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i miss kim, zach, and james.

your teeth taste faintly of flesh and gold.

listen. i know i said that i would stop, and i did. it's just now that i actually have internet again, i felt like starting again. but i will buy cds still. don't worry. my latest acquisition (or at least my favorite one) is 'jenny lewis with the watson twins'. it is great. i love jenny lewis. and i will buy the cd ('rabbit fur coat') once it comes out on the 24th. but i had to since i love this woman's music. one song, and i guess it is a cover, had matt ward, conner oberst, and ben gibbard doing some harmonizing and stuff. sounds good other than gibbard. if i can find fault in ms. lewis, it is that she likes singing with mr. gibbard. but i guess that can be forgiven.

i also noticed that they (i don't know who 'they' are, but it was them nevertheless) decided to release the seu jorge studio recordings for life aquatic. i think he may be why i like that movie more than others do. and now i have the 14 songs he recorded for the movie. yet another product of downloading. shut up.

earlier this week, my blinkers on my car stopped blinking. they just stayed on. so i had to blink them by hand which was irksome, and i recieved much flack from rachel, but it was all in good fun. yesterday i went out and bought a new flasher relay in hopes of putting it in and having turn signals that worked properly. after ripping apart my dashboard, i was barely able to get near the right component, but nevertheless succeeded in replacing the flasher relay. now my blinkers work. and better still: they blink at a normal rate and very quietly. i am so very excited over this. ever since i have had this car (4 or 5 years now) i always hated my blinkers and would complain about them with whoever was in the car with me. but now, it's like i have a whole new car, except for it has the same ugly-ass color with scrapes on the bumper from where a car and a telephone pole hit me and lots of dust on the dashboard. i want to go out driving and make lots of turns so i can use my blinkers. i love it. i absofreakenlutely love it.

this is my last weekend before school starts, and it is about time. i also need a job, but do not want to go back to the paint store. hopefully someone will call me back. oh, and i got my diploma from evangel today. i think schools should frame the things for you, especially if it cost you $55,000+ or whatever to get it. i'm glad they remembered the magna cum laude, though. that's all i cared about last semester.

harry potter 4 on dvd march 7th. and a-team season 3 on dvd january 31st.

my beard should be thicker.

yesterday i saw a movie. i know. that's crazy. honestly, i wasn't too thrilled when i knew i gonna go, but it was virtually free. see, jessie had a gift card to regal, so she invited me to go see a movie with her. she wanted to see 'memoirs of a geisha'. i said 'sure. why not?' i'll tell you why not: cause it is nearly impossible to watch a movie that is so intent on depicting a side of japenese culture that is usually hidden (or at least not prominent), but the whole thing is done in english. i knew that going into it, which is why i didn't really want to see it too much. i was pissed off the whole time because they could have spoken in japanese or any other language not english and it would have made the movie almost good. i found myself disinterested with the plot. i didn't care about the geisha girl. as far as i am concerned, the movie was comparable to 'pretty woman' (even though i never saw it) in terms of the prostitute-type girl falling in love with a client-type person and vice-versa. in all, i would not watch it again, even if they refilmed it in japanese. maybe they thought it too difficult to have all the chinese actors and actresses speak japanese, so they settled on english. i'm sorry, but that made the story even less believable. poo on you.

after coming back to my (parent's) house, i needed to watch something interesting. i bought 'the united states of leland' a while ago at hollywood video since it was cheap. i watched it. i think it was really good. very depressing and lots of interesting views on life and excuses for doing the stuff we do and whatnot. i enjoyed it, but it left me with a similar feeling that i had after watching 'donnie darko'. i think the key word is depression. i felt depressed. it was a combination of the story with the powerful, yet subtle, soundtrack. i guess jeremy enigk wrote the majority of the songs and scores in 'leland' and they are quite good. i'm just mad that they never released the soundtrack anywhere. there were many good artists throughout the movie. poo on you for no released soundtrack, but props for making a good movie. have a candy cane. they are cheap now.

i've written two more songs since i have been home, and i am quite proud of them. i know you were interested in that. that's why i told you.