When it rains, it pours.

In the best ways possible.

Top 10 Songs of the Past Week or So

1. Against Me! - Pretty Girls
2. Blondie - Die Young, Stay Pretty
3. Modest Mouse - Black Cadillacs
4. Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer
5. Sleater-Kinney - Jumper

And it's true we named our children after towns that we've never been to ( Read more... )

I'm in love with this song, by a band I won't mention. If you know who it is, that means you listen to crappy rock radio too and I don't have to be ashamed.

I walk the streets of Japan till I get lost
Cause it doesn't remind me of anything
With a graveyard tan carrying a cross
Cause it doesn't remind me of anything
I like studying faces in a parking ( Read more... )

Do I lose scene points for liking "Revolutions Per Minute" more than "The Unraveling"? I realize claiming a band's early album as your favorite shows how cool you are and gives you cred for knowing the band before they were humongous, but honestly sometimes it takes a band a couple albums to hit their stride. A lot of bands get better as they go ( Read more... )

I'm amazed at how much I can loathe a person without even really knowing them. You know how sometimes you get that love at first sight feeling, or maybe you just get a crush on someone and you admire them from afar without ever really talking to them? You have their whole personality figured out and maybe even make up little scenarios about what ( Read more... )

I have these neighbors, two thirty something women, who have lived next door for probably 3 or 4 years now and I've never interacted with.  Today I found out they volunteer for some adopt a pet program and act as a foster family for puppies, which means they have puppies at their house all the time!  I'm going to make these women my new best ( Read more... )

In general, I don't worry much, but there are things I fret over when my mind is not otherwise occupied. These are things I think about:

DISCLAIMER: please don't tell me not to worry about these things, because when I say worry, I mean in passing. None of these things keep me up all night or consume my thoughts...they just cause me mild disdain ( Read more... )

I'm all lost in the supermarket ( Read more... )

I took this quote from a random person's journal, but I've seen it floating around the internet all over the place.

"Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your ( Read more... )

Odd how the top stories when I sign into my Yahoo mail include the G8 promising victory over terrorists followed by 40 confirmed dead in London.  It's hard not to feel hopeless about the state of the World sometimes.  I try to find comfort in the small minute details, because the big picture scares me to death.

Take today for instance....

My ( Read more... )