Done :)

Yeah I know.
School’s out for summer!

Exams are done, and it’s been a week since school’s been done too

My friends and I all did well ( hopefully ), and have passed out freshman year of H.S. ( hopefully ).

Jay and I have been outside a whole lot, and yeah life’s been back to it’s insane ways as before.

Insane good, because of the insane things we choose to do

A lot has happened in a week.

The Grade 8’s of St. Cecilia have graduated, and Jay and I went to their ceremony.

We were proud of all of them, especially the Twins and Michelle.

Those three haven’t changed a bit since we left them last year, and of course continue to own a share of our hearts

Kudos to them.

Man, recently Jay and I have been thinking of our St. Cecilia year/years a heck of a lot.

Just that one year I was there, Grade 8, made such a big impact on so many people’s lives, especially Jay and mines.

Anyways, more on that later.

This couple that I know have been on my mind. No it’s not Jay and his GF. Someone else. She’s like the sister I never had, and he’s your average wannabe teenager. No names being said.

I really hope things go okay, I don’t want her getting hurt. I won’t be here if anything does happen, so Jay will be there for her. Maybe Alex and Patrick will hop along.

So summer has just started, and I’m leaving on Wednesday. Thousands of miles away. Dubai.

I want to go, but I don’t at the same time.

I want to go cause it will give me some breathing space, time to focus on MYSELF ( yeah not gonna happen ) and work on myself too. Physically, and Guitar-lly

I don’t want to go cause, as mentioned before I won’t be here if something happens to *sister*, and I’m going to miss my friends soo much!

Jay, Alex, Brent, Patrick, Zaid, Anna, Kim, Andrea, Elaine, Michelle, Nikki, KD, Brat, Andria.

The list is endless really.

Going to miss you guys so so so so so much.

Punk party’s are going to be no more…although I highly advise you guys have them without me.

Well I’ll have my hilarious mother there, and my dad, and my music.

Speaking of music.

Radiohead again.

There are no words. Literally. I just can’t explain what they can do to you if you just let them.

A long while ago, I listened to two of Radiohead’s albums one after the other.

There are some songs that whenever I listen to, just have this effect.

There are more, I’m actually listening to one right now.

I shall compile the list, and post it here soon.

This seriously works for me all the time.

I/Your was/in a bad mood.

And these songs just play.

You don’t even have to listen to the lyrics, just close your eyes and let the song take over.

It just takes you to this other place.

Your literally in the middle of everything.

A war, a fight, people arguing, just everything.

But nothing happens to you…

Your just watching it.

Of course there are good things too.

It’s just amazing.

These songs are in a specific order.

At the beginning, they first just calm you down. Dreamy songs, that take you away from wherever you are.

Then it’s songs that just confuse you, but just let your brain have it’s way with it. Then it’s those come back songs, where you can get back from anything. Or it’s a song where it just sounds/feels like a fun atmosphere.

Seriously, after listening through the order, I don’t know but your bad mood is gone.

You feel happy.

Try it some time.

And of course there are songs where it’s just one of those comforting songs you can cry along to.

Knives Out - Radiohead.

I’m listening to it right now, it’s soo soothing.

And funny enough, it’s about Cannibalism, and a business man leaving his wife and kids.

Only Radiohead…only Radiohead

Well, I think I’m done for now. Planning on doing Lyrics of The Week tonight, and possibly starting a new segment.

Album of The Week!

The plan in my head looks pretty cool

Ta Ta for now, people.

Just Standing Out,

Danny

It’s that time of year again!

Hey back again!

Just had to state the obvious…it’s that time of year again!
Exams…* Boo’s *

Very hectic weekend. Been practicing my tenor sax for Monday’s 10 minute Music exam.

Then been doing Math Review for Wednesday…very frustrating.

Can’t wait till this week is over.

Can’t wait till Punk Party and movies hopefully.

Crazy stuff as usual…perfect to get my mind of the many things going on there.

