oh, shakira. how eloquently and accurately you narrate the innermost yearnings of my heart. ::le sigh ( Read more... )

one of the things i’m noticing while doing my project is that, due to varying levels of managerial control, or silly customer service rules, each different bank has a sort of personality all its own. this extends far beyond the issue of just who’s working there-it’s in the very fibers of their jobs ( Read more... )

some days are just too hot to do anything but sit in the air conditioning and get fucked up. that is, ostensibly, the complete list of what i did this weekend ( Read more... )

by and large, i’ve been quite dissatisfied with the music that has come out this year. pretty much all the “follow-up” records by bands i love have let me down. built to spill and mates of state both released albums that are passable, and sort of in each band’s own style, but without any of the twists and turns that have heretofore been the ( Read more... )

tonight marks the end of an era of self-definition, defiance, and glee that has lasted almost four and a half years:

i took out my nipple piercings.i was in the shower, and i thought i would put my barbells in, just for kicks. i set the screwballs on the soap tray and cleaned the barbells. i took out the hoop from my right nipple, and when i ( Read more... )

i'm learning more and more every day. i think ultimately, what i'm learning is that the american workforce is not internally driven to do work efficiently. once people have been in a job for a while, their energy for it just seems to taper off ( Read more... )

again i find myself at my desk downstairs at the hilltop office. and again, i’m wasting time, only this time, i’m listening to my ipod on shuffle. i have been doing so for the past half hour or so, part of which was during my lunch break. while on the later portion of this lunch break, it occurred to me how typically 21st-Century the concept of ( Read more... )

here i am again, sitting at the bank, bored out of my fucking skull. it’s been hella long since i updated my journal, so i figured i’d grace you bitches with my presence on your friends pages ( Read more... )

these are my favorite songs right now, and they have sick videos, too!

cherish: do it.
[the catchiest female-vocal song to come out of hotlanta since ciara's "oh." look for e-40 in the video! the best ad-lib elaboration EVER comes at 3:19.

dem franchise boyz: lean wit it, rock wit it.[aside from shakin your dreads and going dummy retarded out ( Read more... )

gyorgi ligeti died today in vienna. for those who don't know, ligeti is a composer who rose to fame in the mid-20th century and was known for his experiments in microtonality and timbral relativity. it's really sad to me that he died this week, because just last week i made TWO posts about how i was really excited about just having obtained three ( Read more... )