Visiting the Anne Frank house and finding out for the first time that your great grandparents fled Europe because they were actually Jews is an incredibly intense experience.

"Ys" by Joanna Newsom is a masterpiece.

That is all.

So, for those that haven't been following the news, Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers, and in retaliation Israel has been bombing the living shit out of southern Lebanon and even bombed Beirut. These bombings don't seem to be directed towards Hezbollah, but simply to fuck Lebanon. They bombed the Lebanese airport, bridges, power plants, and ( Read more... )

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4 ( Read more... )

Oh, and the Decibelle website is up and almost done! It's decibelle.atspace.com (no w's)

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List ( Read more... )

My passport, along with my mother's, arrived in the mail today. So, to celebrate, we're going to New Zealand. Hopefully we'll be leaving next Friday and we'll stay for two weeks. If you want a souveneir, let me know and I'll try to get it for you.

Oh also, I might be willing to exchange guitar lessons for goods or services. I really need some recording equipment and I would love to learn how to drive a standard.

Who wants guitar lessons? They're 10 dollars for a half an hour, 20 for an hour and the book I use is I believe ten dollars without a cd and something like 18 with one, but I'll have to check. The book isn't really neccessary unless you want to learn to read music and really start properly from the ground up, which, believe it or not, I really ( Read more... )

Very early this morning my grandfather passed away. He was 92 and his body had been failing the past few weeks which had been very hard to watch. My mother and I were staying up and coming into his room a lot last night, and my mom had planned on staying with him all night long to comfort him and give him a few drops of water every now and then to ( Read more... )