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Apr. 17th, 2006
11:12 am
" "Down in the Valley," he added, "is about the lack of a spiritual center, the lack of authenticity, and about a person needing a fantasy to escape the banality of modern existence. It's about a person saying, 'The way we live is so inauthentic, the spirit of things is gone.' It's the desire to escape the constraints of modern pavement."
It is probably no surprise that Mr. Norton feels a pang of that nostalgia himself. "I get heartbroken flying into L.A.," he said. "It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?""
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that last question is just a finger down my throat. this is the exact attitude i am most opposed to in the world. and i thought i liked edward norton -- mostly just when he was a nazi, but also when he drove a mini.
Mar. 30th, 2006
03:32 pm
i was drinking some fresh squeezed lemonade today at lunch and i realized that after eating two hotdogs with mustard, ketchup, and onions that my breath might be kind of unpleasant so i popped a piece of cinnamon gum. it is my belief that more research needs to be done in the "lemon-mint" area with regards to chewing gum (or just the general lemon-mint connection - it's present in tea and my mother makes this lovely syrup which is kind of like a lemony mint julep without the whiskey but accelerated in sweetness to the point of inducing diabetes), although perhaps i've missed these products on the shelves of my local convenience store (i have something beyond the range of my inner vision regarding "lemon ice" i am going to look into that one later today, believe you me!)
oh yeah i totally forgot i had an italian test today LAME!
Mar. 2nd, 2006
04:04 pm - goodbye school
i have:
the sun
eleven days
two cases of beer
one half bottle of whiskey
a very large pile of literary fiction
i am:
happy
elated
ecstatic
overjoyed
fucking over the moon
Feb. 23rd, 2006
03:53 pm
one reason i like my teacher is that in the middle of a discussion of french philosophy he gives a full synopsis of an episode of friends (the one where rachel buys the apocethary table at Pottery Barn)
i read a george perec novel which was really really good. i read a graham greene novel which was pretty good. i reread a memoir by geoff emerick about recording the beatles because i can't read george perec or graham greene while i eat pasta. i read andy's back issues of readymade magazine because i can't read books except the very middle parts when i am eating a ham sandwich (one hand).
i wish it wouldn't rain. i am playing with a drummer for the first time today. there is a girl i like. i have to turn in a story and an essay for summer advanced workshops on tuesday.
i have to get up early (relatively) tommorow to get a form to take my italian class pass-fail (s-u). this is not because i am doing poorly in the class, in fact, quite the opposite, but it is less than halfway through the semester and i have already used up all my absences on frivolous things and i just can't risk a hit to my gpa. i wrote a composition about how i don't like renaissance art and i like marinetti and boccioni more and at the bottom of my paper he wrote bravo. i like italian a lot, but it is difficult to do anything five days a week except sleep (it is even difficult to do that).
almost every day i watch mtv's made at 4:30. i think i have seen them all now, but like friends (not quite like), i continue to watch. i have sent them my tape. i would prefer to be an astronaut.
i can't believe it is already spring break. time is not my buddy. i hope to lay in my front lawn and maybe reconsider our relationship for one whole week in one week. i just hope it doesn't rain, or else i am going to have to go to the tanning place across the street from my house. i just can't bear pale any longer.
bear pail
bare pail
bear pale
pall-bearer
(this reminds me of the episode of the simpsons where lisa thinks she is stupid because she can't play the word game. alec guinness - genuine class)
Jan. 25th, 2006
02:06 pm - some things about magazines
- there's a really good essay about chinese tang in the new york times magazine
"To add to my agony, our neighbor's son brought over his first girlfriend, for whom he had just bought a bottle of Tang. He was five years older and a college sophomore; we had nothing in common and had not spoken more than 10 sentences. But this didn't stop me from having a painful crush on him. The beautiful girlfriend opened the Tang in our flat and insisted that we all try it. When it was my turn to scoop some into a glass of water, the fine orange powder almost choked me to tears. It was the first time I had drunk Tang, and the taste was not like real oranges but stronger, as if it were made of the essence of all the oranges I had ever eaten. This would be the love I would seek, a boy unlike my father, a boy who would not blink to buy a bottle of Tang for me. I looked at the beautiful girlfriend and wished to replace her."
