The Adventure

2011-04-10T20:14:00.001-05:00

head over to: http://young-until-i-die.blogspot.com/

will be updating photos there

it's been a year

2011-02-21T23:44:00.009-06:00

2010-01-17T16:41:00.002-06:00

Audiobooks

2010-01-04T08:34:00.002-06:00

Thanks to demonoid and a friend of mine, mr Brandon Tridle (by the way check out his photos, he's pretty good and I'm stoked on his photos always).

Anyways I finished this one:

David Cross: I drink for a reason

I must say I haven't laughed this hard in a long time, of course alone. I highly recommend to read or listen to this one if you are into that kind of sarcastic type of low brow humor. Plus it's David Cross. Just a comical genius!

Now I'm onto a different one:

George Carlin: Napalm and silly putty

So good so far! I just started so can't give out an opinion.

Anyways since I'm lazy and I won't read books I'll let them read it for me, and besides I already have enough shit to read this year. Will report back with maybe, possibly an opinion or two. Mind you they'll be quite short.

2010-01-03T02:50:00.000-06:00

The little critter that gives me the worst allergies, too cute though

2009-12-27T15:16:00.003-06:00

2009-11-30T00:31:00.003-06:00

2009-11-30T00:09:00.005-06:00

So I've been listening to a lot of skatepunk, and here are some recommended bands to get into:

http://www.myspace.com/secondshot

this band is up there, reminds me of nofx

http://www.myspace.com/dustboxjp

one of my favoriate japanese pop punk bands, I can't let go of their last album sometimes it just keeps going on repeat

and here's one more
http://www.myspace.com/lostinlinestyles

new addition, great band nice and fast

this should keep you busy if you're into it

2009-11-19T00:15:00.001-06:00

Morrissey, I would love to see this man sing again. The first time (and only) I saw him was in April. I honestly was more excited about seeing him then any of my favorite bands, not sure what it was could of been the hype, either way I cannot wait to see this or hear another album.
On another topic I'm glad to wire back on the ol blog and I will be taking photos again soon I've been lacking. Maybe this weekend I'll post some photos, though I need a new camera 

2009-11-17T20:02:00.001-06:00

I'm back, but no one read this shit no more haha
here it goes!

today sucks

2008-12-19T12:47:00.000-06:00

Not much is happening when its blisterinh cold out
Also i'd like to post photos but cabt on this app so you'll read mind numbing text, almost feels like im twittering but with a lot more then a few words.

from the iphone

2008-12-18T19:51:00.000-06:00

Mobile Blogging from here.

Is where i'll be blogging

2008-12-14T12:22:00.002-06:00

I went and saw suicidal tendencies on Thursday, they played with madball, show was amazing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xbrauliox/sets/72157611252324584/ (madball's set)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xbrauliox/sets/72157611252298186/ (suicidal's set )

go check out the photos, I'm not too stoked on suicidal's photos but I don't care their set blew me away, the only thing that sucked was that they didn't play institutionalized but that's ok they played possessed to skate

good times

2008-11-09T19:07:00.002-06:00

I got a cheap deck 8" so stoked! and every first sunday of the month we're renting this skatepark, I'm pretty happy about

I'm also growing out my hair, I need a change. I'm seeing suicidal tendencies with madball, what an awesome line up, I can't wait. I will have some photos of the show my only problem will be crossing the border

this is my buddy steve dude rules at skating, he's aggressive

again check out the flickr I upload photos there, it's on my link
more updates I lack a lot on this thing but only cause I update on my flickr

also I love this blog: http://skatepunkers.blogspot.com/

2008-10-23T23:23:00.002-05:00

please check out my flick I have a ton of photos there
as far as updates go, I'm getting better at getting a grip on reality
i hope I can be 100% healed and not give a fuck anymore about caring

2008-09-16T22:09:00.002-05:00

I got my lens finally and wow, this thing is amazing, by far my new favorite lens

it's smooth fast focus but man my only complaint is that it drains the battery quite fast, I'm going to have to buy a new battery for back up, and more flash cards I couldn't help myself I kept snapping away that I ran out of space real quick.

