Im Armed to the Teeth (how about you?)

Bye livejournal, I have moved on.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:43:12 GMT

Just wanted to say that everything that I have posted here, I didn't mean it and I'm sorry. Goodbye LJ.

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:56:29 GMT

Sometimes, I wonder if you think about it as much as I still do.

WonderCon 09'

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:25:09 GMT

Wondercon was uber fun this year, I haven't been to Wondercon in years so it
was great to come back and check how much it has developed and evolved into
what it has become right now. Definitely a lot more people than i could ever imagine,
especially in the panels. It was pretty crowded, full of gamers, anime, and movie
lovers, and people dressed in costumes. Tj, Joses, Pat and I got there maybe around
12-12:30 so we basically missed the Watchmen panel that started at 11:30 so we
headed towards the capcom booth where they had Street Fighter 4 up with
tournament edition joystick. We also got to see Common (weird, i know) during
the Terminator Salvation presentation/panel. Unfortunately, I didn't come home with
the Rorshach action figure I wanted because i was low on money. But overall, a
great experience and had loads of fun. Can't wait for next year's wonderon.

Bumble Bee (yes it was a guy in the costume)

Ray Park (Aka Snake Eyes of the new G.I. Joe movie and Darth Maul)

Adam West

Puppet Master from Naruto

Richard Kiel

C.J. Craham

i got owned, hah.

Street Fighter Figures.

Solid Chief (Aka Master Snake)

The Watchmen

Patrick And Chung Li

Chung Li

CHEWY! reminds me of step brothers

theres more in my facebook, check it out.

Another Great Ride, Another Great Bike Party

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:52:53 GMT

Definitely a lot more people riding this month than the last, maybe around 300?
The ride was pretty short because of the cold weather, it was only 12 miles. There
was also this cute couple riding a couple bike pulling a couch with built in speakers
playing some Daft Punk. Also this guy brought his dog in a baby bike carrier, it was
uber cute. The best part was that it smelled like bud, mmm. Can't wait for next month!!! any body want to join?! =]

terrence on brandon's new fixie

cute girl on a cute fixie, she's boss.

i want a beard now.

Brian.

danny, i still wonder how he gets on that bike

more to come, check the tumblr.

All pictures taken by Richard mMasoner

rest in piece little guy

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:57:11 GMT

Nathan James Avila Andaya
January 25th,2008-January 11th,2009

you will be missed but not forgotten.

last video of nathan laughing.

Don't you ever feel like you've been destined for something bigger than your skin?

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:56:27 GMT

i felt bored for once.

well damn, black friday was a bitch once again. After having 4 seperate thanksgiving
lunches/dinners, one shot of chartreuse, and a throw up session. i realized that i
was not ready for black friday, hah. I stood in line outside of Sports Authority
at Great Mall with Jace, Mary, Philip, Loruh, and John cause they were handing out
some holiday gift card/bucks towards there store. I got lucky, i had about 40 bucks
worth which basically paid for all my future gym clothes and this bad ass Under Armor
sweater. After being at the Great Mall for about an hour, it was time to camp out
at Micro Center with Philip and Jace. It was about 1 when we got there and it was
cold like a bitch. I slept outside from 1am to 8am. Even though it sucked sleeping
in the cold on a lawn chair, it was worth it. Walking away with a 22inch lcd for my
room, cds/dvds,and a 750GB external Hard Drive felt like heaven. I also stopped by
Best Buy and Target after so i basically didnt get home until around 1-2 in the
afternoon. I think i spent around 500? which isnt bad at all.

I never have anything to write in here anymore. Maybe because I really have nothing
to complain about in my life. I'm very happy with my life right now, and i have been
for the past few years now.
I'm thankful I have a lot of great friends in my life.
I'm thankful I have my dream car.
I'm thankful I have a nice bike.
I'm thankful I live a rad house up in a hill.
I'm thankful I have really nice neighbors.
I'm thankful I'm going to school and majoring in something that id like to do for the rest of my life.
I'm thankful I have loving parents that supports me in anything that i do.

