six dollar skirt

forever 21

new life

college! the past two days were a whirlwind to say the least. finally done moving in, thank god. went to my first class today (45 minutes late.....) but the professor was very cool. chill duude, a scuba instructor or something. got my first assignments, and theyre pretty easy. eventually i have to get my books and figure out the financial aide bs. and talk to zee boy on zee ichat. and eat. blahhh.

wtf

just happened.

instant recovery!

hm

is there still enough time for everything to spiral out of control? i think so...

there is so much to do. im leaving on saturday. im trying to fit time in for everyone but i dont think it is going to happen...i want to listen to more reggae. i wish i could spend my paychecks without feeling guilty.

closure

i will always love youuuuu & thanx for everything youve taught me.

we have now reached radio silence

NEAT

just found an 8 of spades inside my american hardcore book! oh half price youve done it again.

julie and julia

amy adams is so hard to watch in this movie, she's always whining and terribly annoying. meryl streep was amazing though.

today was good. inks lake with the br peeps, had a nice buzz going until the cops snuck through the woods and surprised us, and then a lot of people bailed, but it was all fine in the end. kyle drunk = the funniest shit ever. anywaysssss..

````~~~~`````~~~~~

why did i just now discover that you were exactly what i am looking for!

HAIR, COME BACK TO ME

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i miss ballet!

esp swan lake choreography...sigh

"I wish I could be an old timey scholar where you were qualified if you could quote old Romans and go on about the balance of humors in a body and bullshit everything like it was true because nothing was verifiable.

Or I could just go out for psychology."

-Aly

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah pop punk phase!!!!

let's add looking for alaska and watchmen to that list.

off to gvb!

klosterman is getting kind of repetitive. i think it is time to move on to kafka. i think whenever there is a collection of essays all bound within the same, it leaves more room for comparisons between rather than individual analyses of the essays. what a downfall, something that is supposed to save you money ultimately tarnishes the collection. oh well.

will you shut the fuck up so i can go to sleep? i have to get up tomorrow at 6 in the morning to get my fucking wisdom teeth pulled. so i would appreciate it if you would go to bed already.

hro

ZanyBro is sometimes fun 2 b around, but might not have the ability to ’shut off zany mode’, making it hard for him to find consistent bros. A life without consistent bros seems like a ‘desolate prison.’

horse, and neck face

freaking

today i went to the dermatologist to get a refill on my doxycycline, and pretty recently i had gotten this weird rash on my stomach..so i showed it to her and apparently i have shingles. fucking wierd. it's like chicken pox gone awry basically. and it itches really strangely because the virus affects the nerve endings so it feels like youre trying to scratch something that is under your skin. it is starting to go away but jesus shingles isnt something you just let go, so she gave me this giant horsepill called valtrex to take over the next week. the thing is is valtrex is this herpes medication, but technically chicken pox is a type of herpes and since shingles is basically chicken pox, i end up getting herpes medication, yay. haha. so tonight i fucking took that giant horsepill, two ibuprofens for my godforsaken headache, and the adoxa. i felt like someone with aids or some chronic condition where they have to take a million pills all the time. sigh.

yes please!!!!

must. read. a;lsdfja;slkdf

saw you in half pice today and couldnt put you down! i was five bucks short....someday...hmm

please some1 get me this

my 30 gig is almost full!! according to itunes i have 2.91 gigabytes left...D:

postsecret

"I wish I could believe in God because I feel like I am missing out on a lot of potential happiness or comfort. Unfortunately, as good as it may make me feel in some ways, the part of me that I respect most is the part of me that won't allow me to believe."

The home they had so long shared became a tomb, a sweet memory of her joyous living.

nbt?

The Big Pink

rise against never fail to disappoint

hahaha

this pic is amazing. rise against, jeff goldblum, and fucking hunter burgan just chillin on the right hahaha. amazing.

