Dancepunk is the Way to Go
Can’t Stop Listening To:
“Disco Blood” – Shitdisco
“Just One Week of Danger” – The Virgins
“I Am a Tree” – Guided by Voices
“Just Like Everybody Else” – The Kinks
“You Only Live Once” – The Strokes
• band practice has been going well… feeling like dancepunk is the way to go
• counted up my original songs the other day… have more than I thought
• made first student loan payment… gay… oh well, still a pretty good deal for all the experience and perspective I’ve managed to cram into my two majors and 1.5 Honoursy thingies
• calculated how much “I have cost” over the past 7-8 years, not that bad, especially considering how I’ve lived about 30 years of live in those 7…
• I am dirt poor, though… going to move back to Orem for a bit so I can buy an amp…
• saw Paul with Steve… went to Good Earth for happypeanutbuttergooughballs and somehow struck myself in the eye with a shopping cart…
• then that hard day with Lando that caused me to reflect on whether it’s actually better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all… I think it is? recorded a whole vocal pndering on the subject while walking around at midnight after seeing The Fighter…
• crashed that Shamrock n’ Roll party by hopping blinding over the fence… cool entrances are important
• cool entrance didn’t make up for me losing Flip Cup for our team :(
• ballsily getting that girl’s phone number after doing Britney’s “Toxic” at
karaoke, though, may have made up for it…
• Aunt Ami visited! dinner at G’ma’s…
• got my 4th iPhone in a row thanks to warranty coverage – and ran into Jason Torfin at the Apple Store! been meaning to talk to that guy! I’d love to work with him…
• Hanging out with the Robbinses, tried on a pair of fancypants stylish-man shoes that Brandon brought home – they fit my monster bear feet! FTW
• got a wisdom tooth extracted… Dr. Johnson’s (of Orem) office was teh shiz good… a couple hours later I was at play practice and I’ve been unswollen and functional all week with only small regular doses of Ibuprofen… and also blood was trickling down my throat for a couple of days… so I covered the taste by eating lots of dark chocolate… and I realize that my favourite colours are blood and chocolate…
• director’s having Tristan be more selfish… this is good in that it helps me not just play myself for the role but have to stretch a bit
• guest director came in and worked with Mallory and myself and totally hit the spot as to what needed doing… he even just gave us time to talk and bond as people, which was definitely overdue… opened up about a TONNNN of stuff in a very short time and, yeah, we became legit friends at least a little bit… supergood…
• managed to get someone to cover for me so I could do the Idaho/Montana roadtrip with Greg, Max, and Luke… so very very glad I did that… good to rewrite some roadtrip memories, to reuse my two-person sleeping bag – :( – to meet strangers and crash on floors and have adventures and eat things and stare at landscape and swap music and tell stories and get to know one another and philosophize and bond and meet family members and see childhood locations and breed inside jokes and become better friends and… yeah… a great 4 days!
• now I’m back home, about to move back to old home… I’ve been amp shopping for hours everyday and that’s taking the sting out of it…
• some All Creatures Great and Small before bed, methinks… let’s just pray it doesn’t have me crying again… I watch this show with the idea of being calmed and cheered before bed, not enweepened!… honestly, I don’t know how many more nights of bitterly wistful stress dreams I can endure… I am surely due for at least another yearish of loneliness, and I’m prepared to handle that, but these dreams are honestly such a kick in the crotch!… please just let this episode of ACGS feature healthy, amusing dogs and sheep and not sad ones…
