My iPod, As of Late

For the majority of people, their favorite song changes from day to day, but I feel like I have a solid list of songs that consider to be my favorite songs. This is going to be an odd list of some of my favorite songs, as well as songs that I have been listening to lately.

The first is Nursery Rhyme by Unkle, which has been on my Art Barn playlist since freshman year when I first heard it while sitting in John's studio class. Recently I was driving around the Town Center with Jenn, and this song came on my iPod and she asked if we could change it. I replied that it was one of my favorite songs and I wanted to listen to it at least a bit, and she said, "no it's not!" I still laugh at that, since for the most part I don't share my favorite songs with people. Some on this list are obvious since I go on and on about then, yet some, like this song by Unkle, I keep to myself for the most part.



Second on this list is Black Panther by Crystal Castles, which is one of the more obvious ones. This is one of those songs that is perfect to drive to late at night, preferably going very fast over a bridge, with the volume all the way up and the windows down. It makes the whole experience very surreal. One night over Thanksgiving break Rob and I were driving while listening to this song. He opened his sun roof, turned it up all the way, and I reclined my seat and watched the moon as he drove. As I said: surreal. Amazing song by an amazing band.



Next comes The Police and the Private by Metric. Metric has been receving a lot of attention recently for the latest album, Fantasies, although this is song is from an older album, Live it Out. If you know me, you are well aware that I have serious issues with learning the lyrics to songs. I think it is the same mental block that keeps me from understanding multi-color relief printmaking, which is a story for another post. Although somehow I know this entire song, which I think is just a testament to the amount that I listen to it.



Whenever I describe by love for the song the only thing I can say is that when I listen to it, all is right in the world. M&Ms by Blink-182 just makes me happy. There is no other way to put it.



Now for the songs I have been listening to a lot lately. Modern Science by Joseph Birdsong was just released, and it is actually really good. I bought his first EP just to support him because I have watched his videos and been a DK1/5AG fan for a long time. The EP is good, but in the short time between the Phase 3 EP and Modern Science he obviously learned a lot about creating music, and the reult is really good. I am anxious to hear the rest of the new songs, one of which he will be releasing every month this year. (2:30 in this video cracks me up. A true Joe moment emerging.)



(My Firefox just crashed while loading this next video and I had a mini freak out, thinking that everything I just typed was lost. But all is well.) So Bored by WaVVes has been appearing on a lot of playlists I have been making lately. It makes me want to go to the beach so badly, and in this unusually cold Florida weather it makes me feel like it is summer. I was listening to this in the car with Emily the other day and she asked, "is it supposed to sound like this?!" "Erm..... Yes."



Ready for the Floor by Hot Chip is next on this list, although I am in love with the cover by Lissy Trullie. The Hot Chip version cannot be embedded, but you can watch the Matthew Barney-esque video here. The Lissy Trullie version is so catchy. I love it. You may have to sit through an advertisement at the beginning of this video, though...



This next one is not very Kate-like at all, but I cannot stop listening to it. It is oh so very catchy. Quiet Dog by Mos Def.



The Afterlife by YACHT is last on this list, although one of my favorites. Last night I was listening to this with my younger brother and his friend in my car, and listening to their commentary was hilarious. "It sounds like... not a song." "Yeah its like mind voodoo." "They are trying to control you!" "Oh no don't listen!!"



I lied. That was not the last one. Aye Julian by Meriwether is another song that I am constantly listening to. Jenn and I met this band at Warped Tour in 2006 or 2005 or something. We bought all their CDs for $5 and to be honest I have never listened to them, except this one song. For some reason only this song made its way into my iTunes library, the rest were lost and forgotten. This is also not very Kate-like, but it is always appearing on playlists. Side note: when I listened to this version in all the videos I found, I was shocked. It is a newer, rerecorded version and it is ten times better than the older version I keep listening to... I am shocked.

My love for Dandelion Wind Opaine

It runs very deep.

