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[Sep. 2nd, 2009|04:24 pm] |
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| |  chipper | ] |
| [ | music |
| | the pixies | ] |
I just realized I haven't written in this in ages, but I decided now was a good time to get back on my journaling horse. So... yeah.
Classes started on Monday. It's rather odd to find myself at junior status in college when I feel like I was just in high school. We did crafts today in an astronomy lab. For some reason, I'm feeling happier and lighter and maybe even younger than I have since I started at GV. I feel like everything is more open and available and ready for me to take it. And y'know, my classes are good. Larry could probably stop watching so many inspirational teacher movies. I feel like he thinks he's going to change all of our budding journalistic lives. We seriously began the class by listening to him talk about our future. "Learn the rules," he said. "Then you can break them." Oh. Thanks, Larry.
Basically, I've decided that I'm interning somewhere this summer, somewhere big. I'm going to kiss the ass of all of my polisci and journalism profs all year for recommendations and then I'm going to go work at MSNBC. Or something. I am going to make it happen.
Until next time... |
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| Writer's Block: Ten for the Tenth |
[Nov. 10th, 2008|11:52 pm] |
(NOTE: I'm not going to include multiple albums by the same band. In fact, they might not even be in order. Also keep in mind that by next month, this will probably change.)
1. Achtung Baby- U2: Ridiculously fucking good. I don't even know how to describe it.
2. This Year's Model- Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Narrowly ekeing out Armed Forces, it's probably my favorite Costello album to date. It certainly vaulted him to Favorite Artist position.
3. The Who By Numbers- The Who: Important.
4. Picaresque- The Decemberists: Absolutely beautiful.
5. Highway 61 Revisited- Bob Dylan: Honestly, I could probably take any mid-60s Dylan album and include it, but this one wins.
6. Gold- Ryan Adams: Genius, genius, genius!
7. London Calling- The Clash: Embarrassing to drive to work to, but perfect in any other situation.
8. From A Basement On the Hill- Elliott Smith: Fragile, emotional, unimitable.
9. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: I love the rawness of this album. Some songs are downers (Night of the Lotus Eaters, for one), but the rest are all incredible.
10. The Stage Names- Okkervil River: Not to be confused with the equally-amazing The Stand Ins, this album reeks of pure indie greatness. |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 7th, 2008|12:07 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  calm | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Pete Townshend | ] |
It's probably a little early to declare this my favorite summer of recent memory, but I'm thinking that statement is going to be true. I don't really know why. I'm always working, and when I'm not working I'm drinking bad coffee, or seeing Batman or feverishly writing things. I don't have nearly enough money to go shopping, but I think I will tomorrow because, hell, I get paid Friday and for some reason that's ok. It's just been genuinely good. This feeling is probably exacerbated by my unenthusiasm for my fall classes, but still. I'm having such good times right now, and I'm going to be pissed when classes start and I actually have to care. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 14th, 2008|12:27 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  okay | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Farmhouse- Trey Anastasio | ] |
I moved out of the apartment. I couldn't take it anymore. Howevs, I need to find a subletter, and fast, because frankly, I really can't afford the rent. It's a really terrible feeling, actually. I don't enjoy it.
Howevs, I do enjoy my job. To unsubstantial amounts. And I downloaded Trey's acoustic set from Rothbury and that's been keeping my company no matter where I go. Patrick gave me his CD case and told me to rip all the audio and we went to get Batman tickets for Friday before we chalked up some sidewalks near a park. So really... everything kind of evens out. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|10:56 am] |
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| | chipper | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Fratellis | ] |
Ok, seriously? George Carlin, too? Well, shit. Andrea and I are in mourning, except we can't be because I have to go slave away for eight hours and undoubtedly sell like, every copy of every book he's written and order about 12,000 more, I'm sure. We'll actually probably mourn tomorrow or Wednesday when I have a free day (and a half).
