01-07-05
mood: cofunsed...
consfued... confused Life Lesson #102: Don't release bodily gases or noises while around girls that might like you and that you might like. Yeah, i don't think i got the memo on life lesson #102. It wasn't on the cover sheet on my TPS report. I missed that sermon. Story goes... I was helpin Gerry out at his church with lighting and sound in their new youth building. Well, he had a couple of friends that were there just hangin' out while he finished up, both which were female. lol. To make a long story short, one of them and I were just kinda flirtin' back and forth the whole nite. The vibe was feeling good. *pause* You see, the majority of the time i'm working. And anything goes on the job site in the entertainment production field. We're always trying to out-gross the other one at the warehouse and such. Things such as farting, butt cracks, and mammoth dumps are to be expected... and quite frankly, become a way of life. *play* So the vibe is feeling good. Up to the point where i'm explaining something to Gerry and i fart to concur with what i had stated. And this wasn't just a little squirt. Oh yeah... had i been with a certain ground of friends, i would have gotten a standing ovation. So you can imagine how disgusted this one girl became. Not cool. She really didn't even talk much after that. In more than one respect, I was ashamed at myself because I didn't "snap myself into a different mode" while around the ladies. You know, be cool... but keep the guy stuff down to a minimum. So, i totally understand why i got dissed. And that's what inspired me to blog all of this. In another respect though, that's just a part of who i am. Sadly (or maybe cooly) enough, i was raised around farting parents. lol. *pause* why does this blog seem vulgar or uncomfortable? lol *play* So yeah, farting around the house was pretty common and was expected of you if momma's chicken-fried-steak-double-bean-mexican-casserole was good to ya =). I'm pretty carefree when meeting new people and just like to be myself. No... i don't always try to squeeze out a fart when i'm around new people. I just don't wanna get caught up in the "i'm gonna be Mr. Personality or Mr. Everyone's-Gotta-Like-Me" kinda stuff. On the other hand, i'm not so stubborn that i won't change if changes need to be made. My gosh this dating/girl stuff is killin' me! And i'm not even dating yet! +BrianJ 01-03-05
mood: excited I don't know what i ate today but i have been bouncing off the friggin walls! And to be able to post a blog three days in a row is almost insane for me! I think it's this tour that's coming up. We've got the Mercy Me tour that's coming up in Feb and we have lighting rehearsals in a couple of weeks. There's just this renewed excitement in the office to have something this big come through our doors. Lots of equipment being ordered and lots of people involved with the planning of it! Now we just pray that God will bless this tour and that amazing things will happen. The obvious is good ticket sales and sold out shows. But I just pray it's successful, refreshing, and fun! Honestly, my spiritual life was better on the road than what it's been off the road. Most of the time with people, it's right the opposite. Not trying to use that as a crutch... i know i need to get back into the swing of things. Looking ahead, i think this will be a good tour to grow. Truthfully, I don't want to be a tech on a tour. My passion is designing a show itself. But... i know those opportunities and situations will present itself in due time and this is great training ground. This is my first tour of this size... so it'll be fun to see the bigger venues and how differently a tour rig sets up each day in those venues. Hillary Swank is on Letterman. What a different last name. OH! I thought about this last nite. It freaked me out and i stopped eating my tacos until i got to the house. Ok, here it is: How many times do you order fast food at nite and begin eating it while driving down the road. In the dark. Without being able to see what you're eating. Can you imagine what they could do to you? They could really jack ya up if they want to!!!! There's this unwritten code of trust with the strange people at Taco Bueno, McDonalds, Wendys, or __________ (insert your fav fast food of choice) that you have when you buy from them at nite. Ever thought about that? I stopped eating my tacos because i imagined a rat head being in my food and biting off one of the ears. Yeah, i wigged out I'm going to bed now. +Stankins 01-02-05
mood: relaxed What a fun day! I did indeed sleep in some (i know, i should have gone to church), got up around 10:30am, got on the road by 11 and headed toward Oklahoma City to meet up with Beau and David! They're a couple of my friends that i met in North Carolina while we were on the road with Jeremy Camp. They usedta live in OKC... so they came home for the holidays & invited me to come over to hang out! And so we did! We killed some time at the local mall. HAHAHHAHAHA... that was a joke. It was basically a bastard mall and only had a few real shops. Everything else consisted of things you would see at a flea market. There was this one store called the A-Z Warehouse Outlet and lemme tell ya... it was the most random place ever. And i think while we were in the mall, someone tried to take off the front left wheel off my truck. We start driving back to their house and this gosh aweful noise comes from my wheel well. I get out to see if i had ran over a stick, a small child, or something. I see nothing. So we proceed some more and the rattling continues! I pull over again and get to investigating my tires and 5 of my 6 lug-nuts are COMPLETELY loose! Thankfully, they have an uncle that has all the right tools (because i try my lug nut remover... yeah, it's the wrong size!) and he tightens my wheels back to the truck. Talking about random. And embarassing. Hahahha. I was like "i swear this never happens!" Anyhoo, we go bowling afterwards and have a great time just hangin' out! Check out the pics below!