Girls like her fascinate me, but I feel that she is the epitome of the "authentic" girl. I don't mean to sound like Carles, but it is true. Her music, her style, her words, all of it is her own, and he is not influenced by anyone else. As a musician, an artist, a director, everything is completely authentic. I mean, with a name like Dandelion Wind Opaine, how could you not be? ("She swears it's her real name and claims that she was raised by hippies in a cabin in the forests of central British Colombia with neither electricity nor running water." - via allmusic.com) She styles and directs all of Fan Death's videos and photo shoots, and every thing turns out to be different than anything I have ever seen before.



The Lab Magazine interviewed both her and Marta in Issue 00 for an article on Fan Death, and even all of her responses were so different. I cannot articulate exactly what I think about her originality. It's just crazy.

She directed the video for "Cannibal" (which I posted a few days ago) after some crazy mega-fan sent her and Marta life size, anatomically correct dolls of themselves (which remind me of the weird man in the video). She based the whole idea of the video off of those dolls. Also, she directed the video for Lady Sovereign's video for "I Got You Dancing." While of course I am a fan of Lady Sov, this video's content is so dynamic. Dandi was inspired by the Warriors and made this awesomely confrontational video with local dancers from Vancouver. Can you ever go wrong with a little bit of stop motion?



Behind the scenes clip of the shoot from Lab Magazine. Dandi styled both her and MArta, and the majority of the clothes that were used are actually Dandi's, along with from diesel Diesel shoes. (heh... heh...) And damn, anyone that can be electrocuted int he middle of a set and keep playing has points in my book. (Minus the guy from Shai Hulud... that was his fault. Even though it remains one of the most terrifying things I have ever witnessed)



Marta had a hilarious qoute in that interview that was printed in the magazine. "I don't hate anything. Only love." Then the next question he asks her response is: "I hate scrunchies!" Oh Marta... I love you too, but its just not the same.



Even just the idea of Fan Death amazes me. Dandi was (and still is) a part of the Dandi Wind Band, and Marta saw her perform, and decided to talk to her. Two years later, they have made this amazing creation. They have revived a genre of music that is seldom heard and enjoyed by my generation, and they gave it their own twist. Marta has roots in folk piano while Dandi is all about the electro side of music. Combine the two and the outcome is electro-disco, set for the current time.





I know this is media heavy, but I feel that it was worth it. Shes just so damn creative, innovative, authentic and already prolific. I just don't know what to do with myself... But I do know that I have a lot of respect for this girl. I wish I had the brain power right now to properly articulate what I am thinking.

"This is a coin for the well, I wish my wrongs were righted."

Wednesday, November 25 - PVB, Casbah

Spent the day in Ponte Vedra. I think I am going to refer to today as "Blast from the Past" day. Ryan picked me up from Marsha's and we went out to lunch, and that was fun. I haven't seen him in a few years. We talked about everyone from Episcopal that I completely forgot about, including Alan, who I didnt think I would forget about. But, I did.

After lunch we had Petal's birthday dinner and that was delicious. Apparently AJ has started drinking again and I am worried about him. He didn;t look too good. We shall see what happens with him tomorrow. On the way home Liam randomly asked me "Why dont you hang out with Wyatt anymore?" Little jerk.

After we left the beach Emma came over and we went to the Casbah. We got there and put our name on the list and meandered about. We loitered in front of the Casbah for a bit and decided to walk down to Monty's. Matty was there and Emma went in to see him. I hung out outside, saw the Worsham boys and other people from Episcopal, when my phone buzzed. I looked at it. "Text from Guillermo." What. The. Fuck. "Don't know if you still have my number but I think ou just passed by me at the Casbah - Memo" Holy shit. I have not seen him since we briefly dated in my junior year of high school. Four years. So I talked to him for a bit and that was awkward. I had noticed Edgar, Alan's brother before, and I texted Ryan that he was there. I thought it was weird that I thought about Alan today for the first time in a long while then saw both his brother and cousin in one night. So after we talked to Memo for a bit AJ walked about, all 6'5 of him. Talked for a bit, then we sat down outside and smoked and drank for a good long while.

