Acrylic afternoons.
Music I've been enjoying recently:
M.I.A./Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism
-- Yeah, I'm awfully late on this one. I am particularly in love with Bingo, what with its cricket references and such. I also enjoy Pop because it uses the same sample that Chapelle's Show uses.
Ashlee Simpson - Boyfriend
-- Not as good as, say, Autobiography, La La or even Love Me For Me. Throwaway pop, with the emphasis on the throwaway bit. However, as long as she does uptempo songs like Boyfriend, I'll be happy. The last thing we need is another one of her songs to sound like Shadow.
Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography/La La/Love Me For Me
-- Because they're much better than Boyfriend.
Jaylib - McNasty Filth
-- The lyrics are wrong and funny. I love this song for uh... personal reasons too.
Oasis - Columbia
-- I listen to this and think it's so good... and then think to myself that I should listen to whatever band Oasis ripped off in the process of writing this song. Then again, one of the small things in life I really love is to listen to Definitely Maybe loudly on a weekend morning and attempt to sing like Liam Gallagher.
Kanye West - Late Registration
-- Makes me want to listen to College Dropout. I have decided that I am sick of songs by rappers about their moms/grandmothers. Paul Wall is as close to a guilty pleasure as I have.
If you'd like to hear some of these songs on Saturday*, you should come by the big birthday extravaganza we're having. Details as follows:
What: The birthdays of Heather, Miranda, Charley and myself. There will be much merriment, some food, a lot of booze, music, conversations with people you'll never meet again, along with people trying to get numbers from other people.
When: September 24th, Saturday. You know, the same day that Oregon will beat USC at Autzen. It starts at regular party time. Basically, please don't show up at the house at seven or anything crazy like that.
Where: Caruthers World
Last but not least, because I am on the verge of becoming very frustrated with life (that's what a phone conversation with the parents do to me), here is a list of things I love about life:
1. My ability to turn any shitty pop song into some meaningful treatise about my life, especially my love life.
2. Vitamin Water. The Gerolsteiner of '05.
3. The Gunex catalogue. Best described as images of hot librarians. No faces shown, though.
4. Ducks football! Tentatively scheduled to go to my first game at Autzen in the beginning of November to watch them play Cal.
5. Starting the apocalypse by wearing a baseball cap to a bar the other night. I think I looked incredibly stupid.
6. Sharing a foot-long roast beef sub from Subway with Steve. We ate it on top of a mailbox after he hid the sandwich in his coat while we were watching Brian's band at a shitty bar.
7. Preparing roe on a Saturday night instead of, say, being at some hot party trying to flirt with girls out of my league.
8. Knowing how to prepare roe, along with shucking oysters. The Gorton's fisherman and I were obviously separated at birth.
9. It's scarf wearing weather in these parts.
10. Selecting Economy Plus seats on United.com and actually taking advantage of my Premier staus for the first time. Although, they've really diluted the Mileage Plus program on a whole, but that's a rant for FlyerTalk and not Livejournal.
11. Seeing anything with a crazy colourful design and calling it "fake Pucci" in my head.
12. Miller High Life in bottles.
13. People receiving baseball cards at a Portland Beavers game and being told to just give them to me.
14. NHL starts in seventeen days. Who needs a girlfriend when you've got Steve Bégin?
15. Sitting in a deserted Savoy on Saturday night with a friend while the bartender lists off many reasons why I shouldn't move to Seattle. This in itself deserves a full entry because it is one of those moments that sums up why I love living in Portland so much.
16. Savoy itself. Portland's best kept secret. I feel bad for them sometimes that it's so quiet in there after around eleven, but it works well for me because I get the jukebox to myself and there's always somewhere to sit. Also, the bartenders are my favourite service industry people, which is a huge accomplishment since they're men and not cute girls I'm trying to flirt with. Next time you're thinking of going to Dot's, try Savoy instead.
17. Comparing my failures (if we can even call them that) with CSG to a Taco Bell being closed and not having a Crunchwrap Supreme. Yeah, I'm crazy.
18. Not feeling bad for not really following the Premiership this season because it seems like no one else is, either.
19. The cute girl who works at New Seasons on Division. In fact, there are quite a few cute girls who work there.
20. Arthur.
I am going to get a coffee on Hawthorne and read the New York Times.
Love,
Kevin
* - If you think I'm kidding (which I know you don't), we are definitely playing the La La twelve-inch that I own.
