pearl jam - yellow ledbetter

saw the punisher tonight with steph and brenda. and i finally understand what ian and sean were talking about in english. the entire movie was amazing - except for when the exploding cars looked like the punisher symbol. that was a little over the top. everything else, though, was terrific. better than any comic book movie i've seen yet (and yes, this includes spiderman).
oh. i saw a drug bust (i think) on my way back from the movies. there were about 5 or 6 cops all along both sides of the road, two regular cars, teenagers standing around and the police going through the trunk of one of the cars. it was really cool! i wanted to slow down and look at it more but, eh, traffic, y'know? plus i was trying to race tuey, but i think she actually did slow down to look. i'll have to ask her.

pete yorn - lose you

so jon scared me unbelievably bad today. i was trying to race home really quick and i was stuck at the red light, when out of nowhere this blue form (all i could see was his torso) was banging on my window. reflex, i unlocked the door. i can see how this reflex is going to get me in trouble when i move to the city. so he jumped into the car just as the light turned green, i sped off and he got whiplash. it was a very cool 5 second sequence of events.
i am sick to death of studying for history. my brain refuses to take in any more information, so i'm giving up until tommy calls later.
instead i've been sitting around experimenting on how to cut up jones soda bottle caps. i tried sawing them with a pocket knife - i now have a hole in my left finger thanks to my inept clumsiness. after the hole stopped bleeding i decided to try a more kid-safe approach - toenail clippers! and they worked! so now my fridge magnets are more legible, and it gave me something to do for all of 15 minutes.

bright eyes - from a balance beam

"So then I fell like that girl from a balance beam. A gymnasium of eyes were all holding on to me. I lifted one foot to cross the other and I felt myself slipping. It was a small mistake. Sometimes that is all it takes."
couple weeks ago while brenda and i were listening to this, she started laughing and said "oh god... that sounds exactly like gymnastics in junior high..."
cole got a puppy! arrgh that butthead! she's a purebreed german shepherd named sasha (what is up with animals named sasha?!) i think i'm going to have to put some money aside so i can go visit soon, play with the puppy. i want a puppy.
i miss work. i got my paycheck today and i've decided not to work at the federal way pool this summer, but still definitely work as much as possible because this paycheck is not going to last me two weeks. did i mention donna's going to put me in the control room? starting salary $10.25, running around with printouts of times and data and scores and stuff during meets.
i'm starting to think i might need glasses. not cool.

postal service - brand new colony

as much as i'm going to love summer, i'm starting to dread it. i'm already forseeing lots of work, and time spent with the family. what happened to summers spent with friends and good times and good laughs in the sun? oh, right. i'm down to enough friends to count on one hand, with enough leftovers to make a turkey with. my only response to this feeling - in the winter i dye my hair, in the summer i pierce my ears. lately i've had no patience for all this drama people create in their lives. scott said it - "the real world has raised a generation of teenagers who are compelled to talk about how they feel." i need a hobby so i can focus this wasted energy into something other than finding reasons to feel sorry for myself.
i keep remembering my favorite christmastime song. that song by weird al. "then he picked up a flamethrower and barbequed blitzen! and he took a big bite and said 'it tastes just like chicken!'" o-oh, the night santa went crazy, the night kris kringle went nuts. can't hardly walk around in the north pole without steppin' in reindeer guts. this, as well as dropkick murphys, has been keeping a goofy, unexplainable smile on my face all day long.
saturday my mom and i are going up to bothell as her mother's day gift. we're going to drive around to all the stores she used to take me to as a kid, so she can reminisce over all the cute clothes i used to have and maybe buy some new kitsch for the house. i'm actually looking forward to it. and the san juan islands are starting to sound really nice. she's almost got me convinced to go. it was mostly the description of "finding some inner tubes and just lying there for the day. the water gets so warm it's like bath water." what, we have places like that up by bellingham? my mind can't grasp this. but it sounds relaxing.

e.w.i. - it's over

they sounded allright at the concert. i managed to get their demo for free by acting interested and broke (with $11 in my pocket for jack in the box later). the demo makes their vocals clearer, and it's just whiney punk junk. not too cool. it'll probably end up on the ceiling soon.
spent most of the day at steph's, helping her do online history while i reviewed for the ap test. parents called me up later to say i was grounded 'cause i skipped 5th (so it looks like next time i won't call to let them know what i'm up to.) i'm not exactly sure how i'm being grounded, since i still have to go to work and find my mother's day present and all that. i guess i'm just not allowed to run around and do whatever i want? fortunately my plans for the whole week include reading my ap prep book, and reading history packets.
slowly developing a taste in tacky hats. wearing the train hat today, noticed with some interest the winter beanie on the floor of my car (i think it's my dad's?) also considering pulling the purple hat off my cd rack. also jealous of my dad's fishing hat that scott was running around in earlier today. need more shorts and white t-shirts for the summer. remind me to hit up hot topic for the zim dvd when i get my paycheck.
i really need to throw out the empty diet coke cans collecting in my room. honest to god, i have no idea how they pile up so quickly. i swear they appear out of nowhere, and in the weirdest places too. my room's getting crowded, despite my efforts to empty it out. clothes piling up on the floor, and my pitiful attempt in making my room brighter resulted in a lamp stuck haphazardly in my bookshelf with the too-short cord stretched tightly over my chair. i did remove the second mattress, though, so my bed feels more cozy and less giant. a bird poo'd on my window this afternoon and i ingeniously got it off by spraying water on it through my bottle used for bleaching hair. listening to postal service non-stop, with the exception of that really really bad demo.
i need something new to talk about!!! i have nothing interesting! what, books? yeah, i've got six of them to get through before i can even start on that long list in my head. i'm dying for summer. parents are going to san juan islands in july, hopefully i can avoid that and enjoy some quality independance time.
i'd like some more fine-tipped white erase markers. black is getting old, and it doesn't show up on my windows very well.
hey! 17 in 20 days!
i'm thinking about piercing my ears again. summer seems like a good time to pierce new things.
and you know what i just realized? who the hell has my reservoir dogs dvd?!

postal service - recycled air

first day of work as a lifeguard today. later, at chris's concert, niko showed up wearing his lifeguard shirt (too lazy to change out of it). he mentioned something about how it's okay for him to be lazy (i think, it was really loud), "after all, i'm a lifeguard." puase on my part, then "yeah, so am i!" buddy-buddy shoulder punch from him. "that's right, you are!" all around, the weather's still matching my mood. on the ride home from the concert, trish regaled me with all her drinking stories with other people from work. now i've got an oreo milkshake from jack in the box. life is good. oh, i also got postal service and modest mouse cd's today. 'cause cole made me jealous.
my hair reeks of cigarrete smoke now.
mea culpa.