While we were sitting there, Emma's dad walked past our table. On a date. So she met this lady and that was interesting to watch. I was able to stay out of it, thank god.

Will came over from Monty's and hung out with us for a bit, I talked to AJ for a while, then we left.

I just found a box of awesome books in my garage and I am pretty excited. I got this book on H. H. Holmes years ago and never read it, thinking I had lost it, but that was in there. I salvaged it and I will read it tomorrow when I am sick of my family. Which will happen pretty quick...

Also, I love Heidi Montag, I think just because she is so much fun to hate, and so is her music. This song, along with all of them is just so damn catchy. I can' stop listening to it....

Sunday, November 23 - Jags Game, BTBAM

So after I got home from Rob's this morning I showered and napped then went to the Jaguar game. It was a horrible game and we left pretty early. They ended up winning and Liam pretty much hated us for leaving early. When it was his idea...

Evan and I went to Between the Buried and Me tonight. And oh my god saw the best band ever. We saw Wings of Victory, Veil of Maya, Animals as Leaders, and BTBAM. Wing of Victory sucked, as I expected. Veil of Maya was amazing. BTBAM was good, but not as amazing as I had expected. I most likely would have been blown away if I not just seen Animals as Leaders. Combined, Evan and I have a pretty thorough knowledge of metal bands, but neither of us had heard of them. After they played, we just turned to each other and both of us had the biggest smile plastered on our faces. They were amazing. No vocalist, and it was all technical and melodic. We bought the CD immediately. Even people that don;t like metal will like them, which I know covers the majority of the people that read this.



After the show we came back to my house and I put the CD on my computer. It was the first time Evan has ever been inside my house, and it was funny when he got in my room and just stood there looking at stuff. I guess it's been a while since I had someone new in my room and it was funny to watch him just look around. It also made me look at my room with new eyes, and also made me realize that I really have to paint my room a new color. This green or horrid.

Off to bed, just posted a video on KateListensToDavid. So. Yeah.

Friday, November 20 - Almost Home

I am sitting in the Charlotte airport, listening to Fan Death, and people watching. I have been given some awesome people watching opportunities lately. I had some interesting characters on my flights from Lynchburg, then last night Allison and I went to the midnight premiere of New Moon, because we are huge nerds. Of course there were some odd people out and about at that. Girls in PJ pants and Edward shirts. There were a hilarious amount of couples there. I feel bad for each one of those boyfriends. Stuck in a theater that is 75% squealing girls. I am glad I am not one of them, and I laugh at those who are. The first time Edward appeared on screen, in this awfully horrible slow motion, windy walk, there were a bunch of girls that did literally squeal with delight. I dont understand. I think this says something positive about my character, though.

Although right before Bella jumped off the cliff the reel broke, and apparently it broke in all 10 theaters. It was a min-mayhem moment. The old woman next to me turned to me and asked if I wanted to help her start a riot. I really wish I was making this up. She was dead serious. When she sat down she said to Alison and I "I can't wait to see Jacob's shift changing!" I think I will classify that moment as a "Life Fail" for that woman.

Yesterday at lunch Sarah, Elizabeth and I played MASH. I have not played in so long. I had a pretty positive outcome. I will be marrying Matthew Barney, working as a stripper, living in Brooklyn with 4 kids, driving a Hummer, making $100,000 a year and I will have my honey moon in Afghanistan.

