Animation Domination on Fox was preempted by damn Nascar. I truly don't understand the appeal of Nascar. But while waiting for it to be over, I decided to research it a little and this is what I found:

( rednecks and Nascar go hand in hand. )</div>

Anyways, around 8:30 The Simpsons finally started. I still find it hard to accept the fact that they have a new intro. I understand why they'd want to update it after 20 years (20 years!) , but still...it was a good episode though. As good as it can be, these days. It did make me laugh, which was a nice change. King of the Hill was genius, as always. Since there wasn't a new episode of Family Guy to be shown, they removed it from the line up that night (no big loss anyway) but then came American Dad. I watch it because there is nothing else on. It's enjoyable for the most part. Out of all those shows, The Simpsons will be my favorite, forever and for always. I grew up with it. It means a lot to me, even if it doesn't always make me laugh anymore (nothing can beat those first 8 years). However, King of the Hill is the best show they have now.  But of course, it's being taken off the air. Shameful. And what is Fox replacing it with? A fucking Family Guy spin off. The Cleveland Show (?!?). Seth McFarland already has too many shows on TV! We don't need any more, thank you very much! And while we're on the subject, Futurama shouldn't have been cancelled either...

Although I've been a long time reader of my FL and I've posted on communities here, it has obviously been quite some time since I've posted on my own journal. Well, that time has come to an end because...well, because I wanna post again. So there.

In other news, I have a new favorite store (previous favorite store: IKO's). Tom's Music Trade. It's like heaven. Or, more accurately, it's like the best record store ever.

I hate this stupid livejournal and I'm giving it up!
I don't have things to report on that others would be interested in, no cool photos, no nothing!
This is my final posting on this dumb thing!

I am however keeping it around so I can lurk about and read

chasingwords' journal, and fun things like that.
So no need to read this nonsense anymore!

i'm in a morrissey kind of mood.

pic-tores of the mozzer:

The girls at my table in floral design are unbearable. They're all rather stupid, and this one is completely racist, and doesn't try to hide it at all. It's disgusting.

Katie and I are planning a day coming up to skip school and drive to New York or something. It will be lovely. Speaking of driving, I actually got behind the wheel yesterday! For the first time ever! I've passed driving shool, gotten my permit -months ago - and have never been taught how to drive properly. My friend Kayla (who is 18, so it counts) is teaching me. I hate driving, so all this will probably be pointless, but it's rather fun.

I still have to go X-mas shopping for two of my mates...they don't read this stupid thing, so: Katherine shall recieve some sort of record, possibly Bob Dylan. I realize she has no Dylan records! Shameful. I'll most likely get Elliot a Smiths or a Morrissey record. He almost loves the Mozzer more then I do, it's frightening. But in a good way.

Poetry slam next week at North Harford, you all need to be there.

Har-umph, I've been sick all this week. I am feeling a wee bit better...but I don't think well enough to go back to school tomorrow...heh heh heh.

I helped my eldest brother film today, which was rather exciting. I love acting. & I've never been around real film equipment before. The lights they use are abizillionmillion degrees...atleast...and very bright. But the whole experience was just great. I won't be seeing the finished product until the film festival in about a month, so I can't wait.

I spent the day with dear Katie, & we discussed music. Well mainly, I talked at her about music, but it was cool. I realized I only get "hyper" when I get to talk about music. & we watched James & The Giant Peach.

I made her mix CDs. That is something I could do forever. & ever. Just sit & make compilations to share with my pals. Share music.

It was made up of The Smiths, The Libertines, Babyshambles, The La's, Lily Allen, The Pipettes, The Holloways, The Stone Roses, Wilco, Paul Weller, & some more that I don't remember now.

She loved it all

I got a cool book tonight, called Britpop!... ^_^

I've just read the preface and I already love it. It brings me back to the good old days, when I was a wee lad and it was all about Cool Britannia and the music was fucking top. Sigh.

The poetry slam on Thursday night was fantastic. Andrea Gibson was beautiful and amazing.

andreagibson.org -- visit her website and prepare to be blown away.

She's a sweet heart too, I spoke with her afterwards and she was just so cool.

If any of you are lookin' for new music to listen to I suggest you check out these people:

The Fratellies
Lily Allen
Emmy the Great
Bromhead Jackets
The Kooks
The Fontanelles
A Woman of No Importance
The Holloways
The Rifles

They're all pretty much awesome.

Yay for indie boys & girls.

Also, check out Corinne Bailey Rae, The Stone Roses, Railroad Earth, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Smiths, and Paul Weller/The Jam. They're not all new but just in case you'd never heard them. I'd take a listen.

Thank you chasingwords for introducing me to most of these marvelous people.

And of course, I always suggest you check out The Libertines or Babyshambles if you have yet to hear them.

BOB DYLAN. was. amazing.