-i got a free hippie magazine at vinyl fever which has some really hilarious interviews with people here is a paraphrased bit of dialogue from a pair of husband wife artists
Q: What is your favorite food?
A: Well I am really in favor of organic food...(two column rant on organic food)
it has cool pictures though
-i got the new issue of the believer which even though i think dave eggers is obnoxious is a pretty good magazine. i bought it because it came with the first issue of their new dvd magazine which i read about in the times. i don't know if it was totally worth it (i probably should have bought paste which also had a dvd). there is a really good al gore documentary by spike jones and a little miranda july expulsion and this weird movie where selma blair is empty inside and so people in explorer costumes climb inside her vagina where there's an arctic wasteland but it's a little cliche. oh and a weird arabic cartoon. i don't know, i guess it was worth it.
lately for class i sat outside a liquor store for two hours and wrote an essay about that and that got a good reaction and then i wrote an essay about my fascination with the movie contact which did not get a nice reaction from my workshop partners who did not know what the word "incremental" meant (one of them said "i think she just made that word up") so i don't know how many grains of salt i should take their issues with. but then i sound like such a pretentious asshole.
my favorite things
1)listen to sarat yell the answers to "who wants to be a millionaire"
2)gilmore girls (i know it was a rerun last night but lauren graham was sooo good)
3)kicking ass in italian
my unfavorite things
1)throw up all over myself, fall into bushes and then pass out shirtless on my floor while andy and zach take pictures of themselves playing ukelele over my head (and that's not some gross euphemism, they were really playing ukelele)
2)get up at 6:45 in the morning on tuesdays and thursdays
3)the poor progress of my vocal duo
i want to go see alejandro escovedo i read a really good review of his concert in the monthly "stomp and stammer" (out of atlanta, free at vinyl fever) which was an interesting article in that it largely talked about his medical problems and not his music or whatever but whatever. but i don't know if i'll make it up i have to get up at 6:45 tommorow.
Jan. 3rd, 2006
03:53 pm
here is my end of the year post, which is just a little late. i'm sorry i haven't been posting but i was so busy at school and at home i get busy with my television schedule so. my new years resolution is to not be such an asshole, but i never quite manage to make that one.
4 Favorite Movies:
1. Me and You and Everyone We Know - i feel self conscious about saying i liked this but i really did. maybe it was just the night that i watched it first but it really worked for me. it's clever but largely it's not so concerned with cleverness that you get mad at it, which is the best kind, right?
2. The Forty Year Old Virgin - if they had just got rid of the Hair thing at the end it would've been better, but then they had to have something big there, it wasn't like something where it could just end, like sideways or something. we were outside the dollar theatre and the people i was with didn't know it was from hair and i was just like god, i don't even like musicals.
3. Unleashed - it opens like a jet li movie, but in the middle it becomes a touching family drama with morgan freeman and some girl only in the end to become another big jet li movie and then after that a piano recital that reassures us all and that's kind of silly but it's jet li and morgan freeman smiling at each other and it feels so genuine that it's hard to be cynical. and there is this scene where jet is eating ice cream but he doesn't know it's going to be cold and he just sells it and it's so damn funny, without the self consciousness of like jackie chan or something. and he's called DANNY in the movie. beautiful cinemography too.
4. Hustle and Flow - this is such the traditional plot but of course i love all the music process in it and the acting is just killer. i didn't see crash because i'm a snob, but i saw him in a small part in four brothers and he was really good in that too (and it was a very satisfying movie as well)
i also liked the bob dylan documentary by scorsese and the movie sin city, which i got for my dad on dvd. i wasn't entirely impressed with it at first, but watching some of the extras on the dvd, it's such an incredible technical achievement that it just sort of beats you into submission. i also just saw the john landis documentary 'salesman' yesterday which was very interesting, but that was yesterday so it doesn't totally count.
