I saw KATIE GLAVIN and CHRISSY SPENCER on New Years Eve. I was hammered but remember giving lots of hugs.

This time next year I will be doing very different things. Like coke and having unprotected sex with strangers, in basements.

One of the best music videos of 2009.

1. Bound for Glory - Woody Guthrie
2. Shock Doctrine - Naomi Kline

I'm an unashamed dirty TV watcher.

Current TV, almost exclusively. It is a relatively new network, with neat programs like infoMania and Vanguard. I like Vanguard the most. Young reporters dispatched around the world, reporting on social justice issues that the major networks know won't make them any money. I have an enormous crush on Adam Yamaguchi and Mariana van Zeller.

Typically, I don't watch TV. Now I often find myself turning it to Current and watching four (!) hours at at time. I have two books sitting on my coffee table, half read, glaring at me anytime I notice them. They're jealous books.

I also watch LOGO. I enjoy Rupaul's Drag Race, as well as PopLab NewNowNext.

These networks have me wishing my life were set to a clubbier version of this. Oh, and to take lots of X.

Look at the world, it's waking up.

Last weekend there was:
-Hahna
-McCoy's Public House
-The Brooksider
-Amazing microbrew
-Blood
-[almost] Hypothermia

This weekend there will be:
-Hahna & Hallie
-The Elders
-Even better beer
-No blood
-Lots of sleeping in
-Chubby's for breakfast

Approaching

How about the feeling when you just finished an amazing book, and you are utterly without the capability of doing anything afterward. Where you walk around your room, kind of fanning your face with your hands (maybe just me), and because of what you just read -you can make anything seem beautiful.

"Well and good.
How to explain, then, that, with his foot actually on the bridge over the creek, George suddenly turns, chuckles to himself, and with the movement of a child wriggling free of a grown-up -- old guardian Cortex -- runs off down the road, laughing, toward the ocean?"

I want to dance on stage with aliens, santa clause, space wo\men, and WayneCoyneWayneCoyneWayneCoyneWayneCoyneWayneCoyne.

Oh, and I really like the NYT One in 8 Million project. Especially this one.

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She makes my truck getting stolen (and slammed into a tree and two parking meters) seem less significant.

Great novel by Christopher Isherwood. Cannot wait.

I am so excited for the positive

effects my actions and attitudes

will have in people's lives.

"Every few seconds,my brother would call my name, to make sure I wasn't left behind. I could hear the sadness in his voice, and each time I answered him, my voice trembled."

"Oh, god. Your heart is beating so fast.

(deep breath in) That's awesome."

OCMS

I have waited too long for them to come to Kansas. I cannot wait. It will be even more fun since Wyatt is going to be there.

I feel like people are losing faith in me.

sad face

I don't think mega-SPRINT CENTER-types of concerts are for me. I like the standing around with a $3 dollar beer at Liberty Hall type of concert (eh hem - Avett Brothers, The Shins). However, hearing "Cold Desert" live probably qualifies as unprotected sex.

Coming Up:
State Radio @ The Bottleneck (Tom.)
Ben Folds @ Liberty Hall
Old Crow Medicine Show @ Liberty Hall

TOP 25 MOST PLAYED

Closer - Kings of Leon
Celebrity Death - Yves Klein Blue
Revelry - Kings of Leon
For My Family - The Devil Makes Three
Fake Empire - The National
The Only Moment We Were Alone - Explosions in the Sky
I Go to the Barn - Band of Horses
Meet me in the City - The Black Keys
Cold Desert - Kings of Leon
Electric Feel - MGMT
No Ones Gonna Love You - Band of Horses
Animal - Miike Snow
Mistaken for Strangers - The National
Make up Your Mind - Yves Klein Blue
The Funeral - Band of Horses
Squalor Victoria - The National
Green Gloves - The National
Badfish - Sublime
Manhattan - Kings of Leon
Brainy - The National
About the Future - Yves Klein Blue
Wake Up - Arcade Fire
The First Song - Band of Horses
When She Believes - Ben Harper
I Want You - Kings of Leon

The Noisettes are my new pleasure.

I am that child with the round, dirty face

who on every corner bothers you with his

"Can you spare a quarter?"

I am that child with the dirty face, no doubt unwanted, that from far away

contemplates coaches where other children emit laughter and jump up and down

considerably

I am that unlikeable child definitely unwanted, with the round dirty face

who before that giant street lights or under the grandams also illuminated

or in front of the little girls

that seem to levitate projects that insult his dirty face

I am that angry and lonely child of always, that throws you the insult and warns you:

if you hypocritically pat me on the head

I would take that opportunity to steal your wallet

I am that child of always before the panorama of imminent terror,

imminent leprosy, imminent fleas, of offenses and the imminent crime.

I am that repulsive child that improvises a bed out of an old cardboard box and waits,

certain that you will accompany me

My Lover the Sea Reinaldo Arenas

J'ai fini

Appreciate

I met my elderly neighbor today while walking down the street on my way to class. She asked me if I lived with "that nice young man Fielding," and if I went to school at OU. Then, I was told I could stop by anytime I like for an apple.

Really, I was expecting a Werther's butterscotch candy.

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"What this generation needs is a score -
because we realize we can all get along but no one is willing to drop their arms.
For our forefathers have made reforms to civil rights and moral law,
but now that fewer are maligned, there's less pushing us over the line.
Oh, we really aint that far -
but somehow none of that matters anymore."

"...and cool kids.. they belong.. together."