Can I Be Spunky Too?

12:45:00 AM liveandletdie415: well ill start calling you...
12:45:43 AM bestshotdespite: now this should be good :)
12:45:58 AM liveandletdie415: so i go to urban dictionary
12:46:47 AM liveandletdie415: and a connie is a gentle way of saying vagina. a condom in the UK. a term to talk about cocaine like mary jane for pot. and a large breasted fat guy with awesome glasses and a hot mom.
12:47:00 AM liveandletdie415: and im not gonna call you any of those.
12:47:11 AM bestshotdespite: ahhahahahahahhahahahahhahaha
12:47:18 AM bestshotdespite: oh thats going in the blog, my friend
12:47:36 AM liveandletdie415: Julia - a name for girls. Most julia's are artistic, smart, romantic, beautiful and also very charming. Julia's can get whatever they want if they try. They can be very sexy so watch out! They are romantics and love old movies, art and books. they love old stuff! They usually aren't very athletic but if a julia is athletic she's kick butt! they have great fashion sense and usually look smokin'. A julia will most likely become a mother because they love kids. They are very successful in life and there is just something about them that draws people in. Also they are ah-mazing dancers!

Brand New (sigh)

Last night, Nathan Lint and I had an AIM conversation that could only be described as epic (in e-terms). It at least lasted for an hour and I learned that 1) he likes Deja Entendu probably just as much as me and 2) Deja Entendu means just as much to him as it does to me. The only person that can equate to this sort of passion and obsession would be Roommate (of course), and even then I don't think she would ever get a lyric tattooed on her body. But Lint wants a Brand New tattoo like me, and for that reason, I'm thinking it might not be such a bad idea. I've spent hours and hours thinking about what new sketch will be forever inked into my skin and Brand New had always been the frontrunner. I've just never had the balls, or the tough skin, to endure the possibility of looking lame. Pulling off a song lyric is almost as difficult as pulling off any band formed after the early 90's.

Right now, I'm watching Seinfeld, wishing I could talk to Coran, and getting all excited about Warped Tour. Roommate and I will chase speeding cars (like kings) for three dates this year (in this order) - Virginia Beach, Baltimore, and Scranton. I guess you could call this our first real touring experience. Which it is. Which is why I am so excited. Which is another reason why I will sweat until I have a solid and satisfying career in the music industry. If I've learned anything about myself, it's that I don't so well with things that I don't want to do. Perhaps this is why Roommate and I met with Chris and Emily tonight. New projects are very much on the horizon; now if we could only come up with a name.

I'm not saying I could ever leave anything behind. I am a girl who believe in memories and rehashing them fondly, but I do know that time expires along with other things. Maybe I sound like a middle-aged working women, but what I'm doing now is only a small fraction of what I will be doing later in life. I'm OK with moving on. It's something I've been working on as of late, and I think I'm getting a lot better at it.

Listen to Mobile.

Weatherboxes, Mountains and Rivers

I'm typing up this Weatherbox interview, and I think Brian may have been stoned when he wrote it. I'd really love to see this band. And I just finished a review for Blue Skies For Black Hearts (Love Is Not Enough). It's comfortably one of the best albums I've heard this year. Anhedonia is still there, but that's also because roommate and I caught the Grads as they were passing through Baltimore. And I still haven't tried Resurrection.

I feel changes coming around the next corner, and I'm excited to see where this will all lead. And it's pretty scary thinking that I'm a grown-up with grown-up ideas - like a random-ish road trip to Cincinnati.

Look the mix below and collect it. I'm listening to it right now and it's a winner.

Lots and Lots of Dead Bodies

I whipped up a new mix. And this afternoon I saw Bodies: The Exhibition. It's easily one of the neater and more intersting things I've browsed in a cold dark gallery. And one of the select times when I've actually read all the display supplements. Big deal, guys.

I can never make up my mind about concept albums. I've liked tracks from a concept album, and I've loved tracks from a concept album, but I've never loved a concept album. Of all my top favorites, I just don't think there's been any room for obscure ideas and sleeves as maps. When a band gets it in their pretty heads to conjure up a connection between jellyfish and the underworkings of fatherly love, I rarely follow. Or barely hold on. And when I make my self-satisfying mixed CD's, it's even harder to include a song from a concept album. I'm either going to give you less for your download or complicate myself trying to choose just one. Everyone knows that a mixed cd is more a less a representation of the best of an album, ep or live recording. A concept album is just too much pressue, and making a good mixed CD is pressure enough.

Please judge me now.

Dirty Pretty Things - Wondering (Tavern Version) - Bang Bang You're Dead
Matt Pond PA - If You Want Blood - If You Want Blood EP
Arctic Monkeys - Flourecent Adolecent - Your Favourite Worst Nightmare
The Dear Hunter - Smiling Swine - Act II: The Meaning Of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
Piebald - Put Your Slippers On Instead - All Ears, All Eyes, All The Time
My American Heart - Speak Low If You Speak Love - Hiding Inside the Horrible Weather
The Jealous Sound - Quiet Life - The Jealous Sound EP
The Graduate - Justified - Horror Show EP
The Honorary Title - Apologize - Scream And Light Up The Sky
Ted Leo - Six Months In A Leaky Boat - Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead
Cold War Kids - Tell Me In The Morning - Robbers And Cowards
Everybody Else - I Gotta Run - Everybody Else
Weatherbox - The Drugs - American Art
Call It Arson - Eliza - The Animal Strings Album
Modest Mouse - Florida - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Styrofoam - Couches In Alleys (feat. Ben Gibbard) - Nothing's Lost
Styrofoam - Front to Back (feat. Andrew Kenny) - Nothing's Lost
Jenoah - Southern Breathing Dreams - demos
Adelphi - Sir-Chops-A-Lot - demos
Mates of State - So Many Ways - Bring It Back
Jimmy Eat World - A Sunday - Modified Arts Show 12.27.01
Bright Eyes - Sunrise, Sunset - Fevers & Mirrors
Laymen Terms - Mrs. Allyson - Drive to Nowhere: Verity's Novel
A Radio With Guts - Another Night in the House of Suicide - Beat Heart Sweet Stereo

You're A Spunky Girl

Lady Radiator, Youth Group, The Channels, and "The D in Detriot" by The Anniversary.

Roommate and I are watching Running With Scissors, but I never finished the book. Today is a mind-numbing day - but in a good way. A result of a strange turning of events. Oh, last night. I don't quite know how to process you.

RANDOM -
I used to drive my mom's minivan, a cardinal red box that shook with archaic charm - especially if you pushed it over 80. I loved that hunk of chug and metal and not just because it provided a big backseat and plenty of seatbelts for my friends. I loved that minivan because, from 16 and on, it was more than a vehicle of transportation. It was holy chariot of booming tunes and hopeful lyricism. Everything seemed a bit more significant, a bit more poignant, and a whole lot more romantic behind the dashboard. In that minivan, I heard Deja Entendu for the first and breathless time. In that minivan, the symbols crashed and the bass thunked in grain with the wheels along weathered blacktop. All in that car, in that bubble, in that stereo of sound, I created a world of understanding, appreciation and respect for music that would stick with me from state line to new city, old city to new room, and lastly, new car.