• Fantastic Mr. Fox!
  • I think me, my sister, and my dad might go see this sometime this week. At least I sure hope we do!
• The Virgin Suicides
• The Big Lebowski
  • This has been sitting on the under-the-TV DVD shelf in my apartment since APRIL. That is over 6 months folks.
• Say Anything
  • John Cusack...I love him.
• High Fidelity
  • For this I shall add an additional swoon of love for John Cusack.
• Amelie
  • Everyone has seen this. Everyone says it'...

This is why the world has been a nice place to be during these last 24 hours.

• Going to work to get my paycheck and buying some really loud obnoxious fuschia lipstick.
• Getting home and finding a really nice letter and check from Grandma Barbara.
• Going to Baja Burrito for tas-t munchin's with Dad, Madd, and Merrill
• Making a very spur of the moment decision to dye my hair.
• Listening to Pavement and having an epic sing-along to songs like "Cut Your Hair" and "Shady Lane" on the drive from Baja to Walgreens with Madd.
• The myriad of amazing and odd things in that Walgreens.
  • Like the evil clown mask that had an enormous curly red beard. And the mask of Satan wearing a trucker hat. And the bin of ...

Today was an FML-worthy day. At first, it was kind of funny. Then it got old.

• I wake up 6 AM and leave the house at 7 to brave the rush-hour traffic as I make my way across town for my 8 o'clock graphic design class.
• The weather is shit and due to the rain, the traffic is backed up for miles, and by the time I reach the half-way mark to my school, class has already started.
• Knowing that I will arrive at school too late to allowed into my class, I go job-hunting instead before heading back to my apartment. Knowing that I have nothing to eat at my apartment, I use my last $3.50 to buy some cereal.
• I leave Target to go to the mall to use the internet and wander, only to have my car break down in the mall parking lot. A nice security guard comes at jumps it and I am able to successfully park.

• Find places other than Fido and the McDonald's parking lot I'm in right now to use the internet.
  • Although I do love the people-watching at Fido.
• Start that Uncle Jesse Tribute Street Gang, The Rippers that Madd and me talked long ago about starting.
• Get off the computer and out of this shady McDonald's lot and get some grocery shopping.
  • Yay late night grocery shopping and living right down the road from an all-night Kroger!
• Get home and watch some Skins with Maddy!
  • I'm a bit addicted to that show at the moment. And would totally marry Sid. Or Ton...

• Not only do I make a mean Oatmeal M&M Walnut Cookie, I also make a mean friendship bracelet.
  • Which is why everyone wants to be my friend.
    • I'm just being facetious up there by the way.
• I've noticed that when I find an outfit that makes me like being me, I tend to wear it a lot.
  • That would explain why I've worn my black jeans, moto-boots, denim vest, big ol' Guinness shirt, and butterfly headpiece 3 times in the last 4 days.
• Did you know that Goldfish now makes Graham crackers?
  • They do. They're delicious.

• Lucky Charms. Tasty stuff.
  • Even if they are just Cheap Kroger-Brand Imitation Lucky Charms.
• I'm out of milk. Fuck that.
• Boys? Dumb.
  • But I wouldn't mind having one.
• Shuck the Corn.
• Scategories.
• "Life's a bitch and two's a crowd, turn the volume way up loud."
• HH
• Can't wait to curl up in my bed and sleeeeeep.
• I have to be up in a few hours to do a million things. Dammit.
• School. I know they were good years, but every time I look back on them, I just get angry.

• June 5th: Black Moth Super Rainbow at Exit/In.
• June 19th: The Features at Mercy Lounge.
• June 27th: Those Darlins/The Black Lips at Mercy Lounge.
• July 9th: Jay Reatard at The End.
• July 15th: Handsome Furs at Exit/In.
• July 25th: Gogol Bordello at Exit/In.

This will also be a list I will add to.

• Babies or Children That Look Like Middle-Aged Men
  • Funniest, most bizarre thing ever.
• Subdivision Names.
  • They're always so ridiculously snooty. Some of my favorites:
    • The Brass Lantern
    • Princeton–It ain't just a college no mo'.
    • The Georgetown Of Nashville
    • The Estates Of Bon Brook
• Driving In Circles In Cul De Sacs
  • It's late at night, you're driving around, and you're kinda hyper, and you've got some sort of song like "Time To Pretend" or "Wolf Like Me" on the stereo. So what do you do? You go to a cul de sac, turn t...