Errrr.... Looking back on that, that is actually quite horrible. The only good thing is the marrying Matthew Barney part. My minor obsession with him has somehow become more public recently, and I am not sure how this happened. Last Saturday I was with Allison, Blair, Shep and Britt and at one point we were discussing what Blair would name her future children, and she said, "Kate I know you will have a little Matthew Barney Jr." And then Ashley said the same thing:




Allison and I attempted to make a list of the songs we would listen to if we could only listen to 10 for the rest of our lives. I have shared this with a few people, and so far everyone has been shocked to see this one on the list. I don't know why I like it myself, when I really don't listen to too much rap and whatnot, but it sneaks onto every playlist I ever make.




Boarding my flight soon. My mom is going to pick me up at the airport, then off to Town Centre for dinner where I will creep into the Apple store to see Rob. I think either Corbett or Colton is going to come over tonight. I'm hoping Corbett simply because I don't want Colton to ride his bike from Riverside to Ortega. He is even more of a bum lately.

The man sitting across from me keeps starting at me... Errr...

I am playing FishVille in the Charlotte airport. I am ashamed.

Wednesday, November 18 - 2 Days

Jacksonville in two days. I am so excited. Rob has an alright work schedule so I will be able to see him a good bit. It will be really weird not having Jenn there. I will be spending time with different people though, so that's good. I am excited to see Corbett and Kevin, Rob and Emma. Except Kevin is being a jerk... We shall see.

Sunday night Evan and I are going to go see Between the Buried and Me at Edge 17. I have never seen them live, but I know it is amazing. Rob saw them a few years ago and he loved it. This will be an experience.



Allison got a concussion last night. I had to go pick her up at the gym and talk to the trainer about everything. She was not doing too good. We came back to the room, and I went to go hunt down some applesauce for her in Prothro. I asked the older woman in Prothro if she could get me some apple sauce, and she said, "Yes, I will be right back." Then she was gone for about 5 minutes. when she came back I hadn't moved yet and she said, "Yes sweetie? Anything I can get for her?" I asked for applesauce again, pretending that this did not just happen, and she asked if anyone was already looking for me. I just lied and said no. She left to go look, then this whole thing happened again. I gave up and asked someone else.

Allison and I enjoyed a quiet night in, watched Drop Dead Gorgeous and went to sleep early. Except we both had to wake up every 2 hours so I could make sure that she was alive and well.


Today was... interesting. During art I got a call from Courtney. Her dad was diagnosed with brain cancer three weeks ago, then he just died on Saturday. I feel so bad for her. We are putting together a package to send her after Thanksgiving. She isn't going to come back next semester, like she was originally supposed to.

John has been comparing my work to William T. Wiley lately, who I have never heard of before the past few weeks, but I am in love with his work. With the hidden checks and ampersands and the incorporated text, it is quite similar to my Arabic triptych.



I love the quote on this one, although this one is far different than his other work.



The Arabic triptych and the embellished vest print on a panel both turned out awesome, and I am really proud of them, although I have no idea how I am going to get the triptych home. It will not fit in my car.....

Tuesday, November 10 - I Can't Stop Listening to These Songs

Apparently red Clay judging was due yesterday. I logged in to do it today. Oops.

Sitting at work, but doing work for Opera on the James, and starving. I want a banana with some Nutella. Yum.

I cannot stop listening to any of the following songs:



I love this video.









My god I want to go to Bonnaroo.

Sunday, November 8 - New York, Crystal Castles

I went to New York last weekend to watch my mom and her running group run in the NYC Marathon. Five years ago my mom was hilariously nonathletic, and here she is now, just finished her second marathon. I am really proud of her. Her entire running group did really well, all setting new PRs and finishing. The trip was really fun, otherwise, aside from getting there. My flight leaving Lynchburg was 3 hours later, thus creating a snow ball effect that left me stumbling into my hotel room at 2:00 am, trying not to wake everyone up.

The next day my mom and I went to the Brooklyn Museum. I don't know how I have never manged to go there, but I finally made it. I wanted to go to the Whitney but we ran out of time. I finally was able to see Judy Chicago's dinner party, and I didn't think I would ever see it. It was a thousand time more amazing in person than it is in photos. Its ginormous. We spent over an hour walking around it.

