IRON HEART World Tour II 2011-2012 - Beatle Buster SBG
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YUP! right on the money there G!
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I have work in a little while, but i want you all to know of another update coming soon! stay tuned
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Ok, so earlier this week i had class (mondays and tuesdays) but decided to come back to school on wednesday night to study in the library. Moffitt Library, one of the libraries at UC Berkeley, is often open until 2 in the morning on any given day and has been a tried and true resource of mine when i am needing to get some studying done!
Keep in mind, this is the library during the beginning of the semester (5th week or so) and around 11pm-midnight.
This was my view to what was, or was not, in front of me.
My view to the left of my little study area
My view to the right of my little study area
The reclined view of my little study area DENIM SHOT
A little peak at the book i was reading
One of four syllabi for my classes
MY KICK ASS NOTEBOOK! ROLL ON YOU BEARS!!!!!!!!
And that was the end of my first trip somewhere for all of you lovely people here on the forum. Don't worry, working on more in the very near future.
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As an additional bonus, here are a couple extra shots with introductions for both of them.
This first shot is one of the common area of where one of my classes is. It is a nice open area, and i thought it would be kinda nice to give you guys as close to a shot of where that classroom is, and not a shot of the actual classroom because it is boring as shit. Nothing but blank walls and standard desks.
This other photo is a bit more personal. It encapsulates where i grew up and really gave rise to my forum handle. I assume you will all be able to figure it out, so i will leave this description brief.
That's All Folks!
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Nice DEP, these are the kind of updates that I really like. I love getting a window into another IH dudes life, like when Kat did his walking update, local stuff from the day to day gives a real personal look at another IH brothers life, and I think it's cool. Thanks for sharing man.
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Ok, so this is picking up after an undisclosed amount of days but believe you me that this is gonna be one hell of a stream of posts (length wise, at least)
So seeing as this is a World tour and we are supposed to be bringing all of you fine people into our day to day lives, i figured that i would try to do something that i have never successfully been able to accomplish: Hardboil an egg. I can make scrambled eggs, fried eggs, sunny side up eggs, omelets, and have moderately succeeded in preparing a quiche a couple of times, but anytime i have ever attempted to hard boil an egg i always fuck up. Here went nothing!
While following the instructions i acquired, i had some extra time so i went outside while the eggs were cooking and snapped a couple of photos.
A hummingbird, which i have heard from one of my favorite youtubers, Syndicate, is something uncommon in england.
And here is what you will see if you exit my house and look out into our yard (2 cars missing)
That little 98 corolla is mine. It may be a run of the mill, toy car looking, simple and dull piece of crap in the spectrum of cars, but it is mine and it does the job for me. My little blue soldier.This tree was purchased by my parents as a small christmas tree when i was a baby and they decided to plant it in the yard when christmas was over. 23 years later…
I have 4 street cats that call my residence home. They are from the hood, represent oakland well and will not hesitate to fuck someone up, as is apparent here:
Decided to go back in the house and during the few moments i had before the eggs were to be done i decided to snap a couple of photos of my fridge and freezer. Nothing out of the ordinary and not all that substantially filled, but it is what it is.
And finally, the end result of attempting to hardboil eggs…
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So after eating my girlfriend had me run an errand for her: i had to send her perfume. hahahhaa. as un-fun nice way of expressing my disinterest as that was, i went out and did it before heading to Berkeley for studying and photos!
Price of gas at one of the shell's by my house
Here is the post office, looking mighty official and uninteresting.
On the way to B-town, i decided to go ahead and attempt driving and photography, ehh..
This is an exit off of 880 North, as i decided to make a pit stop in Emeryville first. For those even minutely interested in what the hell an emeryville is, it is a little city in the east bay that was a response to the small businesses of Berkeley and Oakland. It now houses an Ikea, Target, Best Buy and a ton of other places that have billion dollar corporations behind them (i ain't mad though, i love target and Best Buy).
Little red car in front of me.
That mini has moves
There once used to be more factories over here, but due to outsourcing over the past 40 years, shit has run dry.
Not paying attention and i stayed in the wrong lane here, i had to turn around and illegally do a U-turn breaking the double yellow in the road; moral of the story, pay attention.
This is more of the emeryville wasteland. Those wanting more of an idea of how this area looks are encouraged to play one of the Fallout games. The buildings are only moderately in use, and there is a shit ton of space around them (the guard made the photo come out a little high, oops)
NOW WE ARE IN BERKELEY!
This building here on the corner is Rasputin Music. A one stop shop for all of your music needs, given that you have never heard of the internet or pirating music. all joking aside, Its totally awesome in there and i often come across movies i forgot i wanted to see for low low prices, which makes me feel good for not paying admission to the theatres if they would only end up in the bargain bin later.
This here is Smart Alec's. Its progressive, serves healthy alternatives to college food stuffs, has very good salads and decent chicken sandwiches, good cornbread and is usually busy. One problem, they only accept cash.
This is the response to Smart Alec's; Pappy's! Serving greasier burgers, fries, BACON, larger salads, better cornbread and accepting credit/debit, this place is owned by one of the previous owners of Smart Alec's. The two owners got into a disagreement a couple years ago and the losing party decided to invest in the recently vacated Blakes(rip). He made it into the direct response to the healthy alternative and also made it into a sports bar that serves not only beer but hard liquor! Pappy, you old dog you.
Up and around the corner from Pappy's and Smart Alec's is this barber shop. I know i took a photo of it, but i cannot remember the name nor do i care to remember. All i know is that they have a decent amount of Playboy magazines in the waiting area and that is worthy enough of a reason for me to share this place with you.
