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Sunday, August 14th, 2005
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9:46 pm - OMG ALMOST KINDA IMPORTANT
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This will be my final entry here. I'm moving to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) anothersea.
(I'll be adding everyone to my new friends list shortly.)
current mood:  okay
current music: Three Mile Pilot - Shang vs. Hanger
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| Sunday, August 7th, 2005
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11:24 pm - This journal will be moving shortly
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Just to let everyone know, I'm putting the finishing touches on my new journal, so I'll moving to it fairly shortly. This one just isn't doing it for me anymore. I feel like I should have written about summer and Charleston and DC and all, but I just didn't. Plus I'm getting ready to go off to college and it seems like a new journal is in order. So this will be like my second to last entry here.
current mood:  tired
current music: Stark Effect - Under Ice
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| Monday, June 20th, 2005
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2:42 pm - Where tourists snore and decay
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| Thursday, June 2nd, 2005
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6:10 pm - Well, I’m not dumb, but I can’t understand...
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So, as of this past Friday, I am totally done with high school. Graduation was both fun and boring. It was nice to be able to hang out with everyone, but all the practicing and the ceremony itself was not interesting. But after it was all done and we went out to the fountain in front of the Peace Center and threw our caps up in the air, that was fun. Even though I almost fell over when I threw mine. That is going to look really funny in the picture. But it is fitting of me, I suppose.
Oddly, I think I was sadder at the FAC graduation than my school one.
I also found out who my roommate will be at College of Charleston today. I have never heard of him, as he is from Virginia. I will have to email him later to see what he is like and to figure out what stuff each of us needs to bring. But I am staying in College Lodge, which is a hotel, which I suppose has both good and bad points. Evidently I move in on August 20th and my classes will start on August 23rd. Which is strange in a way, because that is really not that far off.
Summer has been quiet so far, in a busy way. I started working at Sitton again this week, which is not a lot of fun, but it is giving me money that I'm sure I'll end up needing next year. I have also been cleaning my room. Not just picking stuff up, but pulling everything out of the dark little crevices, throwing out what I don't need, and putting the rest of it back neatly. It's certainly going to take me most of the summer. It's a lot of work and it makes me kind of nostalgic.
For a month, I've been working on the coolest playlist in the world:
( The greatest playlist the world has ever seen. )
Yeah, you can't say I'm not awesome (if in an extremely bizarre way.) Anyway, Maggie, Madison, Sarah--we need to get together sometime over the next monthish and figure out story/character ideas for Auris. If all we do this summer is build the framework, that'd be cool with me, but I'd like to have it together before we go off to college. I'll be gone from Saturday the 11th to Saturday the 18th for the beach and a college orientation, but other than that I am free as long as I'm not working.
I think I will make a new journal sometime before college.
current mood:  accomplished
current music: The Kinks - Lola
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| Friday, April 22nd, 2005
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1:20 pm - It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
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| Saturday, April 16th, 2005
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5:52 pm - Yo soy un disco quebrado, yo tengo chicle en el cerebro
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| Saturday, April 9th, 2005
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7:34 pm - I got two turntables and... some body thetans?
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Beck is a scientologist. I had no idea. I am heartbroken. Guero, your sounds will forever be a shade less sweet. It was Molly who ruined it for me. THANKS A LOT FOR RUINING MY LIFE, WHORE!!! :) I always knew Beck was a weirdo. But a weirdo scientologist cultist? This is dreadful.
I mean, I have known for a while that John Travolta and Tom Cruise are. This has soured (just a little) Pulp Fiction and Minority Report for me. But recently finding out that Beck, Kirstie Alley (okay, I've never liked her, but now the sight of her almost ruins Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan and the latter episodes of Cheers for me--say what you will about Shelley Long, but at least she is not a member of some bizarre, inhumane science fiction cult!--even more than it did before,) and Nancy Cartwright (The Simpsons voice actor) are all scientologists is just a little too much. Life is cruel like that.
Also, I begin to wonder. Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson) is a scientogolist. Futurama did an episode where Bender joined Beck, NOW A NOTED SCIENTOLOGIST, on tour and the gang followed them around like groupies. Is Matt Groening, a man whose cartoons have a decidedly liberal slant, really just some deceitful pawn in a worldwide scientologist conspiracy to seduce new converts to the cult? Is Matt Groening the Trojan Horse of scientology? I fear the implications.