+Stankins
01-01-05
mood: tired Happy New Year! The past couple of years i didn't ring in the new year too "fun." This year was an exception! We had a sound gig at a casino in Oklahoma (Durant, to be exact). I had The Temptations stage and Pete had The Coasters stage. At first i thought it was going to be pretty lame... but then once we started, 1/2 of Pete's crowd left his area and they came to mine! Lol. I had about 200 middle-aged black women screaming at the top of their lungs. It was wild! And smokey. WHOLY COW! I think i caught lung and nose cancer last nite. Smokey wouldn't even begin to describe it. More like trapped in the garage with a 1/2 way running '74 Pacer. My eyes were all watery and Pete was coughing like he had the mad cow disease. Yes, people with the mad cow disease cough... a lot. No really, i researched it. So yeah, we run in the new year listening to My Girl, Just My Imagination, and more. We finally got back to the hotel around 3am.. fell asleep by 3:30... hadta get up by 7am. Load out of the Casino. Then drive back to the warehouse for 3 hours. Yeah, I'm kinda tired... more than likely will skip church tomorrow and sleep in some. Here are some pics that i forgot to post earlier. Chow!
+Stankins
12-28-04
mood: laughing I have a question for carman. A really obvious one.
I can't believe i used to go to this clown's concerts. +stankins 12-27-04
mood: relaxed Werd. I love sittin at home... doing nothing. Now... if i just had some investments or a business making me money while i'm doing this :) Christmas Day went good. Had family over and we had a good dinner. Went to church Sunday and had a good time. Got to eat with Nora afterwards at the famous Papacitas. Yummmmmmm. Then washed my truck to get all the snow storm disaster off of it. Yeah - i got pushed off the turnpike while driving home on the 22nd. Fun Fun. Went to Santaland with my boss and his family. Oooo... Ahhhh... 2 million christmas lights. And then ate at the Cracker Barrel afterwards. That was some good groceries! Dang-o... i watched The Manchurian Candidate last nite around 1am. That was sompin else. Good flick. And then watched "The Return of the King" this afternoon. Ahhhh... incredible movie... trilogy... epic... waddaever ya wanna call it. Exciting, huh? lol... just the way i like it =) Peace!
-jenkins
12-24-04
mood: i dunno... pity
party? Been kinda emotional today and yesterday. I don't have a prob with sharing my feelings usually. =) I've hadta deal with some family and personal issues, and the personal issues hafta do with family. I think i'm a train wreck at times, lol. I wasn't even going to blog. Went to bed. Then wanted to talk to someone. Then scratched that idea and figure i should blog. For me, Christmas hasn't been about gifts this year like it has in all the previous years (even though for the past few years, gifts weren't the focus, but they were to be expected... ya know?). I dunno if it's the appreciation and love of having a God blessed life that i don't even remotely deserve. I dunno if it's the appreciation and love I have for my parents, now that i spend more and more time away from home. I didn't even want to unwrap gifts this year, honestly. And after opening presents, i got depressed for the rest of the nite. I got some things... all of which were things on my "list." And i think that's what the problem was. After getting them, it almost seemed pointless. I dunno. I sorta wish i didn't even tell my parents what i would like to have, but instead, receive a sweater or a bag of pecans or something else. Does that sound ungrateful? Because i don't want it to sound like that. I'm extremely grateful and thankful that my parents got some stuff for me and that they love me a ton! It's just not about stuff, ya know? I guess i appreciate the thought going into a gift. The unexpected surprise. And it seemed to lack that this year. I'll probably blog in a day or so and totally contradict everything i'm saying here. lol And this is also the first Christmas eve that my 1/2 brother has been with us. It's difficult to just accept someone back into a family after so many years. And it's not just a sudden thing... he's been mending ends with our family for the past few years and things are going good. Just strange to have another family member a part of your Christmas. And i guess that's part of my problem that i don't admit... i try to center it around me and my family when it's totally not supposedta be like that at all. Kinda screwed up, eh? And then i thought about this evening about a girlfriend or a wife... and if she would ever be able to put up with me. lol. And how would i deal with her? And if i were in a relationship, would i block emotions or hide feelings... just so i wouldn't cause complication. I'm pretty level headed, but naive to some of the most obvious things sometimes. I know everyday isn't like this, heck - most days are great, carefree, joyful!... but it's times like this that you kinda see a different side of yourself... ya kinda see yourself in a different light and perspective. ya kinda see what's beneath the surface. It makes me wonder what a relationship with my wife will be like. How can i adjust myself now so i don't have future problems that might arise? I just wanna be honest on the inside and out, ya know? Why put on a mask? hmmmm +brian 12-19-04
