No. 120: "come away to neverland"

so i'm on a bit of a j.m. barrie/peter pan kick as of right now. i've always loved the story, since mom married fred and i met his brother glen who has an (unhealthy?) obsession with "the boy who wouldn't grow up", so much so that he first noticed his wife, robin, because she looks like tinker bell, and he named all his pets after the lost boys. plus, givens, who i was pretty much in love with for a year or so, is a lost boy. and j.m. barrie's whole psychosis is fascinating and attractive to me. no idea why. in any case-- found the coolest drawing of pan and am thinking of inking it. we'll see. have to pay of my ridiculous HOV ticket.

anyway-- went home this weekend. was nice, but too short. brian was all weird and i was busy and didn't get to hang out w/geofs as much. but i did get some decent chill time with me mum and worked junk out with fred for my apartment and the ticket and vail (still have to talk to kendall 'bout events). plus i got to see george and deb, which was great. now i have to finish unpacking the absurd amount of laundry i did, edit my spanish composition for tomorrow, and do my nails. i was gonna watch the oscars, but bah-- whatever. i hope juno wins best picture. just to spite 'em. and because michael cera rocks yer face. go diablo! good luck.

okay. and now: seven more songs to live to.

(A Super Eclectic List-- Aren't they all. Next week's will be themed, I think.)

1. "No Bad News" by Patty Griffin: Okay-- I love her, and I've been jonesing to hear her music for a while, but I kept forgetting to put her on my Ipod and my discman died and I hate playing cds on the computer b/c it's slow and my computer gets all stressed out. Long story made longer, I bought batteries for the discman and now I'm listening to her. I WANT HER VOICE! Song specifics: this song makes me sooo happy (it should, given the title). Doing a little Molly Ringwald in The Breakfast Club dancing to it earlier. Meh. Go have a listen.
   
2. "Lose It" by Cartel: Brian's fault. The Greek and I were discussing how Brian's been listening to the same genre of music since he started listening to music. This is sort of true (I mean, he knows the Beatles, etc) but sometimes he strikes gold. This song makes me kind of happy despite being really emo. Their new one is quite good, though, I think. Have it a listen. "Wasted" also a great song. Way more depressing. But epic.
   
3. "Put Your Hands Up" by Family Force 5: Another "Blame Brian". But seriously-- HILARIOUS! Any song that starts off with "Ugly people/put your hands down" has to be good for a listen. Great for a sing along, really. Kind of reminds me of Bobby's "I'm Thinking No", for some reason, but yeah. It's pretty good.
   
4. "For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is) by Pete Yorn: This song is one of his happier ones. I think it may be one of two. Someone needs to a) stop breaking up with and b) give a hug to that man, b/c all of his songs are either about being sad or about random things like burritos or cops. In any case... this is one of those songs you just feel good about listening to. Like-- it could actually be a good year afterall. Haha, good for you Pete, for instilling us all with momentary joy.
   
5. "Breathe" by Pearl Jam: How do more people not obsess over them? I do not know. Edddie Vedder's songs for Into the Wild were great, and his voice is so intoxicating. A lot of people overlook "Breathe" too. But it's flipping amazing. I'm just saying. "If I knew where it was/ I would take you there..." and oh, Eddie, I'd go.
   
6. "New Day" by The Robbie Seay Band: Mom got me into him. I love his music b/c despite being Christian based, he's still sort of musically conscious, which is rare amongst the recording artists of that realm. This song reminds me of Mom and I, dancing like idiots in our kitchen on summer mid mornings while we make our coffee. This weekend just totally brought home how much I love and admire my mother. She's an incredible lady, I must say. A punk who pushes me around sometimes, but the only person in the world worthy and valid in doing so. If you know Rika, you know what I'm talking about. Plus she's a total babe. And I gots her genetics!!!! (Yess!)
   
7. "I Believe (When I Fall In Love With You It Will Be Forever)" by Stevie Wonder: So---- this song is on here a) b/c it's awesome and b) b/c I watched High Fidelity with Mike last week and it was at the end and it makes me happy. So there. This is, with the exception of "Breathe" a list of songs that give me a joy-boost. Good for twirly dancing about and being a general romantic sap to, in my opinion. I dunno. Give it a whirl.
   

Okay-- so that's it for me, for tonight. Unless something fabulous and excellent happens that I find blog worthy. But as I said before-- unpacking, nails, spanish. Not really a Cloverfieldesque preview of excitement. Maybe read a little Virginia Woolf if I get crazy. Who knows. It's only 8:48.

H.

Rawr?

Before I start: I've decided "peculiar" is a stupid word.

I go back to the Hop in three weeks. Most of the Liberty kids are leaving Tuesday. Kathryn left this morning to my great distress. Tess doesn't go back til the 23rd, but I'll be at Mason every day from then on to see her, so that won't really matter. Kendall leaves on Thursday, I think, so tonight there's a party thing at her place to celebrate. Should be good. Everyone is pretty psyched to be in the pool. The weather has been so perfect, lately, and especially perfect pool weather.

Boys are stupid, btw. Matt and I had our third big argument since we've been talking again today about the DUMBEST thing ever. I'm so frustrated. I really want to be doing this relationship the right way and being a good friend and praying right for him. Alone, I care so much about him and feel everything so strongly, and then when we talk it all goes to Hell and I end up just wanting to throttle him.

and then there's, you know-- all the other things going on. Blah.

I watched about 5 hours of Top Chef yesterday after giving Mom's car the BEST cleaning of its life. Then I took a shower and did my nails. Stayed up til 2 reading The Green Mile, which for being a Stephen King novel, is pretty freaking amazing. The Known World, another novel I'm reading (slowly) is pretty good, but irritating in that it was about 80000 characters with generic names and is becoming boring. I might abandon it and pick up White Noise again. I want to finish that before I go back to school.

Haven't written anything since Vail, when I started the novella I'll never finish. I did find out some interesting information about crack and crack addicts while researching for it, though, so at least I've got that handy now. (Psht!)

In other news: I payed off my STUPID FREAKING PARKING TICKET! (which, btw, The Greek, although he was parked in the same illegal space on the other side of the road, escaped). But now I'm poor as dirt. Unfortunate, b/c I think I've finally got Mom to a place where she won't flip out about my next tattoo, which, being planned for my wrist, is EXTREMELY more visible than my previous one.

I'm learning a lot in the studies I'm doing each morning. Church is kind of exciting now-- I'm getting this sort of exhilaration reading the Bible. The MacArthur Bible John gave me for my b-day is awesome, too. So there's that.

More later. Maybe even something substantial.
Meanwhile, go listen to "Hammertime Medley" by Jimmy Fallon. Hy-sterical.

<3 h.