A newcomer, similar to Pappy's, is Manhattan Roast and Grill. They serve up a healthy selection of Burger options at prices that a reasonable using ingredients that are fresh. If i have like 10-12 bucks burning a whole in my pocket and a hunger that requires a Burger, i do not think twice to come get my grub on here.
Across the street from Manhattan is the world famous "Asian Ghetto"! if you come to berkeley, you will know the asian ghetto. If you ever visit berkeley, you will know the asian ghetto. if you are still reading, you now know of the asian ghetto! Anyways, i recommend the thai place, the Korean bbq and the greek place to the left. On the right side is a Donut spot that is open really late to hit your drunken sweet tooth necessities and next to them is a place that serves up Boba drinks. Also, right in front is Gypsys, Italian food, fast and good! they serve your meal with a side of lightly toasted bread and roasted garlic. So sweet, so good.
I will continue the series of posts later, i have a show i need to watch and some scotch i need to drink.
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Great schuff DEP.
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Sorry for not having been able to contribute more last night, i had one two…many scotches and decided to hit the sack early. anyways, let's see, where was I...
This is another Berkeley staple, Blondies. I suppose you can say i chose favorites because i snapped photos of Blondies and not Fat Slice, but either way, in all honesty, i can't really tell the difference between the two pizza places.
A little closer to campus is this Subway. Nothing really special but it is one place in the past that i have received preferential treatment! Well, perhaps it was not only me, but when i asked for more pickles on my sandwich they were the opposite of stingy; i can still taste them to this day. (not really, that would be gross)
And now begins the actual act of walking in to berkeley and checking out a couple of spots through campus!
This is right next to where the Subway is, and one of the places to cross so as to head into the campus, hence the fuckload of students behind the dude trolling in his car. One day i will exact my revenge on that guy.
See, the car moves and the flood of students is released upon me! AHHH!!!
One thing that i notice more and more now is that students at Cal are getting more and more anti-social. The amount of headphones and iphones and homophones(def: Each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling, e.g., new and knew.) in use while casually walking through campus is roughly 55-60% of the students, the other large majority are people eating. Ehh, i suppose i am not complaining though, as i am one of these anti-social individuals walking around listening to audiobooks on my ipod.
This building we have here on the right is Sproul Hall! It is truly the Mecca of all students in the application process and throughout their time at Cal. If not for the admission and records department being there, then for the financial aid department being located in this building. You can often wait an hour or two if you go at a busy season so do your best to get that shit sorted out as best you can on your own or during a less busy time.
Here is one entrance to the Cal Student Store. On this top floor are clothing for men, hats of different sorts and other bits and pieces of tomfoolery. the floor below it has some non-academic books, women's and children's clothing and what is known as The Scholar's Workstation, which is basically the place you go to buy computer shit with a limited selection available and crazy prices on anything less than $100.00. Finally on the bottom floor is where you get textbooks, other reading books for class, materials for your classes, lab coats, paper, pens, notebooks, graduation stuff when its spring, backpacks and DEBT!
Also, a side note, i do not know if these are students exiting the Cal student store or if they are asian tourists. In all seriousness, UC Berkeley is a crazy big destination for a lot of visiting Asians. During the nicer climates of the year you will see tons of photos taken by large asian groups at the hot spots around Cal.
Down a little way from the top entrance of the Student store is Lower Sproul plaza off to the left, and on the right its the Cesar Chavez Student Center. For the next couple of years i am going to be interning there, doing a lot of data analysis and compiling charts around quantitative and qualitative data and also hoping to get some work experience in advising. I had snapped a couple of photos in there, but they were too dark so i deleted them, anyways, this is it from the outside!
Over here to the left is the building known as Wheeler. Even before getting to Cal, i had a couple classes here. This location is used mostly as a hub of different rooms used for discussion section. There is one large classroom/auditorium on the first floor, but eh, if you have seen one big room with hella seats you've seen them all.
And finally, for this post at least, this is the central vein that runs from the south side of campus, Telegraph ave, up through to the north side of campus. The two gates at the respective entrances are known as North gate (for the north side) and Sather Gate (for the south side, though it is already in campus a bit before you pass through it).
On a side note, i think this guy thought i was wanting a photo of him. hahaha -
Awesome update!!
And the Asian ghetto is a must visit. I also visit CREAM when I have cash to burn on cookie ice cream sandwiches.
i have never been a fan of CREAM, partly because the ice cream sandwich thing doesn't appeal to me and partly because Fuck Them for using a play on Wu-Tang Clan. Either way, i know they are super popular, but it's not a place i frequent so i showed my bias via not covering them. hahahha
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Awesome update!!
And the Asian ghetto is a must visit. I also visit CREAM when I have cash to burn on cookie ice cream sandwiches.
To each his own.
I guess you can say I felt the same way but after tasting one of their sandwiches, my stomach prevailed.
Great updates though!
i have never been a fan of CREAM, partly because the ice cream sandwich thing doesn't appeal to me and partly because Fuck Them for using a play on Wu-Tang Clan. Either way, i know they are super popular, but it's not a place i frequent so i showed my bias via not covering them. hahahha
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Awesome update!!
And the Asian ghetto is a must visit. I also visit CREAM when I have cash to burn on cookie ice cream sandwiches.
i have never been a fan of CREAM, partly because the ice cream sandwich thing doesn't appeal to me and partly because Fuck Them for using a play on Wu-Tang Clan. Either way, i know they are super popular, but it's not a place i frequent so i showed my bias via not covering them. hahahha
To each his own.
I guess you can say I felt the same way but after tasting one of their sandwiches, my stomach prevailed.
Great updates though!
fixed. lmao.
sorry to have been gone for the weekend everyone, but i went on a retreat with my school. I will have another update on here within 24 hours.
