urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__ __etcetera__ __etcetera__ 2008-02-10T06:06:03Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:27382 2008-02-10T06:06:03Z 2008-02-10T06:06:03Z I'm not supposed to be on here because I gave up recreational internet for Lent.<br /><br />But I think God understands. I just want to record a hopefully life-changing night.<br /><br />&lt;3 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:26892 2007-12-15T19:21:19Z 2007-12-15T19:21:19Z I hate to say it, but I think Broken Social Scene actually has the ability to create good music.<br />I really like "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl" off of <i>You Forgot It In People</i>. I can't get into most of their stuff, but the layers in "Anthems" are excellent.<br /><br />I'm having trouble matching my subject and verb tenses today. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:26788 2007-12-08T21:26:25Z 2007-12-08T21:26:25Z Top albums, songs, artists, etc.<br /><br />Top Albums (Subject to Change):<br />1) Wilco - Sky Blue Sky<br />2) Radiohead - In Rainbows<br />3) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga<br />4) Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog<br />5) Okkervil River - The Stage Names<br />6) Kanye West - Graduation<br />7) Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8<br />8) The Bad Plus - PROG<br />9) of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?<br />10) The National - Boxer<br /><br />Honorable Mentions: Arcade Fire - Neon Bible, Bright Eyes - Cassadaga, LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver, Feist - The Reminder, Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter, Miracle Fortress - Five Roses, Over the Rhine - Trumpet Child, Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War, St. Vincent - Marry Me, Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between, Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala, Page France - ...And the Family Telephone, Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara, Eisley - Combinations, Caribou - Andorra<br /><br />Top Songs<br />[COMING SOON] urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:26429 2007-11-09T04:20:21Z 2007-11-09T04:20:21Z Hope is a tattered flag and a dream out of time.<br />Hope is a heartspun word, the rainbow, the shadblow in white,<br />The evening star inviolable over the coal mines,<br />The shimmer of northern lights across a bitter winter night,<br />The blue hills beyond the smoke of the steel works,<br />The birds who go on singing to their mates in peace, ware, peace,<br />The ten-cent crocus bulb blooming in a used-car salesroom,<br />The horseshoe over the door, the luckpiece in the pocket,<br />The kiss and the comforting laugh and resolve-<br />Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.<br /><br />The spring grass showing itself where least expected,<br />The rolling fluff of white clouds on a changeable sky,<br />The broadcast of strings from Japan, bells from Moscow,<br />Of the voice of the prime minister of Sweden carried<br />Across the sea in behalf of a world family of nations<br />And children singing chorals of the Christ child<br />And Bach being broadcast from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania<br />And tall skyscrapers practically empty of tenants<br />And the hands of strong men groping for handholds<br />And the Salvation Army singing God loves us. . . .<br /><br />-Carl Sandburg, 1936 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:26215 2007-10-22T02:32:18Z 2007-10-22T02:32:18Z Some day you will silence the talkers.<br />They'll drop in because they saw your name on the wall last week.<br />Your words will carry weight.<br />Beware. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:25971 2007-10-15T02:58:23Z 2007-10-15T02:58:23Z <i>It's a good day to face the hard things.</i> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:25764 2007-10-10T03:10:47Z 2007-10-10T03:10:47Z <img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y213/whatchamacallme/magrit11.jpg" /><br />"The Lovers" - René Magritte urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:25489 2007-10-08T02:34:53Z 2007-10-08T02:34:53Z It's just a life story, so there's no climax.<br />No more new territory, so pull away the IMAX. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:25267 2007-10-03T13:22:44Z 2007-10-03T13:22:44Z CRIPPLE<br /><br />Once when I saw a cripple<br />Gasping slowly his last days with the white plague,<br />Looking from hollow eyes, calling for air,<br />Desperately gesturing with wasted hands<br />In the dark and dust of a house down in a slum,<br />I said to myself<br />I would rather have been a tall sunflower<br />Living in a country garden<br />Lifting a golden-brown face to the summer,<br />Rain-washed and dew-misted,<br />Mixed with the poppies and ranking hollyhocks,<br />And wonderingly watching night after night<br />The clear silent processionals of stars.<br /><br />-Carl Sandburg urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:24796 2007-09-13T00:35:16Z 2007-09-13T00:35:16Z Truth: The Royal Tenenbaums is a masterpiece.<br /><br />Wes Anderson has yet to make a poor film.<br />I may just be a sucker for his visuals. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:24412 2007-09-09T02:03:19Z 2007-09-09T02:03:19Z I got new running shoes today.<br />And I'm going to use my dad's bike until I get one. He can't use it right now even if he wanted to.<br />So now I'll have something to do when I wake up at 5. =] urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:24164 2007-09-08T05:25:10Z 2007-09-08T05:25:10Z Maybe I shouldn't have said that.<br />I meant it though. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:24051 2007-08-06T05:39:30Z 2007-08-06T05:39:30Z crochet date.<br />&lt;3 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:23708 2007-08-02T21:13:04Z 2007-08-02T21:13:39Z <img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y213/whatchamacallme/hotstuffagain.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y213/whatchamacallme/hotstuff.jpg"><br /><br /><br />=] urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:23432 2007-07-14T20:55:49Z 2007-07-14T20:55:49Z The Schneiders are here. We went to downtown St. Charles today for lunch and to walk around. It's such a ridiculous place. I feel like I should have something profound to say about all the middle-aged women that purchase the crap that is sold there, but all I can say is that it's sad. Everytime I go there I wonder how those places can stay in business and then I see a group of stupid giggly women and remember.