florida

this is so ugly

no neck, no ass, no torso

hro

oh my god

uo sells bikes now! holy hell!

theyre customizable, color-wise, but all come in the same build.

tonight was fun...i want a chihuahua!

ap test scores!!

art history: 3/5

art 2d design: 4/5

english lit: 2/5

psychology: 4/5

well i knew i bombed english, and psych was unreasonably easy. i think it's impossible to fail art, and im really surprised/pleased with art history.

tonight should be fun. should probably get out of bed...

oh my god, must see this!

who is this vonnegut character, i must investigate.

last nite

i saw bruno with caitlin and gavin!! yay! haha i really miss hanging with my high school buddies. they are both from like two different circles of friends i guess so there's never any drama with them. so YEAH. caitlin came over and i borrowed some of her urban decay palette/ mascara which i neeeeed to get some!!! its amahzingg so yeha. it was so good to catch up with her and talk about clothes ad just dumb shit. thenn gavina and his jeep phil came and picked us up and we went to lakeline and hte mall was fucking closed cause it was sunday at like 8 :( so we kinda snuck into up and that was cool beans i guess. caitlin had never seen it so i had to like explain it to her. ah that sonuds so incredibly unnecessary. like this entire post haha. well we watched all of freaking up but we still had another hour to kill before bruno so we journeyed to ihop cuse i hadnt eaten yet and god that was good times haha. uhh we just drew all over napkins. and tipped the waitress generously LOL. umm yeah so we saw bruno, and it was so full of peen after we got out of the movie it was just like really quiet in the car...like we didnt een know what to say...haha then we dropped off caitlin and we decided to drive up to the haunted house next to her house buuut we didnt get out cause i didnt feel like etting brutaly murdered that night and neither did gavin. so we listened to daft punk and jammed. YEAH.

work

is really getting to me. i reallllly am starting to hate it, i dont know, it's just every time i see another fucking family with 2.5 kids walk through the door i just want to yell at them to leave. i should make a chart...

I. What Flavor

A. Cup (Move on to 'C')

B. Cone

1. Sugar Cone

2. Cake Cone

3. Waffle Cone

C. How Many Scoops

1. 1

2. 2

3. 3

D. What Size Scoop

1. Kids Size

2. Regular Size

II. Anything Else? (repreat process)

fucking a!

you know i have to go through this entire process with every single customer! i am soo sick of it. and there is so much drama, it's kind of funny though cause i was discussing this with another co-worker...there's the dark side and the good side...like all the cool people versus all the old people haha. gahh. the other day i was at the mall buying some shoes and i asked the guy how he likes working at the mall and he was like "it's okay..why you looking for a job?" and well to be honest i was. I seriously considered quitting basking robbins. retail would be much nicer, you don't have these health codes to abide by and the mll closes at like 9pm. so i walked out of the vans store with an application.

butttt the mall is a little to far away to work if im living with my mom, and im going to school in august so it would be kind of pointless, but not too bad..ugh. all in all i gave the application to caitlin. OMG haha i have to write about last night.

New paragraph? nah new post lol

florida

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florida

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new albums

grey britain/ gallows

orchestra of wolves/ gallows

the people or the gun/ anti-flag

to-get

cotton jones

miike snow

zero boys

the new white denim album

explosions

owl city

& a gore vidal book perhaps?

finished the road, about a third of the way through the klosterman book. the road = not good beach reading.

hello ira

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feeling kind of sad

on my 18th bday

i dont know why, well yes i do its because i am lonely

ohh man

my arms

my calves

my neck

soo sore from yesterday

also got some new bruises on my feet

still sunburnt obvs

but i wouldnt have it any other way. i fucking love warped.

ezra furman and the harpoons

edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes

