Fourth of July Workout

I finally did it, after months of waiting. I'm back to BJJ. I was a little outta shape but still managed. I was happy I actually passed my instructors guard to side control. But, I'm sure they will get used to my hectic sporadic style. Things I need to work on is everyone and their mama can pass my guard. I remember when I free sparred back in the day, people would pass me and I would just reverse anything afterwards. To make sure I don't even get in that position to begin with will be pretty hard. Practice makes perfect I guess. This makes me more motivated to keep eating right and get back my speed and cardio. 2 things that go well with my style.

As for the rest of my day I'm gonna hang with my mom (my dad works) and cook some homemade fried rice bitch



Im hungry just looking at that sucker. Gonna blast this as my official 4th of July Song


I keed I Keed

Individual Thought Patterns 7/2/14

The quote today is from the Book of the Five Rings ebook pg14. And the quote is as follows.

In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. Even when your spirit is calm do not let your body relax, and when your body is
relaxed do not let your spirit slacken. Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body
influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited nor over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and
a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.


Self explanatory really. I can relate to this because for me it says don't freak the fuck out. Even if you do don't show it on your face. Keep your energy level normal. Good one

70,000 Tons of Metal: Xentrix

Ok I was asked to write a review of a video from a band that I'm gonna see next year at the cruise, so I randomly picked "Ghostbusters" from the band Xentrix.

First thing I noticed in the upper right hand corner was the ol' MTV music logo. That station wouldn't dare to play music like this anymore. Shows you first how much the times have changed. Doesnt MTV not even stand for music television anymore? Yea I think they changed the name. Doesn't matter to me as I don't even watch empty-V. (Haven't had cable for years)

Another thing is I can't believe there is a thrash metal version of ghostbusters. For me that's just funny and silly. I liked the interpretation of the song tho. I loved that little breakdown near the end of it. As for the video you can tell it's old school. It doesn't really do anything out of the extraordinary. Just your typical clips of the band playing the music and some images of ghosts.

Also I've been browsing through some of their music. I can't believe they went from thrash metal to progressive, interesting.


So ya I might check them on the ship if time and circumstance allows it. Check out the ghostbusters video below.

Individual Thought Patterns 7/1/2014

Yes on this edition on Individual Thought Patterns I will be giving my intrepretation on the Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell. The following is from ebook pg 2 #4

The Tao is like a well: used but never used up. It is like the eternal void: filled with infinite possibilities. It is hidden but always present. I don't know who gave birth to it.

Okay that was short enough. The google definition on what tao is the absolute principle underlying the universe, combining within itself the principles of yin and yang and signifying the way, or code of behavior, that is in harmony with the natural order. The interpretation of Tao in the Tao-te-Ching developed into the philosophical religion of Taoism. Okay so this in my opinion describes itself. Like a well you can take whatever you want from it within whatever feels natural to yourself. Maybe this is a silly example but maybe at this particular moment I want some strawberry ice cream. The universe is dictating to my brain stem at this moment to get it. It is in my natural state to move and get ice cream. Whether it is significant or not is up to the individual. But I am following my natural self. So in theory that would be an example of getting only a little bit from life's well. Me naturally decided to study acupuncture is me gaining a lot of information and this info is eternal. There will always be something to learn from it so I would in essence be using alot of information from the universe's infinite supply of water from the well.

There are so many different ways to live your life, infinite possiblities (self-explanatory) The possiblities of all you can do is always there whether it is just a passing thought in your brain or an action that you live, the universe is always there. As for the last line this might be a line that differs according to ones religious/spiritual beliefs. God coulda gave birth to the natural state of the universe. Or it coulda been the big bang theory etc. blah blah blah. As for what I think, who really cares, we are living in some kind of existance regardless of who gave "birth" to it

Neoprene Face Masks

I really don't know what it is, but I think I'm totally addicted to these things called neoprene face masks. I think they are used with motorcyclists but I dunno I love the design of these things. I'm somewhat of an avid sword collector. If you really want the hookup go to www.trueswords.com I've bought my inventory of sweet looking swords and weapons from this site for years! Ya I think I've almost purchased all of their masks. I think I've totally found a somewhat normal way to start wearing these. I'll let you know if it works. But, see look aren't all of these just so pretty.

