Alex Cornell

Mar 01

Sunday


A separate version was recorded for this ISO50 mix CD. That one has a guitar solo! More excitement.

As usual, all my MP3s can be downloaded here for free.

Feb 25

Time for a John Mayer Cover

Feb 23

Shuffle

For some reason, if I hit ‘next’ on my iPod one too many times, I can’t go back and listen to the song I skipped over. If I already know which song will come afterwards in the shuffle, I can’t get past it and I have to skip it to get back to a place where I have no idea what will be next.

Feb 21

Feb 17

This is me! I never post pictures of myself. Then again, I never really post at all. But look I’ve posted three times tonight. What do you think of that?
And look I know how to use a webcam. You stare at it and look as serious as possible, kind of like when you look in the mirror. After a while, you think “this is what I look like, how cool!” But then of course, you go out in the world and you never use your “serious webcam face” amongst the normal population. How strange you would look! No no no, instead you use your happy public face, which of course looks ridiculous in the mirror. Which is why, when you look in the mirror, you never smile.

This is me! I never post pictures of myself. Then again, I never really post at all. But look I’ve posted three times tonight. What do you think of that?

And look I know how to use a webcam. You stare at it and look as serious as possible, kind of like when you look in the mirror. After a while, you think “this is what I look like, how cool!” But then of course, you go out in the world and you never use your “serious webcam face” amongst the normal population. How strange you would look! No no no, instead you use your happy public face, which of course looks ridiculous in the mirror. Which is why, when you look in the mirror, you never smile.

I wish I were three inches tall, weighed 2 ounces, and could ride these glaciers of foam across the beach

I wish I were three inches tall, weighed 2 ounces, and could ride these glaciers of foam across the beach

I just read and deleted an email about 20 seconds ago. I cannot tell you a word of what it said. It was from Youtube. Positive/negative comment, I have absolutely no idea.

Training Wheels

I have become very used to working on projects for school. So much so that I have to pretend my other projects are homework assignments and that there is a fictional teacher about to get on my case. One of my actual school projects right now is so open ended that I will never be able to think of anything to do ever again.

My laundry machine is very old and inconsiderate. It makes it sound like people are getting frisky in my apartment every time it tries to wash anything. How the clothes get so out of position inside there is beyond me.

My attention span has become so bad that I cannot even focus long enough to fully form a thought such as this one. At the same time, it is periodically extremely focused; so much so that I lose track of time for hours on end.

My house has recently become aware of a new phenomenon called ‘nightlife escalation’. Like an arms race, we are racing against an invisible foe to have the most crazy experience. Things are escalating.

Today we debated what, if given the opportunity to choose absolutely anything, would you become a master of? Guitar? Japanese? You are allowed to pick anything and you will be as good as is humanly possible. What made the question more interesting was imagining how your answer would change if the same opportunity was presented to everyone in the world. Would it be any fun to be the best tennis player in the world if 25,000 other people were too? Given this, what to pick!

I don’t tag my posts.

Jan 29

Dec 10

RICK ROLL 2.0

Dec 07

Lemonade Stand (as imagined by an ambitious 9 year old))

If I was wearing my red shirt this would be going much better. Yes, last time I wore the red shirt we sold at least 4 cups before noon. Or maybe if Timothy wasn’t here our profit margins would be greater. Timothy really needs to know when to stop saying innocuous things — the older people seem to find this very distracting. I think it’s best to get right to the point and say “lemonade” straight away, lest they think we are selling water like the amateurs down the street. I know it’s hot, but come on, water? They take no pride in their craft. Anyone can make water — it requires a very advanced skill set to make the perfect cup of powdered lemonade.

It could be our cups? Are dixie cups the most visually appealing cups to the older people? Older people sure are boring, and so are Dixie Cups…I think this makes them the right cup for the job — not to mention it’s the only cup our supplier could get us on such short notice. I wanted to use the weird shaped glasses that break all the time, but our supplier told us these were “grown up glasses”. Given that grown ups are our target demographic, I felt this would have been good strategy. The supplier disagreed and gave us Dixie.

Or maybe people want more lemonade? I’ve seen Timothy drink at least six dixie cups worth of lemonade before…yes this must be it! Our portions are too small! Grown ups are huge! We should be selling at least 2 Dixie Cups worth of this fantastic beverage. Surely then the older people would give us endless amounts of quarters. Imagine what we could buy with this endless supply of quarters! Obviously more legos, but we could also buy water guns and assault the customers of our competing branch. Fight the water sellers with water! Of course I’d have to pin the raid on Timothy, but this can be arranged.

I suppose it also could be our prices. 25cents sure does seem like an awful lot — and the older people, especially the ones that come in the cars, never have “exact change.” They just blab about parking meters and move on. One even said something about a recession. Maybe we should do another promotion…When we paired the lemonade with wads of grass that seemed to go over pretty well with the younger crowd. The grown ups liked it when we would sing the ABCs, but we don’t have Katie to sing the upper harmonies anymore. My older sister told us “looking sad” would help us “rake it in”, but this was a serious damper on company morale and we had to abandon it.

Well I suppose in the end it doesn’t matter. My net income for this month should be way above average when my supplier gives me my monthly stipend. Because of inflation, my salary went up 50 cents, putting me somewhere around $6 for the month. If things ever do get tight I could even sell the whole enterprise to Timothy. Probably could get $6 for it and he wouldn’t know the difference. We’ve only got about 2 pitchers left (or $3.75 worth of product) — Timothy would never know I got him for the extra $2.25 in the deal.

Yeah I guess I’m pretty set if this whole thing goes under. Not really even sure why we’re out here come to think of it…

Dec 04

When a heart breaks it dont breakeven

Nov 10

Nov 06

ISO50 Playlist 6

Beyond worth listening to. ISO50 Playlist 6 is terrific. Well done Sam.

Nov 01

Made me laugh