Jazz, Jimmy Jazz

starting June 1st. Thank you to all my followers whom didn’t unfollow during the difficult time I had getting Internet at my new place. Until June, Stay Tumblin’ My Friends.

So I’ve been listening to a lot of techno stuff for the past couple of weeks and now I’m going into a hardcore/metal/punk phase today. I use phase in the terms as that’s all I’m listening too instead of just listening for the sake of trying to be cool. Anyway, the move is taking forever. I just basically have a car full of stuff to take over and that’s it but I’ve been helping family and friends with stuff. So yeah there’s that.

I had an idea for a photo shoot but with the move and then everyone’s schedule getting busy because of mid-terms the shoot has been put on hiatus for now. I’m currently getting ready for another shoot that a friend and I came up with. It’s going to be a modern day Star Wars inspired shoot title “Looking For Love In Aldaraan Places” Hopefully we’ll have all the supplies and extras to shoot by April. So there’s that.

Here’s some titles I just threw together for some ideas for future photo shoots:

- “It’s Not Love” (put on hiatus for the time being until I can re-group everyone for the shoot. Mid terms screwed up everyone’s schedule.)

-“Looking For Love In Alderaan Places” (Currently in production)

-“Apocalypse 2012” (formally known as “gas mask”)

-“OMG Less Than Three”

-(Super Secret EPIC Photo Shoot) (Hopefully) 

I was in a little bit of a funk recently. I strayed from my work out and nutrition goals for a while there because of just everything. Stress from moving, stress from getting ready for school, stress from finances, stress from getting photo shoots done on time, stress from trying to network and get my name out there in between all this, and just overall in a funk because of everything in the love department or lack of. I didn’t really realize how all this stress was really affecting me. It wasn’t so much an emotional strain as it was a health strain with a food binge. So I’m going to get back on track and motivate myself with two things. 1-If I get back on track with working out and eating better I can shove it in all my ex-girlfriend’s faces and basically say “haha, look what you could have had.” 2-If I stick with this, I’ll reward myself by getting that tattoo I’ve always wanted:

It’s done by Alex Pardee, who did the artwork for The Used on some of there albums. I really like this heart design by him.

So yeah, there’s that.

So along with trying to create some positive changes in my life and trying to stay on track for working out I’ve decided I’m cutting out some stuff in my life to get healthier. You know, junk food, soda, etc. etc.

So this is my life as of now. Oh, one last thing, I got really bored because I couldn’t sleep so I just queued some old songs lyrics/poems (whatever you want to call them) so check out the songs tab on my tumblr. Just a warning, there’s some strong language in some songs, and some are based on fictional scenarios that I’ve found to be stuck in my head so I wrote about them. So check that out if you want:

http://jimmyjazzphotog.tumblr.com/tagged/songs

Until the next post, peace.

-Jimmy Jazz

I’m glad to see that people actually give a damn about something other than superficial things. Just like Environmentalism was hot after “An Inconvenient Truth”, this whole Kony / Lost Children thing is a jump on the band wagon I’m glad people are actually getting into. Of course there’s those damn hipsters and other cool people that are caring about this cause for the sake of being cool or ironic or whatever and then the really cool kids that are too cool to care about things like Uganda’s children. But at the core of it, the word is getting out and that’s a good thing, at least I’ve always found that educating others of current events is a good thing. Do I support the idea of spreading the word in hopes that some kind of aid or more pressure is put on to find this dick? Yes. Will I spam like a mofo like a Twilight fan? No. There’s a difference between educating and annoying the fuck out of people with your beliefs. Just saying. Also, I’m not going to throw money at the situation because 1-I’m broke, 2-I’m really broke, and 3-I’m not one to throw money at a situation in hopes it goes away or gets better especially when a majority of funds for the Lost Children movement have now been reported not to be used for the Lost Children movement, as that usually happens when there’s a surplus in a movement.

So in conclusion,
Educating = good
Spamming = bad
Annoying = bad
Don’t be a douche, and be careful who you donate your money too.

Good night, and good luck.

-Jimmy Jazz

-(Finishing up shoot for March right now)

- “Looking For Alaska In Cloud City”

- “Gas Mask”

- “OMG Less Than Three”

- “Cover Pages”

- (Super Secret EPIC Photo Shoot)

These are just off the top of my head. Hopefully I’ll remember the details by just the name I gave these ideas. If not, then I guess it wasn’t meant to be a photo shoot. Hopefully I can do most, if not all, of these shoots before summer gets here. Then I have some ideas for Near October (another Halloween & also a new idea for a shoot), and then a political themed photo shoot in November. This is the random stuff I think of.

