first, happy almost new years.

second, i forgot to mention that yesterday marked the 1 year anniversary of this blog. who would've thought - 130 posts over 365 days. not bad, not bad.

i'm aiming for 260 over 365 days next year. double the blogging, double the fun.

one.

watched "Rock the Bells" last night.

"Personifying the fierce independence and Do-It-Yourself spirit of the Hip Hop movement, festival producer Chang Weisberg puts everything on the line for his impossible dream of reuniting notorious no-shows The Wu-Tang Clan.

Furiously paced and rich with multiple narratives, Rock the Bells follows Weisberg and his guerilla promotion team as they fight for the arrival of all nine Wu-Tang members, battle broken equipment and overwhelmed security, attempt to control the riotous crowd in the overheater, over-crowded venue and deliver the history-making show they have promised.

The film also features performances by Redman, Dilated Peoples, MC Supernatural, Sage Francis, Eyedea & Abilities, Chali 2na and DJ Numark."

back in boston.

i wish i could figure out how to post an audio link, but alas my technology skills are basic.

If U Seek Amy by Britney is really freakin good. and i mean that in the most pop music sort of way.

bacon!

"merry christmas. happy hannukah. jolly festivus."

-text message from my mother

watched Burn After Reading and The Dark Knight yesterday. burn after reading was a let down. with a cast of brad pitt, george clooney, frances mcdormand, tilda swinton, and john malkovich, one would expect good things. and i like weird movies. but the coen brothers are too weird for me, i guess.

the dark knight was great, though looooooong. two words to sum up the entire movie: heath. ledger.

lebron nike commercial

another one i'm feeling

back in LA from 48 hours in vegas. vegas = sweeeeeeet. learned to play blackjack. won $120. drank some free gin & tonics. chilled at the bellagio. bought some lovely shoes. popped bottles. ordered room service. partied at a club with jerry rice. walked down the strip with no shoes.

and now...sleep.

Life progresses through a series of questions. "Can I have some juice?" becomes "Why is the sky blue?" becomes "Why doesn't she like me?" becomes "How am I gonna pay the rent?" becomes "Will you marry me?" becomes "Weren't you on birth control?" becomes "Did you notice all these gray hairs?" becomes "Where are my teeth?" And then, once again, "Can I have some juice?" We are taught from an early age to question everything. But I've spent far less time pondering life's great existential crises than I have obsessing over life's inconsequential annoyances.

-Aaron Karo

Amir: No no no, thank you.
Jake: I didn't say thank you.
Amir: Okay, what did you say?
Jake: Stock market.

finals week = few blog posts

not even necessarily because i have so much work, more because i am still feeling uninspired and probably have too much time on my hands.

peace out girl scout.

stellaaaaaaa. stellllllaaaaaaaaaa.

Mrs. Seinfeld: You're going underwater?
Jerry: Yes, generally that's where scuba diving is done.
Mrs. Seinfeld: What do you have to go underwater for? What's down there that's so special?
Jerry: What's so special up here?

Lebowski Fest.

a better Look Book than most. i used to read it every week but got kinda bored. NYMag's Sex Diaries is way better, though definitely at least partially fabricated.

LA in 9 days.

peace.

Hot Rod.

i've never been a huge madonna fan (or a louis vuitton fan, for that matter), but i love this new louis vuitton ad, shot by steven meisel. the muted colors, the crazy shoes, and even that weird orange feathery thing she's wearing all kind of work somehow.

"Kanye is one of the biggest hip-hop stars in the world right now," says Emil Wilbekin, editor-in-chief of urban lifestyle magazine Giant. "But I do believe he has delusions of grandeur."

Where Amazing Happens: Immovable

the mtv britney documentary was amazing amazing amazing. her life sucks, though, which is pretty sad.

˙ƃuıuıɐʇɹǝʇuǝ puɐ ǝɯosǝʍɐ ʎןƃuısıɹdɹns sı ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ɐ uo uʍop ǝpısdn ʇxǝʇ ƃuıʌɐɥ 'uosɐǝɹ ǝɯos ɹoɟ

Where Amazing Happens: Dwyane Wade

my favorite one, i think.

Where Amazing Happens

mostly i just really like the little figures in this cartoon. they are like giraffe people with no bodies.

my computer is fixed!

and thanksgiving in brookline has been amazingly fun.

aaaand my 22nd birthday is tomorrow...though after 21 it's kinda not as fun and exciting. oh well.

happy thanksgiving.

i don't remember posting my most recent twitter post.