whenever i find out that someone in one of my favorite bands has kids, it just makes me wish my dad was a rockstar. that would be so damn cool. i guess he would be away a lot because of touring but...i think it would be okay. god that would be awesome. to be raised by someone with a huge knowledge of and talent for music. amazing.

posers

hate 'em

they know who they are though

so the joke's on them really

it's such a middle school term isn't it

warped tomorrow, not excited for the weather or the new venue theyre having it at

buuuut it'll be funsies, always is

wow

its been awhile since ive had a deep conversation on the phone with anyone, and its been a veryy long while since said conversation has lasted an hour. damn.

i have a new desktop backround

its a little disorienting. going to put some makeup on soon, cause ive decided to not look like shit anymore at work. i got this amahzing new rock and republic eyeshadow (cause apparently they have a makeup line now :D)

.04

One-Armed Scissor/ At The Drive-In

Crimewave/ Crystal Castles Vs. HEALTH

I Woke Up Today/ Port O'Brien

I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (Twelves Remix)/ Black Kids

Kelsey/ Metro Station

Yes/ LMFAO

In Our Talons/ Bowerbirds

Black Metallic/ Catherine Wheel

Neon Bible/ The Arcade Fire

Nervous Breakdown/ Rise Against

Graveyard Girl/ M83

Love, No (Delorean Remix)/ The Teenagers

Trapped Under Ice Floes/ +/-

New Slang/ The Shins

Plantlife/ Autolux

Little Lover's So Polite (Grayarea Remix)/ Silversun Pickups

Track One/ Sigur Ros

I made that one for Zach last...October? September I think...

if i have a boy i wnt to name him ira

coolest name ever

this all depends on his last name though

hmm

idea!

i should put all the mixes ive ever made on here

this should be in a movie

i know this song is so mainstream and overplayed and blah blah blah but its so amazing

summer reading

just finished the klosterman book and holy hell, it was delicious. must. have. more. klosterman.

others i found on my bookshelf that i need to read...

The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Devices And Desires by P.D. James

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

some Tintin books for nostalgic reasons

some i want to get

Mandala by Pearl S. Buck

Mansion On The Hill by Fred Goldman

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

more Klosterman in any way, shape, or form

eventually I will bring myself to finishing Pride And Prejudice...but...i can't read Jane Austen unless im in the right mood...

yes please

sha sha sha shapping

the barton creek hollister is way less picked over

tomorrow

will consist of packing!

i'm wide awake,

it's (technically) morning

look what i gotttt

:D its so good

holga, where are you?

you know i probably shouldve at least applied to UT.

i really want to see this movie but it's not playing anywhere around here!! it was directed by david bowie's son and has gotten pretty good reviews.

what goes with these?

they were on sale so i got a pair..i think like charcoal would go well...white and black obviously..hmm

fuck miranda i have no idea what to put on it!

thoughts

i finally watched the rest of fast times at ridgemont high and was totally posotive that it was my new favorite movie. ive kind of been on this 70s/80s high school movie tangent for awhile because theyre so damn happy and hilarious and badass. i guess im just living a little vicariously through them cause my high school years were pretty lame. anyways so i followed fast times up with dazed and confused. while i was watching dazed and confused i kept trying to compare the two and it was so wierd, like i kept waiting for something zany to happen. but then i realized that fast times is like a typical romantic comedy, while dazed and confused it more of a drama/ character study. not all high school movies are the same i have come to realize. actually, dazed and confused stands apart. grease, fast time, breakfast club even, they all have that same comedy element. dazed and confused is a slice of life.

also the whole time i was watching i could not get over how much pink looked like andrew vanwyngarden!

i hate you

i am now going to revert back to before i knew you.

asshole.

let me wallow in my sorrows for second

todays been a whole shitload of terrible

and cat power is such a downer. i hate the internet. i wish i lived in the 70s. heard they were fun. if you lived in socal at least.

you know what i shouldve bought at waterloo

explosions in the sky/ octopus project tickets...only $20!!! ahh that would be the best fourth of july ever. and it's my birthday eve :)

