i've been to a shit ton of shows lately.  all VERY VERY good.  and there are so many more coming up.  this summer is starting to rule pretty fucking hard.

LML.

"It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss." -Henry Miller ( Read more... )

so i'm all packed up.  moving most of my things over to my parent's house tomorrow evening, after a day of teaching AND work....ugh.  this moving stuff is a pain.  i feel like i just moved into this place a few months ago.  the process of packing up your things is quite depressing too.  i took down all my posters and picture frames, knick knacks, ( Read more... )

out of the blue, i remembered a family party from my childhood.  i could visualize everything.  i could smell the food, and hear the chatter from the other room.  i remember sitting next to my grandmother on a small bench.  i rested my hand on top of hers as she turned to me and smiled.  the kind of smile that says love.  i looked at the thin skin ( Read more... )

soooo, i'm moving back to my parent's house friday.  i really hope that it's "just temporary."  i need to save up about 2k to move into a new apt so i'll need to be rent/utilities/groceries free for a couple of months.  and work full-time hours during the summer.  but it'll all be worth it.  we'll have our own place, i'll have enough space for an x ( Read more... )

finally got some orla kiely housewares from target...


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I am a grateful... grapefruit.

-Björk Guðmundsdóttir

Just as we are learning to value and conserve the air we breathe, the water we drink, the energy we use, we must learn to value and conserve our capacity for nurture. Otherwise, in the name of human potential we will slowly but surely erode the source of our humanity.

-Elaine Heffner

wed 4/15- los campesinos @ slim's

mon 4/20- mates of state & black kids @ the independent

fri 4/24- tracy morgan @ cobb's

sat 5/09- passion pit @ bimbo's

thurs 5/21- suburban kids with biblical names @ rickshaw stop

fri 5/22- the smiths, new order, joy division cover bands @ slim's

sat 5/23- my teenage stride @ rickshaw stop

wed 5/27- m83 @ mezzanine

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so i'm writing a paper for my social justice class about my unconscious racial views, basically talking about how i'm racist and how white people are born privliged and I HATE IT.  but my professor would only say that my guilt is a form of my own internalized racism.  fucking social science classes, dropping truth bombs.  i can't take it.  last ( Read more... )