Engadget's Blackberry Storm Review...

they might not like it too much but i still want it.

it's disappointing that whenever you buy a piece of new technology, it is almost immediately outdated. i mean, i got the blackberry curve 8330 (on verizon) in may, and both the Bold and the Storm have come out since then.

now back to writing my paper that is due in 2 hours 15 minutes.

if it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.

peace.

also i'm really happy about my decision to start on twitter. love ittttt.

perez just posted something about blink182...weeird. such a 90s thing. haven't thought about them for a while. the one in the middle was always kinda cute. strange that travis barker became the most well-known of all of them and he was the least mainstream.

"You know you've grown up when you start washing your dishes after using them and not right before."

why i hate bureaucracy...

a week ago, my mail stops being delivered. this coincides with my landlord changing the key to the front door of my apartment building. after a week of no mail, i call the post office (this was yesterday). the woman i speak with says that the mailman doesn't have a key to my apartment building but somehow the mail will be delivered that day. it isn't. i call the post office again this morning. the woman i speak with says that the post office doesn't have a key to my apartment building and i should call my landlord. i call my landlord's office. the receptionist (who sucks, in general) tells me that they gave the post office the new key and tells me to call the landlord's cell phone. i call his cell phone. my landlord tells me that he spoke with the post office several days ago. apparently the key to my apartment building is sitting at the post office and my mailman, rather than getting the new key from the post office, has decided to simply stop delivering my mail. i call the post office again. the woman i speak with says there is no key and no mail for my building. this means, she explains, that the mail will be delivered today.

i have not been to my apartment since 10 a.m. this morning, but if the mail isn't there i may cry.

another reason why bureaucracy sucks: president-elect barack obama can't use email when he becomes President Of The United States.

so the head of our country, a man whose entire campaign was based on internet fundraising and social networking, can't use the most up-to-date, to-the-minute technology for communicating with people around the world?

i'm confused.

seinfeld, of course.

you?
worked?
bagels?

100th post. word son flap flap.

goniff.

just a ten letter word

the shirt i got at the atmosphere concert last night. the concert was sweeeet though i would've liked to hear even more old stuff - modern man's hustle, fuck you lucy, et cetera.

more pictures to come.

Belly Intro

for sure one of the best movie intros i've ever seen...style, music, lighting...its mesmerizing...

i was just wondering if you might like to sit and talk about the carpet and the ceiling for a while.

-"molly cool", atmosphere

2 days................

a flower on acid...

found through digg

prop 8

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

i wouldn't say i am a particularly political person, but the fact that Proposition 8 got passed in california made me pretty pissed.

speech...

first of all i wanna thank my connect
the most important person with all due respect
thanks to the duffel bag, the brown paper bag
the nike shoe box for holdin all this cash
boys in blue who put who put greed before the badge
the first pusher whoever made the stash

the roc boys in the buildin tonight
oh, what a feelin, i'm feeling life
thanks to the lames, niggas with bad aim
thanks to a little change i tore you out the game

bullet wounds will stop your buffoonery
thanks to the pastor rappin at your eulogy
to lil' kim and them, you know the women friend
who carry the work cross state for a gentlemen
yeah thanks to all the hustlers
and most importantly you, the customer

-roc boys (and the winner is), jay-z

i feel myself lacking in inspiration, repeating similar themes, and generally striving for a creativity that isn't there.

i just got "Influence," the coffee table book produced by mary-kate and ashley olsen. there's a wonderful quotation from terry richardson explaining why he prefers film over digital photography. ha! i am certainly not the only one out there.

then again, i prefer disposable to both. so who really knows...

Heartless: new kanye video

Heartless from kwest on Vimeo.

i love that kanye does something different than most other hiphop artists out there.

Barack. Hussein. Obama.

word.

i guess tomorrow is tuesday...

found on gawker.

Fade To Black

This right here we call the magic moment...

i found some wonderfully irreverent/funny/bizarre things on digg today...

'

the first 3 courtesy of xkcd.com, which amused me for quite some time while i was bored in class today.
now it's time for me to go comatose, hallucinate vividly, and then suffer amnesia about the whole experience. one.

i just read through everything i've posted on here since december 30, 2007. trippy that it is getting close to a year of having done this. england seems like ages ago. even the beginning of this semester seems like ages ago. is there ever a point in life where the most recent things don't?

