Stealing Glances

Whenever I have someone that I'm truly friends with, who I share experiences with and who I come to associate a period of my life with, I remember them always. Once in awhile I wonder if they think about me with the same frequency and with the same sense of meaning and longing that I do them.

Mostly though, I hope that you remember Pooh bear and being unproductive best friends. I still remember the way you honked at people for no reason in your car and how I felt that I really understood the way you saw other people and how deeply you cared about them. I've always been the type of person to think back to the past often, but if I could only have one second chance in my entire life, it would be with you. It doesn't make sense, but I think about you and miss you often.

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By the way, I had a wonderful birthday today with my family. I received a panda tie, new headphones, some books and a USB keyboard, among other things. I'm slightly (not to slightly) ashamed to say I got most excited about the panda tie.

Back

Hi. Hey! How are you? I've been without a computer for a few days, and have been passing my time doing other things (reading, tending to the massive amount of summer homework I have) and have been overall enjoying myself. I really like the apartment I'm living in - despite my modern furnishings I can very well see each room of the house playing a role in some sort of film about college students in the 40's. Lots of aged wood, white walls, and old-fashioned furnaces. It's pretty snazzy.

Of course, now that I have my computer back, everyone following me on twitter has a chance for me to significantly annoy them again, so hooray for that. I know this probably seems scatterbrained, but there's just so much on my mind lately. Everything going on right now definitely has the makings of a very positive, productive summer, and I'm quite excited about it.

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In music news, ex-Be Your Own Pet vocalist/awesome human being Jemina Pearl's solo project has finally released some material on her myspace, and you can read all about the crazy, drunken, fun-filled recording process at her blog. Her voice is a little bit less gritty and a lot more melodic in these recordings, although one downside of that is that she's lacking the throaty, Kim Gordon-esque wail that made her stand out so much in Be Your Own Pet. The songs are great though, a little bit of garage rock, a little bit of surf punk, AKA they're fun and you should listen to them.

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And on a final, parting note:



You don't have to know me very well to know how excited I am for this movie. Judge it as you will.

Minus The Bear to Self-Release 4th full-length

Personally, I'll be just as excited about the album no matter how its released, especially considering the awesome video jam (see below) they posted on their myspace earlier this year. This is nonetheless pretty interesting, considering the fact that self-financing and self-releasing seems to be a growing trend in bands like Minus The Bear, who are sort of bridging the gap between the underground and mainstream music scenes.

via Minneapolis Fucking Rocks: Seattle-based quintet Minus the Bear are currently hard at work on their highly anticipated fourth studio album, still untitled. Excited to expand on their inimitable brand of rock n roll songwriting and explore their existing love of audio ingenuity, the band teamed up with Grammy Award winning producer Joe Chicarelli (My Morning Jacket, The White Stripes) to lend a helping hand. Loved for their brilliant countermelodies and progressive arrangements by legions of fans, the band plans on taking their endless creativity and craft, which has been praised by the likes of Spin, Alternative Press, Paste and others, to new heights on this new album.

Minus the Bear will take the opportunity to self finance their new album, giving them full control in an evolving industry.



Speaking of great music, new Grizzly Bear comes out tomorrow, as well as new Phoenix. And we've only a few weeks until new Rancid, Sonic Youth, and Dirty Projectors. 2009 is quickly becoming the best year for music in recent memory, and I couldn't be more excited.

Just to anyone who may not know, the new mewithoutYou is streaming for free HERE. I like it a lot.

Last night Sarah and I saw Terminator Salvation. It was intense, I loved it. Also, the Sherlock Holmes trailer still has me all giddy and excited.

Busy, busy, busy. Things are crazy, but I feel overwhelmingly optimistic about this summer.

Moving Really Sucks

Family Tree

So, the last few days since I've gotten back have been quite interesting. My last night at Tufts was pretty insane; I'm pretty sure that every single person that was still at Tufts packed their delirious and excited bodies inside of both towers of Sophia Gordon, where a great amount of fun was had. I'm not sure if I've ever seen so many people packed into that small of a space. The next day, around afternoon I came home, where I was met by my parents, who had Chikfila with them. Mmm, lovely. I got a haircut that day (pictures later possibly, I've spent every night since then cutting more off in certain places) and I spent most of my first 2 days just hanging out with my parents and my dogs, catching up on sleep and reading. It was really really great, and much needed.

Then I went back to Boston for a day, where I had my fMRI training class at the Northwest science building at Harvard and then spent the day at the lab I'll be working at this summer at Harvard. I can't really describe how that was, it just got me so insanely excited for this summer and also the work I'll be doing in the years to come. It's always great to continually get that sense of validation, that I'm doing what I'm meant to do.

The day after I came back to Virginia I spent the day with Zach, which was great as always. We went shopping and I enjoyed Hot Topic's surprisingly good and well-priced selection of vinyl; I ended up getting a Hopesfall 10" and Minor Threat's Out of Step, and we spent the rest of the afternoon listening to Hopesfall, playing guitar and looking through old yearbooks. Then we ended up seeing Observe and Report, which was surprisingly funny, albeit a little bit disturbing and a tad depressing. The day after was a little bit more relaxed, although I hung out with Christina for awhile and eventually hung out with Carter and Lauren also, and I had a really good time. I cooked dinner for me and m'parents that night, and then went to the Jubilee with Zach and his nice friend Melody. I got home in time to see the last 10 minutes of the season finale of Greys Anatomy, which had me all teary eyed and emotionally wrecked. I decided to prolong the sentiment by girling out and watching both Love, Actually and the Jane Austen Book Club. Poor me. My movie choice for tonight is The Uninvited, to try to balance it out.

Today I ran errands with my mom all day, finally catching up with Zach this evening to go to Maddy's senior project show, a Cystic Fibrosis benefit show at Cape Henry. It definitely didn't live up to "No Indigo Dunes" standards, but it was great fun. I ripped my shirt from sheer ferociousness while moshing to XPBJX, and got to see some wonderful people. It put me in a weird mood being at school after nearly a year, but all is well. Then I went out and got pizza with Zach and Nick and Jake and Steven and girl-Carter, which was awesome. Zach and I annihilated some bacon pizza, and both of us complained of feeling quite ill on the ride home. Eli called him while we were driving around, and we planned on going to hang out with her, but I guess it didn't work out. So, now I'm laying in bed listening to TV on the Radio and nursing a very full stomach. Off to watch the Uninvited and go to bed. By my logic, I figure even if it's horribly frightening (or just a horribly bad movie) I'll still have nice dreams about Emily Browning. Mmm:

Singing to the ambulance

I'm sorry dear, I haven't been sleeping because when I have I woke up and thought it was winter.

I'm sorry love for leaving you out, my head is an empty house when you're not around.

I'm sorry dear I haven't felt much like company, but if september won't bring you to me then i don't care.

I'm sorry dear for ignoring the phone, I've got clumsy feet and clumsy toes to keep me from home.