What the hell, summer spell.

this too shall pass

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:21:48 -0500

this too shall pass

Brad Walsh and Christian Siriano on Halloween

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:31:58 -0500

Brad Walsh and Christian Siriano on Halloween

Dum Dum Girls - Catholicked Dum Dum Girls is in this...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:49:00 -0400

Dum Dum Girls - Catholicked

Dum Dum Girls is in this month’s NYLON (featuring as its cover girl the unknown indie actress Megan Fox). The blurb describes the music as sounding like Nirvana and the Ramones, which makes it clear that the author was thinking of this song and not, say, “Baby Don’t Go” (featured in this episode of I Love My Wife).

There’s something enchanting about a tune that’s equally poppy and haunting. That declaration that wraps up the chorus—“My sins are my own”—I feel it so deeply, without knowing what it means.

Gratuitous photo of yourself Wednesday I tried to take a photo...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:23:00 -0400

Gratuitous photo of yourself Wednesday

I tried to take a photo of myself looking genuinely happy but found that it didn’t translate. I guess in photos, I’m better at looking bored.

I have to open at work on Halloween but I like Día de los Muertos better anyway. Plans are to make pan de muerto with my friends Max and Kristyn, and also to buy and eat one of these chocolate skulls.

Queen - We Are the Champions I just drafted a baby paper and...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:22:00 -0400

Queen - We Are the Champions

I just drafted a baby paper and found an advisor for my honors thesis today, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.

From The Onion, “New Anti-Smoking Ad Warns Teens...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:51:05 -0400

From The Onion, “New Anti-Smoking Ad Warns Teens ‘It’s Gay to Smoke.’” NSFW but who cares.

I can be nostalgic for things that happened 10 minutes ago. I...

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:43:20 -0400

I can be nostalgic for things that happened 10 minutes ago. I can be nostalgic for right now.

This is a photo of me laughing with my friend Allison in 2006. What were we laughing about? What made us so happy? At the time I knew, but for the rest of my life I’ll never remember. Sometimes I think of lapses like these and feel a genuine sense of loss or mourning.

I feel the same thing when I think of my childhood or teenage expectations for the age I’m at right now. All those fantasies I had about the carefree life I would lead, knocked out cold by reality.

Herman Dune - Don’t Lie The vocals make me think of The...

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:27:19 -0400

Herman Dune - Don’t Lie

The vocals make me think of The Weakerthans’ John K. Samson. The production and song structure make me think of the 90s/early aughts K Records roster.

(via amychance)

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:24:57 -0400

(via amychance)

Whole Foods sells a baby bib that says "I Love Sushi"

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:19:11 -0400

reality or David Brooks joke?

(via davidmanque)

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:09:45 -0400

(via davidmanque)

Yesterday there was no heat in my apartment and I had to sleep...

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:40:38 -0400

Yesterday there was no heat in my apartment and I had to sleep in wool tights. I walked to Walgreens today in order to buy a space heater, tripped and fell in the middle of the road, strained my shoulder in so doing, and got sent home from work cause I can’t lift heavy things. Now I am at my computer, sometimes working and sometimes procrastinating.

On the bright side, there is finally heat in my apartment.

"At your age, I wouldn’t be so quick to remind God you’re still alive."

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:40:28 -0400

“At your age, I wouldn’t be so quick to remind God you’re still alive.”

- My punk rock bubbie, on my zadie’s zealous praying.

The Breeders - I Just Wanna Get Along In an alternate universe...

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:01:59 -0400

The Breeders - I Just Wanna Get Along

In an alternate universe in which I am an adolescent in the ’90s, I dance to this song at parties.

amychance: (via fuckyeahfashionn) I like this because it looks...

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:00:26 -0400

amychance:

(via fuckyeahfashionn)

I like this because it looks like a group of sexy superheroes that fight crime at Yeah Yeah Yeahs shows.

I’ve been offline cause of school and work.

My college major

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:49:00 -0400

is Spanish. No more Creative Writing for the Media Program, which I could only do if I majored in Film. It’s narrative that I love, not film specifically.

One of the professors is going to let me do an independent study version of her class. I’ll miss being around other people who also aspire to make careers out of the fickle field that is screenwriting.

In my head I’m going to graduate and then take a few years off from school, work with a publisher or an agent to find out how a manuscript/screenplay becomes a book/film, and then go back to school for more Spanish and a possible teaching career. I’ll be writing creatively all the while. At some point, maybe my creative writing will become my career. But whether anyone knows or cares, I will always be writing. I could give up writing no more easily than I could unzip my skin.

As for how all this will work out in three-dimensional, real life? You’ll find out when I do…

This is who I was in high school

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:19:05 -0400

I blogged this on June 6th 2004, less than a month into being 16. I was listening to R.E.M.’s “Document” on the hand-me-down record player I kept in my room:

“People say shit about me being individual. But could anyone really tell me what the difference was between a conversation with me, and a conversation with some other, similar girl?

And as for the flaws, I don’t know what irritates people. People get pissed if you’re too happy, too sad, too insecure. Perpetually perky people are like annoying, constantly buzzing flies; depressed people never have fun; insecure people smother you with their need for validation (my bad).

So what makes anyone want to talk to me? I mean, what person, in what situation, could meet me, and then decide that (s)he would want to see me again? Voluntarily?”

There’s some John Hughes quotation about how in high school, you’re about as serious as you’ll ever be in your life. I was in my head all the time, unsure how to determine what mattered, feeling terribly uncertain about how to fill the time between waking up and going to sleep.

"Where is all the magic hot boy potion that I can mist on every male I see?"

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:18:46 -0400

“Where is all the magic hot boy potion that I can mist on every male I see?”

- Me, to Matthew. Seriously, does anybody know?

Old Hard Candy ad via The Amy Face

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:57:12 -0400

Old Hard Candy ad via The Amy Face

“Maybe tonight, I’ve got a question for...

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:16:00 -0400

“Maybe tonight, I’ve got a question for you.”

I finally have internet in my new place!

My cousin Caryn just got married on Sunday. I’ve been thinking about weddings ever since. As for this song, it’s definitely very sentimental, but I can’t imagine being cynical enough to dislike it.

I’m beginning to find that in spite of my sarcastic sense of humor and generally straightforward behavior, I’m quite sentimental. It’s a side of my personality I didn’t really expect to discover.