That Oprah

bill gates steve jobs iphones microsoft

"Everyone tortures themselves with this question: Did the parties used to be better? Probably not; It's just your mind playing tricks, pining for that magical time back when you and your friends were young and free and ready to take on the world - years before life and consequences trammeled your spirit."

-Gawker

is it strange that i am not even 22 years old and i can relate to this?
...or am i just thinking too much?

great advertising

i really want to watch Belly right now. the imdb plot for the movie is great: "A pair of vicious black gangsters have spiritual awakenings."

i couldn't have said it better myself.

Almost Famous

"They make you feel cool. And hey, I met you. You are not cool"

-Lester Bangs

just bought this poster

Night Drive

Well, it really all began with a car trip we took one night in May...
There was me and Tim and Jane, with Tim driving.
Somehow we wound up on route 84.
Around 10 PM we stopped at a LUK-EE DONUT place for some refreshment.
At first we were going to "take-out" but we changed our minds upon entering the establishment.
The abundance of pinks in the room was enough to make us stay awhile.
We ordered 3 coffees, 2 whole wheat honey glazed donuts and a jelly roll donut.
Tim smoked a Kool.
Once more we were on our way. On the car radio we got a station from Wheeling, West Virginia.
There was really quite a lot of static, but for a while it was interesting.
We even heard a really hilarious news bulletin about a UFO sighting...
At about 12:30 AM, we pulled into the lot of a huge all-night supermarket where people bought in BULK.
We thought we'd give it a whirl and pick up some stuff.
We needed some juice, bread, cheese, cookies, and magazines. The place was really merchandiseville.
We couldn't find anything that we needed, so we got some bottled water and organic chips.
We bought some crackers and aerosol cheese just for entertainment.
Now we felt seriously on our way. Jane fell asleep.
When she awoke she told us her dream.
It was slightly boring, but we didn't really mind.
Shortly after that, we passed some projects...It was around 2 AM by then, but we were pretty "up."
I remember thinking that I was having the time of my life, but I didn't know why.
We had drifted away from WWVA and were now onto some station with a lot of homemade commercials.
We talked about: our favorite styles of clothing; Chinese food; people we knew in common; our adolescences; our parents; ice cream; very small towns; and public transportation.
The sun began to come up, and suddenly everything felt different.

-Roz Chast

this is pretty awesome

http://perezhilton.com/2008-08-19-listen-to-this-big-pimpin

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

just went to a showing of The Big Lebowski. it gets better every time.

"Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules."
-Walter Sobchak

kanye as a puppet...hmm...

Kanye West - Champion | Videos > HipHopDX.com

this video is hot...Everyone Nose (remix) - NERD, Kanye, Lupe Fiasco, Pusha T

either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot

finished watching He Got Game. pretty sweet movie.

ehh thats kinda it. 2 weeks til i head back to the STL. senior year whaaaaat.

"You know why Dre's record was so successful? He's rapping about big-screen TVs, blunts, 40s and bitches. You're rapping about homosexuals and Vicodin."

serenity now

frank costanza/jerry stiller and me!

um angelina jolie and brad pitt are receiving $14 million for pictures of their new babies. $14 MILLION. that is nuts.

10 Things I Hate About You is on tv right now.

"I know you can be overwhelmed...and you can be underwhelmed...but can you ever just be whelmed?"

2 movies i have seen in the past week:

1) Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
this movie was fantastic. philip seymour hoffman is pretty much the best actor of his generation. the script was unreal. and the way the story was told (jumping back and forth through time, showing the same scene from several different viewpoints) was perfect.

2) Secretary
i love maggie gyllenhaal, but this movie was straight up weird. and i usually love weird movies. the ending was satisfying and the first 2/3 of the movie was riveting. but then it took some really bizarre, confusing turns. however, jeremy davies (daniel faraday from lost) was in this movie, so obviously extra points for that.

still have to see the wackness, batman begins, and he got game (back-to-back with belly).

word.

duuuuuuude

i was just standing 5 feet away from TREY ANASTASIO.

i just tried logging into facebook and got a message saying my account is currently unavailable due to site maintenance. i am pretty sure this means...

