this christmas, it will be different. no rushing to and from our families, worried that one family will be jealous we've spent too much time with the other. no stretching ourselves thin too see all of the friends we possibly can. no eight hour drive. no one hour plane flight with a seven hour security check. this christmas, we're making a ( Read more... )

betcha thought i was dead. work is pummeling me about the head right now. but, it's a good pummeling, and i'm finally working my way through my first real challenging project. i'll tell you one thing though, coding SAS and JCL can sometimes feel like doing Calculus for 12 hours a day. yuck ( Read more... )

i almost forgot to tell everyone about something that happened at the flaming lips show. so, the show was obviously sold out and there was quite a line to get into the playhouse. jackie, matt, mike, breri, and i had all come together from dinner at the vortex. at dinner, breri was talking about how she never sees anyone famous. well, that was ( Read more... )

this week has found the spry all over the place. monday night was the flaming lips show with jackie and matt, and all i can say is wow. i've never seen the lips before, and i was blown away. the show was also cool because it was the only one on the tour for yoshimi which they headlined, and didn't open for beck. it ranks up there with some of ( Read more... )

haven't updated this junk in a while, so i thought i'd give it a whirl. the last two weeks have been kind of a blur. the weekend of the 25th saw my good friend diu-tang come to town, and we proceeded to get drunk for the entire visit. here are some of my favorite moments with the diu wrecking crew ( Read more... )

i heard "the diamond sea" on 88.5 today, and it reminded me of the first time i smoked the reefer. mind you, it has been quite some time since guarapero has indulged in such decadence, and would tell all young ones not reading this not to inhale the weed. it was my first trip to gainesville, my senior year of high school. corey miller, knudsen, ( Read more... )

holy shit. i can't believe i was able to obtain two tickets to this. i can die a happy man.

Just a quick update for this week. Work has been keeping me extra busy, but that's cool since I'm learning some really good stuff. A couple posts ago, I was really getting down on myself about the job. But I've always been a champion of having the power to shape your environment. And that's what I've been trying to do these past two weeks. For ( Read more... )

"just close your eyes and think of me, take back everything i said. she can't hurt me, they can't hurt you, it's like we're already dead."

it's amazing how many good albums can come out in such a short period of time. i think my top ten list will mostly consist of albums released in the past three months, including the following goodies:

beck sea change - this album will probably rank number one. the mix of leonard cohen vocals and nick drake guitar have found beck in a place i ( Read more... )