Now I am trying to console myself by thinking that since Beck is a second-gen scientologist (both of his parents were,) this makes him a tragic figure. He was born into a cult and brainwashed with no hope of escape. How sad! This can only endear his bizarrely colorful music to me all the more. At least, I think. I hope, anyway.
I'm going to go dissect Odelay for subliminal scientologist propaganda and wonder why Beck had to marry a famous scientologist and pretend that he was Jewish in the early days of his musical career. How tragic!
Oh, Maggie, I posted on Auris. I sweeear. You now owe me your soul.
current mood: tired
current music: Wilco - I'm the Man Who Loves You
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| Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
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6:40 pm - Don't you know that it ain't gonna last?
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So I reeeally, reeeally wish that I could get some sort of normal illness for once. Like the flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis (okay, okay... I just included this one because I aspire to be a great writer and TB seems to be something they all have in common). The classic diseases, you know? But instead I had to spend the past three days in bed because I had some kind of bizarre head cold and I was so dizzy/light-headed that walking sucked. The dizzy part still has not gone away. And writing in this kinda-sorta makes me want to vomit.
Oh! Hello, lj-land. It has been a while. Even though I don't update that often anymore, I really do read your journals (if you're on my friends list) every other day or so. As long as it doesn't look like your entry isn't going to be some sort of giant whine-fest. Those I pretend to read. ;)
Anyway, I am way too obsessed with Arrested Development and am eagerly awaiting the release of the Scrubs season one DVD. Also having a lot of fun with the Althanas clan war, despite the fact that it is one gigantic powergaming festival. But Althanas is nowhere near as fun as Auris, which shall conquer even the nether-regions of the Earth with its supreme coolness whenever it happens to take off. But I have to go find a poem to teach for FAC tomorrow. And do some other make-up work.
P.S.
I love the way online journals make you feel like a pretentious celebrity, in that "everyone must really care about my personal life and opinions so it's my obligation to share them with my adoring fans" kinda way.
P.P.S.
I spit in a cup of rice pudding in Denny's today and my fan club is selling it on e-Bay for THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Fo serious, yo.
current mood:  geeky
current music: The Velvet Underground - Cool It Down
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| Friday, December 31st, 2004
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6:24 pm - Half of the time we’re gone, but we don’t know where
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Here is my obligatory New Year's Eve post (well, okay, not obligatory--I didn't even make a post for my 18th birthday--but, you know, I'm all bored and stuff so I figure I might as well write in this. I mean, I guess everyone can enjoy my mindless rambling, dead baby jokes, and oddly placed Futurama references occasionally, right? ... Right? Your sympathetic smirks will not deter me!)
Since I have nothing much to say, I'm going to steal Sarah's little idea (which I think she stole herself--AHAH! It's like the Toadies song What We Have We Steal ... Sorta. I swear I'm not on drugs! AND NO I WILL NOT SELL YOU ANY, VILE WENCHES OF YONDER TOOLSHED!) of picking a song to sum up my year. Speaking of the Toadies and subsequently Todd (or Vaden or Vader or whatever the fuck he's calling himself nowadays) Lewis, I think the song Beautiful Night by his new (and supremely awesome) band the Burden Brothers sums my year up. Oh, and since I love all of you so very much, I'll use an lj cut:
( Beautiful Night by The Burden Brothers )
But yeah. My year this year has been surprisingly like last year. Which isn't really good or bad, just average. Not average. A mix of good and bad. But that is life, you know? (Aye me, I'm such a little philosopher.) I guess there has been more of a sense of finality hanging over it, because this is my last year home. Oh well. I think I am going to spend the last night of 2004 watching the extended edition of Return of the King, which I have yet to see. The extended, anyway. Happy new years and stuff, everyone. I'm sure 2005 is going to be interesting.
current mood:  contemplative
current music: Simon and Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York
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| Saturday, December 25th, 2004
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2:24 pm - Sinatra was swinging, all the drunks they were singing
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Sometimes fictionalized apathy is only a truncated form of despondent antipathy. I have no idea what that means, I just thought it might be fun to start out an entry with something pretentious like that.
