Why This Year Has Been The Best Of My Life
My 2013
This year has been my best and most successful year of my life I got the opportunity to do so many incredible things this year. I plan to keep learning, wanting, and giving my time and effort to do what it takes to continue to do what it takes to make my dreams and goals become a reality.
I really feel me writing blogs, and archives has definitely helped me out a lot when trying to achieve a goal. It allows me to look back and see what I've done already and realize how I want to go further.
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Top 5 highlights of this year!!!
1. Moving to Los Angeles with my 2 best friends
2. Watching the ball drop in Time Square with my girlfriend
3. Working at a amazing museum for 6 months/getting a job at
Hi - hostel Baltimore
4. Working Hollywood Rooftop Parties
5. Realizing my next steps for next year.
Bonus: Running 3 miles in 20 mins and 44 sec's on treadmill.
I feel very fortunate and delighted that I was able to accomplish everything I wanted to do and more! I created a list of things I was able to do this year in a short timeline.
NYE in NYC
I started off the very first second of my year in Time Square on New Years watching the ball drop with my girlfriend at the time, then I spent a little bit more time in Long Island hanging out with her, discovering culture, seeing the beaches, and boardwalks in the freezing cold. It was incredible. We would take an hour train back to NYC and explore the museums, and walk around the city. It was a great way to start off my year.
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/2013Jan.jpg.html?sort=3&o=64
My ultimate Museum job
Following that February came around, we split up and I needed to find a better higher paying job that I knew I would love and actually want to stick with. I applied to many places and finally got a call back from a American History Pop Culture Museum. The museum was amazing and I worked there from Feb-July. The focal point of the museum was "Things your parents and grandparents played with when they were a kid" and Comic Books too. I had such a great job working 10am-6pm daily and it was right across from the Orioles stadium so sometimes i'd get off and purchase a $10 ticket and watch the game and throw down a few beers. My job was simple. I collected admission, assisted tours, gave info on the museum and curating work.
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/Museum.jpg.html?sort=3&o=49
Wild Nights
During the months of Feb-March I would take some random road trips to Philly, and one night in particular that was very memorable, gracious, and just extreme weird was when I was seeing a band called Work Drugs at Kung Fu Necktie. Mike and I pitched on and rented a car off Relay Rides for only $30!!! For 24 hours *WHAT a DEAL!* anyway...We drove up there saw the band, and afterwards they played the most funkiest jams! Anywhere between James Brown, to Michael Jackson, to Earth, Wind, And Fire. We were dancing our asses off to say the least. We got tired and left and realized we had no where to stay that night. So we drove around looking for a good neighborhood to park in and sleep at. Ironically I noticed one of the girls from the dance floor and a guy she was with and we pulled over and asked if they wanted to hang they said yes, we went to eat, then went back to her house and that's when it became one of the weirdest nights of my life. Which you can read more in the blog "Very WEIRD! Philly Night".
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/MikeandI-1.jpg.html?sort=3&o=8
Summer Appreciation
Around June. I read there was a amazing music festival going on called Sweet Life at Merriweather Post Pavilion. The lineup was Phoenix, Kendrick Lamar, Passion Pit, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, etc. and that lineup definitely works for me. I wanted to go pretty bad especially after this company Me Undies posted that they were going to be there and if you don't know Me Undies has sent me over 10 pairs of underwear, shirts, and hats for free mainly for advertisement purposes. I tweeted them asking if they had any guest passes and BAM! They sent me two guest passes so I took my friend James with me and we both skipped out of work and headed to the festival. We got so drunk, it was raining so many great bands all playing at once in my favorite state (Maryland) and to end it with headliner Phoenix was so damn great! They played such a good set. I also got to hang with the founder of Me Undies and talked about how he started all this and is able to get on free shit like this and do the same for me.