If you want to help and/or be in these shoots please be located in So. Cal. for the next few months and contact me via tumblr, twitter, facebook, etc, etc. More info to come as shoots come closer.

-Record and release an album full of original songs

-Drive a 1981 Delorean for at least one day

-Start a Fight Club

-Live in L.A. , NY, San Fran. & Japan, each for at east one year and document my travels

-Retire in Canada

-Work in a record store, the more independent the better

-Publish a book aka my portfolio

-Get my tattoos that I’ve been wanting forever now

-Go Skydiving

-Learn Japanese

-Learn sign language

-Work with Peta2 for a photo shoot

-Be more involved in my community

-Create an online-zine (more successful than W.A.R. Zine)

-Drop everything I’m doing in 2015 and go on a road trip to anywhere and everywhere

-Run with the bulls

-Create my own dark room for processing my own film, where ever I live

-Get a invite to Phoot Camp one year ( http:// phootcamp.com/ )

-Run the Los Angeles Marathon

-Go overseas with soldiers to photograph war

-rent a car with insurence and destroy it

-hike everyday for a week

-go to a laker riot

-Go to a Childish Gambino show wearing a Greendale School shirt

-Go to a Every Time I Die show while wearing a batman costume (The Tim Burton version costume with the black and yellow logo on chest)

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Goals to reach before Fall Semester:

-Get Alex Pardee (The Used:new edition) Heart Tattoo

-Buy new Canon Camera

-Buy Laptop

-Get in better shape

-EPIC secret project.

Things don’t always go how you plan. That’s just life. I’ve been meaning to type up a blog for a while but as I just said, things don’t always go to plan. Where did I leave off last I updated my life as a blog. I’m not exactly sure so let me catch everyone up to speed on some of the most recent going-ons in my life.

Things don’t always go to plan: you don’t always stay put. I’m currently moving. I’m currently in the process of moving half my stuff into storage that I don’t need but don’t necessarily want to get rid of (sentimental stuff, potential ebay sells, etc). I already gave a lot of stuff I don’t need or use away. The rest goes into the new place I’m moving into which is still in the same city, and not too far from my job still, so at least I have that for now.

You don’t always get what you deserve.
I’ve accepted where I am in life when it comes to my downfalls and all the other negative stuff. I’ve been moving past everything negative with the help of friends and family. I’ve also been keeping myself occupied by working with bands (taking photos at there shows) and working on a upcoming photo shoot in the middle of moving. I’ve also been reading, currently finishing up the last book of the Hunger Games “Mockingjay”. I wish I had more time to read while moving though. I’ve accepted the crap given to me but I’m still determined to keep doing what makes me happy and go forth with my photography. I’m over a lot of negative stuff and moving on. With all this paragraph said, for those that may have heard through whispered rumors, I am single again because things don’t always work out like you plan.

You don’t always feel the same as you did yesterday.
No hard feelings. Been feeling better about a lot of things in my life (thanks for friends and family). I’m working on things that I’m not so comfortable with to help improve those portions in my life, such as finances, where I’m currently looking for a second job to help raise some extra money. I’m throwing myself out there more and networking with other photographers, venues, event coordinators, and bands. I’m getting to know a lot of awesome people by getting over my fear of rejection and my despise for the human race. One of the last shows I went to was actually a really great night because I got to meet a lot of cool people who set up shows around the LA area.

So this is what’s my life been like the past month. Just adjusting back to single life, occupying my mind with photography ideas, networking and meeting awesome people, and getting ready to leave one corner of this city for another corner. As for my plans for going to school in San Francisco, that’s still going to plan. Once I’m settled into the new place I’m going to keep going to shows, work on finding that second job and go back to the work out routine. Haven’t been able to keep up with the hikes or runs like I wanted because of minor interruptions. This is where I am right now. Hopefully it won’t take too long for the internet to go up at the new place. I’ll be sure to post something again once the computer and the internet is up at the new place. Until the next post, peace.

-Jimmy Jazz

What do I want out of life? In a way I know but afraid to actually peruse the paths to get what I want out of life. I know what I don’t want. Everyone pretty much knows what they don’t want. I can’t help feeling I’m in a pit of emotional negativity that’s just repeating the mistakes of the past.

Looking back at some of the songs/poems I’ve written in the past few months there’s a lot of negativity to them. I don’t want to really publish them on the Internet but then I feel like I’m being fake by not letting myself express myself. Then again the stuff I’ve written can be my own little personal therapy to help me cope with everything. So far it has.

I’ve accepted the situations that I’m in but that doesn’t mean I have to like them. I know I have to move on and this has been a easier process with friends and family supporting me. I feel like it’s just me that’s holding myself back from moving forward, like I’m afraid to make everything official, like I can’t accept the dead and just bury everything already.