after all the work i've been putting in this quarter, i needed a ridiculous night out. it was nice hanging out with heidi and holly and corinna again like last year. 50 college students + cramped co-op garage + vodka + (awful-ish) punk band (if their mission was proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that punk is dead, mission accomplished, though it ( Read more... )

am currently having one of those horrible, terrible, no good, very bad days that always seem silly and laughably short in retrospect but are so crippling when you're in the midst of a really bad one. nothing seems right. nothing, especially schoolwork, seems to matter. food doesn't sound good. sleep won't happen anytime soon. my one-track mind, in ( Read more... )

sometimes you just look around yourself and think: this is college. i am in college. it's weird. i'm supposed to be an awkward, sad 15-year-old forever, but now i'm 19? when did that happen? (i wrote that when i was drunk last saturday night in an entry that was auto-saved, and i'm keeping it for posterity ( Read more... )

I'm actually kind of excited for the huge research paper on silent film screenwriter Jules Furthman that's gonna be eating me alive soon. So spending most of my weekend doing research on him at the library won't be as bad as it should be. And I probably will get to spend a weekend driving down to L.A. to search through archives at AFI and UCLA's ( Read more... )

In light of the constant stress school and, oh, my 40-hour work week's been putting on me so far this quarter, I've been thinking about all the things that keep me semi-sane and only partially unbearably neurotic and self-psychoanalytical... If only I could get more reading done. And if only I would stop making lists like this one. It's kind of a ( Read more... )

fuck journalism. it's giving me a headache.

yep, another interesting, intelligent update from my life.

fuck. fuck. fuck. fabulist sounds so much nicer than liar. right?

i'm sure i'll write an entry that goes into more detail on my trip to austin soon, but maaaan -- my morning jacket played the best live show i've seen yet. jim james was wearing a long blonde wig the whole time he could barely see out from under, the bassist was wearing water wings and a lei, the keyboardist had sunscreen on his nose, there were ( Read more... )

i just discovered the wonder that is netflix. anybody got any good suggestions? i pretty much qued up a ton of film noirs i've heard about: super-excited to get my hands on a copy of billy wilder's recently criterion-ed noir supposed masterpiece, ace in the hole, but if anybody's got any amazing suggestions, i'd love to add them to my ever-growing ( Read more... )

i'm having a funny ha ha moment (isn't my life just one big funny ha ha moment, really?) where i feel compelled to write lots of lists in a futile attempt to add some order and balance to my life. like marnie (the character from the film) i'm a list-maker, though not necessarily (or at all) a list-doer or list completist. but i at least like ( Read more... )