There’s a party up there every waking moment…they’re pretty tired.

But yea, been doing pretty alright incase anyone was wondering/caring.

Yepp…

Oh yeah, check out Irish’s new blog at www.smileitstheendoftheworld.wordpress.com

It’s pretty stellar, she’s a good writer.

Kudos to Irish.

I’ve been doing a lot of research while procrastinating studying, and ignoring my thoughts. Yeah it gets pretty depressing

But guitars never fail!

Listening to Mr. Petrucci’s solo album: Suspended Animation.

Sooo soo amazing. Mind blowing stuff.

It’s all instrumental, guitar solo haven. If God made mini-God’s, Mr. Petrucci would definately be his first creation. The beast of a man really has Godly skills.

Tunnel Vision. Awesome song.

Ugh, it’s confusing.

I want to leave for Dubai to work out, guitar lessons, be with mom. It’ll get my mind off things.

But then I want to stay as well.

Man, Radiohead really have taken their toll on my head.

I need to do some Brain Dusting.

After exams tho, I should really be concentrating on exams.

But if you knew what goes on in my life/head you’d understand.

11:20 PM

Song: Wishful Thinking - John Petrucci.

It’s that balladesque song that most good albums have.

T’is very good.

Mood: Only a Radiohead song…

Well I best be on my way to Neverland. No not Mr. Jackson’s house of abuse, but the supposedly sleepy place we all go to.

Night all, Peace out.

Just Standing Out,

Mr. Insane

No It Isn’t - +44

Yeah I know. Haven’t written anything in AGES.
Blame it on my busy schedule, and my friends who I adore

Don’t have much energy left so I thought I’d do the Lyrics of The Week tonight.

This week has been…eventful to say the least. Good and bad I guess, but hey, all part of His master plan I guess. This song was buried deep in me somewhere, one of my all time favourites. My bro happened to be playing it on drums, and it was one of those light bulb moments.

I guess this song is relative to my mood, and this week. Very hectic and interesting, and I’m pretty sure next week will be around the same.

Yeah I’m in one of those Meh, Depressed, Blah moods…you could say that.

Here we go, amazing song written about the break up of blink-182. Relative to a lot really.

Please understand
This isn’t just goodbye
This is “I can’t stand you”
This is where the road crashed into the ocean
It rises all around me
And now we’re barely breathing
A thousand faces will choose to ignore

Curse my enemies for ever
Let’s slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful
This desperation leaves me overjoyed
With fading lights that lead us pass the lives that we destroyed

I listen to you cry
I cry for less attention
But both my hands are tied
And I’m pushed into the deep end
I listen to you talk, but talk is cheap
My mouth is filled with blood from trying not to speak
So search for an excuse, and someone to believe you
And for interesting moves I’m empty with the need to

Curse my enemies for ever
Let’s slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful
This desperation leaves me overjoyed
With fading lights that lead us pass the lives that we destroyed

Please understand, this isn’t just goodbye
This is “I can’t stand you”

Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day to all mother’s on the Internet!
I’d like to wish a special someone on this day though…My Mother!

My mum is just too amazing, and in my eye’s, you can’t get a better mum. She’s cool…she even has an MSN ID! She’s extremely funny, and can always cheer anyone up when their feeling down. She’s very hep, and always knows whats new and cool not just for herself, but for my brother and I too.

My mum doesn’t live for herself, or for her own needs. She goes through each day, and her tough job with all the old hags she works with (:P) knowing that she’s not doing it for her own good, but for my brother and I. My mum lives for us. My mum is the definition of what a mother is, and what a mother does. She just has the perfect mix of everything a kid would want. She’s always there for everyone, and is one of the best listeners I know. She’s given me and countless others amazing advice, and won’t pass up the opportunity of making you laugh while talking to you.

My mum is my idol, and I always look up to my dad and her for inspiration, and all the other countless qualities they have. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to repay my mum for all she’s done, so I hope this is a start.