I decided to use my 35mm going out tomorrow in hopes to to get back into film I miss it a lot we'll see how it goes

for now I'm in love with this lens

2008-08-24T22:57:00.002-05:00

well my ipod died, so I opted for a new one only to hear that there is word that apple is coming out with new ipods this sept.... this happened to me when I bought the broke ipod and when I bought my d200 nikon camera, technology can take a hike. My macbook is taking a beating and it's plastic is falling apart so I have to service it.... such a set back also have to buy an apple care plan which is 299
fucking christ sake

and I haven't gotten my lens yet...
anyways here's some good news, I'm back at it with my old chums WERD!

2008-08-21T01:03:00.002-05:00

Well i got my iphone but no lens, jesus christ how long do I have to wait?!
I want it, so I can just stop dreaming about using it and actually have it in my hands... awww

well I'm annoyed by the high iso my d200 omits. So bad, I think I'm gonna save up for a d300 we'll see how things go, first I want that damn lens!!!!

2008-08-13T22:40:00.002-05:00

Wow, I feel like such a clown, I have single handedly embarrassed myself so many times, I'm not as tough as I thought I was. The one thing that broke me down was a girl, I always thought I'd be the one to walk away but fuck I have been dragging this on and on. Things are looking up I think, life is like a stock meter, one day you're happy on top of the world and everything crumbles and there is no one to pick you up. As much as people say they've got friends to back you up, I mean don't get me wrong I love my friends but in this world you won't survive the way i have been acting. I'm not going to keep this vauge, this is about loosing someone I loved a lot and it tears me up inside that I can't do anything to save it.
Anyways enough of the bullshit emotions, shit is done over time to move on and grab my balls and walk away. I got an iphone today, this thing fucking rules HAHAHA hello money pit. I'm still waiting for my lens to come in I have been waiting for about 2 weeks maybe, it isn't much of a wait but man I want that thing in my hands!!! I hope it comes in tomorrow or I'm going to loose it haha.
I have tried to take more photos, I went for a walk the other day and I'm glad I did it check out my flickr on my link, I will host some photos but not all cause it takes such a long time to hot link these pictures so I'll give you a sample. Saw death before dishonor trapped under ice terror cool dudes chillin and ever green tarrace, man I'm glad hardcore is still alive here, such a great show, good turn out. I remember when death before dishonor came, they were here with agnostic front and I'm kicking myself for not going!!! so shitty that I missed it
anyways I'm gonna try and take some shots on saturday there is a skate comp going from what I'm told
here enjoy these

2008-07-19T00:04:00.002-05:00

Haven't posted in a long time, I've been stuck in this awful rut, such a depressive state that I think I'm ready get back in to my camera and take some photos again, I've been talk and talking about the 70-200 2.8 vr lens a lot and I think I have caved in and I'm going to take a huge debt plunge. Well not a huge one but I'll be strapped for cash until the 1st of August I hope.
Besides being pathetic nothing is new, work is mediocre, gym progress is getting better I've been thinking about kinesiology a lot and I'm going to go to school for it, and do photography on the side, once I get my lenses together I'll start to make a portfolio and I'll get back into film again. I haven't used my film camera is so long.

anyways I'll leave you with this

2008-06-23T01:50:00.002-05:00

2008-06-19T19:52:00.002-05:00

I got a flickr account
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xbrauliox/
will host pictures from the site

in other news, broken hearts heal real slow

2008-06-13T00:22:00.000-05:00

2008-06-03T00:56:00.000-05:00

I hate blogger this contrast bullshit is making me sick, I'm upgrading to a better site

2008-06-02T23:55:00.006-05:00

Gravemaker

2008-06-02T23:13:00.005-05:00

Withdrawl

2008-06-02T22:59:00.002-05:00

The ALX

2008-05-25T01:57:00.004-05:00

2008-05-19T17:13:00.003-05:00

2008-05-13T00:16:00.002-05:00

2008-04-21T22:02:00.002-05:00

Working on a project for a friend this was one of my favorite pictures, once I get more money I'm gonna buy some studio lights I'm really enjoying this

2008-04-12T22:42:00.005-05:00

2008-04-10T00:38:00.002-05:00

So a jobless man is a lazy man, no motivation, I thought without having a job I'd be out taking pictures of whatever, turns out I'm too lazy to do anything, so what do I do?

