2.21.2007

so, i'm trying to become hip and relevant by starting a blog for my class. i was looking on youtube for interesting videos and came across this clip from gary soto. gary is a writer of young adult fiction.

he is also the funniest man ever as evidenced by this sweet video.

poll: should i show this to my students?

2.16.2006

friday. recording. later. drinking diet cherry pepsi. writing a movie. relaxing. eating goldfish crackers. they are good. looking at the deer head on my wall. thinking i should take a picture of it. YOWZERS!

2.15.2006

now reading: blood meridian or the evening redness in the west and it's blowing my mind. i usually have one mind blowing read a year and this is it. my mind is blown to bits of sage and fire.

now listening: chopin. i like him. he is the randy newman of the romantic era.

now getting ready for: finally making a real rio bravo record.

happy for: finding a fisher price record player someone was throwing out at school during my prep period.

sad about: having a job where little humans you actually care for constantly tell you they hate you and how bad you are at your profession. my wife tells me to not let it bother me but i really can't.

happy about: dinner i made and some stuff i'm writing and the wife i had dinner with. i'm also happy about the dog i played fetch with and the fantasy baseball league i'm into with my homies.

2.12.2006

2006 year in review

my favorite movie i saw last year was casino royale. i also saw a lot of things on netflix. my favorite movie i rented was shoot the piano player. i hadn't seen it until this year. my favorite book was the beautiful and damned. my favorite record was leon russell self titled. my favorite wife was robyn. my favorite food: the sushi platter at koba (followed closely by klamata olives and goldfish crackers). my favorite drink was the cha cha bloody mary with horseradish, pickled green beans, and olives. my favorite time of day was the morning just before i leave for work when i say goodbye to robyn while she sleeps. i tend to think of each day as precious because each day could be my last the way i live my rebel life. my favorite new interweb site was tomgreen.com. my favorite bible is my new esv leather cool one. my favorite idea was to put beef jerky in said bloody mary. my second favorite idea was to become a rawkstar.

2.9.2006

this is cool to me.

from the cleveland plains dealer...

On the last day of the Indians' recently completed Fantasy Camp in Winter Haven, Fla., eight teams of campers faced a team of former Indians big-leaguers. Hall of Famer Bob Feller faced 24 batters -- the first three batters from each of the eight teams -- and allowed four hits.

Feller, 88, threw from the required distance of 60 feet, 6 inches.

2.5.2006

i'm reading this cool book on walt disney by neal gabler. i'm realizing i need to slow down on my book buying. i'm trying to catch up on everything i should've read that seems interesting. some of my recent purchases include: the crossing, roald dahl's omnibus, summerland, the crossing, blood meridian, portnoy's complaint, cities of the plain, this side of paradise, the usa trilogy and herzog. i shall try and finish these by summer

2.4.2006

super wha--? super flamboyant!

2.2.2006

listening: ipod random for my jog in a moment.

reading: that one superman comic that became smallville.

watching: these cool short films the disney studio put out for ww dos. i am also watching ellen because she is funny and has much charisma.

i will be doing the following this weekend: eating dinner with the pattersons, eating breakfast at backdoor, relaxing/ writing, watching jayson play soft rock, churching, watching the super with the belts and family, chilling, sleeping... working.

1.30.2007

i'm doing grades today- so don't call me to hang out.

listening: shuffledown

watching: love in the ruins

reading: st. luke's missiology

1.22.2006

wow. this is just... wow. id suggest click on the "America is doomed. U.S.A. = Iraq = Babylon" article first. not for the faint of heart. just wow. link

update!

http://www.godhatessweden.com/

1.16.2007

it is now the middle of the week. i should be reading a book.

1.9.2007

so, we're playing with the colours on thursday at spaceland. show starts at 9:00. if you wanna come- drop me an email or call, seeing as we have a guest list.

1.6.2006

i am eating the greatest food ever. i am eating a skippy snack bar. the package tells me to fuel the fun. boy is the fun being filled. i highly recommend them to athletes and everyone. go buy some today. they are replacing klamata olives of my food of the moment. expect a 20 pound weight gain from me. i will rule with power and strength

also congrats to j and d. mike- you're loosing a sister, but gaining a woman.

