i remember making a list of these in september, so here it is.

• surprise surprise - postcards from italy, beirut
• a song to pass the time, bright eyes
• through the roof n' underground, gogol bordello
• catastrophe and the cure, explosions in the sky
• death or glory, the clash (very hard pick)
• the wolves (act I and II), bon iver
• a day in the life, the beatles
• stand by me, ben e. king
• it's worse when you're young, neva dinova
• baby baby, the vibrators
• a certain romance, arctic monkeys
• close your eyes - we are blind, alaska in winter
• sovay, andrew bird

my accident-proneness was at its strongest when i was little, but that doesn't mean it's gone forever :0. I WANT SOME PITY!!!

• falling off a seesaw, moscow
• falling off a swing my grandpa installed in our apartment
• running and cutting my knee open on a metal thing, in a dacha
• blowing my nose too hard and getting a great nosebleed, haha
• falling off a scooter and hurting my whole leg, chicago
• randomly tripping and falling, almost on top of someone in 8th grade even
• falling very gracefully down some stairs as a junior
• missing steps, also 11th grade
• walking into the wall and spraining an ankle, while sleepwalking
• repeatedly falling on my ass while trying...

• staying up past 2 am
  • watching mindless tv
  • playing mindless mahjongg
  • thinking too much ;)
• dumping everything on my table/floor
• eating in my room
• rubbing my eyes
• smoking (recently picked up)
• 'gilmore girls' and 'the nanny' mania, XD
• oh, and malcolm in the middle
• procrastination
• forgetting my phone (also recent)

• get drunk
• get so drunk i black out
• find a job
• graduate from college
• move back to chicago
• get a tattoo
• have a good love life
• remain good friends with linda, paul, molly, etc.
• make friends in school, despite my 'commutership'
• get weed, XD
• have a gallery showing/sell some art?
• read a lot more
• watch 'eraserhead'
• be more fashionable
• somehow avoid taking a blood test ;)

watch how obnoxious this gets.

• barbecues, esp. in indian boundary park
• going for late walks
• lying awake all night
• raining while it's sunny out
• postcards from italy, beirut (even if it was a single)
• saturdays=youth, m83 (even if that album sucked)
• 9 pm, when the grass turns this great shade of green
• lawnmowers at 7 am on tuesdays
• laying around, doing completely nothing
• the libertines
• making collages from vogue
• going to sleep past 2 am
• walking for hours in the sweltering heat
• wheeling's fireworks
• making and breaking plans, then making new plans ;)

• what it's like to be an ant, tiny bug, etc.
• how much care anna wintour places on each issue of vogue.
• if i'm the only one actually this nostalgic about the dumbest things.
• if more heroin = better art.
• what was really up with j.d. salinger.
• how successful a documentary about me and my friends would be.
• why my school had a lockdown when the bomb was supposed to be inside.
• how people figure out mortgages.
• if psychologically abused kids get better grades.
• if mankind is innately good or evil.
• what is also up with easter island.
• how equilibrium eventually catches up with everyone.
• why you always land on the airplane part of 'the wedding singer'.

i'm not a person who says they don't hate anyone. here are some celebrities on my hit list ;).

• chad kroeger - a travesty to music
• miley cyrus - cunt, also travesty to music
• ann coulter - close-minded media whore
• sarah silverman - believes she is funny when many know otherwise
• animal collective - create trashy noise praised by thousands of hipsters and yuppies
• todd stroger - continues to raise prices and taxes in cook county
• john travolta - atrocious actor
• david hasselhoff's daughter - confused privacy with leaking dave's drunk video to the public
• pink - self-proclaimed badass
• sufjan stevens - again, highly generic musician praised far too often

• henri toulouse-lautrec
• vincent van gogh
• edgar degas
• pierre-auguste renoir
• edward gorey
• pieter bruegel the elder
• honore daumier
• leonardo da vinci
• otto dix
• cy twombly?
• claude monet
• el greco
• bill watterson
• jay ryan

• beirut
• bright eyes
• gogol bordello
• the clash
• cold war kids
• arctic monkeys
• the libertines
• the beatles
• the shins
• the strokes
• frank sinatra
• the vibrators
• explosions in the sky
• bon iver
• neva dinova
• miles davis
• richard hell and the voidoids

i've procrastinated. i haven't been to that many concerts (expensive), but here's a list nonetheless.