oh man i need to ask off that day but im already asking off the 2nd for warped...and the 5th for my bday...hmmm.....

i have so much to do it's like school never ended.

now in possession of

grand by matt and kim

something else by the kinks

plague park by handsome furs

somewhat successful

so i go to buffalo xchange about once a year. and holy crap they did some remodeling. took freaking forever to look at everything...skipped the jeans and 'blouses' b/c im not that patient. and its hot out. blah. ended up wlking out with a nice yellow am appy tank, voxtrot band tee, and some weird white tee with a picture of some hipsters on it? it's like reverse irony...anyways i also got his little necklace that has a television set charm and this really nice italian leather satchel/ messenger bag thing that smells like cigarettes. YAY.

another summer song

kinda old but w/e

i just dont have time to read every freaking music blog anymore

im bu$y haha

i miss going to the alamo and reading the onion before the movie. also i need to check the chronicle for some upcoming shows :] wow i sound like a yuppie lolol

ugh i wish this week was overrr.

srsly

y cant i just do this for a living

whatsit

what was that thing that zach said at graduation, something like "you owe it to society to not be ignorant, so educate yourself" or something of that nature. i can't stop thinking about that. it's so true. i see people, and they are in their own little bubbles and i wonder if they will ever realize what they are doing to themselves or what they are missing out on due to simple ignorance. i hope to god i'm not like that. i just try to keep my head above water and continue to read, listen, perceive and observe. i don't want to be in anyone else's business but my own really, i was never that person. but enough about me. 

it was soooo weird seeing you today. haha. whatever. i don't care. i don't care to care. id rather stay away. after that whole thing that happened and such. just no. no thanks. 

btw, an albatross is a bird not a fortress. also a band name.

"You could fit a small city-state in your purse"

  -Matt

graduation!

today was full of nice things.

ahh today :]

i set my phone alarm for 1015 because i cant be waking up at 11 all the time! my sleep schedule would get soo off. anyways so i woke up and too ka shower and everything and katie cme down from denton and she was just sitting t the table eating a sandwhich when i cam out of my room, haha. random. anyways i scurried and tried to finish burning zach's cds but i dont thin it worked ll the way....hmm...so then we had to go and drop them off and by his doorbell there was this beetle flailing and being attacked by a spider...it was violent! and heard to watch...so i gave him his cds..then we headed downtown to urban outfitters to get my graduation dress and such. ahhh i need to go there just on a shopping spree or whatever because there are so many irresistible cute things. i tried on this AMAZING blue dress but it had a rip in it, and also it was 72 dollars :( it was so beautiful and floaty, it had an asymmetrical hem (shorter in front) and kind of a t-strap back, and this single long ruffle that went all the way down the back. it was amazing. but i ended up getting this grey one, its strapless though so i dont know if theyll yell at me for not being in dresscode or whatever...but im going to be wearing my gown over it anyways so WHATEVER. i also bought this other heather grey dress that ive had my eye on...its very very lovely and a nice summer thing..

so that's effing beautiful. and i nabbed a cool sampler by the cash register :D i looooove samplers. they always have new music and shiz. and they gave us these wierd ass bags...theyre like cardboard envelopes. wierd. they cant be environmentally friendly..well after that i was HUNGRY and all i wanted was a nice sandwhich from whole foods..btu we didnt have enough time sadly so we just hit up whataburger in cp. then i had to go to work...but it was ok because i got to work with SEAN and MICHAEL ROURKE and KAYLEEEE hahaha...it was a fun time, except for the working part. blah. then zach came in and gave me my cds. yay. we got this customer who had cancer....that was a downer...we gave it to him for free. :\. uhh then other shit happened or something. yep. then i came home and ate a ton of easy mac :] blahhh

so mean but SO FUNNYYYY

"She fell off the ugly tree, and hit every branch. Dude, she's still falling."

-Sean from work

grad dress!

and necklace!