The day of the marathon I woke up with the runners and went with them to Staten Island at the crack of dawn. Shaun stayed back and slept, so I was left to catch another ferry and a subway back tot he hotel. It was about a two hour ordeal. But it was really nice, being able to just sit on the subway, listening to Crystal Castles at a deafening level and tuning out the rest of the world. I got off the subway about 10 blocks early so that I could just walk around, and it was oddly soothing. It was only about 8:00 by this point so there was not much going on, being a Sunday morning.

Shaun and I hung around for a few hours, and he went exploring into Times Square since he had never seen it, and I read and napped. When it was time for us to go to the bleachers at the finish, we though we only had to walk a few blocks, since he had scoped it out earlier. Oh no. No no no. We ended up getting do badly diverted that we had to run three miles through tunnels in Central Park, down by the zoo, jsut to get the 65th street where we were to begin with, basically. Shaun missed Traci finishing, but I hung around the 1/2 mile to go point and waiting on my mom. When I saw her I ran along with her for a bit. I didn't get to see her finish, though, since the bleachers were so congested.

The weekend has been really nice. I haven't stayed here and done nothing for quite a while. Friday night was the opening of the new gym. So Shep, Jenny, Sarah, and Lauren and I went to that an watched the Proposal with a bunch of girls. That was actually a really good movie. Then yesterday morning Jenny and I went and explored the new gym, played tennis, walleyball, raquetball, ran and worked out for a while. We were there for over 2 hours. Last night we were going to watch a movie, but we were both in too much pain to move. So Shep and I sat around, read, and I talked to Matt for a while.

The morning when I woke up I felt paralyzed. My back i in excrutiating pain, and my legs are urting so bad. I have not been this sore in a long time. I waddled over to breakfast and texted Jenny. She replied with, "Kate. I'm walking into Prothro right now and I look like I had really bad sex last night." And she did. It was hilarious. Shep was sitting a few tables over from us and was aparently laughing at us each time we had to slooooowly stand up and go get a fork or something. It was horrible.

I came back from breakfast and just collepsed back in bed, planning on never moving again.

No such luck.

Shep ended up convincing me to walk the lake trails with her, and that ended up being a lot of fun. The last time I did that was last February with Ashley and Jerri when the lake was still frozen over and we could walk on it. I want to go back to the field behind the lake with a blanket and just lay there. It was such a nice day.

Right now I am struggling to get up and go to my Voice meeting. I have no photos to add to the paper, and I honestly don't care. I want to quit, so badly, but I can't. Next year, not doing this again.

Oh and jussayin, I think that this song is the greatest song ever created. I think I listen to it over 20 times a day, for the past few weeks, and I have Rob doing the same.



I feel like this would be an amazing thing to experience live, although Alice sounds really rough live...

Tuesday, September 8

Holy crap it is September. I am in my second full week of classes. I decided not to move as well. My roommates and I have a good thing going, even though the room is so damn small. I love them so much.

I have been having fun being back at school with my friends, and having random weekend nights running about campus.

Classes are going well, but already I think I may drop my Ancient Greece class. I need that gen ed, but the classwas supposed to be my fun class. And it is my most intensive class. I am going to talk to my professor and figure it out. It is near impossible to get everything done with the reading that he has been assigning. I am going to look and see what I can do instead, gen ed wise.

We just had a health and safety inspection. There was a knock at the door. "Yeah?" "Health and safety inspection?" "Uhhhh... uhhh.. hold on!" BANG. The second we heard that it was a health and safety inspection we all tried to cover our bed risers, alcohol, microwave, hot place, coffee maker, gill, and lots of other things that arent allowed. We all got in trouble for the bed risers, and we were just told to take out the microwave and whatnot. Thank god we didn't get in trouble for those.