4 Albums/EPs
1. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs - i listened to this like nonstop for like months and i can't even really listen to it anymore but i know eventually i will want to again. cannot wait for the concert in february.
2. My Morning Jacket - Z - when i first got this i just listened to "What a Wonderful Man" and "Off the Record" over and over again because they are perfect pop but i am just digging into the rest of it and there is a lot there.
3. Ponies in the Surf - A Demonstration - This is actually an EP but it's a long one and i listened to it a lot. all i can say is if you like whispering vocals like iron and wine or something this is whispering with melodies and like, bubbles.
4. Spoon - Gimme Fiction - just damn fine songs and britt daniel delivery.
and of course i like the new strokes album because they could spit on the sidewalk and i would mix a cocktail from it. it has some very good songs and some not so very good songs, but they are my favorite band.
which is so embarassing to say, like saying limp bizkit is my favorite band or something, but it's true so whatever.
4 Songs
1. "I Want You Back" - Jackson 5 - one time we were riding to a party and it was really unsafe and at first i was freaked out because joey was jerking around the wheel while he messed with his ipod but this song started and it was just like this bubble of light was around the car and we got to the house and sat in the car for like a minute waiting for the song to finish. and now i can't stop listening to it
2. "All The Morning Birds - Jolie Holland - this is the song i tried to sing in the shower every day all semester. i can never actually do it, but i just keep trying.
3. "Hate it or Love it" - 50 Cent - we were sitting in the taco bell drive through lane at like 1 in the morning and sarat and joey were just sitting and pointing at me rhythmically with the music for like two minutes and it was just so absurd
4. "Wishbone" - Architecture in Helsinki- for a long time i only listened to the first part of this song because there's this part in the middle where it gets kind of slow and weird and i'm just like whatever so i go on to the next song. then one day i accidentally listened to the whole song and it works together so great so i really like it.
4 Christmas Gifts
1. Newsradio - The Complete First and Second Seasons DVD - so it is my belief that this is the greatest television show of all time and so i was so happy to recieve it. on one of the commentaries someone calls "fear factor" the 'joe rogan gets paid' show. he says, "no, that show would actually be entertaining."
2. Pete and Pete - The Complete First Season DVD - so it is my belief that this is the greatest children's television show of all time and so i was so happy to recieve it. i watched the episode where pete sees the garage band playing the song and then tries to recreate it because he can never hear it again. it's so darn wonderful.
3. a portable clothes steamer - it is like a gun only not masculine. death to wrinkles!
4. "bigger booty pills" - my brother got these for me along with a three pack of rolling stones shot glasses. they taste lemony. no effect as of yet.
i think i have some more top 4 lists but it's time for gilmore girls.
Oct. 8th, 2005
03:25 pm
oh i know i'm overwhelming you but two really good quotes
1 - Becky, upon arrival outside Bellamy where I was trying to get Andy to skip class so I didn't have to walk home alone, said, "I really want a hotdog but all I have is a hundred dollar bill."
2 - One of the commentators during the football game drew a little heart on the screen during a replay and then proceeded to say "I drew a little heart there, that play was so good."
Oct. 1st, 2005
04:48 pm
1. Reply with your name and I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
3. I'll write a poem about you.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. You MUST. Although you probably already have
and i did 19 really weak jello shots in assorted colors last night so i KNOW MY FLAVORS
i have never posted one of these quiz things but i feel like if i sit at the computer i am more likely to write the story that i need to have begun for monday. but that isn't true. but i'm still at the computer.
and this story has to be fucking genius, like beyond writing, like i want all the girls to throw their underwear at my feet with their phone numbers written on them and the whiteboard turns black and the sharpies dull and the windows open and shut because they are so empowered by my unique voice.
but right now i am doing some stupid quiz
Sep. 28th, 2005
02:56 pm
Gene Simmons: I will contend, and you try to disprove it, that the most important thing as we know it on this planet, in this plane, is, in fact, money. Want me to prove it?
Terry Gross: Go ahead.
