South American Vultures

There are these big black vultures that flies around where I do my foot patrolling. Few residents including a dude that works there says they have a wing span up to 7 feet but I know that's a little exaggerated. One thing that could be accurate though is that they are called South American Vultures. And they are not as nastier than the well known scavenger type vultures. It's pretty woody where I work at, and when sundown about to come, these birds flocks around, sounding like some tree branch about to fall down on me, but it's always just them birds. Lots of them man, like some cool looking demons flying around up around the sky and right above and around the trees. And now, I realize, as well as realizing that the weather continues to be unusual as it rains while sunny and at the same time stormy with some rainbow also present, these vultures does not belong in the area (north america). Them vultures are from Brazil like the Amazon. The residents says not to worry too much about their droppings because these vultures only eats clean foods, and there feces are not as acidic than the African Vultures where they drop like some atom bombs that melts your skin through your bones.

Here's my footage of them South American Vultures...

Condo Unit ###

I heard how crazy the resident was, and since it was a woman in her early 40's I didn't really think much of it. Just watch for flying objects every time I passed by her apartment. I was told she throws glass objects a lot. And most of it are broken glass. The residents that knew her says she was a normal person when they met her a year before. She had a job as a nurse, she was unto all kinds of outdoor activities and was really fit for her age. And then I was also told that she started having some relationship issues that caused her mental issues. And then, because of that mental issues, she probably lost her job as a nurse. It's pretty common to some people to have similar problems. But to my surprised, when I was asked to watch over a maintenance one day, this woman was really crazy. I've seen trashed out homes before but this one is more like a hurricane had been renting in. The residents also says she's been apprehended and was in the hospital. But it was a little unusual to see her out few days later and allowed to go back to her apartment to take her things casually. I even seen her getting her cigarette lit up by a resident that knew her. I asked that same person who lit up her cigarette about her condition the next day, and he says shes just taking her things, and after that she'll be officially gone. He even gave her a ride and payed for her to have a place to stay for the night. I think it was Marriot Hotel. And I was again, disbelief because she should be in a hospital for some rehab, but Marriot Hotel?


Shes got all kinds of magazines. Really normal chick stuff. There are even relationship notes posted on her fridge. But no one was really there but her. I rather not say what was written.


This lady gotta be on something to be able to tear her doors up like this.


Makes me wonder when was the last time she actually used this bathroom.

The Lost Boys

RIP Corey Haim
This movie reminds me of some old friends from the 80's. Specially my old neighbor and The Boys Club. It was called The Boys Club back in the early 80's and then it turned unto The Boys and Girls Club. For some reason, I think it's more of a baby sitting place now, than summer camps type of program. Makes me wonder what is up with them other kids. It's the year 2010 now and still there's no flying cars. Just military type recruits from the streets and beyond. Most people don't have much of a choice I guess, certain skills belongs to the ones that can afford to buy uthorities and control over societies more and more, and some of them ain't really safe because their main skills are hustling, than producing adaptable creations. When it does comes to creations, a sample of that are fast and hybrid engine cars with no breaks. And does flies about 30 to 60 feet high from up above the freeways and landing to the roof tops of the trailer parks. I could be wrong though, these are just few things that I see and hear from the news, and my sarcastic opinions.

Other than that, The Lost Boys is an awesome movie. Makes me wanna go up to Santa Cruz and walks around like a vampire slayer around the boardwalk at midnight after reading some collectible comic books. Don't take this literally now, this is just a reminisces of my teen years.

Radio Check

These are where I be doing patrols at. Sometimes I drive and most of the time I do a lot of walking. Right now, I am stationed to two different places...

One is a Motor Place

Mercedes


and Infiniti

The other is a Residential Area

The Clubhouse


and The Residents

Small Plane Crashes Into Texas IRS Bldg

They said it's a twin engine plane. It could be one of the twin engine jet planes that most rockstars use for flying. Which are a little bigger than a single engine plane, with a propeller. The first thing that came to mind when it was mentioned that it was Texas, and that the building was an IRS angency, was the home grown mellisias or perhaps just a coincedental accident. It can't be from a islamist extemist groups because those soldiers usually targets areas with lots of people around or within an area. But then small planes crashes most of the time, ducks and pigeons usually gets sucked inside the plane's engines, or smashed itself to the plane's windshield.