I don;t know what is in the water, but the freshman this year are beyond rude. Each one I have encountered has acted like they are the shit. Its ridiculous. A few freshman are working under me on the Voice, an they are being so difficult. Especially the ones that are running for SGA positions. Allison has dealt with one of the rudest girs imaginable for all of this. There was one girl that was notorious before classes even started. She left, thank god. She was terrible to everyone and we would ll openly hate on her at lunch while she was sitting right there.

Ashley was in te Vita fashion show the other night. That was amazing, and she looked
awesome, with crazy eye makeup and chaps. I took pictures for that, then the next day I saw that some girl that was in the show took my pictures out of my photo album and put them up on her own Facebook. I'm sorry, but that was incredibly rude. I think it is weird that she wouldnt ask permission. They were obviously not taken by her since they were photos OF her. I sent her a message telling her I didn't appreciate it and to give me some credit. She did. So that's that.

On a happier note, I have not posted a video lately. I have been obsessed with this song/band for the last few weeks. And the video is so different.

Day 82 - Timiquana, THRASH AND BURN

This morning Jenn and I began the day by going to Timiquana to lay out and swim for a while. Of course it started to rain right when we got there, though. We swam and used the rest of her roll of underwater film. Other wise it was pretty uneventful.

Tonight was Thrash and Burn, and I had been looking forward to it for months, seriously. It was amazing. It started at 3, but Evan and I didn't get there until around 8. MyChildren MyBride had JUST played when we got there, but that was alright. Right when I got there I saw Colton, Kevin, Chris, and Stamps. Eddy and Brandon were supposed to come up there as well but they didn't. Oh well. Evan and I watched all these crazy bands. Emmure played, and Emmure just reminds me of Wyatt so I never really listen to them. But I stayed to watch. The second the started to play a pit broke out, and immediately this really big guy fell to the ground, and his head was gushing blood. Evan and I were stumped. I have no clue what happened. But the guy was draged over right next to where I was standing, and he was unconscious. They had to carry him out, leaving behind an immense amount of blood. I still don't know what happened to him. I will hopefully find out from Colton. Emmure was pretty good, though. After the guy was carried out someone kept messing with my hair. I was standing in the pit, and right behind me there was a nother level so I was eye level with people's feet. I kept giving this girl a dirty look, thinking that she was messing with my hair. But then I saw a Ked's Classic running away. Kevin. I untied his shoe. Being as scrawny as he is, he squeezed through the bars and stood with Evan and I for a bit, warning me of the pool of blood I was standing in. Yech.

We went to the other stage and watched some crazy metal band that had all these 40 year old guys with hair to their waists. And their drummer was 13 years old. So that was impressive. There were no other horribly eventful things that happened though. It was an amazing show. I have never seen or listened to DevilDriver before, and I saw them today. Epic. Seriously. I have already downloaded all of their CDs. It was so good.

After the show Evan dropped me off at Murray hill where I met up with Jenn and we went to Kickbacks to ring in her birthday. Usually, you get to Kickback's and it takes about 10 minutes for anyone to realize that you are waiting for service. But about 2 minutes after we sat down, the waiter from last night brought Jenn a little thing of Chocolate syrup with a straw. It was hilarious, but she was embarrassed. We rang in her birthday with chocolate milk and our favorite waiter. It was good times.

Matthew Hastings of MCMB replied to one of my tweets I sent him on Twitter. I about peed myself.

Tomorrow is her birthday. I am excited.

Day 21 - School Four, Evan, Delicious Panera Sandwich

Today was a very good day. I woke up early and just hung around my house for a little while. I called Jenn to see if she wanted to get lunch but of course I forgot she was at work. I grabbed my favorite sandwich ever from Panera and went to the UPS store to eat there. But it was lunch time so of course it was jam packed, and I ate in my car like a loser. But I just relaxed and enjoyed my sandwich and enjoyed a CD. Hm. Yes. I am a loser.

