I have figured my plan to meet Chan Marshall into five phases.

1. acquire guitar
2 learn to play said guitar using modest mouse as main source of influence.
3. actually get actual help in learning guitar.
4. learn to sing.
5. start indie band.

pretty self explanatory, really.

Wanna' hear a funny story about a time I went snow boarding? Sure you do. Andrew and I are up on the ski lift going up and this thirty-something year old skier is shooting down gabl's, which is this double black diamond cliff. This run is fucking steep, but this guy is totally making this run his bitch. Andrew and I were impressed. I guess the ( Read more... )

i've been having trouble sleeping lately. i don't know what it is. sometimes, late at night, i'll stand in the front parlor with its great big windows just watching the shadows for movement outside. secretly i hope for a zombie to saunter out from beneath the large trees. the first of many un-dead foes. that would be freakin' awesome, i'd think ( Read more... )

god i'm an asshole. such an asshole. my insensitivity knows no bounds. but i've been waiting a year to say that. the authorities don't need to be involved. it's a joke! terrorism is bad. but you have to admit, when was the last time you heard of it? fifteen minutes ago? i hear it at least once a day. always "since September 11th... blah ( Read more... )

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lameness contained

my brother just scrabbled into this very room after i heard a wooden board slide against the wall. he said it moved by itself. i told him it was nothing, but call me crazy, call me superstitious, it happens to me too. just this morning i was brushing my teeth and a hair brush moved by itself on the counter. i swear upon my unholy obsession with ( Read more... )

Please, if I see that fuckin' ship sink one more goddamned time, I think I'm gonna make my own movie about a madman killing off all the survivors once they reached the shore just so I can look my frightened children in the face and tell them, 'There, there