Pink Triangle (Cover)

My Top 15 Favorite Bands Right Now

15. Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes

14. Anathallo

13. Cake

12. Kings of Convenience

11. Arcade Fire

10. Electric President

9. Coconut Records

8. Dirty Projectors

7. Broken Bells

6. The Temper Trap

5. Pinback

4. Portugal. The Man.

3. The Republic Tigers

2. Local Natives

1. Thom Yorke/Radiohead

Honorary Prospects

The Acorn

Emiliana Torrini

Justice

Peter Bjorn and John

Spoon

The XX

Gorillaz

Cursive

Top 15 All-Time Favorite Bands

15. Red Hot Chili Peppers

14. Steely Dan

13. The Shins

12. Gorillaz

11. Jimmy Eat World

10. Jethro Tull

9. Incubus

8. Brand New

7. Modest Mouse

6. Cursive

5. Death Cab For Cutie

4. Cake

3. Yes

2. Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes

1. Thom Yorke/Radiohead

Honorary Prospects

Portugal. The man.

The Dismemberment Plan

Fine Young Cannibals

Phantom Planet

Pink Floyd

Wilco

The Good Life

Taking Back Sunday

My Top Ten Favorite Movies (First Draft)

10. The Princess Bride

9. 28 Days Later

8. The Science of Sleep

7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

6. Donnie Darko

5. City of God

4. The Darjeeling Limited

3. The Graduate

2. Garden State

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Roadtrip Day 1

Hello. Today I began a cross-country roadtrip with my two friends Richard and Isaac. We have been driving all day and now I am exhausted, so this post will be quite brief. Today we drove from Bakersfield, CA to Flagstaff, AZ. We drove through Las Vegas just for kicks, then went to see the Hoover Dam between Nevada and Arizona. From there we came to Flagstaff and spent about an hour trying to find the best deal on a hotel room, settling on a Super 8 motel which included free wifi and breakfast. Some memorable moments so far have been hanging on to the back of a semi truck on a longboard on our way to Vegas, seeing the van in front of us shatter their windshield with an exploding bird, and watching Isaac spit off the side of the Hoover Dam only to have the wind bring it right back at him. So many good times already and it's only the first day. I'm looking forward to the free breakfast tomorrow and seeing the Grand Canyon in the morning. Sorry for the boring first post, im tired. Goodnight.

You're Not You

I realized something today that I feel like I need to warn people about. I was playing around on photobooth and I hit the "Flip Photo" button. The effects of this button are mind-blowing. I did it and it immediately turned my good picture into a terrible one. I had just switched it back to the way it was when it hit me. The way the picture looks originally is the same way I see myself every day when I look into the mirror. It's a flipped image. That is not what everyone else sees, unless there is someone who happens to brush their teeth at the same time as you every morning and again before bed. I always knew that about mirrors, but I had never realized how different I looked in real life. I regretfully continued to flip all the photos of me in the past year. It was shocking. I am not who I thought I was. But then I reasoned with myself. I mean, all of our unbalanced features are probably so noticeable to us because our eyes have adjusted to our own faces that we see in the mirror. This makes it so that when we see the way we really are, the asymmetry is basically double what someone who has never seen us sees. I hope you are still following, because this is some serious stuff. Now, the people who have seen us and know us well have probably also adjusted to the asymmetry of our faces, so what they see of us is okay. What a relief, right? Wrong. Think about all of the photobooth pictures you show people or post on facebook. They might look great to you, but because your friends don't usually see you in the mirror, this means that the x2 asymmetry that we experience when we hit that awful button is now being seen from the eyes of the people who we know. No one can tell exactly how another's mind interprets images from the eye, but the math suggests this theory to be quite true.

Think twice before you show off your favorite picture of you, you narcissist.

Life changing..

PS. If you have the film stock effect on your photobooth and you choose to use it, go ahead and publish it to the world, you look great.

For a Minute I Lost Myself

Hi.

Lovely weather we have been having

Today I ate a black bean and pepper jack cheese quesadilla.

I don't like black beans

I liked the quesadilla.

Funny how those things work out.

I never work out.

Its not that I'm against it, I really have no feelings about it at all.

I say this stupid little thing like,

"Real men get buff without going to the gym."

But it doesn't mean anything.

It's just what I say.

I don't know why, it's not even funny.

I cut one of my nails too short today.

It was my right thumb.

The thumb I use to hit the space bar.

It's uncomfortable.

Each time I hit the return key,

That's one less time I have to hit the space bar.

This blog sucks.

Raise your hand if you are reading.

That sounds depressing, but it's not how it was intended.

I'm happy in general.

I like that only a few people read this.

Keeps it intimate.

Hello you.

I know exactly who you are.

I imagine all 5 of us sitting in a circle.

And I am talking in a very quiet, calming voice.

We are in the very same classroom in which I attended kindergarten.

But there are no desks, only a large round rug.

We sit Native American style.

I address Benjamin.

"Hey man I'm excited for summer."

and

"Dude! I'm pretty positive I'm going to THE Lost Finale Party in LA. I have a ticket. I'm going to see if maybe I can get you one. The cast is going to be there and everything, it's quite a big deal."

Then back to everyone.

I am going to try to make an effort to consider updating this thing more often.

But no promises.

Did you ever read the book

But No Elephants!

?

Where do you put the question mark?

But No Elephants!? no

But No Elephants!...? no

Anyways, a good book from my childhood.

I am exhausted.

Goodnight everyone.

"Hey, what's up?"....."Good, you?"