It's Christmas, obviously. I got some DVDs and CDs that I wanted, and some clothes that I didn't want or ask for but will wear anyway. And since it is Christmas, I am listening to the BEST CHRISTMAS SONG EVER (well, okay, there really aren't many Christmas songs that I like--Christmas songs pretty much rank alongside with Libertarians and "funny" home video shows on my list of things I hate.)
Because Fairytale of New York > all other X-mas music.
The comments on my last post have reached astronomical proportions, but now that I've finally updated I'm sure they will probably die out. Oh well. I got to six hundred comments on one thread! Now I will finally have something to tell my grandchildren. Before I put them in the oven.
Vodka Cannon: HAHAHAHAHAHHA SOME MEXICAN IS SINGING FOR THE CHRISTMAS PARADE
Static Valor: Stupid Mexicans! Christmas is an AMERICAN holiday.
I want to go see The Life Aquatic (even though the critics don't seem to be fond of it--but I'm silly for listening to them.) Maybe because I got The Royal Tenenbaums DVD and I hunger for more Wes Anderson.
"'Odeley' is a real word. Just look it up in the Becktionary."
current mood:  awake
current music: The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
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| Friday, November 5th, 2004
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10:00 pm - We need to form a full assault, it's Canada's fault!
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So Manda (valier) introduced me to a website that pretty much solves all my election woes: http://www.marryanamerican.ca ... Aren't the Canadians so kind and considerate and (hopefully) sexy? Looks like I am going to be marrying myself a Canadian for some easyily-obtained citizenship/hot sex. I mean, Canada seems like it is really cold. What else could there possibly be to do up there?
Here is a discussion Molly and I had on the matter:
Static Valor: I have found an even better solution than yours to our election problems.
SomeHipCat: Using the warheads made available by Bush's neglect of nuclear proliferation to blow up the red states?
SomeHipCat: Or marry Canadians?
Static Valor: Marry Canadians.
SomeHipCat: I am not simply satisfied with the sweet balm of Canadian citizenship.
SomeHipCat: I crave revenge.
Static Valor: Oh Molly. If you were a Canadian, I would marry you.
SomeHipCat: No, Adam, if YOU were Canadian, I would marry you.
There is also this:
SomeHipCat: A Republican friend of my sent me this: http://kerryspirit.ytmnd.com/
SomeHipCat: I do not understand it.
Static Valor: It doesn't make sense... But it's funny.
SomeHipCat: It is pretty funny.
SomeHipCat: But not as funny as THIS:
SomeHipCat: http://www.nata2.info/humor/movies/chin2.mpeg
SomeHipCat: I want to marry them.
Static Valor: Oh my god. That is so fucking funny. Please, have my Canadian babies.
Static Valor: Even though I may end up eating them to keep warm.
SomeHipCat: Oh Adam, you are the best.
SomeHipCat: But if some our children turn out to be Korean..well, you were warned ahead of time.
Static Valor: I'll understand. There's nothing like Korean baby barbecue.
I will be 18 next week. Wonder if that means I'm legal in Canada...?
current mood:  complacent
current music: South Park Parents - Blame Canada
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| Saturday, October 16th, 2004
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11:00 pm - I'll play the devil, you can be the light
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So I have achieved a new low of left-wing lameness. I lifted a Bush-Cheney sign from some asshole's yard last night. But I swear, it was not my idea! Especially since I was only last month complaining about conservatives stealing Inez signs. I am such a flip-flopping liberal.
Been listening to Three Mile Pilot, Blonde Redhead and The Folk Implosion. BR is NOT a Sonic Youth rip-off. Well. Not anymore.
This weekend has been pretty cool so far (or at least nice in comparison to the weekdays that preceded it.) It was the last week of the grading period, so I had to do all of my last-minute projects on top of all the late work that I had to get in so I wouldn't fail anything. Hopefully I succeeded, although I had a 71 in Pre-Cal on my progress report, so there may be cause to worry. But now my parents are out of town.
I will be 18 in less than a month. That means I'll be able to... Well. Shit. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that it will be legal for me to do then that is illegal for me to do now. This breaks my heart. So it looks like this entry is over. Viddy you next raz, my malenky droogs.
current mood:  content
current music: Three Mile Pilot - The Year of No Light
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| Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
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6:42 pm - They caught me downtown, changing the buslines
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I think the only thing I've enjoyed about this hurricane is the fact that it's named Frances. You know, because it's just one letter away from being France. And the fact that something deadly with a name like that is plowing through the heartland of conservative America, well, it just makes me smile.