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/Asshole.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1
Latina Fling
July arrived. I spent 4th of July by going to First Thursday Towson live concerts at the Washington Monument with Adam and had a few beers then watched the fireworks on Alex's roof. I had no idea how I was going to spend my last month in Baltimore! I wanted to go out crazy and huge! I did... I met a Latina girl July 5th around night and had what I thought was only going to be a one night stand, a 3-4 week stand. There was so much lust it was happening almost every night. Drinking beers at 3pm, waking up in her bed and her not being as she already left for Hopkins. I would just hangout with the cat, eat her food she'd cook me, and head out for my last month at the museum. Things started to get kinda bad when I found out she was giving me a fake name, snorting pills, and seeing another guy. It's not like we were dating but that type of thing is kind of gross if you're banging two people back to back nights. We didn't leave on the best terms but now we have a funky relationship. Talking here and there, Snap Chatting, and she even visited me in California so her and I are cool
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/Shoes.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
California for a few months
I left July 27th to go to Los Angeles California with my two best friends Mike and Thom. We took the Greyhound. It took us 4 days to get there. They even gave us a hotel room in Oklahoma which was cool. While we were there the first month we were on Let's Make A Deal, we went to Venice Beach, explored the city. It was a lot of fun! Minus are extremely shitty roommate. Who overcharged the fuck out of us for the three months we were there and said we couldn't bring over girls, smoke weed, or do basically anything fun in the house. The three of us shared a room as she had her own room. It was kinda tough there but still super sick to be in Los Angeles. The other two months continued as we smoked tons of weed, I did a lot of mountain hiking/running. We ate delicious Mexican food, went on Jimmy Kimmel Live saw Arctic Monkeys, Andy Samberg, Kenny Rodgers, etc. and just hung out doing other stuff. We worked our asses off, I worked at Fossil selling watches, and did events like work Hollywood Rooftop Parties, Mad Decent Bloc Party music festival. I did a lot of cool things out there. I met some interesting people, and one of my all time favorite times was doing drunk karaoke the night before with Mike's ne
w roommates and their friends the night before Halloween. I was in LA till November 2nd.
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/LetsMakeADeal-1.jpg.html?sort=3&o=7
My Florida Life
I decided to leave LA when I had no where to live anymore but still had money and a job but felt it was still time to do something different. So I headed down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida with family friends in their huge house. I had a nice room upstairs with a balcony that over towered the river and the in ground swimming pool. The woman I was staying with had a weekly produce group over her house. Where she'd sell up to 50 boxes of fresh produce, and have mini late night parties. Where we would smoke weed, drink wine, and eat delicious healthy food. She took me to many places with her such as yoga, tundra, and swap shop. It was great. I was living very healthy and doing well. She has company over often and when I wanted to be alone I would walk 15 minutes down to Fort Lauderdale by the Sea which is a big main ocean down there. I went to sports bars to watch football. I went to Flamingo Gardens and saw wild animals. It was really cool but then I decided I really wanted to head back to Baltimore for the holidays to visit my family and see my friends.
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/CAM00638.jpg.html?sort=3&o=67
Back to Baltimore for the Holidays
I took a bus back to Baltimore and arrived back on Thanksgiving Day. I hung out with my family and distant family in Millers Island. I walked around DC enjoying the sites the day before my birthday, seeing the Christmas decorations around the White House, etc, and the next days came and it was my birthday (December 5th) I celebrated the early morning by going to a job interview at the only hostel in Baltimore and got a amazing job offer with them then I went to the Walter's Art Museum by myself and walked around, then I watched as they were setting up the lighting for the Washington Monument to get lit up which was cool too. I spent the afternoon with my family with some cake, and gifts, and took my night to hangout with my best friends. They bought me plenty of drinks and were stoked to see me after so long. We went and watched the monument get lit, and saw the fireworks go off, we attempted the Frasier Drinking Game then we just went out to a ton of bars and got wasted, it was awesome!
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/Friends.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2
I'm at mid December now and can honestly say this year has been the very best year for me!
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Random details I forgot throw in
1. Doing a 48 hour shoot with Veep in a party scene with great actors, and even nicer extra's. That was in January I believe and was so, so great. I met some of the best people I've ever met in my life, and got unlimited free food, and got to be on a HBO series.
