1. What is your current ringtone? "Robotique" which is one of the built in tones. Probably the best one... not saying a lot though. Most of them are very grating and painful (like the voice of this little girl in an Iranian movie I watched in class... I was like "SHUT UP with that voice! No one cares that you desperately want a goldfish!). And on ( Read more... )

I know. I know I know I know. This is sort of ridiculous. "If you haven't been part of our LJ community for the past six months, Marshall, why update at all?" Well, I'll tell you, there are a lot of interesting and crazy things going on in my life that I'm really excited to share with you. And it's forty minutes til I leave for work on a hot summer ( Read more... )

"...the ocean was FILTHY ( Read more... )

I've got to tell you, this weekend was one of the best vacation-esque releases I've had in a while. You are all aware of how much I love LA, but sometimes you've just got to go. And in this case, I just had to go to Sunny Santa Barbara. Just, had to ( Read more... )

This is sort of an abstraction... but I've realized that all of my classes this quarter involve, in some way, the examination or use of borders and boundaries, and in some cases crossing them, in others, tearng them down.

::GE Seminar 70C "Progress or Peril" - A technology/science and ethics class, where we debate a lot about how and why lines get ( Read more... )

Step 1 Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2 Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. Omit obvious words/lines that give the title away.
Step 3 Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from. [[Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!]
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How many keys are on your keychain? Two of them, both for my car. However, I haven’t seen my keychain since Christmas break, so I’ll have to say, the two key cards in my little wallet, plus a yellow scrap of paper that says “dinowhore” on it.

What curse word do you use the most? Fuckin’.  It’s the adverb to use whenever I can’t think of a ( Read more... )

It was suggested to me that in-depth coverage of my past couple months wouldn't get read, so I think I'm just going to list off a few of the things I've been up to lately that really have been making my life ( Read more... )

Write down 7 things that piss you off, and then tag 7 other people ( Read more... )

8am Saturday morning, bags packed, skateboard under my feet (recently and happily retrieved from a very water-logged Napa), 60-odd bucks in my wallet and a sunny disposition. Alex was waiting in De Neve plaza and we strolled down to Wilshire-Westwood and hopped aboard the 720 Eastbound, tranferred to the Subway at Western, and in under an hour we ( Read more... )