NEW FACEBOOK.

gah doesn't mark zuckerberg realize i don't want a new facebook layout.

on another note, i opened my itunes for the first time in a while yesterday (as my sound and video still don't work) and all those little exclamation marks next to each song were gone! yay!!!!!!!!!

also, i am currently typing this post on a sony vaio laptop that the comedy festival is using for this week. while this laptop is tiny and i feel like i may accidentally break it, it's pretty sweet. though i really don't like vista at all.

okay enough of my ramblings for now.

she said 'boy you crazy'..nah i'm shwayze

i just watched the first episode of this new mtv show Shwayze. as far as i can tell, it is 2 pretty irresponsible kids who like to party and sing some catchy emo-rap/reggae/ska-ish music. it's great.

i also would like to be a member of rev run's family.

i think i am still watching too much television.

A few words of inspiration...

A few words of inspiration

This song is dedicated to hustlers standing on the curb

Smokin herb

Moving weight from the inner city to the suburbs

Paranoid of jail

Pocket full of yayo

Just waitin on another sale

Sip your beer

Wipe your tears

Encourage your peers

It's gonna be alright.

-Afroman

I am in love with Greg Gillis.

Rock The Bells in 3 days.

"...but by the end of the movie I was seriously, like, all I want to do for the next six weeks is smoke weed and listen to Wu-Tang..."

why i want to see the wackness and pineapple express right now.

Quiet Storm - Mobb Deep

classic.

nyc

Driving through Times Square is like "surfing porn sites without an ad-blocker."

worth looking at the original for pure size

"It is one thing to spark up a doobie and get laced at parties, but it is quite another to be fried all day."

-Clueless

muppets

hehe.

gawker might not like this advertisement. but its pretty damn smart.

nantucket tomorrow. nyc this weekend.

George: No, that's pie country. They do a lot of baking up there.

Jerry: They sell them by the side of the road. Blueberry, blackberry.

George: Blackberry, boysenberry.

Jerry: Boysenberry, huckleberry.

George: Huckleberry, raspberry.

Jerry: Raspberry, strawberry.

George: Strawberry, cranberry.

Jerry: Peach.

hi petey.

happy july 4

piggie piggie.

oh ya and 18 year old christian bale is hot

newsies!

"So what about Brooklyn? Who wants Brooklyn? C'mon, Spot Conlon's territory. What's the matter? You scared of Brooklyn?"

"Hey we ain't scared of Brooklyn! Spot Conlon makes us...a little nervous."

i'm watching newsies on vhs. so old school.

more seinfeld, of course

i think this may be some of the best dialogue in the 9 seasons of seinfeld.

George: Listen to this. Marcy comes over and she tells me that her ex-boyfriend was over late last night and yada yada yada I'm really tired today.

Jerry: What do you think she was tired from?

George: Well obviously the yada yada. You don't think she'd yada yada sex.

Elaine: I've yada yadad sex.

George: Really?

Elaine: Yep. I met this lawyer. We went out to dinner. I had the lobster bisque. We went back to my place. Yada yada yada. I never heard from him again.

Jerry: But you yada yadad over the best part.

Elaine: No, I mentioned the bisque.

graphjam.com

"the last thing this guy's qualified to give a tour of is reality"

George: Wait a minute. I think I understand this. J. Peterman is real. His biography is not. Now you, Kramer, are real.

Kramer: Talk to me.

George: But your life is Peterman's. Now the bus tour, which is real, takes you to places that, while they are real, they are not real in the sense that they did not really happen to the real Peterman, which is you.

Kramer: Understand?

Jerry: Ya. It's $37.50 for a three musketeers.

the new pool in becca's yard. one of two pools on beacon street?

tree 4

i figured this tree was the most appropriate for brookline.

so summer has been good so far. upper crust, gin & tonics, weed, brookline.

the weeds season 4 premier was enjoyable, as was stephanie's win on top chef.

not much else to be writing about. just a couple weeks til july 4 and then only a week after that nyc. word.

buhbye.

jerryelainekramergeorge

these pretzels are making me thirsty!

tree 3

i love top chef. antonia is the cutest. and it makes me hungry.

finished the entire series of seinfeld. now i am starting it from the beginning. second season is really fantastic.

lost season finale was very good. gotta rewatch it.

i think i've been watching too much television.

the summer of george.