2. I also would love to mention my bus catching on fire leaving California going to Florida in New Mexico was pretty fucking crazy too. I'm getting compensated my full refund of $245.50 in a voucher, and another $50 for inconvenience.
3. My favorite band We Are Scientists retweeted and favorited my tweet as I helped them get hundreds of new teenage followers by discovering Rebecca Black mentioning them in some lame video she posted and nearly got in a 3 way conversation with them, but I know Keith and Chris their good guys and deserve the media and attention. Following this post, the day before Christmas We Are Scientists started following me on Twitter!!!! I feel so beyond luck about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lAqybHMtYA
4. Playing the best local Baltimore show this year! Seriously this show was such a HUGE deal to me. We made over $250 on door admission and got split all profit between the bands, we got the show wrote about in some girls blog who has a good following so that was cool, and we all just played super great sets! It was so on target for everyone's set. The line up was Lisa Drank, The Shaky Experience, Animal Lover (MN) The Cupcake Clan, and Sea Patterns. I honestly couldn't of asked for a better show.
5. Spending time with friends and family. I feel like I really connected well with my friends and family this year. I spent so much time hanging out with both doing a variety of different things with all of them. I let many of friends into my the museum I was working at for free. I took my aunt to the Papermoon and she really enjoyed the style of Mt. Vernon, I hung out with my cousin a
nd went to a baseball game with him, and stayed the night at my Dads a couple times, visiting my grand parents in Delaware. It's all good vibes and feelings to be with them in my favorite city (Baltimore).
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The plans for 2014!
I have a few free trips coming my way! I'm going back to California for certain next year to continue to do more entertainment work. I plan to record a new album with The Shaky Experience which will be huge, I'm very certain on that. I plan to write and publish my own and first book on travel archives and coincidental winnings. I also plan to make a ton of money next year and make next year more successful then this year with more acting jobs, putting out my book, writing a great new catchy album, and doing whatever it takes to put my name in media. That is what I want and I am determined to make my goals, ambitions, and dreams come true.
This image basically explains all in 1 what this blog is actually about and trying to say....
http://i.imgur.com/tnHRJzR.png
Thank You for reading
- Jr Lane.
This year has been my best and most successful year of my life I got the opportunity to do so many incredible things this year. I plan to keep learning, wanting, and giving my time and effort to do what it takes to continue to do what it takes to make my dreams and goals become a reality.
I really feel me writing blogs, and archives has definitely helped me out a lot when trying to achieve a goal. It allows me to look back and see what I've done already and realize how I want to go further.
.jpg)
Top 5 highlights of this year!!!
1. Moving to Los Angeles with my 2 best friends
2. Watching the ball drop in Time Square with my girlfriend
3. Working at a amazing museum for 6 months/getting a job at
Hi - hostel Baltimore
4. Working Hollywood Rooftop Parties
5. Realizing my next steps for next year.
Bonus: Running 3 miles in 20 mins and 44 sec's on treadmill.
I feel very fortunate and delighted that I was able to accomplish everything I wanted to do and more! I created a list of things I was able to do this year in a short timeline.
NYE in NYC
I started off the very first second of my year in Time Square on New Years watching the ball drop with my girlfriend at the time, then I spent a little bit more time in Long Island hanging out with her, discovering culture, seeing the beaches, and boardwalks in the freezing cold. It was incredible. We would take an hour train back to NYC and explore the museums, and walk around the city. It was a great way to start off my year.
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/2013Jan.jpg.html?sort=3&o=64
My ultimate Museum job
Following that February came around, we split up and I needed to find a better higher paying job that I knew I would love and actually want to stick with. I applied to many places and finally got a call back from a American History Pop Culture Museum. The museum was amazing and I worked there from Feb-July. The focal point of the museum was "Things your parents and grandparents played with when they were a kid" and Comic Books too. I had such a great job working 10am-6pm daily and it was right across from the Orioles stadium so sometimes i'd get off and purchase a $10 ticket and watch the game and throw down a few beers. My job was simple. I collected admission, assisted tours, gave info on the museum and curating work.