both from urban

I need you defenseless, dependent and alone.

SUMMER HAS COMMENCED

• woke up and got aly
• went to grad practice
• got my new phone, in a victorias secret bag, delivered to me by an ap haha
• ate cake and fruit :)
• saw some people i hope to see sometime this summer
• went home
• ate pizza
• considered going to milburn and laying out
• got dressed and layed out in the backyard instead
• got sunburnt
• took a nap inside
• watched stupid tv
• cleaned my room
• went to the mall for grad dress shopping
• went into nearly every store possible and found nothing
• heard animal collective in american eagle
• saw that zany guy in zumiez again
• came home
• facebook mania haha
• going to find a movie to watch...

yay summer!

and i quote

"glycemic keyboards"

-Pitchfork's review of Manners

who knew

lovely allen had such a nice little bassline

oh my gosh

i wish i had a ride downtown right now so i could go buy a ticket off a scalper. i want to go sooooooooooooooooooooooooo badly.

summer jamz

a nice little list of some songs that are essentil to summer. there isnt much new stuff because i havent been to waterloo in FO'EVA. but these always remind me of summer...nothing too depressing but always catchy.

the album pulled over by kut u up

nothing to worry about- peter bjorn and john

the album manners by passion pit (DUH haha)

keep the car running- arcade fire

sideways here we come- die! die! die!

here i am- the explosion

fox on the run- sweet

fire- jimi hx

20th century boy- t. rex

solid gold- the golden filter

anything by miike snow (yes, two i's not a typo)

holiday in congo- rainbow arabia

love, no *delorean remix*- the teenagers

summer love by JT (duhhh hahaha)

bright lights big city- madcap

baba o'riley- the who

little bit- lykke li (eh)

black heart queen- gallows

disorder- joy division

the party- justice ft. uffie 

the album siren song of the counter culture by rise against

anything by sunset

make damn sure by tbs

anything tom petty

new years day/ pride/ sunday bloody sunday/ etc etc by u2

white denim

holy crap

they just played panda bear on abc. its a show about the earth and how we're killing it and such. thats so COOL.

ugh

why do i have this funny feeling craigslist is going to f me over? i really really really want to go to passion pit tomorrow....but goddamn, $50 for a ticket? am i really willing to pay that much? death cab was $40...the most ive paid for a single show. well the answer is apparently yes, yes i would love to pay 50 dollars to see the passion tomorrow night since ive apparently emailed all those people back saying that 'i would love to take one of those off your hands'.... ASKLDFJA; goshhhh

golden

• woke up/ shower
• lazed round/watched tv
• went to capezio and bought some new ballet slippers
• work
• recital
• chilis
• home
• sleep

this summer

i promise to read more

well

im all settled in to spend the next ten days at my dad's house. im happy that i can get away from all the tension and 'drama' (if you will) at my other home, and im looking forward to some new freedoms...i guess...but i really miss my cats, and my own bed. and my room. and my mom. i'm sorry. 

i ended up leaving the 'gown' of my cap and gown there so i hav eto arrange for t to be given to me...before graduation...sigh

i cant wait to curl up in bed and listen to ira glass and al his chicago lisp-iness. i need more skirts and dresses cause i think i hate shorts.

gah! battle of the bands :)

so today was the second annual vista ridge battle of the bands YAY. kinda. at first i didnt really wan to go, because everyone said that they weren't going and shit and all the bands were going to be crappy and blah blah blah...but i promised mr o and he said to get there by 545 or something so went! and i hung up a sign and checked some locked gates or something and then i was home free. there were some cool cats there and i ended up cheeelling with miranda/kathleen/miss fuston the whole night. many dick jokes were made. i love those girlies. nick's band won. yeppp.

i'm so scared that blink is going to sell out, but i have noooo fucking idea if i would even be able to go....its on like a wednesday or thursday in september..in dallas....and i will be in lubbock....ahhh but i HAVE to go. this isn't like the cure or anything. this band is my fucking childhood....my preteen years, my teenage years, my young adulthood...a;lskfjalkj

real eyes realize real lies

i saw this phrase in the mohawk bathroom awhile ago. love it.

