Holy crap having a roommate is awesome.

- Kelley, what would you like for breakfast?
- Ummm I don't usually eat breakfast because that involves cooking of some sort.
- Well how about strawberry pancakes and some Irish coffee to go with it? We'll make this a Saturday tradition.

bottles of reasons i kept in the freezer

The Alamo Drafthouse has slowly begun to resurface in other parts of Texas under more pretentious terms, most recently in Colleyville. Here you can buy fancy wine by the bottle which is exactly what my sister, brother in law, and I did to make it through Barnyard- a children's movie with the moral centered around Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down."

Now I'm back home roommateless at the moment and sick so I can sit around feeling sorry for myself and my kitten who is still recovering from eight hours holed up in the bathroom wall.

later kids

ben kweller, wilco, my morning jacket, thievery corporation, sonic youth, broken social scene, ween, of montreal, nada surf, matisyahu, the frames, built to spill, matt costa, the shins, manu chao, violent femmes, flaming lips, secret machines...

so i'm doing what anyone would do- roadtrip to chi-town.

followed by sufjan stevens and rolling stones in austin this fall.

23 shots in the middle of the day in a suburban neighborhood and next door to our assistant principal if my memory does not fail me. Yet somehow it took three years to find some little girl from my high school and the loser she hung around is still frolicking through South Carolina. The local paper still calls my house for some comment or opinion I don't even possess and if I did they wouldn't be the first to know. I am well aware though that my stance on the death penalty is about to be put to the ultimate test.
And in typical Clear Lake fashion her parents have hired the Enron lawyer to help her out of this debacle.

And to think this person votes.

awesome

"I did insult him [Zidane] , it's true, but I categorically did not call him a terrorist. I'm not cultured and I don't even know what an Islamic terrorist is."

- Marco Materazzi about the head-butt the world can't stop discussing

add it up

Rhetoric of Pop Music assignment number 1: everyone in the class make a mix CD that describes yourself, put in box, chose another's at random, and somehow write 10 pages about it. Later you get to read the person's take on your mix. Received mine today and didn't really feel like reading it until this from the first paragraph caught my eye:

This was intriguing to me because as I listened to his/her mix I got the feeling during most of the songs that I was smoking something or in a different world, really calm and tranquil. Not to offend the composer at all if this was not the intention, but I felt that this CD would be one that someone would listen to while getting high.

And it only got better from there. Well as long as I can provide someone's soundtrack for the summer, I feel like I'm doing my part for my fellow classmates.

So schoene hell

Revelation 13:18 If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.

The fear of the number 666 is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.

What I would give to be in some place like Hell, Michigan on 6-6-6. Actually hanging out with a bunch of Catholics in the Vatican might be far more interesting.

I bet our ingenious and concerned politicians will make a few connections with tomorrow and this pressing gay marriage issue. Seriously the 8 trillion dollar debt and Iraq can wait, I am going to lose some sleep if we don't solve this whole gay marriage jazz.

The unbearable lightness

May '03: little high school kid/marathon. ambition took over.

May '04: Venice/Rome/Paris/London. curiosity took over.

May '05: Italy/Freiburg/Istanbul/Bulgaria/Koln/London. Kerouac took over.

May '06: restlessness takes over.

Quit both jobs, school is out. It's time to get the hell out of here.

Don't think twice,

it's all right.

I never want to see a petition for the rest of my life. I have come to the conclusion that why I can't stand this state has nothing to do with tumbleweed, the weather, the government, the accents, nor the ridiculous hats. It is because of the people that write USA for county of residence, 2006 for their year of birth, or their driver's license number for their voter ID number. It is because of people that swear they are registered to vote in this state and then write down their Canadian address and the people that swear they did not vote in the primaries and then put an asterisk next to their name alerting us that they voted in the March primaries. I think from now on I am strictly pursuing the field of biology. I'll work with plants or bacteria or something where human contact is unnecessary.