tree 2

its summer! weird. i'm in the process of watching all the Top Chef episodes from the new season. DVR is a great thing. ah i love Top Chef. less than 1 week until LOST SEASON FINALE!

anyways, being back in the US is fantastic. having my car is lovely, as are dollar bills.

the emily gould article in the new york times magazine was a letdown for the amount of press it received. and the youtube clip of her speaking to jimmy kimmel on the larry king live show makes her look truly ridiculous.

i really enjoyed reading this speech.

see yaaaaaaaa.

my tattooing debut. the orchid logo on kvh's back, accompanied by my signature at the bottom.

goodbye sussex.

tree 1

in the process of rearranging my computer desktop i (of course) managed to mess up my entire itunes library. that little exclamation mark next to each song is the bane of my existence. if apple can make the iphone, which is pretty much the coolest little gadget ever, WHY CAN'T THEY GET RID OF THE EXCLAMATION MARK.

anyways, in just about 24 hours i will be back in americaaaaaa. yippee!

hello

"A meme consists of any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another."

design is random colors

the desktop of my computer. word.

y'know when you've never heard of something before (a person, a place, an idea, etc...) and then once you hear about it, suddenly it turns up everywhere...

since this past March, when i read a book featuring the Burning Man festival, i have seen the festival mentioned ten or fifteen times on blogs, the internet, pop culture, etc...

weird...

and i wanna go.

Everybody Nose

great video. hipster hiphop.

these are wonderful.

and why does a brain cell look like the universe?

hahaha

"I like looking at weird-ass stuff."

that's pretty amazing. gawker has others.

Previously on Lost.

i would say this is a rather accurate description of Lost since the first episode aired.

.flesruoy morf raf

"Here's a quick list of things that, in the past fifty years, have been considered extremely subversive: smoking, long hair for men, short hair for women, beards, miniskirts, bikinis, heroin, jazz music, rock music, punk music, reggae music, rap music, tattoos, underarm hair, graffiti, surfing, scooters, piercings, skinny ties, not wearing a bra, homosexuality, marijuana, torn clothing, hair gel, mohawks, afros, birth control, postmodernism, plaid pants, organic vegetables, army boots, interracial sex. Nowadays, you can find every item on this list in a typical Britney Spears video (with the possible exception of underarm hair and organic vegetables)."

a few things.

i really like the gawker artists idea. the one above is by a guy named josh billions.

first hour of the lost season 4 finale tomorrow night. wonderful.

4,000 more words to write.

back to the usa in one week.

paris lindsay britney mary-kate and whitney

azulax9: you need two things to write a blog
azulax9: a lot of time
azulax9: and your virginity

this is not a photo opportunity.

this is awesome.

i was just wondering if you might like to sit and talk about the carpet and the ceiling for a while.

the frontman for gym class heroes (travis mccoy) wearing a When Life Gives You Lemons Paint That Shit Gold tshirt. featured on perez. i think i need to get one.

atmosphere played in boston in april and will be in brighton in june. not fair.

The Wackness

can not wait to see this.

haiku

i can not do work
adderall in grams and grams
does not seem to help

waking life

my dream last night was really really really weird. my mother (who is 64 in real life; 65 in dream life) announced to me that she was pregnant. i have been an only child for 21 years...


some of my favorite quotations from Waking Life:

"They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"

"There's only one instant, and it's right now. And it's eternity."

"The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving."

"The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything."

"The more you talk about a person as a social construction or as a confluence of forces or as being fragmented or marginalised, what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses...It's always our decision who we are."


goodbye!

orchid in ice.

"As everyone knows by now, watching Lost is akin to having Damon Lindelof mount a stepladder week in and week out, and proceed to engage in vigorous intercourse with the squishy contents of your skull."
-Gawker


back to america in less than 3 weeks. summer plans include...???
peace outttt

more cool art

made from a single sheet of computer paper.

transparent street signs illusion

"Chicago artist Cayetano Ferrer paints street signs with images of its immediate background, thus giving them the illusion of transparency."

-taken from oddee.com

happy mayday.

