Thursday, April 24, 2003


its 8am on the thursday before graduation. i can't sleep. i didn't even get up this early for my finals. all that's goin in my mind is all the shit i have to take care of. like its all hitting me just now: cap and gown, graduation tix, dinner reservations, clean my room, clean my car, what else. i don't know. ahhhhhhhhh
posted by Steve at 5:38 AM

Friday, April 18, 2003


this is funny.

it has been now...6 months since i blogged. 6 MONTHS. alot has happened. but this is not the reason for this blog.

i just took two of the worst finals of my life. and...i'm supposedly graduating.. haha. yeah for real though, i had a rough day.
really bad. i just wanted to prep everyone cuz i know that EVERYONE CHECKS MY BLOG ON A DAILY BASIS...that great things are coming with regards to the steve kang blog. all i have to say is dann lee man of the universe. the year is over...there should definitely be awards for the year.....
posted by Steve at 10:02 PM

Monday, October 07, 2002

you ever have one of those mornings when you couldn't decide whether to wear a coat or not?

weather.com said it was 53 degrees, and would stay in the 50s all day.
what do the 50s mean anyway?

i think 40s and below as definitely cold, and 60s and above warm enough. the 50s is one of them ranges where its really hard to describe how cold it is. if the sun's out, it shouldn't be that bad. but what if the wind blows? that shit goes down 10-15 degrees. was it cold yesterday? not really. and to make this life-altering decision even more annoying, it doesn't help that my attic, aka weather hell, gets really really cold when its kinda cold, and really really hot when the suns out. what the hell is that anyway? if its kinda cold outside, shouldn't it at the VERY WORST be kinda cold inside too?

steve's sleep wear the last two nites:
-long-sleeve shirt
-sweatpants
-socks
-beenie

and a comforter with a sleeping bag on top.

ok shoot me if i'm crazy, but this CAN'T be normal.
i might as well just sleep outside.

anyway..so this morning i actually had my coat on, perfectly content that i'd just made the right decision. its better to err on the safe side right. right. i get downstairs, and just as i'm about to open the front door, i see some shmo walking down the street with just a long-sleeve shirt on.

i stop.

well if he can wear a long-sleeve and make it...why can't I make it with a sweater.

i take my coat off and go outside, understanding that once i step outside, there's no turning back.

i went out.
it was cold.
it got colder.
10 min walk to class ---> still cold.
everyone outside wearing a coat.


i hate me.
posted by Steve at 7:40 AM

Monday, September 09, 2002

somethings wrong with me..

not so much one specific thing, just a lot of little things. isn't it always like that? i got denied from two classes i wanted to get into. i'm a graduating 5th year senior for crying out loud. shouldn't that not be happening to me?

one class that i did get into, sound recording 331 will no doubt be my favorite class of the year. of my college career. this is the class i've been wanting to take since my sophomore year, and i got the perfect professor to top it off. rob martens owns solid sound studios, where the greenies and most all other acapella groups record. he said himself, "i'm not a professor by any means. i'm just a guy whos done this for 30 years. i'm not here cuz the money's fabulous, i'm here to empty my brain and teach you everything i know about this business and how to record and produce." i almost started crying. this is it, this is the class that will drive me into what i wanna do for the rest of my life.

being that 4 of my classes are in the music school, i've been immersed in the north campus life. to tell the truth, i don't really like it. the people up there really are different. no one normal. no one i feel comfortable talking to. so i see all these people, and then i think about me. am i one of the weird ones?

i'm taking a history of the symphony course. its really cool. i'm one of those guys that a) buys classical cds and b) probably enjoys reading the stories 'behind the music' in the cd covers more than listening to the music. i don't know what it is about them, but i love reading about what was going on during a composer's life when he wrote a certain piece. did you know that mozart wrote his first symphony when he was 8? what the fuck. what were YOU doing when you were 8? its crazy. so gifted, so prolific, and he only lived till 35.
posted by Steve at 3:55 PM

Monday, July 29, 2002

already knowing that absolutely no one reads my blog...i write again. will anyone read this? probably not. i'll write more for my own therapeutic reasons. and the fact that my writing sux and any practice will do me good.

summer term in aa has really been an experience..a good one in that i've been able to have qt to myself....and a bad one in that i've been able to have qt to myself. ok it hasn't been that bad at all. living with babbs has been cool. i feel like all we do is play street fighter, and smoke that fricking hookah. its been really nice finding someone that plays street fighter here in michigan. i feel like the game was never as big in the midwest/east coast as it was in the west. i can't even begin to count how much cash i spent on that game. it was more than an addiction. if you didn't play the game, there was something wrong with you. i remember walking countless blocks just to play on the perfect machine, not that we'd get to play that much. there'd always be huge crowds, and when you'd finally get to play, there'd be so much pressure to win, that i'd usually crumble.

but when the game came to nintendo? it was game time. i bought that shit fast enough to get a copy, and every day, hours upon hours working on my game. it sounds rediculous now, but at the time, it was perfectly the thing to do. the best times were when about 10 of us would get together and play all night. man, that was a long time ago.

so when daryl came over and left his machine here, its been like old times ever since. me and babbs have had our battles, and its been keeping me mentally stable this summer. i can't wait to see everyone in ny again.
posted by Steve at 12:10 PM

Thursday, November 22, 2001

road trips never let me down. no matter who i'm riding with, or for how long, its always an experience. today i did the aa-nj trip with pz, sharon, and kyle. and not to get into specifics about this trip, cuz i know i tend to do that when i write, and i know that the four of us might laugh about it looking back, but i honestly believe that we all could have died today. twice. and i'm not talking so much near death experiences or that we all escaped death. what if the other tire popped? what if we made that left turn when there were cars coming?

when we took that walk along the water and we stared at the new new york skyline for the first time in person, i couldn't stop thinking about what wasn't there, and how in the blink of an eye, thousands were lost. and then i thought about what almost happened to the four of us today. right there, those 3 minutes of us not saying a word but just looking out, i'm never ever going to forget.

the things i take for granted...are the things i love the most.
posted by Steve at 12:22 AM