Parents who bring squalling brats to R-rated movies, Jerry Falwell, Scientologists
Circle I Limbo

General asshats
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

NAMBLA Members
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

George Bush
Circle IV Rolling Weights

Osama bin Laden
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

Ben Bernanke
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Bernie Madoff
Circle VII Burning Sands

The Pope
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

Rednecks, Creationists, Republicans
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

there's something

about this song.....

i am so in love with this song!!!

the Ending is EPIC!!!!!
and that opening with the piano and bass riff is beautiful!!!

of couse the song is too long for youtube so the epic ending is cut off....

i painted my first house

all by myself!!!
yay

Tales of a Mountain Bike Virgin

As of last friday, i became a real mountain biker.
I also got the shock that everything isn't all downhill or easy.
lets start at the beginning.

Friday.
i set out for laguna beach at 7:30 and got in the saddle at 8:15. it seemed pretty easy. i bombed down bommer ridge and had no trouble with the hills. then i made my first mistake, having absolutely NO clue where i was going, and i ended up going down a fire road that had a 20% average grade. when i got to a point where i could only travel with something more than a 2 inch travel hardtail, i decided to turn back, and had to climb it all. so that was that. an hour and a half and very little was accomplished.

So i Returned today, tuesday (much to the pain of my wallet)
This time i had a game plan. Park at the visitors center, head up No Name Ridge, up to Bommer, down through some single track, and down Moro back to my car.
it sounded a lot easier than it was. much easier.

when i headed up No Name, i realized that this was at least a 25% average slope as well, and despite my best attempts, i had to hike up the hill. all 2 miles and 1500 feet of it.i was tired and just wanted to go back home. But when i got to the top an hour later, things where looking up, the sun was out and i headed back on to familiar territory. But i knew what i was going to do. and i did just that.


and let me tell you.
it was just amazing.

i took the Fence line trail and had the best time of my summer. then onto the Missing Link trail and had just as much fun, until i hit a rock garden. but that still didn't hinder my ways. after the awesome single track adventure, i returned to Moro Ridge trail and it was just incredible. Riding through the hills and through the clouds, being in touch with nature and the outdoors, and seeing a part of orange county few ever see (or try to see) and i had time to think. it was then that i realized what i loved the most about mountain biking. not the downhill runs, the sweet singletrack for the masochism that i do seem to enjoy. Its the only thing that i can use to truly escape. Sure i can listen to my music, or make my won, but nothing beats being 30 miles from your family, and 2 miles from absolutely any civilization in all directions. its this time that i can spend time with my one true friend. Solitude. This is the time when i can unwind and get away from everything, and everyone.

It is just pure bliss.


now i wonder if i can find a bus route that will take me there from UCI......

sooo

well, the whole "post everyday" thing failed

anywayssss.....

i had a fantastic few days.
Quarterfinals last night. GO BD!!!!! and HNC!!!

but today was just awesome, i went mountain biking by myself (the way i like it) and discovery a part of south orange county few see.
here, enjoy (just waiting for the pictures to upload to photobucket.. which reminds me. what goes down, must eventually come back up, especially when the car is parked at the top of the hill.)











(i can't smile very well...)


oh yeah, and new episodes of monk and psych!

sorry about the crappy cut off, if you right click the pictures, then click view picture, you'll see the whole thing.

since i remember about this, i think i'm going to post at least once a day.


soooo....
just one more week until new Psych!!!!


and a little thing from buckethead to michael Jackson

http://www.bucketheadland.com/01_The_Landing_Beacon.mp3

AHHH

Just 8 MORE days UNTIL PSYCH.
and MONK!!

i feel like a giddy little fan girl!




darn it. i still need to get some bike tubes.
then i need to find some sweet singletrack and tear it up.

bike troubles

after a long and tiresome attempt at a bike repair, my efforts were in vain,

heres what happened(i feel like Monk....hehehe)

okay, so i decide to patchup my tires, as i punctured the a LONG time ago, and never got around to doing that.. i get the first hole in the front tube al nice and patched, get it put back on. now to the rear tire. i get it off, cassette and all, and patch up that tube. once it is back on, i realize that the front tire still doesn't want to hole any air. so i take it off again and repatched the first hole, because it looked iffy. i put it back on and pump it up, to find that is still doesn't hold air. so i take it off for the third time. and find another huge gaping hole, that wasn't there before. so i patch it up, and ride it. it seemed fine, until i come back later to see that both of my tires are flat.
so i decide to just give up, go to Jax, and get some new tubes.

but in other news, i really did survive the Swine Flu......

first time back

so i just finished my second season with Impulse drum and Bugle corps.
i was alot of fun. i was the Horn Sergeant this season (much to my surprise) and i even made som new friends (*gasp!*) but i think, that even though we were smaller this year, we were better.
i wish i could have seen us going to finals. we would have kicked some serious butt. but that has passed, and out nor cal tour went well. i think that overall it was a fantastic season. and i really like sean.
i just wish i could come back next season. and i'm going to miss the banquet! NO!!!!.
stupid SPOP 8. i wish i wasn't so busy this summer. although because of the shortened season, i get two months of before school starts up. just enough time to freak out.
so i decided i am going to buy a 15 inch Mac book (i've been saving for a long time) and an 16 gig ipod touch.
but i also really want to buy a new bike. since i found a site that will show me local single track, i want a decent dual suspension bike. now my trek 4300 hardtail is a fantastic bike, i just want a dual suspension to go along. but the Feul ex 5.5( the on i am looking at) is 1400 dollars!(but i have a 100 dollar gift card, so 1300)

well that is the update on me.

Best regards, John C

goodnight, and good luck.
"LONG-WHILE I sought to what I might compare
those powrefull eies, which lighten my dark spright,
yet find I nought on earth to which I dare
resemble th' ymage of their goodly light.
Not to the Sun: for they doo shine by night;
nor to the Moone: for they are changed neuer;
nor to the Starres: for they haue purer sight;
nor to the fire: for they consume not euer;
Nor to the lightning: for they still perseuer;
nor to the Diamond: for they are more tender;
nor vnto Christall: for nought may them seuer;
nor vnto glasse: such basenesse mought offend her;
Then to the Maker selfe they likest be,
whose light doth lighten all that here we see."