I spent last night and this morning reliving my childhood. Living in the middle of a forest 30 miles from town, you might expect my childhood to have been spent frolicking outside. Perhaps my middle name was Scout. But no. Before my middle school years, when my life consisted of school, coming home from school and watching mtv, then putting an ( Read more... )

I'm hoooome ( Read more... )

I'm driving home from the airport. I love Missouri. How could I not?

Take, for instance, the "Bill Hickle for State Senate" lawn signs throughout the town of Huzzuh.

I guarantee that the local newspaper supports him. How could it resist? When he inevitably gets involved in a financial or sex scandal, it will have the priceless headline: Hickle ( Read more... )

The Walkmen are coming to Tufts for Spring Fling. It's the first Spring Fling band I've wanted to see in my time here. A nice exit. (As well as an entrance.)

I know this is getting old. But I am still obsessing over Interpol. I think I've only been without an Interpol song in my ears for about 6 1/2 hours since I got up at 8:30 this morning, and that was during class and work. I listened to Interpol as soon as I got back from work. I went to the gym and listened to Antics (twice). I switched to The ( Read more... )

Yesterday I gave in and bought those massive headphones that characterize hipsters, or at least they did before the ipod craze. I needed new headphones and I wanted good comfortable ones so I gave in. I need some new glasses. Or contacts. I cannot walk around and expect respect with black frames and massive headphones on. With a discman, as in "i'm ( Read more... )

Tonight when Paul Banks sang, "...so baby you should sleep with me" I swear he was looking 15 rows up, to the right balcony, fifth seat in, straight into my eyes. Which is why I felt it completely appropriate to scream down to him, "Yes Paul, oh my god Yes, I've been waiting for this for years!" Only the two of us really know that I'm not crazy ( Read more... )

I just woke up in the same clothes I was wearing the night before, with mascara on my face and makeup on my pillow, disoriented and wondering what happened ( Read more... )

I went into an ATM booth in Davis this afternoon, where a couple of homeless men were sleeping on the floor to stay out of the cold and snow. The man who was leaving in front of me said, "Nice atmosphere we've got going here..." and looked at them as he stepped out. If I was homeless, I guarantee I would be in that ATM booth during this weather. Me ( Read more... )

A dose of Dayquil and a double latte is such an unhappy combination at 10 pm ( Read more... )