• Old People Eating Soup
  • Or worse : Old People Eating Shrimp Cocktail. EW!
• When I'm checking stuff out at work and I pick up an item and it's WET.
• This one time when this lady came through my check-out line while flossing her teeth .
• When I'm smoking hookah and I wind up getting ash in my mouth.
• Grotty teeth. I don't mind crookedy ones (I actually kinda like 'em!), but one that are really mossy turn me off.
• Really overly-muscled super-buff body builders. THAT ISN'T ATTRACTIVE!
• When old/middle-aged people come through my line and the reek of cigarette smoke. Ordinarily, I like smelling cigarette smoke on myself or other people, 'cause it reminds me of some really good times, but for some reason, it's just so suffocatingly thick and heavy and disgusting when it's on adults at Targ...

• "Alone, Together"–the Strokes
• "Becky"–Be Your Own Pet
• "Cab Fare"–Souls Of Mischief, "Crystalline"–Morning Teleportation
• "Day Old Blues"–Kings of Leon, "The Dusting"–Dewey Decibel
• "Eyebear"–Gingerbread Patriots
• "Falling Man"–Blonde Redhead
• "The Greater Times"–Electrelane
• "Hummingbird"–Born Ruffians
• "I Don't Need Love I've Got My Band"–The Radio Dept., "Ice Farmer"–Dewey Decibel, "I Don't Wanna Get Over You"–the Magnetic Fields
• "Jesus, Etc."–Wilco
• "King Of The Rodeo"–Kings Of Leon
• "Ladies And Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space"–Spiritualized, "Lover's Spit"–Broken Social Scene, "Lotta Lotta Ladies"–Turbo Fruits
• "Maps"–Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "More Adventuro...

• Katie Holmes
  • Been getting this one since I was 9. In fact, 11 years later, I heard it last night.
• Louise Brooks
  • I've been a bit obsessed with silent film starlets lately, so this one always makes me happy.
• Clara Bow
  • Ditto
• Milla Jovovich
• Michelle Williams
• Zooey Deschanel
• Liv Tyler
• Diane Keaton
• Joey Ramone
  • This was when I was in 10th grade and pai...

• Ooh grrl, that title makes for a tasty meal. I just finished it and now I'm just chillin' at home, waiting to go to my comp class, watching Gossip Girl with Rachel.
  • It kind of annoys me at times, but it's definitely interesting. And JEEZ. Chuck Bass? So freakin' attractive. And I've gotta say, Dan Humphrey got pretty hot in this new season. And Nate Archibald is pretty dang cute too. Too bad they all have ridiculous names.
  • AND. Jenny Humphrey! You are a bitch! And cut yo hair! Those extensions make you look like a skank.
  • Also, I really wanna try playing Gossip Girl: The Drinking Game. Basically you take a shot anytime a text is sent, Serena's sordid past is alluded to, or Dorota makes an appearance, among various other rea...

• Dads On Speed
• The Peppermint Jungle
  • This is a potential name for my zine about working at Target.
• Good Times For A Change
• 52 Girls On Film
• The Listing Attic
• Damnit, I had others, but I can't think of them and I gotta gooo!
• Nashville Skyline
• Cullen Con Carne
• No More Secrets

I shall add to this later!!!

• I am at school. And I have 3 hours in between my first and second classes. I don't live on campus and I'm too new to be buddies with anyone who lives on campus, so there's not much chance of me going back to a dorm for a nappity-nap, and I takes me to long to get from campus to my apartment, so nope, can't go home either.
• So I'm stuck here. So far I have...
  • Eaten a bagel.
  • Drunk some coffee.
    • Because I was ridiculously tired from staying up all night working on homework because, hey! I'm in college now, kids! That's what we do. We stay up all night working and partying and then we go to class the next morning all jacked up on Redbull and espresso.
  • Walked around campus and the surrounding ...