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/Museum.jpg.html?sort=3&o=49
Wild Nights
During the months of Feb-March I would take some random road trips to Philly, and one night in particular that was very memorable, gracious, and just extreme weird was when I was seeing a band called Work Drugs at Kung Fu Necktie. Mike and I pitched on and rented a car off Relay Rides for only $30!!! For 24 hours *WHAT a DEAL!* anyway...We drove up there saw the band, and afterwards they played the most funkiest jams! Anywhere between James Brown, to Michael Jackson, to Earth, Wind, And Fire. We were dancing our asses off to say the least. We got tired and left and realized we had no where to stay that night. So we drove around looking for a good neighborhood to park in and sleep at. Ironically I noticed one of the girls from the dance floor and a guy she was with and we pulled over and asked if they wanted to hang they said yes, we went to eat, then went back to her house and that's when it became one of the weirdest nights of my life. Which you can read more in the blog "Very WEIRD! Philly Night".
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/MikeandI-1.jpg.html?sort=3&o=8
Summer Appreciation
Around June. I read there was a amazing music festival going on called Sweet Life at Merriweather Post Pavilion. The lineup was Phoenix, Kendrick Lamar, Passion Pit, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, etc. and that lineup definitely works for me. I wanted to go pretty bad especially after this company Me Undies posted that they were going to be there and if you don't know Me Undies has sent me over 10 pairs of underwear, shirts, and hats for free mainly for advertisement purposes. I tweeted them asking if they had any guest passes and BAM! They sent me two guest passes so I took my friend James with me and we both skipped out of work and headed to the festival. We got so drunk, it was raining so many great bands all playing at once in my favorite state (Maryland) and to end it with headliner Phoenix was so damn great! They played such a good set. I also got to hang with the founder of Me Undies and talked about how he started all this and is able to get on free shit like this and do the same for me.
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/Asshole.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1
Latina Fling
July arrived. I spent 4th of July by going to First Thursday Towson live concerts at the Washington Monument with Adam and had a few beers then watched the fireworks on Alex's roof. I had no idea how I was going to spend my last month in Baltimore! I wanted to go out crazy and huge! I did... I met a Latina girl July 5th around night and had what I thought was only going to be a one night stand, a 3-4 week stand. There was so much lust it was happening almost every night. Drinking beers at 3pm, waking up in her bed and her not being as she already left for Hopkins. I would just hangout with the cat, eat her food she'd cook me, and head out for my last month at the museum. Things started to get kinda bad when I found out she was giving me a fake name, snorting pills, and seeing another guy. It's not like we were dating but that type of thing is kind of gross if you're banging two people back to back nights. We didn't leave on the best terms but now we have a funky relationship. Talking here and there, Snap Chatting, and she even visited me in California so her and I are cool
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/Shoes.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
California for a few months
I left July 27th to go to Los Angeles California with my two best friends Mike and Thom. We took the Greyhound. It took us 4 days to get there. They even gave us a hotel room in Oklahoma which was cool. While we were there the first month we were on Let's Make A Deal, we went to Venice Beach, explored the city. It was a lot of fun! Minus are extremely shitty roommate. Who overcharged the fuck out of us for the three months we were there and said we couldn't bring over girls, smoke weed, or do basically anything fun in the house. The three of us shared a room as she had her own room. It was kinda tough there but still super sick to be in Los Angeles. The other two months continued as we smoked tons of weed, I did a lot of mountain hiking/running. We ate delicious Mexican food, went on Jimmy Kimmel Live saw Arctic Monkeys, Andy Samberg, Kenny Rodgers, etc. and just hung out doing other stuff. We worked our asses off, I worked at Fossil selling watches, and did events like work Hollywood Rooftop Parties, Mad Decent Bloc Party music festival. I did a lot of cool things out there. I met some interesting people, and one of my all time favorite times was doing drunk karaoke the night before with Mike's ne
w roommates and their friends the night before Halloween. I was in LA till November 2nd.