He sounded fantastic, like his voice has gotten so much better...& he was actually in the center of the stage! Not off in the shadows...& ooooh god when he plays harmonica... *swoon*
It was mind blowing.
He was laughing. & he talked to the audience. & he was dancing. I love when he dances! He was in a great mood & it showed.
Amazing set list, opened with Maggie's Farm and closed with All Along The Watchtower. Oh man Like A Rolling Stone rocked.
This is the best I've ever seen him. First time I saw him, he was dowright bad. I'm gonna be honest. Second time it was a lot better...but something was missing. But this. This my friends was it. The best. All my faith is restored in the man. I love him.
It rocked.

& oh my god we saw Mike Schott there.

ghjkasdj54s.

sigh.

My package from Del came! When I came home from driver's ed, it was in the mail box, & I just grabbed it and ran up to my room right away to listen to it!

Definitely Maybe is amazing...like, I knew I was going to like it. But wow. WOW. I love this album.
And he sent me a bunch of cool John Lennon and Oasis pictures, as well a cute Beatles pin (one I actually don't have) & a really sweet letter. It made my day. It made my week!

Work today was very slow moving but Danielle works there now so it's tolerable. It helps having your best mate by your side!

Driving school again tonight. Last night we left early because the teacher's daughter called & said she had been in a terrible accident. I thought that was ironic.

I watched Dirty Pretty Things on their American TV debut last night on Letterman. It rocked. Poor Carl's arm was still in that sling (a very fashionable black one, mind you) but he stilled played great guitar. And his voice is cool and he looked fantastic. They played "Bang Bang, You're Dead" which was the big single off Waterloo To Anywhere. I love that album title. Unfortuantly I don't love the album. I love that single but overall the album was weak. I'll take Pete over Carl anyday, but he's still awesome. Yay for DPT!

3 days until Bob Dylan. Oh my.

I was going to listen to Russell Brand, but this week his show isn't being rebroadcast on BBC Music 6. I was looking forward to it, but I'll have to wait until next week I suppose. I want to move to England.

"Cigarettes and Alcohol" is such an awesome song. Really sums a lot of stuff up for me. That, "Supersonic" and "Live Forever" are the only three songs I know off Definitely Maybe, so I can't wait to hear the album in full. Those songs are three of my favorites ever, so I'm sure the album will blow me away. Noel Gallagher is such a brilliant songwriter. The lyrics to "Live Forever" give me chills. He's in my little profile picture...he's gorgeous, just like his brother. Anyways, it should be coming in the mail any day now...Del bought me that and is sending me some rare Oasis stuff along with it, so I'm excited. It was really kind of him to do that for me. He sent it about a week ago (from England) so it ought to be here soon enough. I can't wait!

I was looking through an old diary I kept all through out elementary school, and it's kind of amusing.

I started it in kindergarten, basically when I started learning how to spell out words and stuff. My first entries were about how much I love Paul McCartney. Heh. Also, I seemed to believe that once a girl turned 16, it was only then she could start using the telephone. And once you turned 16, you had to wear a 50's style poodle skirt all the time...all this nonsense was accompanied by funny little drawings. I talk about movies too, about Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen, and Laurel and Hardy.

Entries from about 1996-1997 are about how I wish my friends could stop loving people like the Spice Girls and start liking the Beatles! Or atleast the Verve. For some reason I was madly in love with Richard Ashcroft when I was little. I talk about Blur and Oasis (god how I miss the days when Oasis really were the biggest band in the fucking world) and all that Cool Britannia era stuff. God, those were the days. I wanted a Union Jack dress, badly.

A little later comes stuff about Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam. I got into the grungy stuff after it's peak. Though I was all about Britpop and 60's rock mainly in third grade.

According to the diary, I was listening to the Velvet Underground, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Buddy Holly, The Sex Pistols, and Cat Stevens very heavily around 4th grade, of course along with the Beatles.

No wonder I had no friends! Nah, I had enough, but I think only two listened to the Beatles, and the other stuff nobody was interested in, unfortuantly. They all liked bad pop or country music. Oh well.

I miss the 90's!

Ok, I'm done.


Let's see...what else, what else...oh yes: Bob Dylan in 5 days. Oh my lord.

I have to work tomorrow. Meh.

Harold and Maude is brilliant...I'm watching it for about the bazillionth time right now, sipping tea, and I am in pure ecstasy. The ending will kill me though, it always does. It's tragically beautiful. *sigh*

Ok, back to the movie.

So, my job is going better now...I'm getting the hang of it. I still dislike my co-workers, but I'll deal with it. But yeah, working at a bakery is harder then I thought but it's getting easier. Going well. So I work all day and go to driving school at night. This is really the most activity I've been up to in a long time. Kate called a few days ago and Matthew just told me, and I havn't even had the chance to call her back yet. I will eventually, but she won't answer the phone. I miss her! Wah. Driving school is uber boring, but it's ok because Mallory is in my class. And she's awesome.

Anyways, this is a nice day off. I'm going to make some tea later and continue reading Tryst. Really great book, I recommend it. It's a ghost story/romance set in the English country side from 1939. It's magnificent.

La de da.