It's awful, I know, but when I heard about four people having died in Florida, I thought, "Gee, I sure hope they're Republicans." It's a swing state, man. Every vote counts. Here's your divine retribution for voting George Bush in 2000, bitch. (Yes, yes, again I'm really awful. I'm sorry. While I'm on the subject of poor taste in humor, take a gander at this: http://www.geocities.com/pirated_kiss/owned.gif )
In Garden State (which is a wonderful movie, by the way, WAY SUPERIOR TO LOST IN TRANSLATION) when Natalie Portman told Zach Braff that New Slang by the Shins would change his life, I almost laughed. Not that I don't like the Shins, I think they're awesome. But if a Shins song changes your life, you have problems. However, if a Shins song IS going to change your life (you poor pathetic soul, you, whoever you are) then this would be the song to do it. I really enjoy it.
In other news, I almost killed myself trying to make some Ramen noodles earlier today. Also, I applied to College of Charleston last night. Now I just have to get my transcripts sent it. I can be lazy with my other applications now.
(I haven't updated this thing in a while.)
current mood:  peaceful
current music: Failure - Sergeant Politeness
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| Monday, August 9th, 2004
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11:48 pm - But you're always a step ahead of the crowd
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FINALLY done with all my podiatrist visits. Woohoo.
How I love Tripping Daisy. Listening reminds me of the days when I was a kid and I used to sit around and play Silent Death (nifty overhead spaceship game) and listen to music. Not that I listened to Tripping Daisy back then--I was too busy listening to Green Day, The Smashing Pumpkins and The Presidents of the USA (yeah, my old musical tastes were bizarrely decent, even though I rarely listened to music and never got CDs, but I guess that was 'cause I was young.) Tripping Daisy just brings back the early to mid 90's. Which was the best time for music ever, in my opinion.
Haha, sorry for rambling like that. And my, my, it's been a while since I've updated this thing. I'm just in a reflective mood, I guess. Because, sadly, my summer vacation is drawing to a close. My senior year approaches. I don't suppose I can complain, really. All in all, it's been a pretty rockin' summer. Probably the best one I've had yet, although I'm sure next summer will blow it away. But now the time for constant laziness is over. It's time to start being mostly lazy and vaguely productive once again. Prolly won't be so terrible.
My classes seem pretty okay, at least. First period is Government, but I'll have it free next semester. Second is Gym, but I'll have it free next semester. Third is English, fourth is Pre-cal. After that it's Creative Writing at the Fine Arts Center. As far as my school goes, my least favorite teacher is gone, but so is my favorite teacher. Not that I would have had either of them this year, anyway. And we have a better teacher doing Senior Project. Which is nice, although Senior Project is going to end up KILLING me. I swear!
Soon I need to go to the DMV and get my license (I'm sure that'll be fun.) I've put it off for way too long. Man, I'm so lazy. Looks like I need to go pick up some more job applications too, since my job hunt has proven fruitless. Also, I'm going to go ahead and apply to College of Charleston. I don't know if I'm going there or not yet, but I think I probably will. Unless I happen upon somewhere better. Oh well. It's not like it's going to hurt me to apply.
School starts Friday. Here we go, one last time.
current mood: okay
current music: Tripping Daisy - Piranha
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| Sunday, July 25th, 2004
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11:58 pm - Filling jars full of silence, you'll get nowhere
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As most everyone knows by now, I got back from the beach yesterday. I spent most of my time there playing guitar, reading, listening to music, walking on the beach. All that sort of thing. It was nice and quiet, whenever I could get away from my family. I also got to eat lots of good seafood. Man, I love me some seafood. Especially blackened fish.
On Wednesday we drove up to Charleston to go on one of the tours of College of Charleston, which is where I'll more than likely be going to college. I adore Charleston and the college seems pretty neat--it's a fairly cheap liberal arts college on the beach, which is cool with me.
I've just been so tired from the beach these last couple of days. Tomorrow I'd really like another day of doing nothing, but it is not to be. Early in the morning, I have to go get part of the nail cut out of my other big toe. Then I need to start driving again so I can get my license soon. And I have to go to guitar lessons in the evening. So tomorrow is looking like it's going to be a fairly full day. Oh well.