Also, that other charming local establishment hired me as well and want me to start next Tuesday. What. The. Fuck. I spent two semesters without employment and suddenly I have the work schedule of a single parent. At least they know about my other job and will probably make my schedule pretty flexible, but still. I'll work both for a while, because the cash can't hurt, or until I probably break down from overworkedness. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 14th, 2008|12:22 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | okay | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Sufjan Stevens | ] |
Well... I'm employed. In quite an awesome way, I must say. This is exciting. Granted, I have yet another interview at another fine local establishment on Friday and damn it, if I get that job I don't know what I'm going to do with myself. Regardless, I start on Monday and I'm pretty excited because I need money to go to Rothbury to see my loooovers whilst they play on totally separate days, yet one which coincides with Hillary's seeing of John Mayer which would cause me to not be able to use her ticket/pass/Gateway to Heaven that day.
I watched The Great Mouse Detective tonight and deduced that Basil of Baker Street would totally be dateable if he weren't, well, a mouse. And fictional.
And on a completely unrelated, much more morose note, I was quite sad to see that Tim Russert died today. He was an admirable journalist and I'm going to miss watching him on Meet the Press. My early Sunday morning politifests will never be the same. |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 14th, 2008|11:30 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | content | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Johnny Cash | ] |
In the past 24 hours I have spray-painted t-shirts, dined at Burger King twice (if only for Indiana Jones promos), gotten lost on a wonky bus schedule I misread, purchased an Obama button from a guy that looked like a young Tucker Carlson, saw John Edwards, Barack Obama (omg, please be running mates and make my life better), and the John Edwards look-alike that they totally faked us out with, and was asked if I was going to flash a presidential candidate.
I am tired.
I am sunburnt.
And I am ridiculously happy about everything.
Izzard in five days! |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 6th, 2008|08:39 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  good | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Turpentine- Elvis Costello | ] |
Occasionally it frightens me when a past, "older" musician whom I love decides to come out with a new album. It could probably be classified as Bob Dylan syndrome, wherein I saw him live twice and now can barely listen to him without thinking of how horrible it was, thus causing me to undoubtedly miss out on some great music of my earlier days. However, this did not stop me, because Elvis Costello put out a new CD today.
And y'know what... it's good. Great, even. And I don't even mean that in a sympathetic way. It's just really great. It bends genres, it's emotional, and he's finally back to being angry. And that's just the way I want to hear him.
Now I'm even more excited to see him again in July. This time with his band, although I definitely adore his acoustic stuff as well.
Also, I have two weeks until I get to see Eddie Izzard. And I'm getting my hair cut tomorrow. And finally seeing Iron Man. Life is alright. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 29th, 2008|01:46 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Foundations- Kate Nash | ] |
Job-searching is kind of awful. Mostly just because I tend to feel really unconfidant sometimes, but everyone today was super, SUPER nice and I got a lot of applications in and am feeling good that I may actually be employed at some point in the near future. This is good, because I need money. Preferably by June 6, so I can go see R.E.M., Modest Mouse, and The National. But hey, if that doesn't happen I'll be fine. For a while.
Also, I'm back being obsessed with Lost. If you watched last week, you'll know why. Oh. My. God. And now this week I may have to choose between it and an advanced screening of Iron Man and damn, I don't know what to do in this situation. Besides find someone with a Tivo, which shouldn't be too hard.
Baby Mama was hilarious. Lauren and I went, and therefore decided that she is the Amy Poehler to my Tina Fey. Woo, life. |
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| Yes, but did you see the swans? |
[Apr. 6th, 2008|08:03 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | mellow | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Dashboard- Modest Mouse | ] |
This weekend I purchased:
- REM's new CD.
- Modest Mouse's newest CD (If only for the sweet, sweet guitar stylings of Johnny Marr).
- Jeans I told myself I'd never buy, but now have.
- Ridiculously amazing boat shoes.
Yes. I'm basically a 45-year old yuppie woman now. It's depressing. But in a good way.
April needs to hurry up and end, because May is going to be wonderful.
Aaaand Ryan Adams closed his blog. How sad. That was like, the high point of entertainment for me for the last three weeks.
Two more weeks? Yeah. I'm ready to be done. |
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| Daysleeper |
[Apr. 1st, 2008|10:28 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  stressed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Daysleeper- REM | ] |
This coffee is terrible. I probably look just as bad. My hair isn't agreeing with the humidity, making it shaggier and more unkempt than usual, if that's even possible. I'm trying to write, but it definitely isn't working to my advantage, obviously, because I'm on livejournal instead.