• I love cool adults.
  • Like the other day at work, I was in the locker room and I dropped my Walkman and the Joy Division CD I was listening to fell out and this new lady who started working at El Target last week and is like 40ish picked it up and was like "Oh no! And what a shame that it happened while you were listening to Joy Division!"
    • That sparked a big conversation about great 80's bands and I found out that she loves Joy Division and the Smiths, had listened to New Order on her way to work and was a total 80's gal back in the day and had half her head shaved and she showed me one of her wedding pictures from '87.
      • Then the next day she gave me an awesome mix of The Smiths, New Order, The Cure, D...

• I make a mean Oatmeal M&M Walnut Cookie. Dayum.
• Autopsy is really really shitty horror movie. Most films that go to the After Dark Film Fest and then wind up on FearNet are. Lake Dead, anyone?
  • But admittedly, it did scare the shit out of me (not Lake Dead...Good Lord, no. I'm a-talkin' about Autopsy.) Like seriously. That movie was nasty. Normally I can deal with gore, but gahhh...That scene where The Final Girl finds her boyfriend and then turns on the lights and sees that his chest and abdomen has been hollowed out and all his internal organs (though still attached to him) are just hanging from the ceiling, hooked up to machines and still pulsing and beating...Ughhhh. That creeped me out.
  • And just to get back to Lake Dead, um...H...

• Nicholas Hoult
• Matthew Gray Gubler
• Harry Treadaway
• Luke Treadaway
• Joe Dempsie
• Dave Monks
• Julian Casablancas
• Nick Valensi
• James Franco
• Matthew Followill
• Michael Cera
• Noel Fielding
• Heath Ledger
• John Cusack
• Landon Pigg
• Faris Badwan
• Coffin Joe
• Coffee-Shop Spot
  • As well as that New Guy That Looks An Awful Lot Like Coffee Shop Spot But Isn't

This will be a very cheezy list.

• The Elephant Parade Scene from Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
  • It's the soundtracking that has a lot to do with why I love this scene. Jon Brion's score in Eternal Sunshine just gets me every time, sending my heart into back-flips from the second the orange and blue Focus Films logo fills the screen, accompanied by a few lonesome piano chords and it never lets up. This scene is one of my favorites–Even though it's only 26 seconds long, "Elephant Parade" is an exquisite song, and when paired with the vision Joel and Clementine standing on a crowded, sparkly city street watching a parade of firecrackers and elephants go by while Mary's voice floats dreamily through the background, reciting the verse from the Alexander Pope poem from which the movie gets its name, makes me melt...

• Hipsters

You wanna look cool and be percieved as unique–I get it, we all do. But putting on every neon-colored item at American Apparel and washing it all down with some over-sized glasses, cocaine, and hip electronica is not the way to go about it. I also really dislike how certain bands, movies, books, and brands are considered hipster just because these clones are attracted to them. Oh, and worst of all, no one these days can use an analogue camera without being labled as a hipster, just because of those douchbags' overly-proclaimed love of Polaroids.

• People Who Assume That Owning A Pricey Digital Camera Automatically Makes Them A Great Photographer

I don't care if you took a bunch of shots of carnations on setting that takes out ..._artsy_ photographer. I love Lomography products...

• Milo
• Stella
• Monet
• Sebastian
• Emmeline (but pronounce Emma-lynn)
• July
• Arlo
• Dorian
• Helen
• Teddy
• Penelope
• Daisy
• Nikolai
• Margot (MUST be with a T!)

• When I get obsessed with something, I never see it coming, but when it hits, it hits hard and whatever the current obsession is becomes a huuuge part of my current life until the obsession dies down.
  • According to the Enneagram Made Easy, 4's (Romantics–My personality type) as children often will latch on to a personal hero–be it a parent, teacher, friend, celebrity, etc. This probably has something to do with that.
• There have been art obsessions.
  • Making mixes with elaborate cases.
  • Making gigantic pop-art paintings of various musicians.
  • Embroidering.
  • Collage-ing.
  • Journaling in very tiny handwriting on elaborately-decorated pages.

• Last night was good. It featured
  • The best hookah I have ever smoked...The clouds of smoke were so big and thick and foggy and hit real nice and it was almost never harsh. Mmm, it was wonderful.
  • Me and Rachel whooping Jeremy, Matt, Tyler, and John's asses at poker.
  • Appleyjuicevodkadranks. They looked like pee. But they tasted much better luckily.
  • Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job and Balloon Shop. And some King Of The Hill and Family Guy.
  • Listenin' to some Bright Eyes with El Johnsworth.
  • Sleepin' warm and cozy on an air mattress that made me get the song "Air Mattress" by Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band stuck in my head multiple times.
• This morning has been also good so far. I...

