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ok jesus, finally back in business... it's been like a month seriously, a month since i've had an internet connection at home. I blame verizon. Upon their many inadequacies of recent memory, i think my favorite was when instead of mailing me a new modem (the old one was broken) they mailed me an empty envelope. Followup calls with them revealed that their order was actually to mail me, via next day air, a piece of paper. That is what they typed into the computer. Then someone got the order and said 'gee, a piece of paper. better hurry up and next day air this!" monkeys, all of them.
so i guess there's a fair amount to talk about from the last month or so, but it won't be tonight, because it's 11pm and what I do now is go to sleep at 11. I think it's respectable. or amazingly lame, i haven't quite decided yet.
gotten many new cds, The best of which is certainly the new pretty girls make graves. What i'd like is to be andrea zollo's bitch. because really, there's no way that relationship could work if i was anything but her bitch, but i'm down with that, because she's a rocking chick.
i should probably get back on the job search horse now that i can't use the "i have no home internet" excuse. i should also call this girl who was out with us (the edmonds 830 crowd minus the roommettes crowd) on friday, but i'm happy to use the "she has a boyfriend... in delaware" excuse for pretty much as long as I live.
I still manage to get out no and then, mostly with tony and that group. They moved down to harvard ave by all the allston bars, it's like 3 t stops down and a 10 or 15 minute walk, it's pretty nice. we have monday poker night. two fridays ago i was down there and partied like a fucking rock star like i haven't in a long long while. It was cute, end of the night like 4 of us were up, wasted in all sorts of ways and jumping off furniture playing air guitar to the yeah yeah yeahs. heh. then last friday was fairly rockstarish also, all the old school kids were up for the BC Miami game and we went down to sissy k's at like 7 where they had, gasp, dollar drafts. then we made it to somerville and apparantly left at like 5 or 6am. i spent the better part of the night talking with the above mentioned girl, who i either need to call this week and get the awkwardness out of the way or move on to pursuing andrea zollo bitchdom full time.
Man, what a bummer, just popped in the new Her Space Holiday CD, and it appears that HSH boy and cute HSH girl have split. Their gimmick was that they were in love or whatever, and all of the songs he wrote were about her. One of the tracks on the last CD was an edited phone conversation with his friend about how that's kinda weird, to be in a band and write and sing all your songs about the other member in the band. And now i'm just confused, mainly by the lyrics on this new disc. Either Mark has learned the finer points of writing songs from not his own experience, or, my guess since nearly every song is liberally salted with references to sex with new girls, ex girlfriend, breakups, loneliness, moving on, etc., that they're done. Could be a giant press move ala the white stripes, but who knows. Either way i'm down with this album, it's got a much more pop-song oriented structure than the last record.
Also, new mates of state is nice. The girl is really cute and i'm angry that that nerdy drummer dude is like totally in love with her and they sing great harmony and write nice songs. but that record is good too. I forget what else i've bought recently. New Beulah: great. New Spiritualized: ok. Elvis Costello reissue of Trust: rad. prefuse 73 ep: rad. New Decemberists: super. New enon: not sure yet, surely it's no high society. new iron and wine ep: gorgeous. can't think of anything else at the moment.
I got new glasses. THey're pretty rad. Sort of retro with plastic and hard lines. Now i just need a new wardrobe to go with them.... it's a work in progress i suppose.
damn, 11:35, been doing this crap for 40 minutes. see, i liked it better when i had no internet, i'd be asleep now.
Katie and i saw to be and to have tonight, a french documentary about this amazingly patient and awesome schoolteacher and all his cute kids and it was night. Tomorrow we're going to the red sox game and i guess it's a big game and i think our seats are nice. I'm mainly looking forward to a hot dog and beer. Hmm, i guess if they win tomorrow they clinch a playoff spot. that's cool i guess. but whether they win or lose there will be hot dogs and beer.
ok album is over, i gotta go now.