Basically, im just thankful for the fact that im still alive and healthy.

Oh, and i moved to tumblr and blogspot. k bye for now.

never forget about the first

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:41:29 GMT

my weekend went off in a great start. took my baby (my bike up above) to bike party
on friday for the 1st time with john, ricky, and melissa and it was crazy. just imagine around 250-300 bikers jamming the streets and listening to some motherfucking Justice from a guy's stereo backpack, hah. started from valley fair top parking garage and then stopped at hostetter. We biked a total of about 20 miles, which wasnt that bad, just a bit tiring.

Inspiration is hard to come by now a days.

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:18:01 GMT

it started raining last night. and you know what that means, no more biking until
the good ol' sun comes up and dry my pretty little road.

So lately, I haven't been doing much since i quit the band last month. People always
ask me "Why? you've been in the band for so long". Well thats the thing, iv'e been
doing it for so long that i needed a break from it to pursue some my own personal
interest. I'll still be making music on my own time and on my own terms. Music and
making music will always be there in me, i can't escape from it. I used to think that
when people say "Music is my life" was non sense, but now it actually means something
to me..especially when you try to run away from it after a while.

Since this blog is music related, i decided to list my top 5 albums. (subject to change)

1. Glassjaw "Worship and Tribute"
2. Brand New "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me"
3. Copeland "Beneath The Medicine Tree"
4. Blood Brothers "Burn Piano Island, Burn"
5. Sketchbook "Howdy"

because its you in my lungs and i cough you up for days

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:59:01 GMT

so basically i just came back from florida, whooohooo =]. I'm still in the process
of uploading all my photos so ill just show some pictures from the beach and hanging
out my place with the gals before i went on vacation. So watch out, theres going to be
a semi-huge photo blog coming up but for now. enjoy. =]

our so called pyramid lol

this cliff was hella scary

beer and sea creatures do not mix

MMM DAYUM

that day was an AA filled day

we had some badass fish tacos

and now for some photobooth fun once again =]
(note the reason why some of us were looking up cause i hooked up my macbook pro to my 72 inch flat screen)

i have george lopez's fat head

this is how i looked back when i was 9

can you smell what the rock is cooking?!?!

last photography class <3

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:50:39 GMT

i really enjoyed having summer school and having to create a photography portfolio
for the future. Anyways, heres just some images that i used for my final portfolio
for my photography class, so ill be posting some more in the near future. And apparently
this girl that brian and ryan met a few days ago wants me to take some pro modeling
pictures of her. so I'll see whats up soon.

imformation about the picture above: slow shutter speed
f/stop: 5.6
shutter: 1/8
white balance: custom

experimental lighting
Hard light setting

texture shot.
Hard light settings

post script

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:34:10 GMT

omg, finch and blazing?! that was a great weekend, hah. ive been wanting to see these guys since the 9th grade and getting to finally see them made my weekend.

too bad pappas wasn't there drumming =/

also dereck wasnt playing bass, WTF

nate is hella short.

wtf? randy "r2k" loves The Holy Ghost Circuit? =]

drummer of scary kids scaring kids. they sucked ass but i did get a good shot of the drummer.

some photoshoot shots w/ exposures

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:44:43 GMT

we like to climb metal trees

i look herra high, hah =D

and now for some fun exposure shots

brian taking it, hah

ricky tried drawing a car

zelda aint got shit on me

john is hella dbz

for christina, lol

for brian's g/f

ally is definitely the epitome of a nerd =]

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:48:12 GMT

my first time being at the car meet at bubbles in milpitas square, it was crazy, enough said.

her awesome out of focus camera skills =D hah j/k

my digital photography class <3

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:05:03 GMT

so we went on a little adventure with my class on tuesday to experiment with lighting and photography at the yerba buena park (for those who dont know where that is, its the same park where the Metreon is) that was a block away from the academy of arts. I had lots of fun taking pictures of and with my classmates. I think we were there till like 10 at night.