Andy Goldsworthy

"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."

america

these are the things i can not wait to get home for:

television
not wearing flipflops in the shower
rice milk
dollar bills
good sushi
my cell phone
tap water
a bed that isn't twin sized
windows with screens
fast internet
sinks with one faucet
my car
a gym that is not at the top of a mountain

i'm sure there are more. don't get me wrong, abroad is amazing...but not quite right.

ta ta for now

trompe l'oeil is cool

?

whatttttttttttttttttttttttt.

after the Visualizer, the Top 25 Most Played feature of itunes is my favorite. it would be my #1 favorite feature but, y'know, the Visualizer is pretty much the best creation on earth. anyways, here's mine:

1. god's bathroom floor- atmosphere
2. modern man's hustle- amosphere
3. if i could- phish
4. body pillow- atmosphere
5. cotton- the mountain goats
6. reflections- atmosphere
7. d'yer mak'er- led zeppelin
8. wading in the velvet sea- phish
9. knockin' on heaven's door- bob dylan
10. mama- strangefolk
11. show stopper- danity kane
12. far from yourself- strangefolk
13. free- phish
14. heavy things- phish
15. the woman with the tattooed hands- atmosphere
16. sunshine- atmosphere
17. adjust- atmosphere
18. sad- strangefolk
19. reelin' in the years- steely dan
20. travel (remix)- atmosphere
21. so rich, so pretty- mickey avalon
22. alaska- strangefolk
23. woman tonight- atmosphere & murs
24. shoes- atmosphere
25. atlantic city- the band

hmm...also, why has this huge furry bumble bee taken up residence right outside my window?

byeeee.

a sweet picture, in my opinion. taken from thecobrasnake.com.

Elevator Video, The New Yorker

worth reading the article accompanying this video: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all

next time i'll take the stairs...

Atmosphere-Shoulda Known

britney save can justin only

the people of berlin know whats up.

new atmosphere album is out in 4 dayyyys. so so so so excited. it will no question be the only thing playing in my car all next semester. word.

reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs

"I entertained myself with the notion that this was what would happen if the Big One hit. Maybe if the Big One hits, I told myself, the world's few remaining survivors will convene in the wastelands in the aftermath, giving rise to a bevy of semiutopian, hedonistic shantytowns characterized by outrageous celebration, massively creative explosions of self-expression, a bartering economy, and a nearly obsessive preoccupation with sex, fire, art, and the finite nature of existence. Maybe the world's new leader will be a nonleading leader, an antiauthoritarian bohemian with a penchant for innovative social theory. Maybe Burning Man is a demonstration of how human beings might handle things in the event that we finally succeed at fucking things up for good, which, as far as I can tell, could happen any day now.

Or maybe not."

-Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

this is sweet:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1609676

i would, yknow, post this video straight onto the blog...that is, if i knew how to post this video straight onto the blog.

i don't think technology is my thing. in fact, i'm posting this from a typewriter. oh, lord.

back

so i am back in brighton after 4 weeks in: hong kong, berlin, zurich, interlaken, venice, florence, rome, athens, mykonos, and eurodisney.

included in those 4 weeks: 2 amusement parks, the berlin wall, hitler's gravesight, the balcony where michael jackson dangled his newborn child, an overnight train with a triple bunkbed, alot of swiss chocolate, cheese fondue, skydiving from 11,000 feet above the swiss alps, watching the dvd of myself skydiving from 11,000 feet above the swiss alps, fight club, oceans 12, a lot of italian food, rabbit pasta, wine, a hotel room with a 25 foot ceiling, several nights of debauchery with wash u people, several hostels with no hot water, 2 pregnancies (turned out they were food babies), the colosseum, ouzo, not being able to figure out the brakes on an ATV, a leopard-like sunburn, and, finally, jasmine & aladdin.

and now i am back in my bed in my little room at sussex. lovely.

jetlag again

hong kong was amazing amazing amazing. i don't really feel like writing more about it right now, maybe another time. i leave again in less than 48 hours for 3 weeks.

on another note, i found this to be quite fitting (though Gawker, and many others, find the site to be useless...wait, did i just blog about a blog about a blog?):

"In addition to accumulating sexual partners, binge drinking, drug use and learning, white people consider studying abroad to be one of the most important parts of a well rounded college education.

Study Abroad allows people to leave their current educational institution and spend a semester or a year in Europe or Australia. Though study abroad are offered to other places, these two are the overwhelming favorites.

By attending school in another country, white people are technically living in another country. This is important as it gives them the opportunity to insert that fact into any sentence they please. 'When I used to live in [insert country], I would always ride the train to school. The people I'd see were inspiring.'