This coffee is awful.
I need to finish this speech and then act like I care about radical feminism.
...Today isn't going to go well. |
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| Meh? |
[Mar. 15th, 2008|12:32 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | apathetic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | I'm Waiting For My Man- The Velvet Underground | ] |
Ladies and gentlemen, today marks the end of an era, for Tucker Carlson's nightly MSNBC show is over. Now, I never really agreed with that little jerk on any sort of political issue, yet I couldn't ever convince myself to turn away. I think my fondest memory was when John Stewart called him a dick. Or possibly when he cha-cha'd his way into oblivion on Dancing With the Stars. Either way, I felt the need to keep watching, possibly to hope that he would argue his way towards self-implosion. Regardless, Tucker, I'm going to miss you, you uber-conservative little twit.
In other news: Coffee shops in this town need to be open later. Virtually nowhere was open post-show tonight, therefore causing 'Trick and I to play frisbee in a parking lot before finally splitting and getting some Dr. Pepper and doughnuts. It was nice, nontheless, but coffee would've been about 10 times better. |
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| "But that means 68% approve of the job you aren't doing!" |
[Oct. 24th, 2007|08:12 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  bored | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Kissing Families- Silversun Pickups | ] |
In philo:
Y'know, I think my general hate for this class can be boiled down to one main reason. It's not that it's just a three-hour discussion about what reality is or why we feel the way we do. It's not because he constantly tells us about being part of the Chinese revolution and how he worked at Harvard before he came here. It isn't even the random quizzes he gives us, then lets us take home because none of us can do them in class.
No... generally, I hate this class because I miss Countdown.
I would much rather be watching Keith Olbermann lay the verbal smackdown on someone than be sitting here talking about epistemology. Really, I would. |
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| "And that's when it all fell apart..." |
[Oct. 21st, 2007|10:18 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | good | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Answering Bell- Ryan Adams | ] |
I don't particularly enjoy the rain at all. The only pro I can think of is that it causes me to want to listen to more Ryan Adams than usual, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I spent all day Saturday in my room perfecting a solo-acoustic version of "Firecracker" that I'm really loving right now. If only I were gutsy enough to go play somewhere. Then again, Maegan's cafe is considering doing acoustic shows, and Chris and I are in if they do. So maybe the Kali version of "Firecracker" is closer to other human's ears than I expect.
I saw David Sedaris on Saturday. It was fantastic.
I also stayed up until the wee hours of the morning watching a Hitchcock marathon with my Mom. We watched "Psycho" and "The Birds" before we both realized we needed sleep. Generally, everything is pretty good right now. I could deal without philo, but that's about it. Everything else... pretty alright. |
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| "I can't stand losing you..." |
[Oct. 14th, 2007|07:03 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | good | ] |
| [ | music |
| | So Lonely- The Police | ] |
Oh, how I wish I could relive this weekend for the most part. I could do without the fender-bender on the highway before the concert, but regardless. My car is ok. It looks kind of bad, but it's definitely driveable. I basically just don't have a front blinker now on the left side. No problems. It can be fixed.
Elvis Costello was absolutely amazing multiplied by a good 1,000,000. He walked out and literally had the crowd from the first chord. I wrote down his setlist on my arm so I could remember what exactly he played. It was just... my God. I've never seen someone so charismatic and commanding on stage as an individual. It was just beautiful. As for Dylan... we walked out during the fourth song. After Costello, there was no need to stay.
Also... we didn't meet him. Security was tight. We definitely tried, though.
Today the family and I celebrated my birthday. 'Twas nice. I like having new clothes and "Death Proof" on DVD and a new Police CD. I'm going to like even more when Maegan gets home and gives me Colbert's book. I'm super-excited for that. |
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| "I'm fractured from the fall..." |
[Oct. 1st, 2007|10:25 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  excited | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Two- Ryan Adams | ] |
Thanks, Radiohead, for making my day. I now know for absolute certain what I'll be doing the morning of October 10.
Of course this means I'll probably listen to it on the way to Costello/Dylan on the 12th, but I can do that because we're taking my car. I'm sure everyone will appreciate that.
