those kids don't dance. but they can! i saw it! or maybe that was just the random fans scattered throughout the crowd of frightened christian kids who wouldn't move (unless colin meloy told them to). other than the utterly unenthusiastic audience, the (decemberists') show was AWESOME. the set list (designed by chris funk (he doesn't want you to ( Read more... )

i fucking love this song.

if there were a way to upload these songs so you could all hear them, i would do it, because a) this amuses me greatly and b) i want to see if it seems as obvious to anyone else as it does to me.

velvet underground, "candy says" and "that's the story of my life"
-->the smiths, "half a person"-->the decemberists, "engine driver"

i am such a dork.
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awesome: fully searchable full text of hamlet.
awesomer: copying said text into word and annotating it with your own weird thoughts and theories.
example: the resemblence between hamlet's father and his ghost is described at least twice (once in the first scene, once in the second) as like that between a person and himself.

awesome: the perseus ( Read more... )

is it unforgivably pretentious to quote hamlet in an application essay? i swear i wasn't trying to be clever or ironic; it just made sense. though sometimes my rhetoric does get carried away with itself. caution self: watch out for that rhetoric. syle isn't everything.

anyway...

march 12-18:
-- fucking finish my application to st. john's.
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thanks to a ridiculous number of google searches (undertaken with the guidance of my computer-savvy brother) and some fun on the command line, my computer can now ( Read more... )

watched lots of television w/ the parents, which was funny and moving and good and stuff in all the right ways. trying not to freak out about the fact that it's already friday. on that note (note! ha!)...

rules: load every song you have on you computer into a winamp-type program, hit shuffle, and record the first ten songs that play. add comments ( Read more... )

i know i've mentioned this before, but--know what's awesome? realizing you actually enjoy the classics ( Read more... )

did i say i liked the shins' new album "quite a lot"?

what i meant to say was that i FUCKING LOVE IT.

they are so adorable. <3

/nigh-obnoxious enthusiasm

i like the new shins album quite a lot ( Read more... )