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Barn Owl – Lost In The Glare

Posted on 7 Sep 2011 In: Music
  
Mood :  Thrilled
Music :  Barn Owl

This is the best record I have bought this year.

Do people still listen to vinyl records?

Posted on 29 May 2011 In: Music
  

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It’s been another year of having this site.

Posted on 7 May 2011 In: General
  
Mood :  Happy
Music :  Standing In Silence

I never update it and it seems to always be kind of an after thought but I have had for this long might as well keep it.

Any ideas about what I can use it for?

Okay

Posted on 3 Apr 2011 In: General
  
Mood :  nerdrage
Music :  Herra Terra – Quiet Giest

Идея за подаръкSo I got this complimentary subscription to TIME magazine..

what a fucking piece of trash? Who reads this thing and pays for it? You are getting ripped off. I am sure some people like oversimplified 8th grade stories about nothing but I don’t YA HEAR ME?!

I have come to the conclusion

Posted on 23 Jan 2011 In: Music
  
Mood :  fucked up
Music :  SEAN MCCANN – THE CAPITAL LP

There is too much music in the world. I am looking it through a filter and that is even too much.

It’s making me crazy if I were to just try and collect 10% of the things I wanted I would be broke.

New Years Goals 2011 edition

Posted on 24 Dec 2010 In: General, Goals, Money, Music, Uncategorized
  
Mood :  Reflective
Music :  The Riot Before – Fists Buried in Pockets

If you are reading this on an RSS feed or Facebook please checkout http://www.jonassykes.net for a full and formatted version of the following.

The point of keeping a blog to me is pretty important I have maintained this blog and put up a public list of my goals for each year the past couple years. Figuring if I faced it the next year I would have to confront whether or not I did anything that mattered in that last year.

Here is my goal list for 2009

And here completed list for 2010 found here my list with an X meaning I made the goal and am able to move forward on it. A Green NO means I need to get with it and put it on the list for next year if it still applies.



Short Term (next 4 months) January -2010

X-Finish my EOC and get next skill level so I can actually enroll in school.
X-Get drivers license
X-Pay off investment debt and buy a car
NO-Start regularly putting money back in my IRA

I did not do this this year, as I feel this year is a transitional phase with starting my business and pursuing my goals with income that I felt was better used elsewhere

NO-Finally rollover my 401K into said already opened IRA

I forgot to do this. Pretty weak I know.

NO-Bring lunch to work, everyday

Oh no oh no, this will make the list again

NO-Curb my record spending habits

Did the next best thing and started a distro that made it easier to involve my habits with future money making potential.

X-Be more careful about being lazy and being okay with it
X-Update this site more lol

Long Term (4-12 months) January -2010

X-Pay off wife’s debt

Me and my wife are debt free!

NO-Open up savings account for honeymoon

There is no excuse haha

NO-Attend Throwdown XIII

Sadly I did not make it this year as I am sure everyone is flying into Boston sometime today or tomorrow. I am going to Ultra Music Festival in Miami this year not really a consolation but should be the experience of a lifetime.

X-Enroll in school

Very Happy I finally did this!

X-Fund future projects account further

I started a business this year and I am starting another project I don’t want to say too much about in case I fail horribly. Look forward to another one of these posts in another years time. All in all 2010 was better than 2009 and things will only get better from here. Cheers to a successful business for something that I love and love doing. Here is to good health and staying happy through it all!

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GOALS FOR 2011

Long Term and Short Term Goals (1-12 months)

-Finish Degree
-Not go crazy!
-Have a transitionary game plan for the next chapter in my life outside the military.
-Fund Retirement Account you idiot!
-Stash a 5-7 month complete emergency fund
-New Car for my wife
-SXSW 2011

Pirate Ship Records (goals)

-CALLS album
-Shirts
-Pins
-Custom Mailers
-At least 3 to 4 pages of Inventory for each Genre
-Learn to Screenprint

Take care I hope 2011 is as good as 2010.

Figured I should update my site

Posted on 17 Dec 2010 In: General
  
Mood :  Great
Music :  God Is An Astronaut – A Moment of Stillness

I been wasting all my time with pirateshiprecords.com

and messing around with Facebook figured it was time to start sort of getting back into this since I always just seem to wait around till January to tell you how I am going to radically change my life in this next year.