my long exposure street shot (and if you look clsoely...you can see a street shark) =]

mark, zack, brian's legs, and abe's backpack chilling during break before going off in our little adventure

where we all met up

frame within a frame shot with mark

random stencil i found

jessica =p

jessica with auto flash >=[ (auto flash is the devil!!)

my other classmates waiting till night

nada and jessica <3

melissa's lavaries 20th bday =]

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:02:40 GMT

happy birffffday merrissaaaa =]

hella trying to be model status even when its blurry =p hah

p.s. i might be moving to blogspot

a day with melissa <3

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:04:32 GMT

basically we ate at plutos (mmm, im going to miss that salad now that im going on a no meat diet during july because of brian's bright ass idea, ha) shopped at UO, went to H&M for the first time in the great mall. Actually it my first time going to great mall in maybe 3 years. As you can tell i hate going to malls around here, makes me feel all uncomfortable. As for H&M in great mall, i really don't like it that much, i think the one on powell street is so much better. after we went to get some frozen yogurt at yogurtland and it was packed as usual. I still think fraiche kicks more ass than any of the froyo places ive been to.

carnival at the great mall.

cute little cd case that melissa made me for my bday with an NERD cd =] thanks!

plutos!

repin' the hat at UO =p

got hella blurry =/

in my sleeping clothes

those are some crazy glasses

ending with a big fuck you =]

more pics to come from:
-my birthday
-classmate pictures
-4th of july pictures at the beach

thea mediteranean <3

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:39:21 GMT

well i went to Thea Mediterranean on santana row on my birthday and i must say, its awesome!

seafood

lamb

pita bread with dip

chicken with some sort of yogurt sauce

the bar >.O

my very first picture with my new camera

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:48:46 GMT

i bought a new slr (Nikon d40x) camera just for my digital photography class in the summer at The Academy of Art again.

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:50:09 GMT

after having a chat with melissa (aka the verizon wireless user =p), i realized that i havent updated in a while so here goes nothing!......and nothing it is. whats new? well i just got my dream (subaru wrx FTW!) car and im loving everything about it. Took me a while to learn how to drive it since it was stick but after the third day i got really used to it surprisingly. I also just got on summer vacation about 2-3 weeks ago and its been a blast so far (especially all the frozen yogurt nights i had with all my friends, the beaches, the hangouts, the parties, etc), unfortunately its going to end soon since i have to take summer school. But i know summer school is going to be awesome since im taking digital photography at the academy of art, (i still don't know why my advisor is making me take it but she said its "required", so why the hell not right). So i have to buy my SLR camera (nikon d40) before the 16th of june. Which reminds me, im turning 21 on the 25th of june! im excited! hella party, drink, bbq, smoke out, all in one night (HA! like i havent done that before lol). Also i just got done taking some band pictures with Emily from Ediphotoeye so ima post some here. Shes really good, shes also touring with Portugal The Man and shes hella friendly. She took about like 600 pics of us in like 2 hours which is hella already. Ive also been working on some new paintings on some spare time so maybe ill post some of the progress up soon.

Things to buy list:
Nikon d40 slr. (800$)
Carbon T.I. HKS exhaust system. (900$)
xbox 360 wireless adapter. (100$)
bianchi bike. (600$)

i look like a happy camper =]

i think i gatta stop flexing when it comes to pictures lol

my acting ability gone horribly wrong

looks like we were going to jump into the ditch lol

and i present you..Kove the dog, he kept getting into our picture so might as well just have him in our picture right? hes a hella cute dog too.

BLOOD FOO!

found some old records

JOURNEY FTW! hah

emily's feet

let me see some tongue baby

I think every now and then i feel like life has let me down some how but when that happens, i always meet someone new to bring me back up. thanks. =]