As far as Althanas is concerned, the Gisela has started and it looks like it's going to be a blast (if a particularly long and painstaking one.) My army is sweet, if I do say so myself. We're like the Salvarian Mongols. Cavalry archers all the way, bitch. Round one I face Xarzo, which I'm not worried about. Round 2 I'll probably face Gilbert, which will be hard since he seems to be a pretty crafty tactician. I'm prolly facing Gild in round 3, so I'm not even thinking about winning that. But it'll be fun.
Still, though, I have a lot of ToW battles to judge and four threads to reply to. Aye me, no rest for the weary! I'm going to go get some delicious peanut butter cup ice cream before I starve to death. So farewell for now, internet land.
current mood:  hungry
current music: Modest Mouse - Tundra/Desert
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| Friday, July 16th, 2004
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11:56 am - Where's Jaws when you need him?
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I'm fairly well ready to leave, I guess. I'm all packed--somehow I got my guitar and amp plus my suitcase into the trunk, so I'm content. I made three CDs and I bought three CDs (Modest Mouse, Gomez, and Spoon) that I haven't even listened to yet. I've got a couple books to read. So I am all set, I hope. We had some setbacks today, but nothing major.
So tomorrow morning we're off. We plan to strike the capitalists whilst they lounge about unprepared, to take them by storm when they are at their weakest. They will see: Money is no shield against the revolutionary's ire; liberation shows THEM no mercy. By the 24th, if all goes as planned, the entire Southern coastline will be ours!
Okay, yeah, I'll be back next Saturday.
Try not to have too much fun without me.
current mood: mellow
current music: Splendora - Turn Down the Sun
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| Monday, July 12th, 2004
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11:30 pm - So is it raining in your bedroom?
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Saw Fahrenheit 9/11 last night. It is quite awesome. Parts of it were exaggerated, of course--it is a Michael Moore film. But it was entertaining, funny, terrifying and informative. I liked it better than Bowling For Columbine, actually.
All of this drama on Althanas for the past few days has just made me sick. Sorry to everyone whose threads I'm behind in, but I really haven't wanted to touch the site. Things seemed to have smoothed out, though. And Madison even got an admin job out of it, haha. Which is kind of crazy--since I am Dirks's designated successor, me and Madison will SOMEDAY be in control of like 2/3 of Althanas. That'll be sweet.
Today ended up being a lot busier than I had planned. When I woke up, around 1 PM or so, I got some food and went over to my grandmother's with my mom to get the tiller. Evidently I'm going to have to be tilling some land with, which sounds like GREAT fun. We spent the obligatory hour or two over there chatting with her, which was all right.
Then my dad came and got us (my sister didn't come because she was out) and we went to visit my OTHER grandmother, who has been in the hospital because she had some kind of fluid building up around her heart. She looked better, my dad said. I don't think I've seen so many members of my family in the same day like this for a really long time.
Then I went to guitar lessons, came home and practiced. I'm learning to play the Stone Temple Pilots song Plush (I like that song, but I always found the lyrics strange--sinister in that Toadies-esque way, except without any sort of humor evident in it) and some other stuff.
I leave for the beach on Saturday. Whoo?
SomeHipCat: Latin guys, that's my thing.
SomeHipCat: Makes me all weak in the knees.
SomeHipCat: Like you and bald girls.
current mood:  good
current music: Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
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| Monday, July 5th, 2004
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11:46 pm - Dream on my friend, you're not going anywhere
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I am the master of finding lost people over the vast reaches of cyberspace, yo. Okay... It was two and accidentally.
Siiigh. I miss the castles. I miss Treline. I miss role-playing with everyone there. It seems silly, I guess--you would think I would have gotten over it by now. But I still think about from time to time. Pine after it, in a way. Where did all those years go? What did we do to deserve such innocent 14-year-old happiness? Why did did we have to let it go? I tell myself I will make something like the castles again, for everyone. But I don't think I'm serious. It would be like one of those funerals no one goes to. And everyone that does come just stands around and stares in awkward silence.
Sorry, it's been one of those days. Raining all the time in the good way. Sad and dreary. But in the good way.
My new guitar teacher is a lot cooler than I thought. I think I like him better than Joey or Derrick, who were neat too.
Everyone seems to be gone. Crazy summer.
I need a haircut before the beach.
I feel like I'm talking to a mirror.
