| Monday, February 27, 2006 |
| transport is arranged |
currently playing:
"life and death of an american fourtracker"
by john vanderslice oh, but i'm a sleepy one. just a couple of things worth noting, and then i'm off to bed. first, and most awesomely, julie has heard back from two of the graduate schools she applied to, and she got into both! first she heard back from the university of texas' lbj school of public affairs, and then just a couple of days ago she got the news from brown university's taubman center for public policy. i am so so proud of you, sweetheart.
second, i'll be coming home for spring break in 18 days! seriously, it's so strange how much i miss the mexican food when i'm away. but i'd really like to make a point to spend some time with you people, so mark your calendars.
i'm still working on more demos (there's a new one up there, if you haven't noticed) and figuring out arrangements and all that. i'm getting anxious to be recording and playing for real, though. i've been thinking that i might try to setup some acoustic shows around here, though i'm not sure how many places there are to play.
okay, goodnight, podners. |
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| Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| the wake of all that's past |
currently playing:
"the albemarle sound"
by the ladybug transistor so i was sitting on the bus stop bench yesterday afternoon, waiting to be picked up to go to class, when a woman sat down next to me and started to light a cigarette. she asked me if i smoke, and when i said no, she asked if it would bother me if she did. it has been a long time since someone asked me that, and to be honest, her courtesy took me a little by surprise.
i have never been a person particularly interested in having casual friends, because i tend to emotionally invest myself pretty heavily in the people i care about. for the last couple of years i was in austin, i was a part of a group of people that meant the world to me, whether they were aware of it or not. these were genuinely talented and good people, and i loved them dearly.
thinking about the time i spent with them, however, i realize now that it was rarely more than superficial hanging-out. i had an uncanny amount in common with them in terms of our musical tastes, but even now i don't know much about what they care about or what makes them tick.
the only times when we ever really talked about anything that mattered were the semi-hourly trips onto the porch when they would all have a cigarette, but each of those was only a few minutes' break from playing video games or watching sports. so now, due to the benefit of hindsight and a good deal of reflection upon the events of the last year, i have become painfully aware that i didn't matter that much to the people i considered some of my best friends.
so now i'm in a weird spot, because i don't love these people any less than i did before, but i know that they don't really care about me. and there's not really anything i can do but accept it and move on. i hope their lives are good to them and that they are able to find what they're looking for.
so when she asked if her cigarette would bother me, i said no. secondhand smoke reminds me of being with my old friends, and while i wish those days didn't have to end, i feel lucky to have gotten to be a part of them at all. |
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| Thursday, February 09, 2006 |
| oh! you pretty things |
currently playing:
"clap your hands say yeah!"
by clap your hands say yeah! hey partypeople. i know it's been a mighty long time since my last post, but i'm coming back with a vengeance. i spent entirely too much time revamping this blog yesterday, but i'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
so let's see, christmas was awesome, skiing was excellent, and austin was perfect. i couldn't really have asked for much more (other than to get to stay longer). now i'm back in amherst, and everything is a little weird because almost everyone i know is studying abroad this semester. so school is pretty much all i do. i've been recording some more demos, some of which may be making it to the myspace page soon. i can't believe how excited i am about this recording.
so, yeah, that's all i've really got right now. here are the courses i'm taking this semester for anyone who might be curious:
comm 297k: rhetoric and public culture
comm 387: advertising and public relations as social control
polisci 255: american foreign policy
polisci 361: civil liberties
polisci 496: black politics (independent study) oh, and everyone should go out and pick up the new ink and early tapes EPs. a couple of tasty biscuits indeed.
and i miss julie a lot. <3 |
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