mood: good, just woke
up I had some good honkin' pizza last nite at Hideaway Pizza. So much good stuff on it that i think i got constipated. No... i don't have a photo for that. lol. Constipated is a weird state of feeling, ya know? It's like you know you should be going doo-doo right now, but for some reason your body isn't allowing you. This tends to result in a bunch of false code-reds of running to the bathroom and then nothing happens. Then people wonder what's wrong with you because you keep going to the bathroom so much. If you haven't got constipated lately, try it!!! Someone help me write a short song about constipation and i'll post it on here. Surf my site and you'll find my e-mail address. Wow. I should wake up more before i start writing blogs =). Too much random stuff. I played hookie today, what that means, i dunno. But i've always heard it used in combination with not-going-to-church. So i guess i could say "i played hookie today by not going to church." Felt good to sleep in finally, but probably not the right day to do it :( I've had a good past few days. It's been relaxing... just some 'busy work' at Integrity. Yesterday I got to hang out with Gerry and watch some HILARIOUS videos that he did for his church. Oh man, i was crying cuz they were so funny. I finally hadta leave and met up with my bro Zachary. We got a couple of friends together and went to Hideaway Pizza for a few hours. Then went to a coffee house and met up with some more friends. Fun. My best friend Andrew came to Tulsa on thursday, which was a surprise, and we had a blast eatin' at the Olive Garden and just talkin. Wow... we haven't hung out since sometime in March. Not healthy for a best-friend friendship, ya know? I've found out that you really hafta discipline yourself in order to keep long-distance friendships and relationships. I love talking to people, but I sometimes have to force myself to call old friends just so we can stay current and such. I think commitment and discipline are two traits i need to work on. Anyone else deal with this? Friday nite was a blast too. NOT! Well, it wasn't too bad. I hadta travel with a deejay to oklahoma city and do a corporate Christmas party for the Farm Bureau. It was a good lil party, but i hate doing deejay shows. After the alcohol starts affecting people, that's when the nuts come back to the deejay booth and start requesting stuff and trying to carry on a conversation. It's nuts. By the way, go support my friend Adam Watts and go vote at this site for Jesse McCartney's music video. Adam writes a bunch of stuff for Jesse and they're trying to make this song, Beautiful Soul, a #1 hit. It's got a positive message, which is sometimes rare in today's mainstream industry. Here's the link: http://www.mtv.com/onair/trl/votevideo.jhtml Well, i better get ready and do something productive today :) Constipation - The Waiting Game. Just thought of that =) Caio Mein, +Jenkins
12-12-04
mood: gotta go poo A Change Will Do You Good. I like doing different stuff. Ya know, routines kinda suck sometimes. I hadta get outta the house for a couple of days here in Tulsa so momma and daughter could have some girl time. Alan (the dad) went fishing for 2 days and I was going to be stuck at the warehouse in the crew bunk room. I'm used to do nothing, but i really didn't want to work at the warehouse, and then sleep at the warehouse for 2 days. Along comes a new friend from Owasso First Assembly, Gerry, and we hit it off and have been hangin' out for the past 2 days. Lol, he's got a cool lil bachelor's pad at his parents house, so i crashed there the past two nites, hung out with other friends, and saw Blade Trilogy and Oceans 12. All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun. But it's costing too much money!!! hahahha. Wow, i made the mistake of going to the mall yesterday. First off, it took 30 minutes to get off the freeway, down the street a few blocks, and into a parking spot. It. Was. INSANE. Originally i was just gonna get a new pair of shoes. Yeah right. I'm kinda thrifty, so i found some good deals i couldn't pass up at The Gap, Hollister, and The Buckle. Finally found some shoes at Journeys that i liked, and i got tha heck outta there! I'll probably go back later this week and get some gifts for the parents and friends. I really needta watch my spending habits... i don't think i'm getting materialistic... i'm just finding reasons (and justifying them ever so) to buy stuff. So pray about that with me when ya think 'bout it. My Favorite Mistake. Sorry. It's just next on the playlist. Well, i better get... church is gonna start here shortly and i needta make my way there. I saw this on the sign outside of Hooters yesterday... thought it was inspirational. lol. CHOW! "Sometimes you wake up and feel like you're the pigeon, other days you're the statue." -stankins 12-08-04