Well let me sum it up for you

man this is the most addicting game I have ever played, got some games happening with some dudes I met over at the b9 board

Also I've been working out extensively, so I can't say that I'm that lazy.

Rich got an iphone, so I was stoked on it, I got to play it and now I want one. I got the pwnage tool and all the files I need to hack it. Just need a job so I can buy the damn thing hahah

Also this is by far one of the best sites I've came across http://www.tintoyarcade.com/?gclid=COCGo9_b0JACFQSlQAodDg9nQg
They sell vintage tin toys at an affordable price (they're replicas of course). If you're into it check it out, the wind up toy on my banner is what I mean.

and last but not least

this album rules! so into it

I'll be taking pictures shortly

2008-04-01T00:55:00.001-05:00

2008-03-18T23:25:00.006-05:00

Andrew W.K.

2008-03-06T19:56:00.003-06:00

There isn't much to do when it's cold out, I hate the winter I'd rather stay in. Missed a few shows due to my lack of of motivation and just being a hermit. But summer is looking good, I'm going to buy the Nikon 10.5 mm and save up for another flash slave it and get some skate pictures. I'm reading about the d3 and the more I think about it the more I want to try out a full frame camera but dishing out 5000 is not something I want to do haha, my wide angle lens would appreciate that camera a lot. I learned how to finally use my bracketing function, I didn't understand it at first but now I got. I just don't get how I can set it for 2 increments instead of 1.
I'm gonna force myself to go out this weekend and take some pictures maybe I'll run into some kind of idea.

2008-02-15T19:29:00.005-06:00

2008-02-02T15:28:00.000-06:00

today is my birthday, so far life has been good to me
it's going to be sad leaving some friends for a while but it'll be to get out and explore
it's also good to eat like a mad man at

2008-01-24T20:05:00.000-06:00

2008-01-24T01:08:00.000-06:00

Man this brings back good memories, I love this song and I wish I heard more stuff like this these days. So I'm going to be heading down south for a few months. This time I'll definitely take pictures of it, me and rich will head out tomorrow to take some pictures of china town hopefully. It won't be -45C so I'll probably play around with some hdr haven't used photomatix in a while and I'm excited to try it out again.

2008-01-22T02:25:00.000-06:00

2008-01-16T22:15:00.000-06:00

k so lately it has been ultra cold to bust out my camera

but I think next week since I don't work anymore I'll be going around snapping some pictures, hopefully me and rich go to the wind farm I have some ideas floating around

anyways all you need to know is that vanilla muffins are an awesome band

2007-12-29T19:33:00.001-06:00

2007-12-25T14:31:00.000-06:00

me and rich went out took some pictures, he bought a holga camera, that thing looks dope I think I want one now
anyways we went out around his bock

2007-12-22T15:24:00.000-06:00

Disconnected

2007-12-16T19:22:00.000-06:00

http://www.myspace.com/comebackkid

2007-12-09T00:05:00.000-06:00

just dickin around with my camera today thought I'd put it to good use for once haha

2007-12-08T17:07:00.000-06:00

2007-12-07T23:48:00.000-06:00

I can't wait!!!! pretty stoked on the upgrade for tuesday
I just watched the tutorial video that was posted on apple.com
my jaw dropped and I think I just came

