i like christmas.

i thought the snow would be gone by now. ridiculous. kind of pretty, though.

you need a laser, not an ambulance.

truly, may that be said of all of us.

oh playstation

ain't i been good to you? didn't i treat you right? and now you're telling me you don't want to play games anymore and i gotta fix your disc drive?

i guess i'm just going to open it up and listen to "ambulance" until i figure it out.

even so

"i know this won't solve my problems" by add music.

bummertown

our flight got canceled! i was really looking forward to riding around on a train through the mountains with heather. oh well.

i hope your wedding goes well brandon.

on a more positive note, the most adorable thing of all time.

i had a dream about a song, and when i woke up i jumped out of bed and grabbed my moleskine and wrote it down really quick.

except, i don't know how to write down sheet music proper, so i kind of just made marks roughly indicating how high the note was. and i did it in the dark, so none of the lines are really where i thought they would be. and i'm not really any good at making music anyways. and i think that's one imaginary song that's just going to have to be lost in the sands of time.

i think you'll understand

you know what? "i wanna hold your hand" is a really great song. i think i kind of took it for granted until recently 'cause it's one of those songs that everybody knows, and it's so simple, but the first line of the chorus just blows my mind. it's so pure, or raw, or something. i probably sound really pretentious, but it really just hit me again today. maybe it's a simple song, but i think it's something that resonates with everybody.

and it sounds really good, too.

i don't think i'm ready for my friends to start getting married.

this week i re-imported, like, forty CDs that had dropped out of my music collection after a hard drive crash. in addition to realizing i have like twelve CDs from mush records that i don't even remember, i became obsessed with "post" by björk and listened to it like five times in a row, and then i found this cover of "possibly maybe" by owen pallett (née final fantasy) and ed droste.



i don't think it's quite as good as the original, and i don't know who ed droste is, but i kind of have a crush on owen pallett, so it gets a pass!

today i ate something called a "pizza burger". i ordered it just because of the name, and it lived up to its title more than i possibly imagined it ever could. i don't know what i was expecting?

if i was a female gamer, i think i would be vaguely irritated by all the game makers trying to figure out how to cater to a female audience.

and it always seems kind of offensive when people say "urban music".

or maybe it's just me?

and you will move onto other rooms

i think this is probably my favorite why? song. i can't exactly explain it, but something about the first verse always makes me feel sad and happy and anxious and wonderful.
"Then the wedding, then the woman passed out in the driver's seat at the orderboard at White Castle. We woke her up and she went 'round to the pick-up window like she knew exactly where she was."
that's not really, like, a deep insight about anything, that's just something that happened. maybe that's why it seems so sweet to me? the video is really, really beautiful, too.

on a different sort of note, kazuki tomokawa. i guess that blogotheque website does these things called take away shows, where they get a band to play a song outside of a traditional concert setting. i really like throw me the statue's cover of guided by voice's "my valuable hunting knife", and man man's "skin tension", and of course they have the shins and stuff. but anyways... kazuki tomokawa. randy showed this video to me, and the intensity blows me away. it's so fragile and some fierce at the same time. really captivating, i think... i need to hear some studio stuff.

Kazuki Tomokawa - A Take Away Show #98 - Part 3 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

i want to hear all the music in the world and then i want to play it for you.

okay.

i finally saw it.

yeah, still haven't watched it

all when i want to keep white roses in their eyes

here's a painting i did of dolly haas for my friend abe.



this flickr stream really gives me my life. film cards are cool.

i can't believe i still haven't watched breakfast at tiffany's.

oh, clara!

mt. kurama

i saw an old buddhist tour guide on the travel channel say "i do this to make me more pure at heart". it was a nice thing to say.

summary

i had a really, really good month, and then a really, really hard month. maybe the hardest. then i had a pretty good month, but the end was kind of busy. ¡life!

there are people who i haven't seen in a while, and i wish i was still friends with those people. it'd be nice, you know? to talk again. maybe just an afternoon and then i'd be good for another five to ten years. maybe not?

possibly the prettiest thing i've ever seen, ever

wow