mood: holy frikkin
cow!! I was gonna blog tonite so i could catch up with what's going on, but i KNEW i had to blog once i had my wal-mart encounter tonite. I seriously could have spent $300 on dvd's tonite and i don't know why. Honestly, i went to wal-mart in Sand Springs, OK to just get a bottled water (my throat has been bad and it's scratchy right now) and some cash back. Well, stupid me, i go to electronics and browse the dvd's... first mistake... then i saw that the 2nd release of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour is out... then The Bourne Supremecy is out. So in order to buy the Bourne Supremecy, i need to buy The Bourne Identity in order to have a complete set, right? right. And then I see that DodgeBall is out... gotta get that. Then i begin browsing the dvd collections - which is really my favorite thing ever (i'm hoping to get the Die Hard Trilogy for Christmas =). And would you know, low and behold, HOME IMPROVEMENT - THE FIRST SEASON is FINALLY on dvd. You just don't understand, this is a huge moment for me. I stood there flabbergasted. In awe. In unbelief. I begin to wonder if my first night of sex will ever match up to this. hahahahhah So i add Home Improvement to the cart. And at this point, i can't stop shopping for dvds. I look a lil further down the shelf... AND THE THIRD SEASON OF '24' IS OUT!!!! AND IT'S MINE!!!! MOOOOWAHAHAHHAHAHHA... ALL MINE!!! I begin to convince myself that sex can't be this good. lol. But friends have told me otherwise, so i'll take their word for it =). So after I calm down and realize that 1) i'm a friggin idiot, 2) i'm a friggin moron, and 3) i really can't afford this... i put back everything. Well, almost everything. lol. I kept '24' season 3 and Home Improvement Season 1. Heck yeah. So, what should have been about a $21 transaction (water + cash back) ended totaling $118.17 (24, Home Improvement, Dasani water, $20 cash back). I'm pathetic. Quote me on that. Anyhoo, i'm still in Tulsa doing some lighting & sound stuff with Integrity. Rehearsal tonite at the church was pretty lame. The choir and orchestra was all in different keys. It stunk so bad i could smell it. hahahha. sorry :( Thankfully, all the lighting was decent; i got a few things to touch up and it'll be okay. Unfortunately, the choir doesn't have as much soul as the choir on the cd that i programmed to. So the lights are moving and changing colors, and the choir is white country people singing black gospel songs. Doesn't quite match up. Actually, it's kinda awkward... lol. So yeah, that's about it for today. Another day, another dollar. Hollah balla!
-stankins
12-06-04
mood: sore throat,
diggin' Ny-Quil Well gang, i'm back in Tulsa... doin what i love, lovin' what i do =). No, not bartending. LIGHTING, SILLY! That was gay. Anyhoo, Friday i drove up and then we hadta load in at a Marriot Hotel at 2pm for a lil corporate thing. Well, this lil corporate thing ended up being 3 hours of my life that i'll never get back. It was a frikkin Elvis impersonator and he had some sidekick with him trying to be someone else also. I swear, it was horrible!!!! I could have watched paint dry on a wall and been more excited. And it's not that i don't like Elvis' music, this guy was just bad. Scratch that. Ghastly or atrocious would be a better word. But the gig went good, nonetheless. I was stupid and left my camera at the warehouse. The Elvis dood told me he forgot the words to one of the songs because he was watching the lights do movements and patterns on the walls. Loser. Saturday night got a lil better. I went and did sound at Tulsa University for a group called The Butter and Sugar Show. The guys introduced themselves to me as "Butter" and of course, "Sugar." side note: i had trouble the entire nite talking to this guy and calling him "Sugar." You figure it out :) Good lil mainstream band. Had some funny songs, a few a lil risqué, and they did some covers too. What totally blew me away is they helped me load out all my gear... which was totally the bomb-diggidy. (Spell check just freaked out, lol). They were like "Yeah man, we really don't mind helpin' ya out. If we didn't think you were cool we woulda told you to f-off a long time ago bro." I guess that's a compliment. =) Well.... giddy up... i'm goin' to bed. peace!
-stankins
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