HA!
anyways I'm going to be doing some overtime the last weeks I'll be at work, get some extra cash to head down to see the ol lady I haven't posted any pictures cause it's been by far too cold to go out and take some, but I'll bring my camera tomorrow and snap a few on my way to work

2007-12-03T23:47:00.000-06:00

So I took a break from weight lifting, had almost a month off and now I'm back at it
bought nano vapor, wow this stuff fucking rules! This month and the next will consist of some grueling work outs. I've been skipping rope and I'm starting to keep up a good pace, sooner or later I will loose some stomach fat which is always a good thing. I'm going to buy some fish oil and some testosterone supplement. I can't wait to work out now I got some different work out plans. Great stuff something to look forward to now.

I'm on level 53 on cod4, if anyone out there with a ps3 wants to add me my psn - xbrauliox hit me up!

now I leave you with this

ska has been the choice this week for music, op ivy rules I revamped the energy album I'm stoked on it again

2007-12-02T21:17:00.000-06:00

So this is kind of pathetic, but I mean this sucks. This device was pretty much part of my life, these days people get so attached to things and I'm talking about gadgets and other junk that helps them in their every day life. I must say this thing stored everything I had about my life into it's little memory. Make no mistakes I'm kind of glad the expense of it was kind of brutal but it did do a lot for me. I can't keep it though since I'm going to be living somewhere else and I guess this is blog worthy, in any case I'm not going to be easy to get a hold of.

Good bye friend you served me well. I hope to upgrade to an iphone

Daggermouth

2007-11-27T01:18:00.000-06:00

Daggermouth

2007-11-27T01:04:00.000-06:00

2007-11-25T17:55:00.000-06:00

2007-11-17T23:44:00.000-06:00

so this is what I have been doing lately, neglecting everything else, fuck this game is soooo good. I have never been addictive to any video games at all I usually just play for like an hour tops but not with this. I have just been online gaming it trying to get my rank up as high as I can. My poor camera needs to take pictures but I don't think that's happening anytime soon hahah
also I need to get back to the gym but for now I'm gonna kills some mofos.

Lately the playlis has been oi and pop punk

2007-11-04T23:51:00.000-06:00

2007-10-28T11:42:00.000-05:00

mac rules

2007-10-25T22:37:00.000-05:00

2007-10-11T01:55:00.000-05:00

the weather outside is getting crappy, wet and cold
can't take pictures and I do'nt feel like going aorund my house taking pictures and trying to be macro artsy
so I leave you with this awesome video/song

2007-10-07T18:08:00.000-05:00

2007-10-06T02:03:00.000-05:00

2007-10-06T00:42:00.000-05:00

me and rich went out took some pictures of our city skyline, our city skyline kinda blows so here's what I took

2007-10-05T23:29:00.000-05:00

Just some dicking around at walker's garage it was fun but it was so hard to pump on that mini, ghetto as fuck but so much fun!
winter is coming so I guess we're going to be skating parkades, just like when I was young :)

2007-09-30T03:30:00.000-05:00

2007-09-27T01:03:00.000-05:00

2007-09-26T20:41:00.000-05:00

2007-09-26T20:22:00.000-05:00

2007-09-26T18:09:00.000-05:00

The Alx
and I'm not sure how my pictures got rotated they were rotated by blogger so I don't know

2007-09-26T02:03:00.000-05:00

2007-09-23T02:04:00.000-05:00

2007-09-05T15:18:00.000-05:00

Josh was a great friend, I remember skating with him years back we broke into this skate park that was run by a church I remember bringing my bolt cutters cause they had chained it up I don't remember how old I was I must have been 20 or 19. But fuck that night was so much fun josh kept bailing and we all laughed and it was the greatest night we all had. I think the last time I saw him was walking down this strip he was with his girlfriend and he gave me his number to call him to skate, but I never did.

fuck and now he's gone he was an amazing person, fun to be around, you can't forget a person like Josh. I wish I skated with him once more the stories I heard about him were so funny.

