Just a bit of an update for anyone who still reads.

I am alive and well and studying in Belgium for a year. You can see my goings on at belgium07 but it's going to be a straight "blog;" nothing horribly interesting I think. I still HATE the look of context punctuation inside quotation marks but I shall have to endure ( Read more... )

I finished Atlas Shrugged and recommend it to every person on this planet. Now I just have to read Blindness by Jose Saramago, write three essays, and pass them in on August 20th. Then between the 20th and the 29th I write three stupid Da Vinci Code essays for Joe B. I'm unconcerned ( Read more... )

The new Last.fm? Thoughts?

For all its shininess, I think it'll really prove itself [or not] in the next few weeks when we see how it updates...

If there's anyone you can count on to put out consistently chill records, it's M. Ward. "Post-War" is absolutely lovely so far ( Read more... )

Music charts are my favorite thing ever. I strongly encourage everyone to comment with their versions of these statistics [your own top three bands etc].

( Top 10 Everything. )

Not only did I never think I'd see Taking Back Sunday, I never thought I'd go to Taking Back Sunday with my high school principal. I also never thought I'd try coffee ice cream with marshmallow fluff and chocolate syrup. It never occurred to me that afterward the principal, Seepz and I would discuss school policies and watch Festival Express at ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, I guess today is the last day of hanging out and having a good summer. I fail to see what doing lots of work over the summer will really accomplish but whatever. I'm going to try to write one of Joe B.'s essays tomorrow [research? what?], then get my books Monday and read Blindness first. It would be ten kinds of awesome if I ( Read more... )

IF ANYONE COULD SEND ME "SINK FLORIDA SINK" BY AGAINST ME! IT WOULD BE PRETTY AWESOME & I WILL SEND YOU A SONG THAT I THINK YOU WILL LIKE.
[PREFERABLY THE VERSION WHERE HE SAYS "I THOUGHT THAT WAS PRETTY GOOD" AT THE END.]

I had such a good weekend. I have such great friends. No joke.

My birthday just got so much cooler. I happen to share JUNE 13 with the following awesome people:

General Winfield Scott [who kicked ass in practically every American war in the nineteenth century]
William Butler Yeats [Innisfree. Say no more.]
John Nash [We're watching A Beautiful Mind in Psych right now. Coincidence? I think not.]
Rivers Cuomo [ ( Read more... )