The easiest way to make a rainy day better is to put on a little bit of jazz. When that smokey back bass starts coming through my speakers, everything just feels better. The rain, even if it is nasty, sticky, malodorous rain (like today) suddenly has a reason to be. It's a backdrop for some alluring crooning, red-colored music, sensual gatherings ( Read more... )

"I'm eighteen and I don't know what I want. Eighteen, I just don't know what I want. Eighteen! I gotta get away, I gotta get out of this place, I'll go runnin' in outer space.
Oh yeah!"I have always been a birthday person. Always. I think it is probably my favorite day of the year, even more than the first day of summer vacation or Christmas or ( Read more... )

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Today was an overall upsetting day ( Read more... )

Somehow, summer has slipped already into August, and I've been dragged along with it, dazily. In my mind I'm still stuck in the fresh-not-fried feel of June, but time has got the best of me again. I've been sweaty and in love ( Read more... )

So, like many others, I was recently afflicted with schedule conflicts. The problem was that both AP Art History and Stat were vying for the same 1st Period slot - and HELLZ NO was I gonna drop Art History. So today I called the guidance counselor and switched up my schedule, and now it pretty much rocks out with its cock out. Take a gander ( Read more... )

For me, the "Time of Reinvention" (insert grandiose pretension) is always more authentic during the summer. I feel like New Years should begin at the end of June - it's so much more conducive to change than January's awful bleakness. People don't need stupid resolutions to change during the summer, but they do it naturally. The time away is what ( Read more... )

Fuck you, school. Fuck. You ( Read more... )

This is the situation:

July 25th, chez le Starlight Ballroom
The Futureheads (+ French Kicks according to Alex, although I cannot seem to confirm or deny that based upon my online research, but it would be awesome to the extreme)
8 p.m.
$12

It will be the best show of your life.

Let me know.

That date-rape presentation today made me really, really disgusted at almost everyone I go to school with.

"If she's too lazy to say no, it's her fault"
"Well she dressed sexy, she wanted it"
"If she's drunk then she's just asking for it"
"She just called it sexual assault because she didn't want to see like a whore to her friends"I nearly threw ( Read more... )