(Aww, I made a silly little sad entry.)
current mood: nostalgic
current music: The O - Dream the Fuck On
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| Saturday, June 26th, 2004
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11:00 pm - Love, bang, crash, wakka wakka, bam thwok
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Well, I'm crushed that Lollapalooza was canceled, but I believe there may be some sort of compensation. On October 13th and 14th The Pixies are playing in Atlanta. Yes, it's wonderful, but I'm afraid there is a catch. The tickets cost from 80 dollars to over 200 dollars. I'm definitely going to go, because I'm crazy like that, but I'm going to go for the cheaper tickets. It's not in a big place, so even cheap tickets (if you can call 80 bucks cheap) won't put you miles away from the band. So if you are the least bit interested in going, Maggie/Sarah/other local fans of the Pixies, please let me know -- there's stuff I need to get straightened out.
On the note of The Pixies, everyone go download Bam Thwok, their first new song in 13 years (or have me send it to you on AIM.) It has Kim Deal on vocals and it's pretty cool.
My toe is doing nicely, even though their is a large fleshy gap where part of my toenail used to be. It kind of looks like a little bit of cherry pie in my toe. And there is a lot of annoying stuff I have to do to take care of it. If I neglected to mention it to you, I had part of the nail cut out to keep me from getting ingrown toenails. I think the doctor wants to do the other one in a couple weeks, but I'm not gonna let him. I don't want to have to fool with taking care of it while I am being all lazy and hiding from the sun at the beach.
Oh, evidently the Regal Cinemas website lied to me about Fahrenheit 9/11. It does play here. Must go see it.
I'm so thrilled about this Pixies concert.
current mood: happy
current music: The Pixies - Bam Thwok
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| Monday, June 21st, 2004
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3:08 pm - Are you alive beneath you make-up?
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You know what's strange? I love Dishwalla, but I can't listen to the album Pet Your Friends because the lyrics are so conservative and preachy about it. Normally I don't have problems like this. I can listen to like Lynyrd Skynyrd (I realize Ronnie Van Zant wasn't really conservative, but he did express some right-wing politics in his songs) and not care that I disagree with what he's saying. But with Dishwalla... I love the sound of that CD, but it makes me angry. It's pretty strange. Normally things like that don't bother me.
Why is it that people always think it's gross when other people's bathrooms are dirty, but it's perfectly acceptable and not gross at all for their own bathroom to be dirty? I mean, people walk into strange bathrooms and are all like "OMG GROSS THIS IS DIRTY I CAN'T USE THIS!" But their own bathrooms at home are probably just as dirty. It's not the filth, but the fact that the filth is unfamiliar, I think.
Man, if I was the guy that sang those Outback Steakhouse commercials, I would kill myself. Just a suggestion, in case he happens to read this.
Wednesday morning at like 10 I have to go to the doctor real quick, I think. My toe keeps bleeding and the blood always dries up under my toe nail and around it. I looked at it and it looks like a little flap of skin that should be under the nail slipped out above it, so my nail is growing into it and slicing it in half and making it bleed. Hm. That was kind of gross. Perhaps I should have used an lj-cut? Naaah.
They're making a movie of The Golden Compass (and perhaps the rest of His Dark Materials) but I can't say I have much hope for it. Tom Stoppard wrote the script, which is a nice, if strange choice. I'm glad they had the sense not to pick a random nobody. BUT OH SHIT, THEN THE SCREWED UP AND DECIDED TO PICK A RANDOM NOBODY FOR THE DIRECTOR. Chris Weitz. The only movie he's ever directed by himself is Down to Earth (never saw it, but heard it sucked.) He directed American Pie and About a Boy with Paul Weitz (I've never seen either of those, either, but I've heard About a Boy is good.) Maybe it'll actually be okay with my low expectations. We'll see in 2005.
I really like the new Les Savy Fav album Inches. At first I wasn't sure about it, because the production is SO much better than any of their past releases and there's really not as much screaming. But the lyrics are wonderful and everything about it is just more... Advanced (the newer tracks on it, anyway, since it is a compilation from the band's whole history.) They've definitely grown a lot.
Also, I must go to Lollapalooza. Especially if the Pixies are going to be there. I'll have my license by then, but I also have some vague ideas of people that could take me and people that live in Atlanta that I could stay with. So it might all work out, actually.
current mood: lazy
current music: Les Savy Fav - Hold Onto Your Genre
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