Gene Simmons: The first thing you need -- besides air, which so far is free, and by the way if you went scuba diving, you're paying for air -- the other thing besides that is food, it's what we need to survive. I don't know what other tool I would use besides money to buy it. Although, as a woman of course you have the ability to sell your body, then get the money, and then, with that, get food. But ultimately money is part of it. And so --
Terry Gross: [laughs] You -- you -- you are weird.
Gene Simmons: Really? How do you get food?
Terry Gross: Well, not by selling my body. But --
Gene Simmons: But that's a choice you have that I don't. But getting to the money part, money is the single most important thing on the planet, including the notion that uh, love gives you everything. That's a lot of hogwash. Because although I subscribe to the romantic notion of life --
Terry Gross: Well, let's cut to the chase. How much -- how much money do you have?
Gene Simmons: Gee, a lot more than NPR.
Terry Gross: Oh, I know. I -- you're very defensive on money, aren't you?
Gene Simmons: No, I'm not, I'm just trying to show you that there's a big world out there, and reading books is wonderful. I've certainly read, well, perhaps as many as you have, but there's a delusional kind of notion that runs rampant in --
Terry Gross: Wait, wait, could we just get something straight?
Gene Simmons: Of course.
Terry Gross: I'm not here to prove that I'm smart --
Gene Simmons: Not you --
Terry Gross: I'm not here to prove that you're not smart or that you don't read books or can't make a lot of money --
Gene Simmons: This is not about you. You're being very defensive -- why are you doing that?
Terry Gross: [laughs] It's contagious.
Gene Simmons: Yeah.
Terry Gross: Can we get back to your makeup? What do you use to paint your face, and do you ever break out from that?
Gene Simmons: No, it's actually oil-based. It's Stein's makeup ... is one of the brand names, but you can use lots of different ... lots of things. I don't think I've ever been asked that question. But no. My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
Feb. 27th, 2005
07:47 pm - my life with the saxophone man and other things
the saxophone man is playing in the other room, which i always really like. it beats the hell out of my tuneless singing and slightly more melodic gittar playin', i'll tell you that much. he's always doing this neat little downward scalar thing that reminds me of a jingle in some commercial because i don't know anything about jazz except that i like some of it, i would say 65%. once you get past like 1970 i don't really like any of it except sun ra though, although i haven't heard bitches brew cause i ain't got no culture, so maybe it's not that i don't like it but that i haven't actually heard it, but i hate miles davis electronic trumpet and everything after that fuck that shit man. guitar synths and tin drums come on give me a break. give me 'blues and roots' and sarah vaughan and django. i'm not hip though i don't even really think i like bebop i pretend to.
i used to put all these details in parentheses but they really fuck up your sentences. i want to do footnotes but i invariably give up because they are too much. i read that david foster wallace footnotes his personal letters, but i've never read anything he's written so i don't really know why i should care. but i do!
there's something wedged under my comma key because i'm always eating sandwiches over my keyboard and the end result is that i have to push really hard on the comma to make it work. that is really an annoyance because the comma is my favorite mark of punctuation. then the semi-colon, but i don't actually know the rules for using the the semi-colon i just think it's cuter than the colon. plus it has a comma in it! i mean come on.
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the saxophone man and i went to the grocery store today and i spent like a rockefeller. we saw some interesting people including one man who kept giving us looks who we think produced porn (french, odd fetishes). my first meal after this splendid spree?
a sandwich, of course. (and then a container of yogurt)
NOTE: WHEN TOASTING BREAD I HAVE TO BE SMOOTH AND FLIP IT DURING THE TOAST CYCLE BECAUSE MY BREAD IS TOO TALL FOR THE TOASTER. THIS RESULTS IN A MORE TOASTED CENTER THAN THE OUTSIDE OF THE BREAD WHICH IS REALLY A PROBLEM. WHEN I WAS LITTLE I HAD LUXURY, I HAD A TOASTER OVEN. IF I WAS PATIENT I WOULD USE THE OVEN TO TOAST THE BREAD BUT I AM NOT.
