good hair day two

good hair day

Elliot Smith

"My favorite shows are the ones where it seems like every song is a bullfight. I either want to do the bullfight or not do the bullfight. I don’t want to be like, ‘I squeaked by. Hurray!’ Sometimes it seems like the audience reacts that way -- like, ‘Alright. He made it.’ That’s how I take it anyway."

lomoglory

my sushi experiment

Assignments in the foreseeable future, part 2.

As I finished my last list of assignments, here's what's ahead of me now.

Journalism research assignment (Wednesday
Online Journalism Research Test (Wednesday)
Journalism Midterm (Thursday)
Ivan article (Friday/Monday
Journalism shoe box assignment
Contemporary Critical Theory essay
Online Journalism Backgrounder
Major Feature First Draft
Online News Feature Proposal
Journalism Beat Presentation and Essay
Journalism Major Feature Draft 1
Romantic Era essay proposal

All due first week in April:
Romantic Era Essay
Renaissance Drama Essay
Contemporary Critical Theory essay
Journalism Major Feature
Journalism Essay
Online Journalism Feature package

in the dead of winter

Tanya Davis.

This is the poem by Tanya that I used for my Contemporary Critical theory essay. It was awesome.

You are being a crush to me as the crushes I had in high school.
I wanted to call but I’m nervous
And so I’m fighting urges to write your name all over my notebook pages.
I’ve had you in my dreams on numerous occasions.
And lately I find myself missing bits of conversation,
Because instead of listening
I’m drifting off into visions of me and you together
In some kitchen and we’re against the counter top
or the fridge and we’re kissing.
The food lays behind waiting for us to stop so we can fix it
call it dinner and then sit with cups of tea.
It is a sweet scene but it is only a daydream
You are being a crush to me but you don’t even know how big.

i have a ridiculouly fantastic life.

This is Great Lake Swimmers from last night. Soon, more to come.

Today I made a big play list, called Another. after a Dave Eggers short story title. It contains all of my favorite CDs and I plan on playing it on random for a while. It shall tide me over until I find my Ipod cord.

the village voice

Start with her snaking, spooky take on "New York, New York," which takes the popular version's beaming optimism and puts an ironic spin on it: The languid keys and Marshall's stuporous drawl are more suggestive of Ratso Rizzo than Old Blue Eyes. This lived-in-bars mood persists. Hank Williams's "Ramblin' Man" gets a narcotic rendering driven by ghostly organ chords and a moaning slide guitar; Billie Holiday's "Don't Explain" is heavier than a boxcar. George Jackson's "Aretha, Sing One for Me," is upbeat by comparison, with Marshall's Dirty Delta Blues Band digging in like the pros they are, but even it can't shake the depressive barroom vibe of the proceedings.