Anyways I never did really have anything important to say and this isn’t any different I guess.

im a sellout

Posted on 3 Oct 2010 In: General
  
Mood :  AMAZING
Music :  PROPAGANDHI

But what have we here? 15 years later it still reeks of swill and Chickenshit Conformists With their fists in the air Like-father, like-son “rebels” bloated on korn, eminems and bizkits. Lord, hear our prayer: Take back your Amy Grant mosh-crews and fair-weather politics. Blow-dry my hair and stick me on a ten-speed. Back to the Motor League I guess life is just a popularity contest success, the ability to perform within a framework of obedience just ask the candy-coated Joy-Cam rock-bands selling shoes (millencolin im looking at you) for venture-capitalists, silencing competing messages, Rounding off the jagged edges.

Still here!

Posted on 15 Mar 2010 In: General, Money, Music
  
Mood :  GREAT!
Music :  Dropkick Murphys – The Meanest of Times

матрациno muffins
So, haha it’s been waay to long since I have written on this thing. I wanted to let all my favorite stalkers and internet buds that I am still alive. I cant believe how things have changed in the past couple months. I have bought a car although I still don’t have a license at least till the end of the month. Me and my wife are debt free. I have bought so many records I am not going to even trying to get everyone caught back up. I really think I might keep this space on this site reserved for telling you more about things going on in my life and then mixing in the music of my life and what I am feeling.

so yeah I been doing really well won’t divulge too much because I want to keep you coming back for more.

if you aren’t my friend on facebook click the link and do it.

anyways just want to make the transition into regular posting again as seemless as possible expect a small update in the future and hopefully things will be back on track after that!

Something newer and something all the same.

Posted on 3 Jan 2010 In: Goals, Money
  
Mood :  relaxed
Music :  Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life

I can’t apologize to myself enough for allowing this to go as long as it has to not be well over a month since I have even thought about updating this thing.

Let’s see the big things I want to touch on are the things going on in my life and what they mean to me.

Writing this after trying desperately to fall asleep seems to be the right sort of atmosphere for a stupid self-centered reflection post.

As you can see here my goals have sort of maintained the same sort of decisive focus on the important matters and haven’t really wavered that much. 2009 Resolutions

This is the post from last year which if you notice has the goals from the previous year. This is interesting because it allows myself a scope of time that looks more realistic to goal setting rather than forgetting the new years resolution as soon as it’s out of present memory.

Let’s go over last years and give them the time they deserve before they are lost again.


X-NO DEBT

I have a small amount of investment debt from a 0% interest loan which I still have the capital to cover

X-FINISH TECH SCHOOL

YES!

NO-OWN A HOME

not even close :-(

X-BE AN AWESOME HUSBAND

I think so..

NO-BE MORE DISCIPLINED

No, I am pretty lazy in every way really. Especially in regards to goals and self-control

X-BE LESS JUDGMENTAL

This is something I have been actively working on for sure

X-BE SUCCESSFUL IN MY JOB

Not that this fact matters but I guess I am good at being a bitch

NO-ENROLL IN SCHOOL

NO!

NO-SAVE 10k ADDITIONAL FOR RETIREMENT

NO

X-SAVE 3K OPTIONAL FOR FUTURE PROJECTS

Got one!

So I guess it’s been hit or miss this year. As it’s pretty bad out there I strive to put myself at a level where it doesn’t affect me. I am partway there. Whats interesting I think as I read through my goals in 2008 I wrote those I think before I had any intention of joining the military so I had a pretty easy time radically transforming my personal circumstances.

Some of these goals are obviously going to get recycled and used again as I haven’t even come close on some of these. And I will also add some short term goals for things I need to finish very soon.

let’s get these little goals out of the way and break this down into something easier to digest and more manageable.

матрациShort Term (next 4 months)

-Finish my EOC and get next skill level so I can actually enroll in school.
-Get drivers license
-Pay off investment debt and buy a car
-Start regularly putting money back in my IRA
-Finally rollover my 401K into said already opened IRA
-Bring lunch to work, everyday
-Curb my record spending habits
-Be more careful about being lazy and being okay with it
-Update this site more lol

Long Term (4-12 months)

-Pay off wife’s debt
-Open up savings account for honeymoon
-Attend Throwdown XIII
-Enroll in school
-Finish degree
-Fund future projects account further

I can’t really think of anything else to write but let me just tell you I will be back to update this soon.

I hope you all have a great 2010!

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