NOTE 2: I HAVE A BAD RECORD WITH PUBLIX SHAVING MEAT TO MY SPECIFICATIONS. IF I HAD MY WAY IT WOULD JUST BE HAM DUST THAT I COULD COMPRESS ONTO A SANDWICH OR STICK IN THE AIR CONDITIONER AND BREATHE IT. ANYWAY MY RECORD FOR PROPER SHAVING WAS 2-1. TODAY THE SAXOPHONE MAN SHOUTED THAT THE HAM MUST BE SUPER SHAVED AND IT IS AMAZING, THIS HAM. THE RECORD IS NOW 2-2.
TOASTED BUTTERMILK BREAD
Ground Black Pepper
Asiago Cheese
Banana Peppers
Salad Mix (Lettuce, Endive, Carrot)
Onion
Sandwich Style Pickles
Swiss Cheese
Shaved Honey Maple Ham
Mister Mustard Spicy Mustard
TOASTED BUTTERMILK BREAD
I got really luxe and bought tomatoes but they aren't quite ripe yet. i have real difficulty waiting for things to be ripe because unless it's something i am really excited about i forget about it by the time it's ripe and then it just goes bad and i have to throw it away after i go to the grocery store and come back with new food.
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Yesterday was a really fun day! I was reading on the third floor of the nursing building when i was called by Batman and we went and i had a too expensive too good lunch and then the four of us played four square and hopscotch until it got dark. like literally several hours. then i saw the tallahassee airport for the first time and i think it's really gross. then we played marco polo and a shark trivia game in the hottub. then the steam room which i don't like. then we watched 'the notebook' in wet bathing suits but i hate that guy he's a dick. then there was fooseball with nipples and erections, then pool with gratuitous bending. then maurisio played mario but he was thwarted three times (joey, system freeze, cable trip) from showing off his special trick.
(I JUST CLICKED ON A LINK TO BONNAROO IN SOMEONE'S PROFILE AND FOR TWO TO THREE SECONDS I WAS VERY AFRAID I HAD LOST THIS AMAZING ENTRY)
Then we went to BYB where the staff is stupid and the water is pink. it was already MIDNIGHT THIRTY so it was really time to get to partying. so we went to brenden's party which was fun and i saw my roommate there and klh and alicia and then there were cops and i managed to get the last of the beer before the keg was hidden because i have very good instincts.
then we were going to another party and following brenden and ryan and ryan (so trashed) jumped out of his car and started running and noone was doing anything so i started chasing after him. i chased him really far and up a three story apartment building where he escaped inside an apartment, which i subsequently found out was his boyfriend's apartment SO THANKS FOR TELLING ME SINCE I CHASED HIM FOR NO REASON, but whatever, I worry.
The other party was pretty fun and we stayed awhile. Eighties music really pisses me off, though. I will be really happy when that fad is over. They don't even play good music from the eighties like Devo or the Clash or the B-52s or the Pixies or anything, I mean come on dude. it has to be the shittiest of the shit but somehow everyone knows the lyrics enough to scream them? How?? most of these people were 6 or 7 by the end of the eighties. where does the nostalgia come from? CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE COME FUCKING ON! I HATE YOU RICK SPRINGFIELD! DIE DAVID BOWIE!
(they didn't actually play david bowie, of course, and i really don't mean that because i love him but i couldn't think of a D name, just screw the whole mess)
I took a mcdonald's break but soon got bored with said party and went home through the tennessee tunnel round 4:30. I tried to leave a goodbye balloon on the car but popped four in the process. a good time and not even the slightest hangover!
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Living situation for next year is getting more and more difficult. I am very sad about the loss of Mutis. I am even sadder that it is almost spring break and I DO NOT HAVE A LEASE OMG WHAT WILL I DO.
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since this entry is fairly little brother friendly i will let all of the uninitiated know that i do indeed update this journal but only friends only.
FRIENDS ONLY FRIENDS ONLY FRIENDS ONLY FRIENDS ONLY FRIENDS ONLY FRIENDS ONLY
I don't have a picture but you get the gist. I will probably happily add you if you comment.
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