Hello everybody, world. I did not write over break, but I think it's time I started back up again. At least until I get bored. Anyways, today was weird. It started off weird and pretty much stayed that way all day. When I woke up, I went into the bathroom to take a shower, but the little shower was being used, and it's almost never being used at 9:45 in the morning, Monday through Friday. Normally, I would have waited until it opened up, but I just didn't have enough time today, so I was forced to take a shower in the ridiculously huge handicap stall. I thought it wouldn't be too bad, but I forgot how terrible it is in there. You feel so open and awkward. It definitely does not have the comfort and security that the small stall offers. Plus, every part of your body that is not under the direct stream of water is significantly colder in the big stall. The little one kind of acts like a steam room and gets all warm and comfy even when you step out of the flow of water. It felt like the water pressure was less strong too, but that is going to require some further investigation some other time. So since then, I've just been in this weird funk all day. I'm walking through campus all aware of myself and every movement I make. Am I the only one that that happens to? Like, you look at the way you are walking and then since you are thinking about that you feel like you start walking all awkward. Then you feel like you are doing weird things with your head, like looking sideways or something. I don't know, it's ridiculous, and for some reason I was there today. On top of that, I had an above average number of awkward encounters with people. You know, the kind where you see someone you kind of know walking the opposite direction of you and you don't know what to do so you say something like, "Hey how's it goin?" Then that starts a little small talk conversation but for some reason you walk right by each other while you are still talking and by the end you are yelling at them from far away, "Have a good day!" It's the worst. Or you say hi to someone walking towards you and they say hi back and you hold eye contact with them and smile for too long a time because neither person is sure if the conversation is over or not. Then you feel like a jerk for not saying anything else. Terrible. And I noticed that my skin smells like chlorine, which is strange. The worst thing of all about today is that I had two extremely obnoxious songs stuck in my head; All Star by Smash Mouth and Hey There Delilah by that one band. Anyway, it's only 9:30 so there is still time left for my day to maybe end on a better note? Hopefully. Goodbye everybody, world.

Carpe Dium

I love when things are free. One of my favorite things every day is the basket of candy in my schools cafeteria. I make sure to take advantage of it every day, whether it gives me peppermints or lollipops, I don't care. However, lately I have been feeling quite guilty whenever I take a big handful of the delicious treats, because I know there has got to be someone looking at me, judging me. I have been trying to find away to make it inconspicuous, but there really is no way to. "The harder you try and fail to do something without being seen, the worse the crime becomes." - Drew Eccleston. Well, check this out. A couple of days ago I made a wondrous discovery. Our health office gives away cough drops for free! I always knew you could get medicine there, but the idea of getting cough drops never dawned on me. Okay, cough drops aren't always as good as real candy, but when I went to get cough drops today for the first time, I felt completely no shame grabbing an enormous handful and filling my pockets with them. When it's candy, it's a privilege, but when it's cough drops, it becomes a necessity.

I am on top of the world.

Good Day

Mondays are typically awful for most people. I happen to have the same amount of classes on Monday that I do for every other day of the week combined. Also, it is midterm week for myself and others, and I have been dreading these last few days before spring break for quite some time. Therefore, it came as a surprise to me when today turned out to be one of the most relaxing days I have had in a few weeks. Last night before bed I was going over my classes and working out study times and things of that sort when I made the decision that I had no time for any but one of my classes this monday, which happened to be my art appreciation class (in which i had my first midterm.) This was because I had quite a ways to go in my book that the test was based off of, and had I gone to my other classes, the book would not have gotten read. Long story short, I basically got to enjoy myself out in the sun all day reading a very wonderful book with, at times, some very good company. I finished the test at about 10 in the pm, shut off my brain, and prided myself on the procrastination that had resulted in a day of productive relaxation.

Three more days and I am going home.

Bubbles and Bonnard

Hello. This is my first blog entry ever. My name is Andrew James Eccleston, but most people call me Drew. I was born in Bakersfield, California, but I am now living on campus at Biola University in La Mirada, which is a pretty decent part of LA. I am excited about the blog, but nervous at the same time. What if my blog doesn't live up to blog standards? I have never followed anyones blog until very recently, and therefore have very little experience with them. I'm sure you can see why I am a little timid about this. Anyways..

My first entry will be about some things that were interesting to me today. First of all, around 5 o'clock I was enjoying some beautiful weather outside on my dorm's balcony and was eating some delicious homemade honey straight out of the jar. (I have a friend from Bakersfield that lived on a bee farm) While this was happening I noticed some bubbles in the honey. Already deep inside my own head, I began to think of what bubbles really were. A bubble is just something that is nothing. The whole idea of this was just so fascinating for some reason. I know I have had this thought before, but something about seeing the bubbles hanging lifeless in the honey was just amazing. Next time you are around honey, look at it for a couple minutes, it's pretty crazy.

Next, if you are ever bored, you should go online and look up some stuff on the artist Pierre Bonnard. I started a book today called The Accidental Masterpiece; On the Art of Life and Vice Versa. I'm not trying to sound pretentious by any means, in fact the book is a required text for my required art appreciation class. However, I am enjoying it so far. Anyways, the first chapter is about Bonnard and it is just intriguing. This guy was awesome. I want to be him.

Lastly, a good friend of mine pointed out today that Thom Yorke and Benjamin Linus look very much alike. As they are two of my favorite people, I was surprised that I had not already made the connection. If you do not know who they are, then don't worry about it.

This is my first blog entry. I think its pretty safe. Not much to go off of today, but I did what I could.