oh my gosh

so remember when i used to be totally obsessed with afi. it was before this blog, before i started liking much indie music, before anything.

well i havent listened to them in about two years, like at all. cold turkey. then for some reason i decided to look up their performance at warped from 2006. my first warped. for old times sake. they were the only reason why i went to warped that year. anyways it was a grainy shitty clip of the leaving song pt 2 and it was so wierd, seeing that place again and kind of reliving it, in a way. somehow i still remember alll of the lyrics... it was so freaking surreal. i used to be SO in love with them, like, i havent felt that way about anything, ever. anyways so im just kind of rediscovering them again. listening to sing the sorrow again and df-ing it up :D

kyle invited me to go to six flags with him on monday but i already made plans with my mom to go graduation dress shopping. i havent been to six flags in sooo long and i love roller coasters, but i kind of owe this to my mom i think...i dont know, its just that my days with her are limited before i head off this fall and i really do want to spend time with her. 

yep

rereading this again

gets more and more awesome everytime. it makes me feel so ignorant for not owning a fugazi/ breeders/ replacements/ pavement/ husker du album...love it..

disorienting

naps are

devotchka=

younger sibling of arcade fire

ahhh

sooo close to summer! :) prom was awesome, except for that one thing...haha..i still have a bruise from the iv :\ but luckily tomorrow is the last day i have to take prednisone. yay.  tired of being drugged up.

graduation dress shopping is in order. uo hereth i cometh. 

ehh

so sick going to school all week and working all weekend...have to miss out on barton springs with hawee and her donnie :( but soon i will be laying out on the boat with some pringles and watah..

also

why is it that in all my ap classes we are still doing a shit ton of work...tests were last week....lameee..

my dear

this does not concern you.

leave it alone.

...

well i just want to say

that everytime i get really pissed off about you, or whatever, i just take comfort in the idea that the real world is not far off. and i take comfort in the idea that you will fail in it. i know what you are. you are not a good person. you are manipulative, catty, and you are an attention seeker. and it's time to grow up dear.

the black heart king has met his black heart queen

if no doubt were to go on tour around here, then i would def try and see them...

modern art

i like, know shit about it now. it feels good to know things. i like gaining knowledge. i dont understand when people dont apply themselves and try to do the same. 

fauvism- matisse. bold colors, thick lines.

dada- a joke on art itsself, undermines the notion that art has meaning. man ray.

suprematism- transcendental; doesnt use images or objects to evoke feeling. raw emotions blah blah blah.

constructivism- building sculptures out of pieces

cubism- picasso. synthetic cubism= collages. 

realism- paintings about boring, everyday life. courbet or whoever said that painters should only paint from their time period and only their immediate surroundings

romanticism- either depicted nightmarish images (saturn eatings sons/ fransisco goya) or soft colors, outdoor images

futurism- futurists liked industry, were like socialists. many died in the war because they supported it and joined the military.

surrealism- connections to freud, mind/body/conscience divisions, dreams were depicted. dali, obviously.

post impressionism = van gogh

see ethan, i can encode shit into my long term memory! yay.

edward weston- nude

we are so small

fffflllaaaassshhhhbbbaaacccckkkkkkkkkkkk

also saw star trek this weekend, i think im going to try and see it again because it was unbelievably awesome! today before work i went to target and looked at the mothers day card section and it was completely sold out..so i got this really nice blank card from some paper company...the card was sooo pretty...so i got that and the next aisle over was candles so i decided to get a lavender candle and a little paper bag to put it all in.  i headed straight to work which was in a complete state of disarray due to the existing rush, and unexpectedly my mom comes in so i run in the back and try to throw together the gif and sign the card and everything then i run to the front and give it to her...yeah..finally i have a good weekend...