M.I.A./Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism
-- Yeah, I'm awfully late on this one. I am particularly in love with Bingo, what with its cricket references and such. I also enjoy Pop because it uses the same sample that Chapelle's Show uses.
Ashlee Simpson - Boyfriend
-- Not as good as, say, Autobiography, La La or even Love Me For Me. Throwaway pop, with the emphasis on the throwaway bit. However, as long as she does uptempo songs like Boyfriend, I'll be happy. The last thing we need is another one of her songs to sound like Shadow.
Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography/La La/Love Me For Me
-- Because they're much better than Boyfriend.
Jaylib - McNasty Filth
-- The lyrics are wrong and funny. I love this song for uh... personal reasons too.
Oasis - Columbia
-- I listen to this and think it's so good... and then think to myself that I should listen to whatever band Oasis ripped off in the process of writing this song. Then again, one of the small things in life I really love is to listen to Definitely Maybe loudly on a weekend morning and attempt to sing like Liam Gallagher.
Kanye West - Late Registration
-- Makes me want to listen to College Dropout. I have decided that I am sick of songs by rappers about their moms/grandmothers. Paul Wall is as close to a guilty pleasure as I have.
If you'd like to hear some of these songs on Saturday*, you should come by the big birthday extravaganza we're having. Details as follows:
What: The birthdays of Heather, Miranda, Charley and myself. There will be much merriment, some food, a lot of booze, music, conversations with people you'll never meet again, along with people trying to get numbers from other people.
When: September 24th, Saturday. You know, the same day that Oregon will beat USC at Autzen. It starts at regular party time. Basically, please don't show up at the house at seven or anything crazy like that.
Where: Caruthers World
Last but not least, because I am on the verge of becoming very frustrated with life (that's what a phone conversation with the parents do to me), here is a list of things I love about life:
1. My ability to turn any shitty pop song into some meaningful treatise about my life, especially my love life.
2. Vitamin Water. The Gerolsteiner of '05.
3. The Gunex catalogue. Best described as images of hot librarians. No faces shown, though.
4. Ducks football! Tentatively scheduled to go to my first game at Autzen in the beginning of November to watch them play Cal.
5. Starting the apocalypse by wearing a baseball cap to a bar the other night. I think I looked incredibly stupid.
6. Sharing a foot-long roast beef sub from Subway with Steve. We ate it on top of a mailbox after he hid the sandwich in his coat while we were watching Brian's band at a shitty bar.
7. Preparing roe on a Saturday night instead of, say, being at some hot party trying to flirt with girls out of my league.
8. Knowing how to prepare roe, along with shucking oysters. The Gorton's fisherman and I were obviously separated at birth.
9. It's scarf wearing weather in these parts.
10. Selecting Economy Plus seats on United.com and actually taking advantage of my Premier staus for the first time. Although, they've really diluted the Mileage Plus program on a whole, but that's a rant for FlyerTalk and not Livejournal.
11. Seeing anything with a crazy colourful design and calling it "fake Pucci" in my head.
12. Miller High Life in bottles.
13. People receiving baseball cards at a Portland Beavers game and being told to just give them to me.
14. NHL starts in seventeen days. Who needs a girlfriend when you've got Steve Bégin?
15. Sitting in a deserted Savoy on Saturday night with a friend while the bartender lists off many reasons why I shouldn't move to Seattle. This in itself deserves a full entry because it is one of those moments that sums up why I love living in Portland so much.
16. Savoy itself. Portland's best kept secret. I feel bad for them sometimes that it's so quiet in there after around eleven, but it works well for me because I get the jukebox to myself and there's always somewhere to sit. Also, the bartenders are my favourite service industry people, which is a huge accomplishment since they're men and not cute girls I'm trying to flirt with. Next time you're thinking of going to Dot's, try Savoy instead.
17. Comparing my failures (if we can even call them that) with CSG to a Taco Bell being closed and not having a Crunchwrap Supreme. Yeah, I'm crazy.
18. Not feeling bad for not really following the Premiership this season because it seems like no one else is, either.
19. The cute girl who works at New Seasons on Division. In fact, there are quite a few cute girls who work there.
20. Arthur.
I am going to get a coffee on Hawthorne and read the New York Times.
Love,
Kevin
* - If you think I'm kidding (which I know you don't), we are definitely playing the La La twelve-inch that I own.