Also, I decided today that Ryan Adams is the best rainy day music ever, and I also discovered the wonder that is white hot chocolate from Java City. Today was good on many levels, apparantly. |
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| "Meet me at the barricade..." |
[Sep. 27th, 2007|08:45 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | happy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Barricade- Stars | ] |
Honestly, you see it in movies all the time, but it's definitely way more touching to watch a soldier, just home from the war, greet his girlfriend. Though I was that awkward person who was kind of standing off to the side waiting for them, I couldn't help but be just a little bit in awe. It was one of the most genuinely sweet things I've seen in a long while, and I doubt I'll forget it anytime soon.
Speaking of said boyfriend of Maegan, he is incredibly nice, incredibly generous, and incredibly funny. We're going to get along great. We're already trash-talking over video games that I'm almost certain he'll beat me at. Oh well. At least I'll try.
And, in true obsessive-fan fashion I must recap: House played guitar and wore glasses, thus meaning I honestly didn't know the plot to the episode due to dying from the hot, The Office starts tonight, and Stephen Colbert not only sounded beautiful while singing with Tony Bennett, but there was also mention of an online ballot for President with him and Keith Olbermann atop the list as running mates. Colbermann '08, people. |
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| "All these hints and allegations..." |
[Sep. 25th, 2007|07:23 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | mellow | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Character Zero- Phish | ] |
I do realize why I love the situation I'm in once in a while. The argument that commenced last night was one I've been waiting on for quite some time, so it was finally nice to get everything out. I love grocery shopping, subsequently buying two pounds of sliced turkey, at night. I love waking up and realizing I have barely anything to do and that House is starting back up again tonight.
Maegan and I made lunch together and watched Lolita. It was incredibly disappointing compared to the novel, which was somewhat expected. I came in too late to actually see Peter Sellers, which probably only made my opinion worsen.
I highlighted anthropology articles comparing evolution to creationism while I watched Tucker Carlson. I've been listening to Stars all day, counting down to House, and watching it get progressively more overcast as the hours have gone by. It's going to rain like a bitch tonight, and I couldn't be happier. |
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| "Come closer, you'll see me..." |
[Sep. 17th, 2007|09:29 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  dorky | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Barricade- Stars | ] |
I loved my weekend. I love my haircut. I love my friends, especially the ones who call me in the middle of the Emmys just so I have someone to rant to.
Everyone just needs to chill about James Spader, k? I know Gandolfini or Hugh Laurie SHOULD have won, but what Spader does on Boston Legal during his monologues is amazing and this is why he continues to win. It's not like anyone actually really watches the show, so it's kind of a hidden secret of awesomeness. Either way, the votes probably got split between Hugh and Gandolfini, thus giving Spader the win. And for good reason. He deserves all the accolades possible for some of those speeches.
However, let's not talk about Colbert getting robbed at every possible moment. Let's just talk about how beautiful he looked and what could possibly be the best presentation of an award ever. Danielle called after the Stephen, Jon, Steve threesome-hug of glory and all I coud answer with was, "MMPHF!" I think it summed up my feelings perfectly. |
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| "Ohh, the sporting life..." |
[Sep. 13th, 2007|09:01 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | peaceful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Me and Mia- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists | ] |
There are certain times when my college experience has been absolutely fucked. No sitcom could write what happened that night that Maegan got slightly trashed on absinthe and my car got egged and then there was a riot when we got home. Nothing. Just two nights ago a man got stabbed across the cul-de-sac from us and we're pretty sure we heard the screaming from it. At least they caught the suspect, yet another complex down, nontheless. Maegan and I are still puzzled as to why we're the only two who ever actually stay here. Then again, that isn't so bad. This weekend promises to be fun too, with an exceptionally great old friend coming to visit and a football game that we won't attend, but which will certainly bring a complex-wide social event afterwards. Maybe I can finally track down that cutie from the bus. Maybe not.
My point is, I woke up this morning with nothing to do and nobody to talk to. I'm the only one without class. I'm doing laundry, drinking coffee, and watching State and Main. It's quiet, it's peaceful, and I'm loving it.
Go you Huskies! |
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