• kaiser chiefs
• dan deacon +
• the raveonettes
• my chemical romance +
• mindless self indulgence
• vampire weekend +
• taking back sunday (SUCK)
• passion pit (SUCK)
• cold war kids +
• lou reed
• street dogs
• the killers +
• random high school bands (most sucked)
• youth brigade +
• 88 fingers louie (SUCK)
• cock sparrer +
• nofx
• off with their heads

this should be healthy ;).

• postcards from italy, beirut
• sea of love, phil phillips
• the difference in the shades, bright eyes
• an attempt to tip the scales, bright eyes
• stand by me, ben e. king
• the penalty, beirut
• baby baby, the vibrators
• brennan's theme, mushman
• only ones who know, arctic monkeys
• did you dissapoint your god?, neva dinova
• the wolves (acts i & ii), bon iver

there's more but i don't want to make this too long/depressing.

i am a big, big, big fan of huge purses. however, they can't be too huge that i'm incapable of moving my arm. here's a list of things i keep in there.

• wallet
• keys
• cigarettes
• sunglasses
• zune
• old papers, receipts, etc.
• tide-to-go!
• make-up
• lotion
• broken hairbrush
• compacts
• gum
• pens or pencils
• camera
• newspaper/magazine
• the trial, kafka
• lighter

this is a list of things a lot of nu-hippies put on their sites to seem knowledgeable, and therefore, highly pretentious. i am saddened that some of these things coincide with my site, but that's life.

• writing in french
• wanting a british accent
• favorite stores consisting of urban outfitters and godforsaken thrift stores
• thousands of lomography photos
• only listing indie movies as favorites
• placing kafka or dickens or balzac in between fucking twilight in the 'favorite books' section
• putting. periods. after. everything.
• listing various cities in france and austria one wants to visit
• writing out the full name of lipstick, nail polish, et al.
• peace, hippies, and free sex
• self-abasement and insisting one is very ...

i'll try to update this a lot more.

• someone still loves you, boris yeltsin
• vetiver
• the jam
• the kinks
• rocco deluca & the burden
• the buzzcocks
• the adverts
• noah and the whale
• yeasayer
• francois virot
• the magnetic fields
• kocani orkestar
• esthetic education
• the specials
• grizzly bear
• joy division
• louis armstrong
• os mutantes
• psapp
• the pixies

this is since june of 2008, if you don't know... best

• london calling, the clash
• gypsy punks: underdog world strike, gogol bordello
• the flying club cup, beirut
• for emma, forever ago, bon iver
• s/t, neva dinova
• andrew bird and the mysterious production of eggs
• pure mania, the vibrators

worst

• chutes too narrow, the shins
• come on, feel the illinoise, sufjan stevens
• speak for yourself, imogen heap
• talkie walkie, air
• lack of communication, the von bondies

screw the '10 favorite...'. i lived in chicago for a little over 4 years before i started middle school. now i'm going back there and starting columbia in the fall :).

• indian boundary park
• devon ave.
• the art institute
• west rogers park, in general
• ragstock (on belmont & clark)
• reckless records
• chinatown
• shedd aquarium
• touhy ave.
• north park beach
• lawrence & broadway
• john hancock building
• michigan ave.
• the red line
• north ave. beach
• the daley center during the holidays

• a clockwork orange
• a series of unfortunate events
• catcher in the rye
• harry potter series
• the perks of being a wallflower
• the metamorphosis & more kafka
• brave new world
• the da vinci code
• fahrenheit 451
• slaughterhouse-five
• everything is illuminated
• bloomability
• freakonomics
• breakfast of champions
• frisco pigeon mambo
• amphigorey 1, 2, & 3
• please kill me: an uncensored oral history of punk
• candide

i've backed these assholes through most of their antics, and damn it, they're awesome. and highly entertaining. and i'll put what they're accused of.