Yes totally normal

Liv Kristine Appreciation

One of the coolest things that happened to me so far this year that I forgot to mention was I met one of my all time favorite singers, Liv Kristine of the bands Leaves' Eyes & Theatre of Tragedy.Its been a couple of years since I met a fellow musician. The first person I met was Jonny Santos when he was fronting Silent Civilian on that Ill Nino show. My dad was with me and the only thing I could muster up was "You guys are awesome!" Hahahaha. My dad was the one mainly talking to him and I remember Jonny saying he saw us representing and rockin' out in the front row.

The second time was when my dad, my friend Mark, and I went to this Demon Hunter/Living Sacrifice show. Both of them lovvvvved Demon Hunter more than I did. My dad was a huge fan of the Storm the Gates of hell CD. After the show we all met the lead singer of Demon Hunter and from what I can remember he was very standoffish. My dad straight up said he was a dick and to this day I don't think he's listened to Demon Hunter again. I remember becoming more of a fan of Living Sacrifice that night. Those mothafuckin' Christians were hard ;)

Those all happened quite a long time ago perhaps when I was in high school. This year I got to see Moonspell, Leaves' Eyes, & Atrocity tour the United States (What a line up) I knew I had to catch the Arizona date. I first heard of Liv and her bands back in I think 2004 when she was a featured artist on the Cradle of Filth song Nymphetamine. That was a popular song amongst some people I knew at my charter school. When I saw the music video the first thing that hit me was, who is this female singer? I was blown away by the pure angelic voice that I was hearing. She totally makes that song in my opinion. I remember the first thing that popped in my head was I gotta see if she was in any bands and the rest is history. I bought all of the Theatre of Tragedy albums and the Leaves' Eyes ones as they came out.

Okay so I brought my mom to that concert. Leaves' Eyes were amazing and I was happy to finally see them live for the first time. After the show Liv announced that she was going to come down and meet all the fans. I was excited but extremely nervous. I immediately thought of the Demon Hunter incident all those many years ago. Hmmm how would this go?

All of my anxiety disappeared as I saw her interactions with the people in front of me in line. I immediately noticed just how much of a sweetheart she is around all of her fans. You could tell she was very appreciative of all of the people that came out to see her band. She gave out a very positive and peaceful vibe. There were some well funny things I saw b4 my mom and I met her. These 2 guys were totally hound dogging her, cutting in front of everyone that wanted to meet her. Also there was a group of ladies that were telling her they liked the show but hated that they were having sound issues. ughhhh! She must have the patience of a saint I thought.

When it was our turn she gave both my mother and I hugs and thanked us for coming out :) Even though I am a HUGE fan I kept my conversation short and sweet so other people could meet her. I told her that the show was awesome, and that was a fan of hers even back from when she was in Theatre of Tragedy. She then signed their cover to their DVD that I purchased from the merch booth "We Came With the Northern Winds / En Saga I Belgia" and even got a cool looking picture with her that I still use as my facebook profile pic to this day.

(I've got the pic with me holding this dvd it's just on my phone will post later)

After this I bowed to her (happened naturally from all my years of being in martial arts lol) and told her to make sure they come back to Arizona. "Yes we will" she replied. I was so ecstatic for like a whole week after that. Leaves' Eyes were the second to last band to play so Liv definitely didn't have to come out. But, since she did she left me with quite a cool life experience. It's so cool when you listen to someone for years and they actually turn out being really nice people. This is how you treat your fans! Liv if you happen to read this, you are awesome \m/

For my friends who read this and you wanna hear some of her music check out some of my favs