November 17, 2005
My ipod's getting fixed, and within a week or so, it'll be coming back to me, fully functional (hopefully). Rejoice, rejoice! Here's what I'm listening to on cd for now:

THEL EQUO


"Give It" - X-Press 2
"So Begins Our Alabee" - Of Montreal
"Toxic" - Nickel Creek
"Venice Is Sinking" - Pulaski Heights
"Hotel" - Broken Social Scene
"Doing Something Wrong" - Magnolia Electric Co.
"Tokyo" - Headlights
"You're Learning" - Paul Kelly
"Series of Near Misses" - Coach Said Not To
"Publish My Love" - Rogue Wave
"Resurrection Song" - Birdmonster
"I Wonder" - the Willowz
"Hey Now Now" - the Cloud Room
"Hung Up" - Madonna
Breakdown" - Handsome Boy Modeling School
"Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" - Tavares
"Hey Boy" - the Blow
"Music U Want 2 Dance 2" - Alexander Alexander
"Off the Record" - My Morning Jacket
"A Bierra Mar" - Ive Mendes
"Crazy" - Patsy Cline
"Beat the Bush" - Alter Ego

HAHA BTW, Daniel Radcliffe has good taste. HAHA

Poor Rupert, though. Even though he's keepin' it straight street, he's not as indie as Daniel. HAHA whatever.
Music: Music Is Happiness - the Octopus Project

November 12, 2005
So Jake Gyllenhaal marathon was fine. We really could have just watched the Good Girl instead of Moonlight Mile. Nah, eitherway his hair was hideous in both. Someone needs to patch things up with his hairdresses; they can't continue fighting like this.

In our bathroom, there's a framed poster of a clown with text that says "I Just Love Kids" with the "S's" and the "E's" written backwards to be funny and cute, I guess. It scares the poop out of me. I wanted to tell my mom to take it down, but I've put it off so long it's been up for 7 years. It's next to a close up poster of a cartoon dog from 101 Dalmations. I think my mom wanted to scar her children. I had a matching Cruella DeVille poster in my room until I took it down and threw it away 5 years ago without telling anyone.

So, the LIST:
Brokeback Mountain
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Family Stone
Pride and Prejudice
Harry Potta (I guess...)
Munich
The Producers

Final Fantasy XII (YESS)
Zelda (HAHAH YESSS)


So I got retainers, and I'm NEVER going to eat in public again. Or talk. They're taking a hold of my LIFE. Gahd I need some Simple Plan and Lindsey Lohan. They understand what I'm going through. Right? Right?! HAHA

Solid.
Music: Bicycle Built for Two by Nat King Cole

September 6, 2005
I've been expecting this for a long, long, long time.

Emo has emerging competition. It's going to go back and forth here.

Straight Edge kids will soon form cliques to fight their own opposition.
Music: Walt Whitman's Niece by Wilco

September 5, 2005

Outrageous!
Furiating!
Inhumane!


Real post later.
Music: Whiner's Bio by Mates of State

September 1, 2005

THEE MORE SHALLOWS
Before you go on, please, please, please click on the link above and listen/download 2 A.M. by Thee More Shallows. You won't regret it. It's messy chamber noisepop with a surreal atmosphere akin to unravelling. Or enlightenment. Or renewal. Whatever, it's beautiful.



You all care about my distorted relationship with t.v. right? Ok, here goes:

Stella - So who else is just infatuated with the "Three Girls from Downstairs?" That plucky red head won me over more than Shirley Temple ever did. Plus I really hope they don't exchange/remove them from the show next season (because there will be a next season). Anyway, even with the recent episode about like mental illness and the revolving concept of the 3 Stella guys being in and out of friendship was especially distorting heartfelt because the girls arranged for them to get together. Seriously you couldn't get me to stop smiling however dysfunctional and faux-heartwarming the show is.


So You Think You Can Dance - Umm, Something must be wrong because I know Craig is teh r0x0rz but he got kicked off? This was heavy. Like as superficially heavy as I can make it sound. Black armband notwithstanding, it was a dark, dark moment. Secondly, they had to put my other favorite two in the bottom 4 this week. Snow just has to go though, because even though I like her better, Melody will get through because she's not, you know, Snow. Ryan is in the bottom 4. He WILL go through because all those hair-straightened, starbursthued-tshirt girls in the front row love him to pieces. Plus he and Melody have the backing of a Phillipino Community that sends emails of pleas, an endless network of relatives and friends, faux-hipster teens with cell phones, and a general (repressed?) wish to have TFC-like material on the mainstream. I might be guilty but I'm not saying it's not wrong either. I don't even know how that double negative translates.



I have new neighbors and there's a changing of the guard coming soon. Shucks, man.

Ok let's talk clothes. I'm looking for anything in dark hues. Particularily deep purples, blacks, some light grey and spots of turquoise/aquamarine. Chunky accessories perhaps but that's only if I'm feeling bold; I'll probably just refer to my girl friends whether they like it or not. I'm in the mood for something fitted, harsh, and cold. Nothing sentimental in revival. Revival in survival of the fittest perhaps. Heavy coats, black, with equally dark accents. I would kill for a fur hat like the one Viktor Krum is wearing from Goblet of Fire. HAHA

I'm looking but my current wardrobe will have to cut it until I locate. Mariela, I expect a lengthy conversation about all this later.


Music: 2 A.M. by Thee More Shallows

the lining life
The It Life is too good for Silver Linings.

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Just in time for the next school year, here's a new layout. My name's Ryan; How bout yours? Comments make me giddy. Entirely based off of paint, the painstaking image you see is the offspring of delerious zeal for pixelated boxes. No those pointy white things aren't pencils, it's an arrow inside a white thing. It's a ROBOT HOUSE PARTY and everyone's invited.


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