Happy Mother’s Day mum, you ROCK!

Lots of Love,
Your Kiddo.

God Save The Queen - The Sex Pistols

Ahhh.
The Sex Pistols. If you really listen to Punk Rock, these guys are known to you just like peanut butter knows bread. I don’t really like Peanut Butter tho…its kinda…disgusting. Anyways. I’m like a week off for the Lyrics of The Week, but still, here goes. Condsidered as Punk Rock’s National Anthem, this song is just..amazing. Will write about The Pistols very soon. Enjoy this one punks! \m/ -_- \m/

 

God save the queen her fascist regime
It made you a moron a potential h bomb !

God save the queen she aint no human being
There is no future in englands dreaming

Dont be told what you want dont be told what you need
Theres no future no future no future for you

God save the queen we mean it man (God save window leen)
We love our queen God saves (God save… human beings)

God save the queen cos tourists are money
And our figurehead is not what she seems
Oh God save history God save your mad parade
Oh lord God have mercy all crimes are paid

When theres no future how can there be sin
Were the flowers in the dustbin
Were the poison in your human machine
Were the future your future

God save the queen we mean it man
There is no future in englands dreaming

No future for you no future for me
No future no future for you

Pancakes, the easiest thing to make…Or not!

I haven’t blogged in a week, and I feel bad. I have been lazy, but reading Irish’s blog has made me feel like…blogging.

Lets go back to last Sunday. The 27th of April I believe. After watching foodTV from about 9pm to about 1am, I decided that for the first time in a long time, I’m going to make pancakes tomorrow morning. I’ve made em’ soo many times, I used to be pro. Then I stopped…and made my dad or mum make them

So anyways, woke up early the next morning, and was off. Got the pancake mix ( no I didn’t make them from scratch ) the milk, and the eggs. Put them all into my Magic Bullet. I was excited, I hadn’t made pancakes in a long while. Anyways, started the Bullet, blah blah blah. It mixed, but at the base of the thing, the mix didn’t mix with the milk and eggs, so it was still powder. You’d expect that to be fixed in like a second, but no. Not when Gator wants to make pancakes. An hour later, and finally the MIX is done. During that hour, I switched blades, and did everything. Then I saw, a huge crack in the one of the blades. Thats why. Too late anyways, the mix and spilt and splurted out everywhere. My dad walked into the Kitchen. I look at him, and he starts laughing…and then went upstairs. How very supporting.

I then decided to kick it Old School. Took out the mixture from the Bullet, but it into a bowl, and mixed it till my hands hurt. That was in about 2 minutes. Then put it back, used the CORRECT AND FIXED blade, and pulverized it for about 5 seconds. Finally.

I was in a very experimental mood after that. I didn’t want to add Oregano, as Irish would’ve probably hinted to do, but I did add some Swiss Miss hot chocolate mix. And, some Quaker Oats Instant Oatmeal flakes. Blended it together, the result. Brown-ness. It was wicked.

Then finally, a good 20-30 minutes later, I finished making the batch.
Result: They tasted pretty good. I guess it really is true that if you make something on your own it taste good, cause to me it tasted outta this world, and my brother didn’t really like em’.

I lie I lie, they were good and got good reviews from my dad and brother.

Well thats pretty much it. Something that should be made in about half an hour, took an hour and a half for me. Doesn’t matter.

Thanks for reading anyways,
Just standing out,
Danny

Saturday.

*Sigh*.
I’ve got quite a bit to do today. Well actually, its not that much, I just feel like relaxing…again.

There’s my Phys Ed collage on conflict, for which I chose Stereotypes. Hopefully I can get enough pics to explain, and that my dad fixes the colour ink problem in our printer

Then I’ve got Math…Unit 6.1
I’ve almost done it…it’s really easy stuff.

Then, I really want to finish working on the song I’ve come up with. I’ve got the chorus, and a bridge I guess. Just for guitar tho. I wanna make an intro, verse probably, and then write some lyrics.