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Unknown Title

Is it valentine today or yesterday or tomorrow...? Sometimes it's hard to tell when having shifts on mixed days, from swings, mornings, and graves. No I ain't complaining here, so far so good, and I am satisfied with the off times. Plenty of time to do music and other things that needs to get done. Never the less, as a security officer, there are always that common concerns. I will blog a small glimpse of where I am stationed later. Not too much details for safety reasons (only) and privacy of the clients. One station is only 5 minutes away from where I live. The other is in a different city but it's the closest city from mine. Pretty cool and luxurious, almost like going on a hike in the woods, along with electronic motors and peacefull residents...

Anyway, I posted this video yesterday in youtube. I really dig how it is composed, and it has cool rhythm. Pretty classy. Good for sampling. The only thing is that, I have no idea what the title of this track is. The album is in Japanese...

Badge and Uniform

This could be my last blog for now, but then I realized I need to keep track to some informations on this page. So mind as well keep it. Speaking of what are needed, I got hooked up of being productive again (tax). Thanks to a Godson whose been in the same company for two years. Hopefully I can save up for the other things I need. And among other things. (like rent).


I showed my guard card, got interviewed, took a four hours test, and got me the badge. I even got pulled over by a cop on my way there.


And these are the uniform. My feet were sore, felt really tired, had a head ache, but I had enough sleep to regain my senses, and ready for the next shift.

Ableton Live Demo

Messing with Ableton Live Demo and I accidentally click on record while jamming. Mostly break beats, tr-808 beats, reggae beats, some crazy sounding synth fx, and few scratch samples from DJ Q-bert. You can't save on this demo, so mind as well record it on video and share it. I have the full version of Ableton Live but I stupidly placed the RAMs on the carpet while vacuuming the dust out from my Apple G5 Tower. I am gonna have to wait till I get new RAMs, and hopfully soon. For now, I am stuck with my old laptop that are compatible only to demos, as well as doing sequencing in my MPC, just to relief some stress man. I guess I was too comfortable on Logic Studio, that I was somewhat intimidated to Ableton Live 3 years ago, or maybe 4. So far the basic in Ableton Live is pretty flexible. Now it makes more sense, of how much more flexible that would be if I hook it up with Akai MPD32 or Akai APC-40...

Cigarette

This is the farthest I can get close to the outdoors at the moment, I mean I've been further as far of driving goes, but when it comes to nature, this is it for now. I went to the backyard few days ago wishing of having a cigarette (actually I quit smoking), it was not raining, and the skies looks pretty cool enough to photograph. Looks so inviting. Then I remember the notes I've been writing during the summer time and thought about maybe going a little further, not too far, just at the park near by...

Free TR-808 Samples

A day or two before the earthquake in Haiti there was a 4.1 earthquake and few little shock before that in the bay area. The local news says the center of the earthquake was in Milpitas City, just a few miles from the house. Today the clouds are making noises again for about 3 days now, there are loud thunders but I didn't notice any lightnings. Supposedly, there was this hardcore storm that was gonna blow away some roof tops, but that didn't happened today as expected.

And man, I was right about my optimism about the place where I got interviewed. What ever it was, my nightmares seemed to gone away. The memory when I was around 13 probably hunted me till then and forgot about the source of it. It is not very pleasant to see. The photographs I've seen sent from my folk's work looks so happy back then, and I didn't had any idea what was behind it. No, they didn't do any bad things, it just made me more realize what they had to see to make a living. Science is amazing man, and creepy at the same time. I mean if you are an artist and all, what people find as normal can creep you up sometimes. Well most of the time. I don't mean to point out anyone in a bad ways either, it's my own personal perspective on things, some people are stronger in the mind than others, just depends if they even notice them.

Anyways, I downloaded some TR-808 samples over the internet and load them up to my MPC. Made a simple sequence and it sounds pretty authentic enough. Added few jam to it with a synth and key strings. Trying to balance old school beat, retro, and classic into modern. It's a little out of jam but I will clean it up and perhaps make a full track out of it. Thanks to this site from The TR-808 Zone for their free samples.