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/LetsMakeADeal-1.jpg.html?sort=3&o=7
My Florida Life
I decided to leave LA when I had no where to live anymore but still had money and a job but felt it was still time to do something different. So I headed down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida with family friends in their huge house. I had a nice room upstairs with a balcony that over towered the river and the in ground swimming pool. The woman I was staying with had a weekly produce group over her house. Where she'd sell up to 50 boxes of fresh produce, and have mini late night parties. Where we would smoke weed, drink wine, and eat delicious healthy food. She took me to many places with her such as yoga, tundra, and swap shop. It was great. I was living very healthy and doing well. She has company over often and when I wanted to be alone I would walk 15 minutes down to Fort Lauderdale by the Sea which is a big main ocean down there. I went to sports bars to watch football. I went to Flamingo Gardens and saw wild animals. It was really cool but then I decided I really wanted to head back to Baltimore for the holidays to visit my family and see my friends.
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/CAM00638.jpg.html?sort=3&o=67
Back to Baltimore for the Holidays
I took a bus back to Baltimore and arrived back on Thanksgiving Day. I hung out with my family and distant family in Millers Island. I walked around DC enjoying the sites the day before my birthday, seeing the Christmas decorations around the White House, etc, and the next days came and it was my birthday (December 5th) I celebrated the early morning by going to a job interview at the only hostel in Baltimore and got a amazing job offer with them then I went to the Walter's Art Museum by myself and walked around, then I watched as they were setting up the lighting for the Washington Monument to get lit up which was cool too. I spent the afternoon with my family with some cake, and gifts, and took my night to hangout with my best friends. They bought me plenty of drinks and were stoked to see me after so long. We went and watched the monument get lit, and saw the fireworks go off, we attempted the Frasier Drinking Game then we just went out to a ton of bars and got wasted, it was awesome!
http://s119.photobucket.com/user/somesk8nkid/media/Friends.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2
I'm at mid December now and can honestly say this year has been the very best year for me!
.................................................................................................................................................................
Random details I forgot throw in
1. Doing a 48 hour shoot with Veep in a party scene with great actors, and even nicer extra's. That was in January I believe and was so, so great. I met some of the best people I've ever met in my life, and got unlimited free food, and got to be on a HBO series.
2. I also would love to mention my bus catching on fire leaving California going to Florida in New Mexico was pretty fucking crazy too. I'm getting compensated my full refund of $245.50 in a voucher, and another $50 for inconvenience.
3. My favorite band We Are Scientists retweeted and favorited my tweet as I helped them get hundreds of new teenage followers by discovering Rebecca Black mentioning them in some lame video she posted and nearly got in a 3 way conversation with them, but I know Keith and Chris their good guys and deserve the media and attention. Following this post, the day before Christmas We Are Scientists started following me on Twitter!!!! I feel so beyond luck about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lAqybHMtYA
4. Playing the best local Baltimore show this year! Seriously this show was such a HUGE deal to me. We made over $250 on door admission and got split all profit between the bands, we got the show wrote about in some girls blog who has a good following so that was cool, and we all just played super great sets! It was so on target for everyone's set. The line up was Lisa Drank, The Shaky Experience, Animal Lover (MN) The Cupcake Clan, and Sea Patterns. I honestly couldn't of asked for a better show.5. Spending time with friends and family. I feel like I really connected well with my friends and family this year. I spent so much time hanging out with both doing a variety of different things with all of them. I let many of friends into my the museum I was working at for free. I took my aunt to the Papermoon and she really enjoyed the style of Mt. Vernon, I hung out with my cousin a
The plans for 2014!
I have a few free trips coming my way! I'm going back to California for certain next year to continue to do more entertainment work. I plan to record a new album with The Shaky Experience which will be huge, I'm very certain on that. I plan to write and publish my own and first book on travel archives and coincidental winnings. I also plan to make a ton of money next year and make next year more successful then this year with more acting jobs, putting out my book, writing a great new catchy album, and doing whatever it takes to put my name in media. That is what I want and I am determined to make my goals, ambitions, and dreams come true.
This image basically explains all in 1 what this blog is actually about and trying to say....
http://i.imgur.com/tnHRJzR.png
Thank You for reading
- Jr Lane.
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