i’ve got the monkey vs. robot song stuck in my head.
if you haven’t seen the video, i recommend you watch it.
apparently at&t @home is going to go out of comission at midnight tonight, but supposedly it doesn’t affect me. so if there aren’t any posts for a while, you’ll know why. here is the article.
why don’t girls make sense?
why when i thought i found one that made sense did she stop making sense?
why does everything come down to math with me?
why don’t i just go to sleep?
did i do anything today?
can taking nyquil when you aren’t sick make you sick for real?
will i remember this moment?
is there a way to keep it?
why would i want to remember this?
are things getting better or worse?
what if this is the peak and i wish i remembered what it felt like?
what if this is as low as i will ever feel and i wish that i forgot that feeling?
what if people think this is a cry for help or something?
how old is that book?
is the metal that pressed it’s text into the pages still around?
has it melted into rock on some island?
is the grass green there?
are the rocks sharp?
they probably are.
“welcome to art class.. yes it does involve shaking your ass.. why so serious when life is the art that you make?”
-superchunk
oh and by the way, naz’s photo site (which if you haven’t seen by the way, SEE IT) got linked by kiiroi and infourm. big ups.
reviews of videos by bands that i like that are or are soon going to be on mtv:
jimmy eat world - the middle
well shot, good lighting. too bad the moral sucks. so you don’t have to walk around in your underwear to fit in. sounds like a good excuse to put lots of skinny people in their underwear walking around to me. aka take your eye away from a not so attractive band. it’s hypocritical to show an image of people getting dressed at the end of a video about people in their underwear. if you’re going to be sensational, you might as well go all the way. left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
saves the day - at your funeral
good song, good video. too bad they put chris in front of a blue screen and now the video is just whatever is behind him. i don’t know about you, but i don’t want to stare at chris from saves the day unless he’s on stage, he’s got a microphone in front of his face and he’s dancing. then i’m impressed. in this video, there is way way way too much of him. i do like the story being told in the background except for the fact that 4/5 of the video gets to about the age of 20, leaving 1/5 of the video for the guy in the background to get married then die. perhaps they should have just ended it at around 20 instead of rushing a completion. like the kid moves out. new people move in the end. i would have like it better.
alkaline trio - stupid kid
great song, good video. i like it. kid gets laughed at by the class, likes his teacher, get’s rejected, turns into the devil. classic alkaline trio.
weezer - island in the sun
quite possibly the greatest video ever made. spike jonze is the man!
the white stripes - hotel yorba
i like this band. i think it’s cool to only wear red and white especially if it’s two people only wearing red and white and when all your artwork is only red and white. since i’m mostly commenting on videos, yes it’s good.
gorrillaz - 19-2000
i shouldn’t have to tell you. you should already know any videos the gorillaz put out are going to be excellent.
all of these can be seen on mtv.com i think. as a comedic aside, it looks like marilyn manson is now covering tainted love just because he couldn’t think of anything else to do. remember the time he covered sweet dreams? oh yeah, me too. apparently the not another teen movie (which WILL suck) has a bunch of 80’s covers (which will ALSO suck).
written in the sand page coming soon.
so, taking nyquil to sleep is going to guarantee a good 14 hours of sleep. next time i have to remember to take that stuff earlier.
according to my mom i’m depressed. i’ve lost weight and i sleep all day. i’m pretty sure i haven’t lost weight, but if i have it’s because you can’t eat and sleep at the same time, and when i am awake there is no way to leave and no fucking food in this house. as for sleeping, when you wake up and think, hmm what do i have to do today, nothing? then you might as well go back to sleep. i guess not shaving and hanging out in my room with the lights off doesn’t help the depressed theory either. i’m trying to grow a beard! a patchy, one side of the face beard! oh yeah.
if we had a dvd player here i could at least get out of bed and watch movies. but no. not even decent cable. and i can only surf the web for so many hours a day. there have been a lot of cutbacks around here since i left. things i never would have allowed. every time i complain though, my dad comes at me with “college!” which is probobly true. so i’ll stop complaining. but then maybe they should stop complaining about me sleeping all day.
speaking of annoying things about being home my mom has a bad habit of coming in my room to ask me something then just standing there. of course it looks like i’m doing nothing because i always minimize everything, and then she just stands there waiting for me to do something. i’m sitting here waiting for her to leave. sometimes it takes a while.
finally got a counter working. i do get a hit every once and a while. that’s sort of encouraging. i guess it’s probobly all people who if i knew they were coming i wouldn’t be surprised but when it’s masked as something like 120.239.12.145 then it’s easier to assume it’s a stranger.
bob wanted me to link this. it’s more about him than me, however i guess it is sort of about me right now. the loafers manifesto.
updated the links. more updates on that coming, i spent a long time just cleaning up the html.. i really let that part of the page go. argh.
just downed some nyquil. time to pass out.
i’m eating doritos. just a normal every day thing.. and i go to the bathroom. in the bathroom i happen to look in the mirror. my lips are bright blue. my tongue is brighter blue and looking down i notice that my fingers are blue too. i go back to the bag of doritos. they are definitly orange. i lick one. the cheese turns into blue ink. ink. not very appetizing.
so things start to return to normalcy. feelings do. i’m not mad. i’m less confused. i’m not that depressed. i feel better.
at least things are almost as normal as they can be on a six week break with nothing to do. sleep in, eat poorly, listen to music. i’m glad i have friends who are on break too. christmas break that is. hm.
friends are good. i hadn’t been to the movies in a long long time. we went to the movies for a two for one, run across the hall discount. monsters inc was a good movie. out cold had potential that it did not meet. definitely did not meet. it did have some tight snowboarding, i can appreciate that. but it was still very weak. and you had the feeling that everyone in it was aware of it too. kind of sad in a way. some funny parts, but i wouldn’t recommend it. if you couldn’t tell from the preview. but yeah, monsters, inc was great. i think pixar really does do everything right. i love the toy story movies too. hey, what can i say.
as for the cam picture, throwing up the middle finger just seems like the thing to do when you’re wearing a mesh las vegas hat.
on another note, get notes by dave. i mentioned it before, but since then i’ve used this little thing 10,000 times. it’s so good. so efficient. everything you could want on your taskbar and more!
also, the site as a whole should be working better, i’ve recoded all the pages and fixed stuff that was annoying me. search works better, feedback works better, titles are accurate, the page is css now, everything looks less lame, etc. should have done all that stuff a long time ago. now it’s time for some content. just kidding.
six week break why are you so damn long!