Even when you then cross it out.

1 - I'm really happy that Lost is back on.
2 - I ran a red light in front of a cop today and nothing happened.
3 - Now that I don't go to American Music out here anymore, I find myself wondering after going to the other three music stores here: Does anyone actually ever buy those ugly celestial paisley guitar straps?! How can there be not a single suitable guitar strap in three music stores?! (And yes, this does mean I am officially making guitar straps again. I'll let you know when they go up for sale and this time I'm making them from scratch out of higher quality materials, suckaz!)
4 - While I'm ranting about music stores, I think Mills Music's idea of a "MASSIVE GUITAR & BASS AMP SALE" (imagine my eyes widening as I drove up) is hilarious considering that they carry approximately six amplifiers in the store (imagine my heart sinking as I walked in), all of the bedroom practice variety (that is, tiny and maybe 20 watts if you're lucky).
5 - Last of the music store rants for today: When your store's bass specialist is recommending to me what Tall Chris refers to as "basses that look like a diseased penis" to play loud rock music, I stop trusting his taste in amplifiers. And besides, I don't think I want the sportscar. Those aren't any more versatile than the freight train. I want the freight train!
6 - My life is full of girls lately between the video, cosmetology school and the new band. It's like I'm making up for all that time I didn't know how to hang out with girls. It's kind of cool.
7 - Gratitude for being friends with a good handful of great dudes completely and definitely outweighs disappointment from that built-in want that still doesn't get fed.
8 - About that video, it's making me remember how much I love busking.
9 - About that new band, playing good music loud with Meghan and Valerie is probably my favorite thing since the best day/night I've ever had (the one when I drove home afterwards thinking I'd die in a car crash because I was too happy to still be alive).
10 - I'm busy enough now that even three-day weekends aren't enough time to get everything done that should be getting done over the weekend. Shit.

Only dumb boys think I'm clever.

WTF, estrogen, WTF?! Weirdest PMS ever! I've felt like a cartoon character all day!

Today's dumb story is about how this guy selling me a bass kept trying to ask me out and I still don't know how to be dishonest or mean so now the ghost of guitar wankers past might show up at KTUB later. Shit. Meanwhile, I drove home with my new bass wanting to cry and take, like, 10 showers because I only like one boy, and until I get to yell the specifics of that from an internet hilltop without it being weird, I can at least yell that it's not the longhaired dude in the leather vest and white collared shirt. I had really good self esteem until only gross dudes ever showed any interest, just like I liked the word beautiful until only pervy dudes ever used it.

The night got better, though. Prattular made me laugh a ton and then I bought a Slurpee in Iron Man's helmet and played Final Fantasy. I've basically been laughing all night and I'm finally tired. I'm also doing a terrible job gearing up for being on a grown-up's schedule. I'll have to work on that.

I like to eat Cheerios.

Nerds go here and scroll down. How did I not hear about this until a month later? Take a ch-chance.

I really like Bellingham quite a lot. I played a show there the other night and it was fun. There were nice people, and for some reason Aaron at Fantasia was like, "Can you play for an hour?" and I was like, "Sure!" I've never played an hour-long set before. I have more than enough songs to, it's just that I've never done it. The occasion's never come up. I slept well afterwards. Oh, and beforehand at the open mic, Valerie tap danced and played ukulele and sang and it was pretty much the greatest thing ever.

I'm playing another acoustic show on Wednesday, and I really hope people come to it, 'cause I love when there are people at the shows. Otherwise it's awkward, y'know? Plus, Lesli Wood and Like Claws! will be playing music too!

And then Friday Shook Ones and Like Claws! are at KTUB! YAY!

Looks like there won't be a California trek before classes start for me, but I still feel like going somewhere all the time. I almost want to make an extra resolution for 2008, though, about not traveling alone for a little while. I feel like I've done so much of it that I don't even know what it's like to be with people anymore... Let's go on adventures!

I still want to ask.

First of all, this is the news (and it's not even April Fools Day):

For a span of six dates this coming June, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists will temporarily leave behind a trail of intimate clubs and humid festival grounds to rock a different crowd as the opener for Pearl Jam.

There's a part of me making some major considerations about the price of airfare and Madison Square Garden tickets.

Not news: For years I thought the concept of a fish taco was gross. While I am one of those vegetarians who will sometimes eat things that come from the ocean and it's in my blood to enjoy some of it, fish tacos sounded like a really bad idea that I didn't realize actually existed until after moving to this coast. Yesterday, I thought I'd give it a go. I was making most decisions based on eenie-meenie-miney-mo, and that's what it landed on.

...It was not a good idea.

But a few good things:

+ Finding the "THANKS FOR THE ASS IN BED" sign I thought I lost! (I think it's a sign.)
+ Cutting off even more of my hair, ditching the pink, donning the Snow White headband
+ Leo, just in general
+ Hoping that the sweet $10 hi-tops I saw yesterday are still there today waiting for me to buy them

Tonight has way too many options including but not limited to:

Tennis Pro cd release @ King Cobra
Besties and half of BOAT @ Stickman Coffee
Megasapien @ Ground Zero
recording

It's around my neck.

Anyone miss seeing Racetrack play shows the way I miss seeing Racetrack play shows? That's what I thought. Lucky for us, I just dug this and this up and out of the depths of my computer.

Latest kicks:

+ Gatorade AM, specifically the orange-strawberry flavour
+ Original-style E.L. Fudge cookies
+ Season 3 of Lost
+ Sewing
+ Basil not-beef as made by my mother
+ The bracelet I just made

Ten gerbera daisies, three Orangina bottles.

I spent my weekend laying low despite the fact that I meant to be in attendance at at least three different parties. Why? Oh yeah, because I'm a poor judge of how healed I am and also terribly clumsy. See also: hurting oneself while trying to set up a Sega Genesis. Growlies. Sorry friends.

In better news, though, I'm officially counted in for one of each color of these:


Kool Aid and Shooks, together at last! YES! (And by YES! I mean OH YEAH!) If you want it, come and get it here.

Blood fountains.

So, getting my teeth out wasn't so bad, actually. I was prepared for it to take hours, but I didn't even get all the way through Shake the Sheets. Any time I started freaking out at the bloody reflection in the dentist's safety goggles as he held my chin down and, literally, yanked really hard, I had to keep from smiling. I'm not some weird pain kid, I just had good thoughts in my head. I tried the Vicodin and didn't like it much, so it's pretty much just been antibiotics and the first season of Lost over here.

Hey, who wants to tell me what their favorite music videos are?!