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[May. 11th, 2008|10:36 pm] |
Going to Modest Mouse with Mandy the day after classes start up in Orlando, and Coldplay is coming to both Miami and Orlando so wherever I am at that time I go to that show. So excited! The Coldplay show a few years ago was still one of the best I've ever seen, ever.
Also, I'm a bit upset because my friend Kevin called me tonight from his Radiohead show in Virginia during two songs I wish they played here, "Lucky" and "Fake Plastic Trees". They got about 90% more OK Computer and The Bends than we did :/ |
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[May. 10th, 2008|11:25 am] |
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| | "Lightness" - Death Cab for Cutie | ] |
http://www.bush-mccainchallenge.com/
(And after the first five, fill out the stuff and keep going. It's very interesting. And after those 10 Bush-McCain ones, there are some hilarious McCain-Carrot ones.)
Vote Democrat, please. He's not Huckabee or Romney, no, but...whoever it may be, vote Democrat. Here are some more facts on how they are similar, with sources and everything: http://www.bush-mccainchallenge.com/facts.html?id=
Ahh, closing out high school in style, last night felt goooood. |
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[May. 8th, 2008|05:30 pm] |
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| | "Bixby Canyon Bridge" - Death Cab for Cutie | ] |
Listening to Death Cab's new album, Narrow Stairs, is like taking all my pessimism about it, "...Narrow Stairs?", "That's the album cover?", thinking how much it'll suck, well, and just throwing it all out the window. The best song is by far "Talking Bird", which is beautiful beautiful beautiful. And the whole album, it's more of a return to vintage times, before the nonsense of (the majority of) Plans. I think my least favorite song is, ironically, the first single "I Will Possess Your Heart", the one I judged the whole album off way too prematurely. But the rest- everything is so much simpler, so much crisper (even with distorted guitars) than what Plans was...
It's fantastic!
Fingers crossed I'm way off about Viva la Vida as well. |
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[May. 7th, 2008|03:25 pm] |
Happy Birthday Israel! In exactly one week the little guy'll be 60.
This is a fantastic short piece basically describing the country perfectly. It really is a land of contradictions, pain and joy and hate and love and everything.
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/07/987541.aspx
Anyways, Russert and Matthews both said the Dem. primary ended yesterday, which is good. it actually ended a while ago, but yesterday it really ended. And as much as I think Hillary is a deceiving politician (still can't get over Bosnia), her as VP would basically ensure a win. I just wouldn't be able to stand the spin on Hillaryis44.com (I can see it now..."That HATE MONGER knows the only way he can win is to keep on using HER"...ugh). I love reading the ridiculous comments on that site ("He's stealing the nomination from us"...yes, even though the majority voted for him he stole it). Anyways, good for Barack. Time to donate some GE money!
Whoa if I had never moved here in a month I'd be starting Army training...weird. |
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[May. 6th, 2008|05:17 pm] |
Amazing. Simply amazing. I knew "Paranoid Android" was a false hope, so I'm not bothered they didn't play that. And yes, every song but one off In Rainbows was a bit much. But overall, it was one of the best nights of my life, Thom's beautiful voice and Ed's beautiful beauty and Jonny's hair, a double-encore, "Just" and "Bulletproof" and the best Kid A songs...
The five of them are amazing. Simply amazing. |
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[May. 5th, 2008|03:20 pm] |
On AP Gov. I tied every essay into why Barack Obama should be our next president, then spent about 5 pages telling my life story and various personal memories from years past.
...rh in 4 hrs |
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[May. 3rd, 2008|12:44 am] |
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| | "Violet Hill" - Coldplay | ] |
I watched The War Room today, a documentary that followed the Clinton campaign in '92. If you ever get a chance to, I'd Netflix it or something. It was amazing. Carville is a genious obviously, and so is Stephanapolous, and Clinton was just so much...more likeable than he is now. And I'm not just saying that because he's with Hillary, no, back then he was...funny and charming and young and...just lovable. And the chaos that goes with running for President, I mean everyone knows that it'll suck the life out of you, but it's just so damn...grueling. It's fascinating.