<br /><br />Louis & Clark's was good though. I had a fried eggplant stack sandwich and fries. The eggplant was surprisingly good. David and I are probably going to go to QT, White Castle, and Dairy Queen after dinner because he has none of those things in Orlando. So that could be fun. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:22657 2007-06-15T02:10:21Z 2007-06-15T02:10:21Z Holy fucking shit.<br />Two summers in a row.<br />I don't think I'll be as forgiving this time. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:22469 2007-05-20T01:02:43Z 2007-05-20T01:02:43Z This morning I was sitting in the Barnes & Noble cafe and there were two Italian women (possibly a mother & daughter) talking to each other. A few minutes later, I looked up and realized that they were both weeping. I've no idea why because they were exclusively speaking Italian.<br />But it disturbed me for some reason. Seeing people cry in public, not for joy but for sorrow, is something that I am not used to. It bothers me at funerals too. I think it may be a reflection on middle-class suburban society though. The fear of wearing your real emotions on your sleeve.. it's everywhere.<br /><br /><i>Hey, how are you?</i><br /><br />Good, I'm good. You?<br /><br /><i>I'm good too. Life's good.</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />No, it isn't. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:22234 2007-05-19T01:15:19Z 2007-05-19T01:15:19Z One. More. Week. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:21877 2007-04-24T02:33:19Z 2007-04-24T02:33:19Z Prom was alright. The actual prom wasn't that great because it was pretty much just a banquet. I mean, I knew that's all it was going to be, but even so. Kind of boring. The after-party was good though. Near the end I put on LCD Soundsystem and made people dance to it. It lasted four songs and then they put some stupid Napoleon Dynamite song on. Whatevs. It was fun, regardless. I do enjoy not having a date. Maybe next year I'll ask someone though. We'll see. Who knows what my situation will be in a year.<br /><br />Only need to write a couple more pages on my history paper. It's getting along alright, I guess. I'm sure it'll get a B. Not that I need anything higher. That class has been such a blow off this semester. I got a 102 and a 95 on the last two tests after just reading the chapter the night before we took them.<br /><br />We have a track meet Thursday afternoon and then Friday is the play and Saturday is another track meet. Tomorrow I'm going to miss the second half of the day for a Chemistry field trip to the crime forensics lab down the street, so that'll be good. But.. man, busy week. The church rummage sale is on Saturday, but I won't be able to help because of track.<br /><br />Oh, and next week is Joplin, so I'll be gone Wednesday through late Saturday.<br /><br />GAH, BUSY WEEK. GAH, BUSY MONTH. SUMMER, COME QUICKLY, I'M BEGGING YOU. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:21608 2007-04-21T15:40:58Z 2007-04-21T15:40:58Z Prom is tonight. I don't care about it much, so I didn't rent a suit or anything. I'm wearing my seersucker jacket from freshman year, black pants, a white shirt, and a dark (blue-ish) tie. I still have to go buy shoes at some point.<br /><br />I'm burning LCD Soundsystem for the after-party and I'm gonna bring my iPod in case we can use that. PARTY PARTY PARTY. LCD Soundsystem is so good. I also downloaded Britney Spears for the event. Hehe.<br /><br />I really really need to write my paper for History. It's due Wednesday. I have about two paragraphs. Blaaaah. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:21266 2007-04-20T23:36:21Z 2007-04-20T23:36:21Z Music of the week:<br /><img src="http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s155662.jpg"> <img src="http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s4597.jpg"> <img src="http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s10489.jpg"> <img src="http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s631794.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:20560 2007-04-02T21:52:48Z 2007-04-02T21:52:48Z I just ordered the new Relient K (which I've had for a while), the new Cool Hand Luke, and an album by the Bad Plus. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:20031 2007-03-25T22:11:26Z 2007-03-25T22:11:26Z Love is a dress that you made long to hide your knees. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:19328 2007-03-08T02:43:14Z 2007-03-08T02:43:14Z I stayed home from school yesterday and today. I had a head cold and something was/is wrong with my stomach. My cough has mostly gone away though. I'll be at school again tomorrow.. just in time for the track meet. I'm running the 800, 4x800, and 4x400. And triple jumping. Although I may try to get out of one or two of the runs since I've been sick.<br /><br />Today was spent sleeping and learning Civilization IV. I played Civ III a lot a few years back and Civ IV is pretty similar. It's like a huge, really deep board game. It takes so long to finish a game. I played a game on one of the easier settings and smoked the bots.<br /><br />Last Saturday I bought the Jeff Tweedy DVD. Sunken Treasure. It's pretty good. The ending is beautiful. It's a shot through the windshield of a vehicle at night and "California Stars" is playing. I think they may be driving down the Golden Gate Bridge, actually.<br /><br />I've got to get off this computer. It's going to kill me. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:__etcetera__:19122 2007-03-06T03:07:30Z 2007-03-06T03:07:30Z I'm done with my English project. I presented today. I think it went well.<br /><br />I really liked learning about language. I mean, it's a pretty amazing thing. The whole "you can express ideas that have never before been voiced" is my favorite part. Without it, we'd never learn anything or grow.<br /><br />Other than that, my life is fairly bland. I applied at the library again and I think I have a chance at the job. So, I hope that works out. Track started. It's going alright.. I'm in terrible shape.. and apparently we have a "meet" on Thursday. It's going to be a waste of time, as it's at Tower Grove, which is a stupid little half track. Oh, well.<br /><br />Oh, I'm reading <i>Stranger In a Strange Land</i> by Robert Heinlein. Old science fiction is so different from the new stuff. It's much more escapist and less lit-snob. Sometimes refreshing, sometimes bland and cliché. Heinlein was such a crazy guy.