The Comsat Angels are really 80s sounding, but I already really like them after listening to less than 2 songs. The guitar is ethereal in a glitzy British way that makes me think of cyberpunk and the basslines are fairly atonal, not like No-Wave, but still not very colorful. I would venture to say that this band is the Platonic form of post-punk.

Another weird dream last night. I was reading my livejournal entry about that last dream. My house was also right near a space shuttle launch site. Whenever a spaceship launched it would accelerate right up to my window and then launch vertically, but sometimes it would hit the window first. Implausibly, it would just bounce as if a ball hit it ( Read more... )

At the end of my dream last night, John and I were at some crosswalk in Brooklyn and he was reciting to me a novel he had been writing. In the novel, he was having a conversation with his friend Cybelle, in which she was saying "everything in life is either too easy or very hard, it's either piss or shit. You choose for me what we do. It's all ( Read more... )

Last two nights were pretty solid, got a job interview on Monday, looks like my summer is looking up.

Thank God I'm finally 21.

I found lying around my dad's computer a horror story I began writing in high school about a flower that's trying to kill Kate. It's quite sinister, and has a lot of friendly snipes against people in my social group. I thought you'd all enjoy it, so here with an LJ cut:

( The Revenge of Magyar )

Don't really know why, but there's something awesome about this being a game, even if all it is is taking pictures of animals:

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A wishlist of books (things to scour used bookstores for):

Donald Norman - The Design of Everyday Things
Ferdinand de Saussure - A Course in General Linguistics
Roland Barthes - S/Z, Mythologies
Gerald Prince - A Dictionary of Narratology
Paul Rand - Thoughts on Design
Claude Levi Strauss
Vladimir Propp - Morphology of the Folk Tale

I woke up from a dream where I was with some prim student playing some game that was similar to golf, except that all the clubs were extremely goofy, colorful and hard to handle, and you were stuck with one club for the duration of the game, no matter what it was. He had already taken the 101 class on it and acted like a real expert for it, I was ( Read more... )

I almost never do these things, but I have nothing better to do. It's time for 5ives ( Read more... )