Also the new Coldplay single...I don't even know. I can't tell if I like it or hate it. I wish more of the song was just that pretty little nice part at the end, but whatareyagonnado. |
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[May. 2nd, 2008|12:01 am] |
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omg omg omg iron man, the scene after the credits...I HOPE. |
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[Apr. 27th, 2008|09:16 pm] |
This is more for myself than anything, but this is a list of movies I need to see when they come out/rent ASAP:
Son of Rambow
Party Monster
Mister Lonely (!)
Brick
Rocket Science (!)
2 Days in Paris (!)
Crumb
also of course the whole Iron Man-Hulk-Batman trifecta.
(!) denotes immediately and with urgency
Also, "My Blueberry Nights" was good especially the ending (who knew Norah Jones could act), Gateway is a great theater and Radio-Active Records is a great record store with a nice Brit running it. |
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[Apr. 26th, 2008|08:56 pm] |
Almost Famous makes me happy
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[Apr. 24th, 2008|05:09 pm] |
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Skipped school and, along with Monica and Sara, went to Lion Country Safari, where I haven't been in about a year. Best day ever so far? Yeah. Watching "The Office: at Monica's later. Planeterium maybe next week. This is a good stretch, right before that challenging week or so, then relax time for a few weeks, then college. Phew. |
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[Apr. 22nd, 2008|11:49 pm] |
This coming from Chuck Todd who encouraged her to stay in the race. |
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[Apr. 22nd, 2008|02:06 am] |
As of about 1:30, I've decided that from now on, I'll try to have this really sunny and positive outlook on life. It's not that I haven't so far, I'm a fairly happy person (well, as happy as a teenager can be). But when I took a nap, I had this dream that I can still make out pretty clearly.
I was walking in a field of tall grass, and the whole entire area was very blue/gray. Very gloomy. The "temperature aspect", if you will. And then, in the dream, I closed my eyes, reopened them, and everything was bright yellow and orange. That's it. Not an exciting dream by any means, nothing really happened, no "plot" so to speak. But I like the feeling that everything is sunny and warm, so I'll try to make it as sunny and warm as I can.
I'll feel even more sunny and warm if Barack loses by 5 or less tomorrow, seeing as how I remember he was down 17 in PA like a month ago. *Fingers crossed* Also, Grad Nite was fun and I look forward to living close to Disney in a few months, also the Invisible Children assembly today was really touching, went home and donated some money. Then gave some to Barack. |
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[Apr. 19th, 2008|02:41 pm] |
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I have never in my life been able to go on almost every single Magic Kingdom ride in the span of four hours, including a free meal and going on Pirates twice. The average wait for every single ride was 10 minutes, and some the three of us were the only ones on it. Was it worth the rediculous sum of money and the painful leg cramps I'm experiencing today from the crapload of walking? I don't know. But Grad Nite was better than I thought it would be, and even though I crashed as soon as I got home, I still remember that it was one of the funner nights of my life. |
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[Apr. 13th, 2008|02:58 pm] |
Iron and Wine was a tad dissapointing. After playing two songs the way they were meant to be played, just Sam and his sister and an acoutic guitar, a whole band was brought onstage and for the next hour and 45 minutes I barely recognized any of the songs because they were all...rock-ish. It wasn't bad, just not what I was expecting/wanted from an Iron and Wine show. That beard though...magnificent.
I also liked that a bunch of Cooper and Charter people were brought together to form a large group (thankfully with no Jordan). The collective mass was me, Jon, Joe, Michelle, Monica, Aaron, Santiago, and Jeff. Four Cooper, four Charter. It was fun. Jeff and I made a pact not to shave as long as we could to maybe get a Sam Beam beard.
After the show Jeff and I drove in circles trying to decide what to do when we settled on a little diner place, got there, sat down, got a call from Chloe, drove alllll the way back to pick her up, went back, ate, went to Jeff's, hung out, and by the time I got home I collapsed. Fun night, and today the Peace Rally at Cooper. |
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[Apr. 10th, 2008|11:12 pm] |
"Sutherland found that the binding of epinephrine to the plasma membrane of a liver cell elevates the cytosolic concentration called cyclic adenosine monophosphate..."
This is what I have to deal with my last two months. Damn you, Mrs. Farmer. How I got a B first quarter, even with Nafis' help, I'll never know.
