, atleast I’m filling up the blog right? Yup. Totally.

So, I’ll keep this thing posted and update on how it was tomorrow, just for the hell of it. Also, monday I have my algebra final, and then my social studies final (which I will MOST DEFINITELY fail) on tuesday. Sheesh school sucks. Luckily after that, we have a class trip to six flags, a lock in, and a dance. Then, SUMMER! Woohoo!

Posted under School Stuff
May-28-2007

Wheee, Skateboarding’s Fun :)

In other news, here’s a quick clip of me skateboarding. I know I suck but it’s funnnn

Posted under Misc.