1.4.2006

i'm not really looking forward to going back to work next week. the job's tough and not very enjoyable. it pays the bills, which is what we need at this point. i hope i'm not doing it in thirty years, though (or three). anyhow, time to make robyn dinner- which is a highlight.

12.25.2006

merry christmas to all... including my enemies (of which i have many).

we are celebrating this fantastic day by both eating and opening things. wanting to make the day extra special, my dad paid fifty dollars for baseball legend don sutton to call the house and read the christmas story to us. it was a very heart warming gesture, though don read to us from the roxy extreme bible for teen girls- so there were a lot of 'ums', 'unt uhs', and 'lols'.

in other news, santy brought me two sweet pendelton's and a gift card to buy sweet books. he brought robyn lumps of coal. they were chocolate covered, though, so she wasn't too disappointed.

i would also like to wish merry awesome love vibes on darren and becca!

12.22.2006

i am very tired. trevor and i went skiing all day. it was quite fun- hardly anyone on the slopes. my dad had to quit because his body is breaking down. he's almost sixty; he's not long for this world.

in other news-- i had psketti, sauce, and three packs of emergen-c for supper. robyn tried to convince me they actually used paul newman's blood for the sauce. i was excited for a moment- seeing as i would gain his powers- but she was just pulling my leg. out of revenge, i threw her off the balcony (just like daniel craig might do to his wife in a similar situation).

i am very tired, so my writing session turned into me passively watching mary poppins on television while ranking my top fifteen dylan songs for really no good reason. it's probably because i'm depressed about what i did to robyn.

anyhow, here goes: fab fifteen!

15. visions of johanna - no direction home version
14. ballad of a thin man - og version
13. it's all over now, baby blue - biabh
12. you ain't goin' nowhere - greatest hits vol deux (much better, but not as important as the basement tapes' version)
11. worried blues - bootleg vol 1
10. country pie - nslyne
9. million dollar bash - basement tapes
8. po' boy - the halfway house one
7. buckets of rain - blud on the trax
6. it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry - og version
5. catfish - bootleg vol 3
4. seven days - bootleg vol 3
3. romance in durango (lyve) - rolling thunder review bootleg concert
2. sugar baby - 9/11
1. don't think twice, it's all rite! - og version

12.21.2006

beaver town, usa
Originally uploaded by wneloyd.

so, my last few days have been a bit interesting. on tuesday, after robyn's final at csun, we drove up to ventura for a pre-colorado christmas dinner with aunt, uncle, poppo, anne, trevor, and parents. it was quite nice- the highlight being the homemade tamales which were quite delectable.

after the dinner, we went back to my parent's house to pack. seeing as we were leaving at about 3:00 am, i decided to stay up all night long (use frat boy voice in your head and read that last part again). my good bro, mike askay, driving one of the cars to the airport, came with his fiancé and a deer head. i immediately began running around the house scaring sadie. i gave the head the voice of a dead civil war girl ghost. i also used it in gross ways that made robyn scowl.

fast forward to the airport. i slept in the terminal and on the plane, which was my plan. about two hours into our flight, and about five minutes after the pilot told us we were twenty minutes away from denver, he alerted us that we would be turning the plane around. robyn woke me up; i thought she was fibbing. she was not. i went back to sleep. mike's fiancé, danielle, had landed in denver on a separate flight and ended up stranded. she nearly died in the terminal and had to eat her arm to survive.

when we got back to los angeles, after much discussion, we decided to rent a van and drive. we were told we couldn't make it to vegas, but we did. we were told we would die in mesquite… but we didn't (though anne lost an eyeball). we were then told we couldn't make it to the rockies, which we did.

now we're staying in beaver creek. the roads are still closed some heading into denver, but we were able to stay at this piece of crap resort. we're hunkered down in this junkhole of a place with cheeses, petron, and luncheon meats galore. some guy my dad knows is letting us stay until the storm blows over. i'm praying it doesn't blow over until sometime in march- though we should be pulling out saturday morning.

i will ski tomorrow. i can walk to the lift from the condo.