This time, I really want to just sit down and write them. I’m always too lazy, and get Jay to come up with the material and songs. I feel different now, I think I’ll do it myself.

I also want to install the Sims 2 properly, and hope it works. I want to build houses!

Anyways, just barfing out random stuff.

Cheerio, and Good Morning Brampton :P,

Just Standing Out,

Danny

1979 - Smashing Pumpkins

I really wanted to write the Lyrics of The Week last night, but if I did I would’ve forgotten about this song, and written about some Green Day.

Smashing Pumpkins…as Brent would say, the band everyone knows, but doesn’t know.
Brent showed me this song on Thursday, while talking to him about The Pumpkins after I had jammed up with my brother. Turns out that he used to listen to them too.

The Pumpkins are usually a hardcore punk/alternative band. No pansy stuff, and lyrics about girls all the time. They actually think through their lyrics. Then they also have some nice mellow stuff, like this song. It’s really why I think so many people used to like these guys, they can use and collaborate mellow and crunchy stuff into their songs. Best of both worlds. Enjoy this one people, it goes out to everyone who has remembered/missed/re-live their fun past

Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we’d never see an end to it all

And I don’t even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don’t know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

Double cross the vacant and the bored
They’re not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin’ dues down to see

That we don’t even care as restless as we are
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we’d go
Beneath the sound of hope

Justine never knew the rules,
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it to see

That we don’t even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don’t know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there’s no one around

Some wicked stuff in my opinion. While reading through the lyrics, I saw that you can interpret them in many different ways. This song is open to interpretation really. Surfing the net as well, different people have different idea’s of what it is. They’re all basically right.

It’s about teenagers, and growing up and all that. In detail, that’s for you to find out from the song.

Billy wrote this song about his past. What 1979 was for him; its a nostalgia basically.

Personally, I can really relate to this song, because reading Billy’s nostalgia, I get the same atmosphere as mine. Everythings just fun and carefree. Thats how it was for Jay and I before. Hanging out with the twins, Aceto, Blondie and Orangehead. Good times.

Anyways, awesome song, thought I’d keep this one pretty simple. Enjoy the vid.

Peace and Rock On,

Just Standing Out,

Danny

 

Welcome Irish!

Just wanted to shout out to Irish, who made her own wordpress blog tonight! Check it out at www.strikeaviolentpose.com ! Good stuff to come from that site.

To give you a breakdown of Irish, she’s one of the coolest dudette’s I know. We talk about music and cooking like…all the time. She’s the only I know who actually wants to be a chef like me, and she’s like my twin sister I never had

We’re soo cool we have our own nicknames yo! Her’s is Irish, but her real name is Anna. And mine is Alligator!

She’s really cool, and expect some quality stuff from her blog.

Cheers and Kudos to Irish!

Good luck chick!

Just Standing Out,

Danny ( Alligator )

Cleaning Up The Spiderwebs In My Head.

Hmmm. Yet another Friday. Friday’s are supposed to be our punk party days. We haven’t had one for the 2nd week running. People missing in action today.

Our Punk Party’s are the best. It first happened around 5 - 6 weeks ago. Alex and Patrick were supposed to come with my to visit the peeps at St. Cecilia, but I didn’t see them after school, so I left for home. Turning the corner to my house who do I see on the green box? Alex and Patrick!

It started off there, we visited St. Cecilia, and Jay caught up with us. He wasn’t feeling too good that day, at all. That day was soo amazing. Everything was in its right place. We saw the twins, after like ages. We actually spent the whole day outside, after like ages. After catching up with the twins for a bit, we went to get Zaid, better known as  ” Habibi! ” We went to Timmies, where our now manager friend Tom bursted Balalex’s bubble by saying that they don’t accept Timmy Card’s. Anyways, Alex ate and all of that, not to mention fooling around, we ran around the neighbourhood as usual, running up snow mountains.