• kanye west - trashing a singer (?)
• lady gaga - being a slut, unoriginality
• heidi and spencer pratt - attention whores
• jennifer lopez - being a diva
• conor oberst - egotistical freak
• tyra banks - like conor
• iggy pop - overdosed asshole
• chris brown (though his music sucks) - punching rihanna
• hugh grant - cheating on his wife
• kate moss - skinny, cokewhore
• pete doherty - slightly less skinny, cokewhore
• shia labeouf - condescending snob
• eddie murphy - cheating on someone???
• paris hilton - being a dumb cunt

i become more aware of tv during the summer (XD). so i've decided to compile a list of my favorite commercials over the past few years, or at least the ones that stick out most in my mind.

• absolut pillow fight
• dell, with the laptops matching the surroundings
• bacardi, with matt & kim's 'daylight'
• apple, with feist's '1234'
• mcdonald's, with the kids losing a soccer game
• coca cola commercials in general
• u.s. cellular, who is she?
• the old empire carpet ones
• lays, with the chips fireworks
• miss cherie dior, by sofia coppola
• freecreditreport.com, haha

according to my parents, i used to be an avid reader when i was 5 or 6. needless to say, i'm not so much anymore (fucking lazy). so here are books i am reading, or should finish.

• trainspotting - 2/3 done, i still don't know why i haven't finished it
• the count of monte cristo - 1/2 done. attempted countless times, i hate this book
• notes from underground
• woody guthrie's artworks
• 1984 - overrated
• les fleurs du mal, baudelaire
• the stranger, camus
• the trial, kafka - awesome book!
• wish you were here, leslie simon
• one flew over the cuckoo's nest - 2/3 done, i want to buy this

• emile hirsch
• rupert grint
• milo ventimiglia (in the jess days)
• james mcavoy
• leonardo dicaprio
• eminem
• zach condon
• alex turner
• sid vicious
• danny and chris masterson
• adrian grenier
• paul dano
• jude law
• gerard way
• zach braff
• patrick fugit
• joaquin phoenix
• nick zinner
• robert patterson :O

• gilmore girls
• the fresh prince of bel-air
• scrubs
• the daily show
• the colbert report
• the simpsons
• south park
• the cosby show
• divine design
• real estate intervention ;)
• america's next top model
• vh1's 'i love the...'
• the soup
• chelsea lately (believe it or not)
• the nanny
• malcolm in the middle
• magic bullet infomercial

i put 'russian' because i've found that many people i know have no idea why i do some of the things i do.

• a man has to take his hat off indoors.
• if the aforementioned hat is placed on a table, the homeowners will lose money.
• it's bad luck to whistle indoors, or else you'll lose money.
• in the case that someone drops silverware...
  • a fork means a woman will be the next guest.
  • a knife means a man will be the next guest.
  • a spoon means a bear will eat your child (ok, this is total bullshit).
• an empty bottle should be placed on the floor.
• our version of knocking on wood - spitting thrice over the left shoulder.

and i usually hate discussing school, haha. some are related to my major (fine arts), some are just a waste of money.

• anatomical modeling
• history of 20th century art
• dada, surrealism, and futurism
• figure modeling and scultping studio
• cartooning
• german culture in the weimar republic
• taste, class, and gender in modern france
• comparative religions
• philosophy 1
• literature on film
• doing time in america
• writing argumentative essays
• natural disasters?

• a clockwork orange
• little miss sunshine
• wristcutters: a love story
• hotel rwanda
• the virgin suicides
• elephant
• sid and nancy
• mean girls
• garden state
• coming to america
• love actually
• my big fat greek wedding
• marie antoinette
• ferris bueller's day off
• the panic in needle park
• shaun of the dead
• the shining
• romeo + juliet
• the pink panther series
• pieces of april
• trading places