OK, just want to point out that watching the movie Julie and Julia made me want to get back into my blogging besides my social networking blurbs on MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook which I will still update with more personal posts. This is going to be the more fun blog posts from now on.
To re-introduce myself my name is Justin Shields, I am currently 23 years old and I am a big music and movie buff as I hope to show on future posts. Besides being immersed in those two things, one of my favorite things to do in my spare time is recording real events (or the stories of real events) and comedy tracks which I've done for over 13 years and that's where the J-Ray portion of this blog comes in. To get a better explanation of J-Ray, go over to J-Ray's MySpace (link on the side) or even go to the very first posts of this blog.
Cell Phone Pic of Me
April 2009
Soooo it's been several years since I've really touched this blog and it has been the most interesting years of my adult life especially the last 2 years. Well, I could just say to check the links to my other sites on the side to get a taste of what's been going on in my life and what I've been doing all this time. Here's a listed summary of what my life has been like since February 2006.
-I feel I got out of the social coma I used to be in. I did this by just being myself again by going out and enjoying the world. I made new friends or getting to know past people a lot more, got back in touch with my high school buddies, made a habit of going on long walks which helped me lose some weight, etc. I will admit that I am still shy at times.
-I've been working a little bit. A few months of Custodial work in the spring of 2006 and then concessions jobs for the Orem Owlz Minor League Baseball team where I've been Ice Cream Guy for the last three summers including the current one.
-I've been continually going to school except during the summer. I recieved my Associates of Science Degree in Communications in April 2007 and currently on track to get a Bachelor's of Science in Sociology next spring.
- As for Movies- Hard Candy, Into the Wild, The Dark Knight, Superbad, Lars and the Real Girl, and Brick have been some of my favorite flicks.
-And Music- Panic! At The Disco, Monty Are I, Chromeo, Justice, Mindless Self Indulgence, Paramore, and MSTRKRFT have been notable artists coming to my attention in the last few years. I've also had major music crushes on The Used and Coheed and Cambria by getting all their albums and listening to them over and over and even making mix CDs of their work.
- One of the major topics that comes to mind is becoming more interested in the opposite sex in recent years. I've had some major crushes on women that I couldn't have which gave me two week splats of pure happiness with a couple of them leading to months of lonliness. In December of 2008 I had an offical girlfriend for the first time but the relationship only lasted around 10 days. Then on January 13, 2009 I met the current love of my life who was a friend of the girl I had just broken up with. Seven months later my girlfriend Anna and I are still together and things are going well.
CURRENTLY- I am about to attend my last year of school at Utah Valley University in 3 days. Til then I have time off work to get some more summer fun in while I can.
On the J-Ray side of things, if you don't really care just skip this part:
-I've been putting tracks and videos on Youtube since December 2007 with the help of my cousin Andrew AKA Andre (The Dirty Mexican), including my Walking Diary Series and Car Videos made for my friend Steve.
-I made 6 albums called Balogner (2006), King Size Tube Nuts (2006), Hand Me Down Skits (2006), Don't Bother (2007), Call It What You Want (2008), and Quest For The Unused (2008). The latter two were made but a hard drive mishap in January 2009 caused me to lose the audio files. Some of the tracks from these two still live on YouTube.
-Projects I was planning to do never got done which is normal haha including re-issues of my first six albums
uncut and in stereo.
CURRENTLY- I am recording my long awaited 17th Album titled Terrable which is concept album all about my experience with my first girlfriend.
So there's your recap or wrap up or whatever. Starting tomorrow I will let my blogging juices start flowing again along with my other many juices.
I'm gonna go watch my DVD copy of I Love You, Man, it's my favorite comedy of the year so far.
Later
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