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bought original copy of so called "pink album" by AVENGERS at vinyl conflict today for four dollars!!!! listening to it and drinking sugafre red bull trying to get PUMPED ON END OF TERM NASTINESS.
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[15 Nov 2009|03:27pm] |
my books arrived! i spent $10 total!
the last book i bought because it has a 30 page "how to fix yr sewing machine" section
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| creating nostaliga, or "how far will this get us from here?" |
[26 Oct 2009|02:23pm] |
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after seeing my baby sis in my pretty girls make graves tee shirt in a facebook gallery i decided to reconnect with this band which i had almost forgot about yet that so clearly defined the years between aught two and three for me. it's all still there, the fear of losing yr friends to the ether of forgetting, the need to run away from shitty towns, the belief in the power of records. it was a little unsettling to hear the opening chords of "speakers push the air" when you're getting back into the music, hearing someone holler "do you remember what the music meant?" when you're remembering exactly the feelings that led you to examine the music in the first place. of course i remember when it felt new, when i couldn't put it away!
i know that i don't feel the same as i used to, but there is a great amount of this record that still rings so true it's hard to just dismiss it as some teen fad. some things i have achieved, others went with the wind, but i still have the same heartaches and fears. there are some songs that don't resonate in the same way, "the get away" and it's desperate longing doesn't feel so urgent when one actually did get away, but it does bring the same images to mind, clean open spaces, roads untravelled, love letters written on concrete. i used to think more about song lyrics and place a lot more emphasis on them, which is something i associate, however incorrectly, with a teenage mentality. and yet a lot of the words in this record feel almost useless unless i was to write them out on a notebook somewhere or put them in my internet diary. it's not just because that is what i was doing with them then and i want that feeling back. it just feels natural to contextualize, to bring them back with the furor they first created. in that vein, let me remind myself of some of the more pertinent lines that still feel as natural to me as they did then, ripped from the brain.
"i hear the words of a sad sad song rattle round my head, they mix up and fall out of my mouth"
"does the city have enough air for both us to breathe?"
"are we separated by five states two countries or the next town over?"
"ghosts are in the radio, they sing along"
"funny how sometimes you treat your best friends like they're not your friends at all"
"apologies are useless without an address to send them too"
"and i wanna make it louder, louder, louder, louder to drown out the sound of the road under the tires"
i should probably buy this record. on an related note, were any of you ever into the murder city devils?
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[07 Oct 2009|11:06pm] |
if i only could
i'd make a deal with god
get him to swap our places
be runnin up that road
be runnin up that hill
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[04 Oct 2009|08:41pm] |
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i am trying not to make erry entry in this thing a depress fest. that being said, man i am having a shitty day.
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[25 Sep 2009|08:38pm] |
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BUT if we did move i wouldn't be so close to davis market and their intriguing turkish candy. sour dudes anyone?
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[20 Sep 2009|05:13pm] |
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i have a headache, i have been ignoring my voicemail for over a week.
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[10 Sep 2009|03:38pm] |
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so at hour 8 of my 11 hour shift today i asked my boss if i could go home due to extreme menstrual duress. my co-worker popped in and then they both started hollering about how my super menses hormones have changed their own cycles to mine and they too were feeling the cramp. am i superior lady or what? oh but yeah i did leave work to come home and listen to my record finders FINDS and eat a cheesecake.
record finders was so amazing, can't believe it's closing on saturday! i got this record, which has been the background image on my computer for weeks!
also i got "escape" by whodini, "the best of wanda jackson" and a sweet motown comp.
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[07 Sep 2009|09:31pm] |
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need to start writing again!
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[27 Aug 2009|12:47am] |
re: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) misera "what inspires you?" challenge.
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everything else is just noise.
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[12 Aug 2009|10:53pm] |
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are you ready? - barbara mason |
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i made 2 gallons of iced tea this morning and it's already gone. this afternoon, high on constant comment and lemon lift, i decided to rearrange the living room so j.russ and i would feel like we moved. it looks really awesome downstairs, but upstairs we just left a bunch of crap in the corner so maybe i can work on it when we get back.
i had been planning on going to philadelphia this weekend to see corey and go to the dungen / woods show and have corey show me around to the punk frat and all that but unfortnately we aren't going because my grandma died.
my grandma was probably the most amazing woman i have ever met. she is my first memory. she was an outré country girl, a coal miners daughter who entered a beauty competition because she had the biggest tits in town, a spitfire girl who graduated as valedictorian and skipped her all-expenses paid college education to move to new york city from teeny tiny dante va. she spent most of my mom's childhood drinking bud and smoking, but changed her ways when she had a heart attack. she became a little health nut, started doing yoga and walking two miles every night. she was incredibly smart and never once lost her cognition. i am going to miss her so much. i can't even think about what christmas is going to be like - she always got up at 6 am to start making christmas dinner, and filled her living room to the brim with presents for the whole family who all came to her house. at erin's wedding she was her usual self, telling stories of how ashton's firefighter friends were flirting with her and flitting around in a pink cocktail dress that she said made her look like "granny barbie". she went on erin's honeymoon with her to south carolina and said it was the best beach trip ever. tomorrow we are going to the visitation at the funeral home and friday we have the funeral. i don't want to look at ashton and erin (my cousins) because i know i will just not be able to stop crying. erin's pregnant with twins, at least granny knew before she died. she would have been the world's best great-granny too. ugh i am really unable to process it all. i can't understand why she's gone.
i got my nose pierced on monday as a treat for myself. will it make it through allergy season?
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[19 Jul 2009|07:33pm] |
i am starting to work here ASK A LIBRARIAN for school and it is mad rewarding to tell kids the population of china, let me tell you.
sometimes i feel like i am getting a graduate degree in web 2.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[11 Jul 2009|06:28pm] |
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bobby womack - across 110th street |
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right before i left work today i dropped a the door to the pastry refrigerator on my foot. good thing i'll be soaking deese toes in the atlantic ocean tomorrow!
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[17 Jun 2009|12:43pm] |
grrl that pussy is infinite!
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[08 Jun 2009|08:51pm] |
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totally panicked about this literature review i have put off until the last possible second. god, red bull tastes disgusting, however big'ups to houseshow at spazzy's house which provided me with this free liquid confidence. dirty projectors sounds like tori amos' gay dance phase. everything old is new again!
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[28 May 2009|04:12pm] |
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my travel journal may never be finished, but here are some surprisingly nice videos i made with my shitty digital camera to show off our time in the caribbean.
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[27 May 2009|08:11pm] |
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whoa, brett mcmahan is now following me on twitter!
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[24 May 2009|08:35pm] |
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ugh i am so overwhelmed and i have serious intestinal problems. fuck this!
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[12 May 2009|04:34pm] |
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yesterday my 15 year old sister told me matt & kim is her favorite band. wtf!
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