12.17.2006

yesterday's goals went as planned- though i didn't get a jog in. today's goals are as follows.

1. get coffee now
2. drink it now as i write this list of goals
3. get breakfast with friend and friend's fiance who stayed the night
4. go worship the lord
5. get lunch with cousin at city walk
6. relax
7. write some more
8. read a little
9. find a workout program for the weights i got from keith a long time ago
10. get thai food

12.16.2006

work is over for the next three weeks. i should really set some goals for myself, but i'm not so sure that would be a good idea. daily goals might be the better route, so here goes it...

1. clean house
2. water plants
3. sign-up for cset
4. call back mike a.
5. write some satchel
6. jog
7. read some book
8. make a nice dinner
9. go to cha-cha with ventura friend and others
10. sleep

12.5.2006

i took this list from drew and matt.

69 LAYERS OF YOU

LAYER ONE: ON THE OUTSIDE
Name: james jesse gloyd
Birth date: july six nine teen ate e
Current Location: la, ca
Eye Color: bayou blue, ghoul green
Hair Color: blondish
Righty or Lefty: Righty
Zodiac Sign: cancer like what'll take me someday

LAYER TWO: ON THE INSIDE
Your heritage: the first american gloyd was a servant to one of the chicas put on trial for being a witch in salem. he drowned in an inch of water, drunk.
Your fears: i had a fear in my dream last night that all my teeth had slowly fallen out. i woke up with a headache and thought the dream was about brain cancer or something. i was real cuddly with my wife because i thought i was close to death.
Your weakness: cocktayles and such.
Your perfect pizza: junk in a box people bring to my house that i can dip in butter.
Goal you'd like to achieve: Get a (different) job by March 19 (j/k). i dont know anymore. go sleep or make someone laugh and dance. always that. it'd be cool if there was money involved too.

LAYER THREE: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW:
Your thoughts first waking up: really? again?
Your best physical feature: my boyish charm
Your bedtime: 11
Your most missed memory: i try to not think about the past

LAYER FOUR: YOUR PICK:
Pepsi or Coke: ralph's brand
McDonald's or Burger King: mc
Single or group dates: single. i'm a hermit.
Adidas or Nike: nike makes you jump leaps because of the air.
Lipton Tea or Nestea: yeah, coffee.
Chocolate or vanilla: vanilla
Cappuccino or coffee: Coffee

LAYER FIVE: DO YOU?
Take a shower: Every. Single. Day. To do otherwise is inhumane. (same as dru)
Have a crush? on my wife.
Think you've been in love: yeah.
Want to get married? i am
Believe in yourself: to a fault
Think you're a health freak: i eat weird and irregular things at weird and irregular times. either total health or total junk.

LAYER SIX: IN THE PAST MONTH
Gone to the mall: no
Been on stage: yeah
Been dumped: No
Gone skating: No
Dyed your hair: No

LAYER SEVEN: HAVE YOU EVER
Played a stripping game: no comment.
Gotten beaten up: no.
Changed who you were to fit in: i change who i am to not fit in.

LAYER EIGHT: GETTING OLD
Age you're hoping to be married: sure.
Age you wanna have kids: at zillion million years old (pretty soon is more likely)

LAYER NINE: IN A GIRL/GUY
Best eye color: blood
Best hair color: frazzled grey
Short or long hair: skull
(and that's just how robyn looks in the morning- BA DUM CHA!)

LAYER TEN: WHAT WERE YOU DOING
1 MINUTE AGO: crying
1 HOUR AGO: cocktayles
1 YEAR AGO: worrying

LAYER 11:FINISH THE SENTENCE
I LOVE: wife, dog, friends, work (not just the stuff that makes money, but that too).
I FEEL: nothing.
I HATE: nothing.
I HIDE: nothing.
I MISS: reading more fun things.
I NEED: more and less time.