Let me tell you about the time the Mountain Goats changed my life. I was nineteen years young. I was a freshman in college, buying tickets to see Final Fantasy and The Mountain Goats at The Cedar Cultural Center on the basis that I had two or three songs by each artist on my iTunes, and maybe it would be a good show. I was accompanied by Anna and ( Read more... )

Things are vacillating between good and not-so-good. Right now I guess I am kind of on the line between. Hopefully I will be back on the good (or at least functional) side by Monday ( Read more... )

as;dlfja ds;fl ANNA AND JULIA

I just realized that this is the weekend tMG are going to be in Ames

AND I AM NOT GOING

what what what am I doing with my life D:

La la la. Um. Life is up and down. But today has been pretty nice! Rather calm, mostly. Well, my mother had to go into work today so I slept for... fourteen hours? after taking Benadryl to fall asleep even with the worst cramps ever. I am feeling much better now. I finished Geek Love this afternoon, after not finishing a book for seventeen days ( ( Read more... )

-Facebook has implemented a feature where they will tell you what you were doing On This Day in 2009. (Possibly other years, as well. I'm not sure.) This has informed me that it is two years to the day since I finished reading Les Misérables. ( LJ concurs.-I am still happy. Happy, in that we are not overhappy. Etc. I am calm, anyway, and that feels ( Read more... )

Alicia: this is another joint entry. we are not as drunk as we were for the previous one, but it is our last night together and no-one wants to be hungover for a twenty-seven-hour bus ride. what are we doing? drinking and kissing and listening to Mountain Goats. basically the usual ( Read more... )

Alicia: this is a joint effort ( Read more... )

It's 5:09 AM. Here is a list of things I most definitely have not done recently:

• Stayed up all night again.
• Stayed up all night listening to the Mountain Goats, because this has officially crossed the line into obsession.
• Written a long entry in my paper journal about how great my life would be if all I ever did was stand in big rooms full of people ( Read more... )

( Some things I wanted to tell you. )

OH MY GODDDD. If I told you I wasn't still shaking/crying I'D BE LYING. That is ... the best show I've ever been to? Quite possibly. WHERE DO I BEGIN ( Read more... )