Nick Swarsdon, Jim Gaffigan, and Vampire Weekend are all coming, Iron and Wine this Saturday, Peace Rally Sunday, Radiohead in May, blah blah blah blah blah.
Also, I know this isn't really interesting, but just a little glimpse of my semi-Soviet upbringing...I just started re-watching my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid. This was literally all I would watch the first 10 years of my life. Amazing I still have all the VHS tapes, and I remember most of it. It's the most nostalgic thing ever. It's called "Nu, pogodi!" ("You just wait!"), and if anyone ever wants to watch it let me know, it's the best thing in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu%2C_pogodi%21
Actually, here's the first episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM8qgX3vbuI (You don't need to know any Russian to enjoy it, only the credits are in Russian, there's barely any lines) |
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[Apr. 6th, 2008|03:07 pm] |
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| | "Idle Ties" - Vetiver | ] |
What a week(end)!
The SB week in itself was awesome, just like I hoped it would be. But then, Friday night was Tokyo Police Club, and they were so amazing and nice and grateful, I really don't think they expected that many people to show up at one of their South Florida shows and it was just intense and fantastic. Then on Saturday, I headed off to Orlando with Jon, Joe, and Lee, and later that night saw The Weakerthans, along with Christine Fellows (married to John K.) and AA Bondy who did a Tom Waits cover and both opening acts were pretty much the best opening acts I have ever seen and I just fell in love with the chello player who played with Christine (Joe, I remember now, her name was Monicaaa) and yeah, the best with the exception of RK.
Phew.
That's it, last quarter and then I'm outta here! |
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[Apr. 2nd, 2008|12:27 am] |
Oy vey Ben Gibbard, oy vey. |
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[Mar. 31st, 2008|12:58 am] |
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| | "I Am the Walrus" - The Beatles | ] |
Stuff White People Like
This is pretty accurate. I'm white, I like Barack Obama and Arrested Development and Juno and Threatening To Move To Canada and Sarah Silverman and Manhattan and Wes Anderson Movies...and everything on that list. For exactly the reasons they give when clicking on them (except for the Obama one...but I DO like the graphic they give for him).
Shaina also showed me this:
PostSecret
People mail in their secrets on homemade postcards. Some are kind've funny, most are really heavy and depressing. But all are really interesting, in a sense.
Sorry if this is all "old", but I thought it was all pretty cool. |
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[Mar. 30th, 2008|12:29 am] |
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| | "Come Sail Away" - Styx | ] |
So far, let's see...
Thursday after exams, went with Jackeroo and Mike Setton to Kayla's house, hung out there for a long time, then the five of us with SarahLu and Alina went to two abandoned buildings and got kicked out of the nudist colony. Fun.
Friday morning went with Monica to Tatum's Pancake Party, I'll say it again: the Juniors at Cooper are for the most part a lot cooler than the Seniors. Played intense Movie Game rounds. Pancakes were gooooood. Then saw Run Fatboy Run with Jon and Joe, very good movie (British people except Hank Azaria, directed by my fave David Schwimmer and written by my fave Mike Ian Black and starring my fave Simon Pegg), and I really wanna see Son Of Rambow when it comes out. Then over to Lee's house, Laureen and Katie came over and the four of us chatted till the wee hours of the night, then Lee slept over my house.
Today, Juan picked us up and the four of us (with Mia) went to Tate's. Met up with Alex and Danny Role there, said goodbye to Juancho, Lee-cho, and Mia-cho, went with Alex and Danny to get pizza and watch "Nazi Surfers Must Die". Then home, mom came and I drove the two of us to Miami Beach to watch Pol's Ballet. Been best friends with the kid for 9 years now, this was the first time I saw him perform. He's in a very professional company, they performed at the Colony Theatre on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, yep, very fancy, I was severely underdressed but it was my first time. All the men's junk was showing in the tights, the chicks were decent looking, POL DID AMAZING, he was like the youngest one in the "troupe" and the star of the show, afterwards I felt like my best friend was a movie star people were congratulating him so. Ballet- not for me.
Anyways, all is well. Good week coming up, then next weekend we have Tokyo Police Club in Miami, then Weakerthans in Orlando with Jon-Joe-Lee. Anyone need a house? We really gotta sell ours. Ask around! Ok, well, hope all is well with everyone. So. Tired. Bye. |
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