(thanks to mbicons for the awesome George Harrison/Richard Avedon icon)

My new icon thingy is of Pete Doherty. Because I love him. I mean, who doesn't love him?! Rolling Stone can fuck off if they really feel the need to make  fun of him all the time like they do. Sure he's got a drug problem, who the fuck cares? So did Lou Reed, so did Bowie, so did fucking John Lennon - you never made the cheap shots you do about Pete on people like them. Come on RS. What the fuck happened to you? You used to be the coolest magazine around, but you're sellouts with nothing important to say anymore. Instead you've moved on to to doing tasteless jabs at rock stars' personal lives instead of focusing on their MUSIC! What a brilliant idea - The Libertines and Babyshambles could've been huge over here if you and the other stupid media could have ceased your irritating obsession with Pete's relationship with Kate Moss, his drug habits, etc. etc. and focused on the brilliant and innovative music the man was making with both his bands. Fuck you Rolling Stone. Moving on...


Em, let's see...oh yeah, I got a job. At a bakery. Fuck yes. I'm not thrilled about it though. I really don't enjoy...doing things...and a job would interfere with me being a slacker. But atleast I'll be making money. Records and concerts and things need to be paid for, right?

I'm re-reading The Picture of Dorian Gray...fuck that's a great story (That's why I chose to listen to "Narcissist". I thought it would be fitting). I forgot how much I love Oscar Wilde. He looks a lot like Carl Barat, but that's irrelevant. Um, yeah. He's great. If you havn't read any of his stuff, I suggest you do.

So yeah it's been a while people...I havn't died, I just got swept up in the world of Myspace and have forgotten about my livejournal.

Let's see...so yeah, Italy won the World Cup. That was awesome. I adore Zidane so much and it's a shame he had to go and headbutt that Italian player, but oh well. It was an exciting match.

I really have nothing to say; I guess that's why I gave up on this damn thing.

One more thing:

Rest in peace you crazy diamond...

1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 54.

3. Find the seventh sentence.

4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions

Roger wakes up briefly too, mutters something like "Fucking madness," and nods back to sleep.

--From "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon

 

On Thursday, Kate and I went to Cara's house, for her birthday party. It was sooo much fun. I really wasn't in the mood to go, but I decided it would be good for me, and it was! I'm glad I went, I had a great time. Her older brother is the nicest guy ever (he reminds me of Jack Black) and he gave me a good massage, and then I sort of rested in his arms for over an hour. He just held me there in his arms, and it was just a wonderful feeling. Absolutely blissful moment. And he made everybody daiquiris that were really yummy. We watched a hilarious movie called "Orgazmo"...by Trey Parker, the creator of South Park. I didn't think I'd like, but it was funny as hell.

Then this morning, Kate and I went to the waterfalls for an Environthon meeting, which was nice. Kate didn't feel well though, and it was really hot and we had to climb up a crazy hill. For some odd reason, there were all these kids there getting photos taken of them...like this little kid was dressed in khakis, a black turtle neck, and a gold medallion cross necklace, with nice dress shoes, and he was getting his photo taken with a woman who was dressed in the same outfit. And there was a girl with weird hair getting her picture taken too. It was weird.

Kate's dad has this crazy joke book from 1940...and either the jokes don't make any fucking sense, or they're horribly racist. Here's an example:

A doctor diagnosed his patient with yellow jaudince for 5 years...then realized he was a Jap!

Isn't that crazy? Unfortuantly they made me laugh, because they were just so absurd.

</a></a>tearsof_rage</strong> </span></font>for my lovely Dylan icon!

I was dressed as Holly Golightly, Audrey Hepburn's character from Breakfast At Tiffanys. I had lots of fun; Kate, Dee and Kayla were with me. We got some good candy.

I usually really dislike Holloween, I think it's an absolutely pointless holiday, especially since we don't get off school for it ;-) But tonight I had fun.

Now I shall sleep.

Peace & Love

Oh yeah, one more thing. My favorite song of the moment is "Christmas In Washington" written by Steve Earle. It's excellent.

It’s Christmas time in Washington
The democrats rehearsed
Gettin’ into gear for four more years
Things not gettin’ worse.
The republicans drink whiskey neat
And thanked their lucky stars
They said, 'he cannot seek another term
They’ll be no more FDRs'.

I sat home in Tennessee
Staring at the screen
With an uneasy feeling in my chest
And I’m wonderin’ what it means.

So come back Woody Guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into Jesus
Maybe he can help you out
Come back Woody Guthrie to us now.

I followed in your footsteps once
Back in my travelin’ days
Somewhere I failed to find your trail
Now I’m stumblin’ through the haze
But there’s killers on the highway now
And a man can’t get around
So I sold my soul for wheels that roll
Now I’m stuck here in this town.

So come back woody guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into jesus
Maybe he can help you out
Come back woody guthrie to us now.

There’s foxes in the hen house
Cows out in the corn
The unions have been busted
Their proud red banners torn
To listen to the radio
You’d think that all was well
But you and me and Cisco know
It’s going straight to hell.

So come back, Mahatma Ghandi
Rise up, old Joe Hill
The barracades are goin’ up
They cannot break our will
Come back to us, Malcolm X
And Martin Luther King
We’re marching into Selma
As the bells of freedom ring.

So come back Woody Guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into Jesus
Maybe he can help you out
Come back Woody Guthrie to us now.