pick 3 (four)
i feel as though i need to create some output for myself. from myself?
this weekend has been nice. friday night was excellent. saturday tried real hard to live up to friday's promise, fell short, but was enjoyable nonetheless.
i've fallen into a habit of going to record and tape traders with 5 old cd's in hand, and coming out with three of four new ones. this week's haul:
z- my morning jacket
broken social scene- broken social scene
love kraft- super furry animals
z is pretty incredible. broken social scene is a broken social scene album, which is to say that i'll be listening to it over and over and over again for many months, and finding new things as i go along. bss reminds me of radiohead in that way. successive listens reveal more and more, because once you get used to the level of dissonance in the music, you start to hear hidden harmonies/melodies. plus, the rhythms are really interesting. my favorite song off the album so far is "7/4 (shoreline)". it's in 7/4. 7/4. pretty awesome. i haven't listened to love kraft enough to form an opinion.
fkyeah. i need more creative output in my life. from my life, i guess. i need to record more music with korman. big surprise is kinda stalled out. korman keeps putting it off. i understand, though. i'm neither as talented nor as entertaining/pleasant as eric/alladin/that guy from 451. say: "la vee."
interesting idea: a person is a soul with a body attached. i love the fall. it seems like fall is everyone's favorite season. and green is everyone's favorite color. are fall and green in style? are they just a favorite sort of thing, like our parents' generation all loved green and fall, too? or do all high schoolers love fall? or green? green has always been my favorite color. has it always been everyones favorite?
i wish my life were somehow more baroque.
it seems to me that my friends' lives are interesting. i read about strange, rich, weird things on my friends page, and sometimes think i may be missing out. of course, i read about whiney, mundane, immature and immaterial (but materialistic) things on my friends page. and i dont think of it as missing out. more like near miss.
my sister has a myspace. she's thirteen. i sat down next to her and my younger younger sister, sohpie (she's the six year old) on the couch this afternoon. they were watching tv. it made me pretty sick. not sick in an "anarchy-now-we-gotta-totally-upend-the-status-quo-punkkkkkk-core" way. but a little nauseous. i don't understand how anyone could be that vapid. negative, vapid tv people. there's a tom waits quote to the effect of : "whatever you absorb, you will secrete." and that scares me. with the idea that a) i am in a world where i absorb so much shit that it will one day find its way out of me in some form. and b) that the people around me are in the same situation.
stuff makes me feel icky. ... i'm so mature. i feel like i need to spend some time with people i acquaintance with. just to hear new voices, see new faces. make some silly, pretentious, pretentious art. or not.
leave a comment with either 3 really nice, good, interesting words; the names you would give to your first (or last) 3 children; 3 things you love/hate/don'tknow/know about me; or three things i love/hate/don'tknow/know about you. or, if you want to cheat, pick 3 (four) from the above list.