(1) i finally got a dog: a golden retriever that i named leela (her name was originally layla, re: the eric clapton song, which is kind of cool but i didn't want her to have all that heroin baggage). she's two years old, conveniently already trained, and i've wanted a pet for at least 10 years and now i have one. hope it helps, but she's cute ( Read more... )

once upon a time, there was a girl. i know her from college; she and i dated maybe 3 times. we met in a postcolonial literature class, which we both hated (because of the professor, not the theory) and she and i would isolate ourselves in the back of the socratic circle of discussion, making spot-on comments about the sexual preference of the ( Read more... )

(1) i tried making ladytron's "destroy everything you touch" into a ringtone. apparently, though, this phone i just got is not even remotely compatible with anything made by apple. fuck -- i thought those days were over like 10 years ago. at least i settled with "seventeen" on light and magic -- which is an awesome album that i need to own, if i ( Read more... )

01) Radiohead, In Rainbows
02) Blonde Redhead, 23
03) Shellac, Excellent Italian Greyhound
04) Björk, Volta
05) Deerhoof, Friend Opportunity
06) Black Moth Super Rainbow, Dandelion Gum
07) Frog Eyes, Tears of the Valedictorian
08) Wooden Shjips, Wooden Shjips
09) Times New Viking, Present the Paisley Reich
10) I Am Spoonbender, Hidden ( Read more... )

(1) after a long tuesday filled with drinking and drinking's after-effects, my psychiatrist put me on some serious mood-stabilizing drugs. they're having the intended effects, so that's good, but i was more or less drinking because i wanted the freedom that comes along with drinking; obviously, i couldn't handle it, and i regressed to the drunken ( Read more... )

i haven't posted anything in at least two months, and i'm becoming kind of ambivalent about writing new things. i was never the type of person who likes anonymity, and in the last couple of years posting i've made a lot of friends who seem to be interested in my daily goings-on and, because of real-life friends reading my journals from time to time ( Read more... )

(1) i sucked it up and bought a guitar: an epiphone les paul, with amp and corresponding attachments. if i am going to have 14 months to myself doing nothing, i might as well take up an instrument and play shellac songs or something like that ( Read more... )

(1) i haven't bought a rap album since sometime in 2006 (odb's 1998 album nigga please, because it's so, i don't know, improvisational), but i'm considering buying the anti-pop consortium's record arrhythmia, because it's kind of a good album. i don't really like rap albums -- mainly because even the very good ones are kind of disposable -- but i ( Read more... )

(1) over the last 3 days, i've had the police's "message in a bottle" in my head. that song always gets lodged in there somehow, along with peter gabriel's "solsbury hill." i can't really explain why, but the two are excellent songs, i guess ( Read more... )

(1) in five days, i will have spent the first month (of approximately 15) in augusta, and i think my feelings about augusta boil down to insane amounts of boredom and countdowns to whatever destination i would go to next. it is a matter of time before i go crazy.
(2) i started reading salman rushdie's shalimar the clown, which i started and stopped ( Read more... )