Friday, August 13, 2010

Day and Night

I went with my two neighbors and my sister to Vasquez Rocks area to watch the meteor shower. It took us about 45 minutes to get up there and another 15 to find a good spot for watching. When we got there, we unpacked our blankets and prepared for awesomeness. After setting up my sister, my friends and I all walked down the road where we found two horses. One was dark brown with a messy mane and the other one was light brown with a mow hawk mane. The horses where very soft. We were petting them for half an hour. Then we all walked back to where we were parked and laid down under the blankets and watched the stars and the meteors fly across the sky. I saw 40 shooting stars give or take. The meteor shower was only going to get more intents the later we stayed, but we had to go home cause my friends dad was getting tired. So we packed up and headed home around 2 am and we got home at 3. That was a really fun night. I hope I can do it again.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The Court System.

So I went to court today. I woke up at 6:35 am, got dressed and drove to the courthouse. When we got there, the line swooped up and down. We waited for 30 minutes until we finally got to the metal detectors. From there, we went up the elevator to the fourth floor. I checked in at the door and walked inside. At this point I had some anxiety but was numb to the feeling. I talked to the bailiff (a bailiff is a guard to the court room), he was a tall man, that was very muscular. We then waited about another hour for the judge to arrive. From there, they went down the list of people. Then an attorney called my name to talk about my case. I was lucky enough to have the charges dropped to an infraction (a ticket). Then the judge finally called my name, I went up with the attorney and pleaded 'no contest' (meaning, you're guilty but it can't be used against you in civil court). I ended up only paying $40 with a warning from the judge to be careful. I thanked everyone and drove home.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Deleted...

Hey I accidentally deleted all my posts. Then, my brother helped me find all of the posts in my internet history. It was very tedious. We had to go through a whole week of history to find when I edited those posts. Once we found them, we had to copy and paste everything in new posts. It was all very unwanted and stressing. So now I have all the posts back and thank you for the comment. I will not be at school tomorrow because I have to go to court at 8:30 am. I will put a post about the court experience tomorrow and I will put a post about the Athlete article as well.

Newspaper in the Internet Age

The problem with newspapers is that I do not care about the news. Why would I read a paper that I have to pay for, about something that I don't even care about? I don't care about the news because I think its depressing. It almost always talks about war, someone who died, and other things like that. Then it goes to sports and I don't really watch or follow any sports, so there's another reason I don't care for the news. I do not care what happens in someplace on the other side of the world.
 The great thing about the internet is that you can do anything on it. You can network with friends as you play a game. You can, if you want, read the news for free or check sport scores for free. And the internet is free itself. The internet has whatever you want. You can watch movies and videos or buy anything from the comfort of your home. Its like magic because it has the entire world inside a small box and screen.
 People argue that our generation doesn't read, but I beg to differ. My sister and I both have a lot of books we have both have read multiple times. I can't speak for the rest for the youth of America, but we read so that's not true for my family. So to recap the newspaper sucks, the internet rocks and people who say we don't read, well that's only true half the time.

The amazing replacement.

The new Santa Monica Mall has an amazing view of it's surroundings. It has cool store and delicious looking restaurants. My brother and I walked around looking at everything. All the manikins had cool designs and outfits and there was a live band. The stores are expensive so bring some money.
The Nike store very well done, it has two stories and 150" flat screen TV. They have a globe made of Nike shoes, boxing gloves boogie boards, and other Nike items. My "BALLER" brother bought a "BALLER" jacket. He was droppin' dough like a Banker. The jacket was $120.

Santa Monica Mall

the CHICKEN

Tonight, my family and I had El Pollo Loco for dinner. My sister had the pollo bowl. The pollo bowl is a large tortilla bowl filled with salad, beans, chicken, ranch, and tomatoes. My mom and I shared 4 pieces of chicken with mashed potatoes and tortillas. The chicken was a little to cooked but the mashed potatoes and tortillas were very good. El Pollo Loco is a good place to eat. So go there next time you get dinner.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Shambhala

Shambhala is a rave where DJ Excision makes an hour and a half long mix of dubstep songs.
Dubstep is music centered around bass, its a mix of drum and bass, techno, grime, reggae, etc, all mashed together and stretched out.
 DJ Excision lives in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. He is in his early 20's. He likes "grimy shiettttt".
if you like his music, he plays at EDC (Electric Daisy Carnival) every year in the beginning of summer and at Shambhala on August 6-9, 2010 . On his facebook he has listing of his upcoming shows.  http://www.facebook.com/Excision?v=wall#!/Excision?v=app_2344061033
  Here is the link to one of his songs called Shambhala 2008.  http://soundcloud.com/excision/excision-shambhala-2008-mix

This is Excision at Shambhala 2009


For the research.
http://www.shambhalamusicfestival.com/

http://twitter.com/excision

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dubstep