In case you haven't noticed, crappy horror movies are some of the most fantastically-titled things in the world.

• Santa's Slay
• Gary Busey Is...The Gingerdead Man!
  • You know that if it's got Gary Busey, it'll be hilarious.
• Mexican Werewolf In Texas
• Uncle Sam: I Want You...DEAD!
• The Mummy An' The Armadillo
• Frankenhooker
• Snoop Dogg's Hood Of Horror
• Study Hell
• Motorhome Massacre
• The Nun: Not All Water Is Holy
  • Um, sheer brilliance, folks!
• Chopper Chicks In Zombietown

This is also I list I shall add to. Muah-ha-ha-ha-ha.

• Various commercials. Namely these:
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtoaYgc0l...
    • This one is the KING of cheezy commercials! It's the flute! That damn flute, I tell you! It's so creamy and annoying!
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHQj-3DXK...
    • Any commercial involving this guy and that dog will automatically fall into the creamy catagory.
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_yUcNG6Q...
    • I will retract my statement that the Pillsbury Commercial is the King of cheezy commercials. This one takes the cake. BY FAR.
• Mischa Barton's voice.
  • I mean, if you've ever watched The OC, I'...

• "Exercise Daily–Walk With God."
• (One that I saw today, during exams and finals season) "Prepare For Finals: Read Your Bible."
  • Who comes up with these?
• "Pobody's Nerfect."
  • It took Madd a minute to figure that one out.
• (Around Mother's Day) "Thanks, Mom. You did your best."
  • That's reassuring to a mother's heart.
• My favorite: "How 'bout that Jesus?"
  • I laughed a lot when I saw that one. It still makes me laugh.
• "Happy Hour: 9:30AM"
• "7 Days Without Prayer Makes One Weak."
• "God can turn your EFIL around."
• "Pretending does not fool Jesus."

• Waking up to Jamie T in good spirits after a good night.
• My zine is almost complete!
• Playing the Strat at Dad's after not having played an electric guitar in a long while.
• Going for a walk with Maddy...
• ...And then telling those douchebags who kept yelling at me that my dress looked like a garbage bag and that I shouldn't litter to rip their dicks off, or at least pull out the ones they had up their asses.
  • Nothing annoys the rich redneck snobs that inhabit Brentwood like questioning their manhood.
  • And questioning it felt damn good. Same with yelling it very loudly in a bustling uptight suburban neighborhood.

• Doing some Pilates.
  • I have the apartment all to myself, and being a person that hates to work out in front of others, this is a prime opportunity to do so.
• Swimming.
  • My complex's pool just opened up this week. And I am a big fan of night swims...Too bad I just realized that the pool closes in 10 minutes...But really, why close at 9?
• Working on some sort of art project.
  • I have 1 mix to finish, and 2 cases for said mixes to finish, and need to finish the case I'm making for this Brothers Of The Head DVD I got off of half.com that came without a case (hence the shocking low, low price).

• Fruity Pebbles
  • Once upon a time, back when I was in kindergarten, during lunchtime, my friend Cece told me a story about a kid who ate Fruity Pebbles and then blew up. I full-on believed her, and it certainly didn't help when a couple weeks later, I threw a tantrum and my Mom, apparently ruing her decision of give sugared cereal for breakfast, angrily said "Ugh! You eat one bowl of sugary cereal and then you just explode!" I didn't touch a Fruity Pebble till 7th grade (although by that point, I'd come to realize that Fruity Pebbles weren't at all explosive).
• Flipped Eyelids
  • My dad used to do that all the time, and it scared the shit out of me every time. I was always terrified that they were goi...

• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret
• On The Road by Jack Kerouac...Started this one, but I need to finish it, dammit!
• Out Of The Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• The Sirens Of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• Unlovable by Esther Pearl Watson
• Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
• Brothers Of The Head by Brian Aldiss
• Don't Sleep With Your Drummer by Jen Sincero
• The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• There's something else I've been absolutely itching to read by I can't think of it at all and it's driving me crazyyy!
• Recommend me something, maybe.