If you need to make up your own study abroad experience, they all pretty much work the same way. You arrived in Australia not knowing anybody, you went out to the bar the first night and made a lot of friends, you had a short relationship with someone from a foreign country, you didn't learn anything, and you acquired a taste for something (local food, beer, fruit). This latter point is important because you will need to be able to tell everyone how it is unavailable in your current country.

It is also important that you understand the study abroad ranking system. Europe/Australia form the base level, then Asia, then South America, and finally the trump card of studying abroad in Tibet. Then there is the conversation killer of studying abroad in Africa. If you studied in Africa, it is usually a good idea to keep it quiet, it will remind white people that they were too scared to go and they will feel bad. Use this only in emergencies."

-stuffwhitepeoplelike

this is where i am, though i'm still not sure how i got here.

where am i...

...and how did i get here...

i was looking at old photographs yesterday, all trapped in the Pictures folder of my computer. it was strange to look at those photos, mostly because of the intense nostalgia i felt. is that a sign of getting older? or is that a sign of not currently being in a nostalgic moment?

either way, that esquire.com "fictional reporting" article on heath ledger was one of the best things about his death that i have read. the irony of it got right to me - a posthumous diary telling us not to speculate, while the whole thing fictionally speculates on non-fiction occurrences.

i want to live in amsterdam and work in a coffeeshop there.

amsterdam

amsterdam tomorrow. tomorrow. tomorrow.

ahh so excited. can not wait to be way inside my head for an extended period of time with people that i enjoy. so happy brookline people will be there too.

other than that, not much else to say. can't figure out why it is so hard to get along with m & d. they are fine people. perhaps it is the triangle shape of our family? three never seems to work.

hm, have to think about that a bit.

okay amsterdam here i come...peace

lost, again.

also one other thing that must be discussed. LOST SEASON 4. so amazing. so good. so intense. so confusing. time discrepencies and ben linus and naomi and ANOTHER EPISODE TODAY. YESSSSSS.

can't sleep. crazy.

hello. it is 9:30am on a friday morning and, amazingly, i am awake. crazy. i am also eating a piece of home-made cheesecake.

hmm lets see. been abroad for almost 2 months. that is crazy. also, 2 days from now will be 1 year. now that is crazy.

what else? i wish i could fall back asleep and i'm sure that if my dvd player worked, i could. i wonder what is wrong with my computer. of course i could take it to the tech center but that would be difficult.

that might be it for now. amsterdam next weekend. crazy.

pace. paz. peace.

Two Questions

"There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?"

It is February Twelve. Ten Fourty P.M. Brighton England.

I would love to write down everything from the scrap of paper next to my bed from a hotel in Madrid. I'm just to lazy to get out of my bed at this moment.

How much do you love me?

Who's in charge?

One.

i just watched the Overprotected video from Britney Spears. i realized that the last time i watched that was probably 3ish years ago. maybe more. and watching it actually, strangely, explained a lot to me. from the time she was 17, Britney Spears became a symbol/icon/tangiblepiece of america. imagine being 17 years old, from kentwood louisiana, and becoming the symbol/icon/tangiblepiece of america. wow. thinking about that fucks up my brain. i feel horribly bad for Britney Spears. buuut i can't stop reading about her.

yo

jetlag- can't sleep.

buuut at least everything is good and i have no class on mondays. worrrrd.

okay so in Lost, the one thing that keeps my mind all boggled is the whole Desmond situation. i mean, clearly there are many things that make my mind hurt when i think about Lost, but Desmond's time travel really gets me...

Desmond lives his life straight through, up to the point of turning the fail safe key. his life then rewinds back to a certain day, and plays through until he gets punched in the bar, when he finally realizes what is happening. but how many times has that same sequence of events happened? see my brain already hurts again.

on another note, which drugs are britney on? which drugs are britney not on? i remember hearing someone once say "you can't get that famous and not have it destroy yourself." i understand that fame destroyed britney spears, but i just don't understand how. do you stop seeing yourself from your own eyes and start seeing yourself strictly through the eyes of others? or do you become so accustomed to having anything you want that you expect that unconditionally? or are you underdeveloped because your life has been completely controlled, yet completely catered toward, since you were 17 years old?

peace out jet lag.

lost

in england.

i miss you. but i think it will be good.

cheerio.