LJ has gotten decidedly pointless. Anyone who reads this has to come up with a decent reason for me to keep bothering. Otherwise, I'm deleting this joke in the next 4-5 days. Everything I write here ends up on Myspace and probably Facebook anyway, and most people I know have outright deserted this site, or else never blog on it. So fuckin' out with ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070206/ap_on_re_us/astronaut_arrested_2

Read to at least the third paragraph. Holy shit, man.

At some point in the past couple years I made a certain claim in my journal(s)-namely that seeing Pavement live was my only requirement to die happily. This is patently false...I would have to see Pavement and My Bloody Valentine ( Read more... )

I rather wish I would stop inventing these awesome films and books in my dreams.
It's quite a drag to wake up, head to IMDb, and discover that, yeah, you made it up.
Or maybe I just need to learn the coveted skill of sleep script-writing.

Mid-January, that "two-faced / month of misapprehension." With our second major snowfall laying drunkenly about us (for now) and it being about as cold as it'll get this year, it's time for the seasonal mix. What with how depressing my summer and autumn mixes were, I can see how one might worry about this one, but it's no more than on par with the ( Read more... )

After five days in Grand Forks, I'm starting to go crazy. I'll be headed back home in a couple of days, but I really wish I could get out now ( Read more... )

"High Fidelity" aside, there's something genuinely frustrating about trying to rank things you love. How to rate "Ode to Joy?" 7.7? A 10.0? What actually is the best movie of all time? The best record? Does it fucking matter ( Read more... )

I don't generally encourage YouTube video shenanigans, but I just ran across this, and it's seriously hilarious ( Read more... )

I wish I'd come up with that line (the musician that did, however, was an English major. See also Patti Smith and Lou Reed. Makes me happy ( Read more... )

Got my new phone yesterday. Shouldn't change much in the long run, except that I'll now be one of those assholes at concerts taking pictures on my camera-phone. I've long wanted to be one of those assholes ( Read more... )