I picked up Mikey at his house and went to take pictures at School Four, which we have never done before. It was fun, but kind of disappointing. Most of it was fenced off, but there was one little place that I was able to slip into the yard. My digital cameras are both broken, so I was stuck with film and fish eye. I have to get it all developed to see how it turns out. The majority of the time when I use my fish eye lens the film messes up and doesn’t work. I hope some turn out. The city voted last night on he future of Annie Lytle. Apparently there is a good chance that the school will not be standing by the end of the month. I had a good chance to make a difference a few months ago, but of course my inability to finish anything I start got in the way. We will see how all of this pans out.





Tonight I hung out with Evan, a guy I met at that party I went to the other night with Jenn. That was really fun. We went to starbucks and exchanged music, and it was funny to see how similar our iTunes libraries were. We went to a hookah place in Orange Park, and it was nice to have an intelligent conversation with someone, which sadly enough I don’t get to do very often.

Today was a very good day.

Day 16 - Art Market, Outlets, Augusten Burroughs

My mom and I were going to ride our bikes to the art market in Riverside today, but my aunt and grandmother came over to go so we didn’t get a chance to do that today. I went to my dad’s though to get my bike back, and barely spoke to him while I was there. I am still livid with him. I don’t plan speaking to him for a while. But that probably wont work out. Marsha, my mom and I went to the art market, and I was really disappointed. I went once when I was home in March or early April, and it was the second week of the market being open. Then it had a lot of art, and little tents for a bunch of different local galleries. But today it was all food and clothes and regular vendors. There were a couple of cool artists though. There was one I fell in love with. His name was Schallenberg, I think. All his work was really textured and abstract, kind of like a really 3D Pollock.



Afterwards my mom and I went to the outlets to get work clothes. I am not too fond of this people work clothes and I just don’t mix. I don’t have a very feminine style and everything is skirts and blouses and slacks. I hate slacks more than anything. I cant even wear normal jeans. F I can feel fabric flapping around my ankles, even in the slightest, I cant stand it. I have been wearing skinny jeans for far too long to ever go back to normal pants. Also, the people that shop at the outlets are… interesting. You get such a range. While we were in J. Crew everyone was normal, and dressed cute. But then we walk outside and first thing I see is a woman in a huge grey shirt, red, ill fitting sweat pants, and carrying a child haphazardly on one hip and smoking a cigarette. Can we say classy?

Rob met us at Marsha’s house to fix up her internet and then went to dinner at Barbara Jean’s. every time I go there I think, “OK, lets be open about this, maybe I will like it this time.” Nope. I still don’t. The fries are delicious, but I don’t like anything else. The majority of their menu is sea food, and I don’t eat sea food so I am kind of screwed there.

Finally I am getting my iPod to work. It is too small for all of my music, so I have to pick and choose what I want on here. I went through and put everything on it that I would like to listen to driving up and down between Miami and Jacksonville, and it was only about 2,700 songs, which is about a third of my iTunes library. I miss my iPod, and I am excited to have it back.

I am riding my bike to the Fox tomorrow morning for breakfast with my Mom. I may die, for reals. I am so out of shape, which hopefully will change this summer. I haven’t ridden my bike in so long, aside from between my mom’s and dad’s today. And even that was kind of painful. My mom and I watched a bit of Running With Scissors tonight. Earlier we listened to some of an Augusten Burroughs audio book while driving out to St. Augustine and that got me in the mood to watch that movie. I forgot how weird it is, and now I just really want to watch the Royal Tenenbaums. I haven’t seen that in a really long time.

I am falling asleep while typing this and I have to be fairly soon to go to the Fox. Although this is a video from Davey Dance Blog, where he goes to historic locations, picks a song, and dances. The song he used in this video is one of my favorite songs, and it was the finale of the CollegeHumor all nighter this year.

DaveyDanceBlog -64- NYC Union Square from Pheasant Plucker on Vimeo.

I didn't talk to a certain someone at all today. Ugh "/ Going to Miami is bad luck, I swear.