The Joey Factory

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Above is that video that Jamie and I worked on very hard so you better watch! It was a lot of fun to make and things are a lot more interesting when someone else is behind that camera, aside from the tripod.

So the past few days I’ve been creating a more professional look for my website and I think I’m finally content with it. I wouldn’t leave my computer for hours at a time and I felt very much like a zombie. Oh well, I survived. Take a look:

Please go to my page and send me some love. J17 PRODUCTIONS

So today was a rather fun day. I drove downtown to see my gurrl Krystal. She is a good old pal from the high school days and I think she’s the shit. She is a really good person, yet she’s got a wild side, and if you don’t have a wild side, get one. Cause you can’t compete with this gurrl right herre! LOL. No, she really is great.

Before I had lunch with Krystal, I went to visit Lnz at her lovely job. I was looking for some new hair product and shizz. I was glad she didn’t have a client, because as my hair grows longer, I need to learn how to style it. So I had her show me how to flat iron my hair the correct way. You see when I flat iron my hair, it does just that, it goes flat. You notice they don’t call it a straight iron.

It’s amazing the tricks a hair stylist can teach you. So if you want your hair to be more voluminous then here’s what you do:

First flat iron your hair the opposite way that it usually lays. For instance a majority of my hair lays to my left, so I flat iron towards the right and sort of flick my wrist. And there’s a little volume. To really encourage volume I do recommend the following products. First for frizzy hair may I suggest some sort of skinny serum that will defrizz that shit we call hair.

After you got that out of the way, let me tell you about this awesome product! It’s called Pure Abundance Hair Potion by Aveda. So it’s super cool, it’s a thickening agent and it never gets sticky. The cool things about it. At first it is a powder of some sorts. But when it contacts your skin it becomes some sort of lotion. So from potion powder to lotion! Super awesome. Love it. It gives you that second day look for your hair. Yay for grungy-dingy basement hair, lol. Voluminous or Volumness!

So after my fun downtown, with Lnz and Krystal, it was back to home. Where I ignored the apartment that desperately needs to be cleaned for Friday’s Twilight Movie Night! Instead of cleaning, I played with Skittles for a while. We call it laser kitty. Then I went to my computer with intentions to edit Shanikwa or edit my gallery page for my website. Instead I worked on an old melody that I made up in high school.

Originally the song was about how I was sorry for my father, not being able to save him from the stupid court systems. But I thought to myself that shit is so old. Those emotions are pretty much retired. My father and I are very close, once again, so it just wasn’t the same. Instead I wrote about a breakup of sorts, putting my two cents in on my own past pains. I came up with some awesome shit. Here’s a little part of it:
Sorry by Joey Broyles ©2009
It’s in it’s real rough form right now. I’m experimenting with lots of sounds, but the lyrics came pretty easy and I’m glad about that. I’ve had a really hard time composing songs. I can write lyrics till my fingers bleed. I can come up with some really awesome music, but I can never fuse the two together. Everything about this song fuses and I’m really excited about it. Yay!

Now this evening was an amazing night filled with 90210! Seriously I’m glad I stuck with that show because the actors and the writers have found their niche. And it’s really good. It brings back memories of the first 90210. Back when I was eight years old, back in the day. Silver is a crazy bitch, but it’s okay, because she’s bipolar now. WTF! Um I know bipolar and that was way out there. Trust me on this, trust me! But Silver is still one of my favorites fo sure!

Many people have addictions and some unfortunately have more than one addiction. If I see something that my credit card can afford, I buy it. In fact, it has became somewhat of a problem and I am desperately, trying to stop the urge to splurge. There really aren’t any consequences when it comes to me wasting my money, other than guilt, and no house.

My bills are low but my monthly balance on my credit card ranges anywhere from $1,400.00 to $1,600.00. I have a measly $50.00 in my savings account. Danny and I also share a joint savings account, but the contributor is mostly him, I feel pretty ashamed about that. My contribution is probably a few hundred dollars total whereas he has contributed the majority. Well where is all my money going?

That’s where my money goes. I’m completely aware that I don’t need all of the stuff I have but I’m addicted to stuff. Where would I be without my stuff? Where would I be without my material items? Lost and for all intent purposes, probably, unable to survive without stuff. I’m an advertiser’s wet dream and sometimes I feel completely powerless or even out of control.

I enjoy being a consumer. I enjoy having the latest movie on DVD. I love going out to eat and tasting the most delicious soups and sandwiches. My mouth waters if I hear the words: candy, cookies, or Pepsi. The way Pepsi tastes is indescribable and I can never get enough. Shopping gives me a high, especially if I’m pushing a huge cart of stuff. I love how it feels when you toss the item in the cart. It’s delicious!

I guess the reason I’m posting this for all to read is maybe it will become more apparent, how frivolous I am, with money, even my own health. Really eating sweets in moderation is fine, but I’m always so excessive, and dare I say, lack of self control. I’d like to try really hard at doing better with these things. Spending money! And eating better.

If I have a craving to spend money maybe instead I could make a GIFT WISH LIST and then if I’m really good I could reward myself after it’s under control. Or wait until Christmas like some people.

Eating better really is a whole other issue in it’s entirety. Eating better really isn’t what I specifically want to do. What I want to do is lose weight. And there’s only one way to do that. WORK OUT. I need to both exercise and eat better! Especially if I ever want to look like this:

Now of course I totally am human and make stupid mistakes.

Now on to the completely opposite of my rant. I’d like to address the sexy, iMac picture, at the top of this blog. I will need a new computer, within a few years, and I want to be financially able to just pay cash for it. This is what I want to buy.

Here are the specs for you more technologically advanced peeps:

That’s what the computer, keyboard, mouse and added additions cost. Now some may suggest I buy a tower, then whenever I want I can build onto it, however I don’t want to buy something that will cost about as much as a car. My eMac is approaching it’s sixth birthday in December. At 80 GB and a 1.5 GHz processor, and 1 GB of ram, I’ve outgrown it. My music collection alone is approaching 20 GB. The amount of shit I have on it and the projects I do are becoming more difficult to accomplish. I already have a 1 TB(bigger than gigabyte) external hard drive which has 600 GB remaining, my movie projects are all on there. Anyways it’s time to expand within 2 years! I’d also be looking at purchasing these extras for the computer:

Okay you may not know what all of these things are so I’ll give you brief descriptions to clue you in.

Final Cut is the program one uses when they are editing film. Now of course this is the deluxe with all the extra bells and whistles, but I definitely use this all the time when you watch Shanikwa!

Adobe Creative Suite 4:
Has Photoshop and Dreamweaver which I use all the time!

QuarkXPress: While you were all learning how to type up a document on Microsoft Word. I was learning how to use a layout program where I could make my own magazine covers, as well as, do my English homework. Most of my files are in this format! Need.

So in total I need a beautiful $8,000.00 to make my dream come true. We’ll see, which means yes, if you are my father.

In other news tonight I finished reading another Augusten Burroughs book, Possible Side Effects. Now I’m onto his first and only novel, Sellevision. And we just bought the paper back of A Wolf At The Table. Then I’ll have read all of his books. We also bought the autobiography of Carrie Fisher.

Oh by the way people please join Twitter. I don’t know why, but you should!