From hot sauce to Pixar
      by Jay


       Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 8:38 PM 

    You would think since I stand for 20 hours on the weekends doing nothing but staring at (usually empty) pool water that I would have time to think of a rant to post here.  Well if you thought that then you are right!  Except not this time.  I actually have come up with a few rants over the past few days, but being the genius that I am (*achem* sarcasm) I didn't write any of them down, so now they are lost in the dynamically allocated memory cache that is my brain.  So just like every other time this has happened, I'm going to try my luck at a little stream-of-consciousness writing...
   First things first, I'm happy about all of the positive feedback I'm getting from this site. I makes me feel all warm inside to think people actually like reading random brain-droppings from an odd assortment of college students.  Either that, or the warm feeling is still the aftershocks of the hot sauce incident a few years ago...  Did you see that?  Not only did I thank all of you for your readership, but I also segued into my next topic by sending you to my archives and giving you even more stuff to read.  Which brings me to my next topic (duh).  You know how most people look back at their previous works and say "What was I thinking back then, I surely have improved since then"?  Most artists ( yea, I'm talking to you)  are constantly improving their skills and eventually there comes a time when you look back and see the true suckiness in all your work. Well, for some reason that's not happening to me, at least not in my writing. While I can't stand some of the older art pieces I have displayed on my webpage, I truly love my journal entries compared to today's entries. I must have been on a semester-long creative streak, because some of those entries still make me laugh today. Of course they probably are more entertaining to me since I was the one they happened to, but still, you can't tell me some of those things aren't at least interesting.  I guess what I am getting at is if you truly want some humor from this site, check out the first few months of my journal. I had more time to take pictures and think of funny stuff back then. 
   Well as you can see, I've sent a lot of links your way so ya'll (yay, I'm southern! eat it Paul) can read all of those pages rather than expect more from me today.  Sooner or later you are going to run out of stuff to read from me, and then I guess I'll have to hop to it and write some more entertaining stuff.  But until then I am going to go do my own thing for a while because lord knows I need a break.  Which is why I scheduled a much-needed trip to San Francisco next week. Okay, maybe I didn't schedule it, I guess it was my cousin who is getting married there who scheduled it, but I at least am going to have time to relax.  And by relax I mean I'm going to Pixar (journal entry) for a fun tour and informational by a guy with a fancy golden statue on his shelf!  Whee!  And would you look at that, another link for all of you to enjoy, I am so on a roll tonight!  Not to mention I posted a picture of me from a long time ago (back when Dallas Cowboy Starter jackets were cool, "Wall Ball" was the after-lunch torment, and Lunar 2 was only on the Sega CD.  ah the memories...).  See, you wretched little heathens (now I'm talking my fellow ranters who see me and know me, not you nice readers who know nothing about me), I did exist without a goatee, and I was sweet and innocent at one time.  Now let us never speak of that era again. 
  Now if you'll excuse me (not like you have a choice...) I have to go practice for my Final Fantasy concert this weekend.  Can you believe a church asked me to play a piano concert for them?  Ha!  I bet they are expecting some "How great thou art" or "Amazing Grace", but I'll show them!  Instead I'll play some Rydia, Via Purifico (aka Road to Redemption), and if I feel like making them dance I'll throw in a little Battle with Gilgamesh and Elk (Arc the Lad piano) too.  Just kidding, I'm not actually going to do anything sacrilegious like that.  Actually, I was asked to play Final Fantasy music as apart of my program just because the music is so peaceful and most people have never heard it before.  But again I shall have the last laugh, for not only will I be playing Uematsu, but I'll throw in a little Mitsuda and George Winston in there for kicks too!  Ha! That will teach them how peaceful I get...  (before you send me angry e-mails about that, maybe you should go listen to those composers first)

     - J, the bastard king of links