We then crashed at Jay’s house, which is where the term Punk Party began. No there was no drugs and alcohol, and there never will be. There was music. A whole lotta blink-182 and Plus 44, and some random music as well. It was just stellar. Laying on the couches, just Jay, Zaid, Alex, Patrick, and Danny. 2 Hip-Hop songs were played, which Habibi danced too. He’s wicked

Anyways, just remembering some good times. The next week we had a new dude join the ranks. Brent, who I will write about in more detail on another post. Ben was also there. That night wasn’t as good as the first, but it was hilarious. Making fun of Patrick and Zaid Hahaha, if Alex is reading this she’s probably laughing That night ended with Alex not wanting to move from the couch

Next gathering was at the movies! This time we had a huge crowd. Sadly Brent couldn’t make it :(   We took up like a whole row at the cinema! There was Nikki, Kat, KD, Brat, Jay, Alex, Patrick, Kim, Anna Banana, and Danny! That was pretty sick too.

But yea, this post isn’t about Punk Party’s. More like to empty out all the stuff in my head. Have never done this before, so expect radical writing styles.

Well, Jay’s not here. He’s in Chicago or St. Louis, which ever one works. Miss him alot! Hope he’s doing okay, having a good time and all that sappy stuff that usually works.

I’ve seemed to notice that I really love capital letters. Take my blog title for example. It should be Cleaning up the spiderwebs in my head. But no. To me, that just looks horrible, wrong, and boring. So I use capitals

Random much? Very. Sometimes random is good.

My dudettes from St. Cecilia are back from Quebec! I say dudettes cause all the guys there have changed, and aren’t deemed dude’s in my eyes. Then again, I’m a bit ticked with some of the dudettes too.  A handful of them have changed alot, ever since Jay and I left the school. It used to be home to us, now I have no idea what the current students have done to it, not to forget to mention the principal, but its not a home anymore. One chick changed alot. She was soo cool last year, not to mention hyper. Now she’s just…different. Oh well, no names. Hopefully next year she’ll get back down to Earth.

I wish I could’ve gone to see the kids get back from Quebec, but my bro didn’t tell me when they’re arriving! Darn.

10:16 pm. Still writing, listening to some Prog. Good stuff. Still have to do Lyrics of The Week.

Jay and I are making big changes. We want to bring back our amazing past. In other words, we want to go outside, and do insane things. Just like old times. Randomnly appearing at people’s houses and hanging out. Venditti twins, that means we’re going to be visiting pretty soon It’s been a long while

That used to be fun, hanging out with the Venditti twins, and then hop over to Chris Aceto’s, then go bug Gillian and Caitlin. Life was careless, and carefree. We shall re-live that soon. Very soon I hope.

I’d also like to give a massive shout out to Irish ( Anna ) and to Nikki. They’ve been keeping me alotta company the past few weeks. Kudos to you two

Whatelse is there? * Searches brain *

I think I’ve almost cleared out most of the Spiderwebs here, and it feels good.

10:27 pm. Funny convo with Irish. Ending of In The Presence of Enemies. Creeping into Repentance.

I hope Sims 2 works. Lol.

” There’s an Alligator In My Kitchen! “

Very funny T.V. woman, way to go. Steve Irwin would be proud.

I’m soo happy I randomnly thought of The Smashing Pumpkins. Awesome band. Thanks Brent for pointing out some good songs too.

Still debating whether to keep my sideburns as long as they are, or whether to cut em short.

Help.

Fitter Happier. Very good.

Computer’s will take over the world.

Big. Blue. Deep.

Police Say Calgary Killing Likely Murder - Suicide.

I think I’ll go for a long run tomorrow morning.

Alright, I’m good. Gonna wrap up this post for now, Thanks to whoever actually reads this. Please leave a comment world, whoever reads my blog. I like staring and reading them, cause so far they’re really good. Kudos to comment post-er’s.

Gnite World,

Just Standing Out,

Danny ( Alligator )