I'm gonna miss you man

2007-08-29T23:35:00.000-05:00

2007-08-27T00:08:00.000-05:00

2007-08-24T22:19:00.000-05:00

My first hdr ha it sucks but I was just testing the program

2007-08-20T23:07:00.000-05:00

it's 2:23 in the morning, why can't I sleep?!

2007-08-18T20:55:00.000-05:00

2007-08-18T01:26:00.001-05:00

2007-08-12T15:58:00.000-05:00

2007-08-10T23:31:00.001-05:00

2007-08-10T23:28:00.001-05:00

2007-08-10T23:24:00.000-05:00

2007-08-08T23:30:00.001-05:00

On Our Side

2007-08-06T04:02:00.000-05:00

2007-08-06T02:54:00.000-05:00

2007-08-06T02:01:00.000-05:00

2007-08-04T16:21:00.000-05:00

the early morning skate crew, good times :]

2007-07-30T22:43:00.000-05:00

my collection of toys so far, hopefully I can find more vintage tin toys,

2007-07-30T00:03:00.000-05:00

2007-07-29T02:44:00.000-05:00

So I guess this camera is doing me a good thing, I've been snapping quite a lot of pictures, getting tips here and there from people so that's awesome, I don't really say much on here other then a few things posted about the picture. Two years ago I bought a camera, it was a nikon em, and before that I took graphic design course in high school, I always wanted to get a camera since that course, cause I went and developed the photo myself and I thought this was pretty rad so now I'm here taking an abundance of photos, still learning, I'm just an ameture and I appreciate all the good feedback I get. Thank you.

So I guess I'll let you know what's been going on with my life if you decide to care. I work as a customs broker at the moment, hopefully soon I will go back to school, I have a girl I care for very much, we'll get into that later, way later and right now I just got out of a foot injury so today I started skating again, I've been out for 2 months now, this injury has been the worst I've been in, nothing's put me out for 2 months, maybe I'm getting older harder to heal. When I was young I would hurl myself down any set of stairs, now a days.... not so much

Anyways I'm running out of things to say, it's sleepy time, going skateboarding tomorrow morning. Good night

oh, one more pictureL: off camera flash (wireless)

2007-07-28T21:55:00.000-05:00

2007-07-28T21:47:00.000-05:00

2007-07-28T12:30:00.000-05:00

a bug's life, I used an improvised meothod to do this kind of like a cheap man macro but I guess it kinda works, obviously there are a few discrepencies like not all of the picture is going to be focused but whatever I think these two pictures are neat

this however is used with a vr macro zoom 1600 lense and it is an amazing lense I want to get the cheap version the 60mm no vr macro lense, look at all the gunk in the coin
right here is the real fisheye, mine gets cropped out so this is what it's supposed to look like this is a 10.5 so I think when it goes in my camera it's 17, so mine is a 16 I think when it goes on my camera it becomes a 24 "wide angle" and I know some of you will probably dislike the use of fishey, saying it's a usless lense, I beg to difer especially when I want to get into skateboarding used quite a lot, great lense not for everyone

2007-07-28T01:56:00.000-05:00

Darkest hour

Goat Whore

Amon Amarth

2007-07-27T01:09:00.000-05:00

This was my first attempt to do multiple exposure(that actually worked), needless to say I'm quite happy, I tried it once, got the "ghost" effect, got some tips so there you go
I don't own 3 phones, and the pink trim, yeah don't worry about it :)

2007-07-26T01:50:00.000-05:00

2007-07-25T00:13:00.000-05:00

2007-07-24T00:03:00.000-05:00

2007-07-23T23:32:00.000-05:00

2007-07-22T20:40:00.000-05:00

2007-07-22T02:30:00.000-05:00

so I went out and inveted on a new camera, pretty stoked on the purchase and she takes great pictures, I'm not using film anymore, only for black and white cause I can develop that myself, and that's pretty fun so a lot more updates, I've been neglectful for a reason haha insuficient funds with film