some phrases i have been thinking about a lot lately (one of these is green day lyrics):
- the world owes me so fuck you
- straight edge means no friends

okay, life is really weird. sometimes it is really fun but then i spend an hour or so outside and the cold gets to me so badly that i have to lie down for three hours because i am so sore. really brutal. i also grew a dreadlock and i am more than a little horrified and might have to cut it off because so far combing it out has been too painful.

i am on day two of listening to nothing but prince. actually i just listened to "i'm on fire" twice but other than that i have only listened to sign o' the times, especially "i could never take the place of your man," like a lot. i am now watching a live video of "rosalita" but not because it is time to give up on prince (it is not).

i went to san diego a couple weeks ago and it was really great. i wrote some creative shit about it but so far zine making has not worked out at all, at least for this venture. zine making has been going wonderfully for macalester collective press. you should get one in the campus center (if the info desk a-holes don't throw them away again). anyway, i ate 6 burritos in five days and met a 90 year old named magda who was pretty cool, except this psycho crazy lady named gloria made everyone say what they were thankful for and then told us very bluntly about her friend who got jaundice and died. dude, what. my sister and i watched high fidelity but the dvd was broken so john cusack cried for at least twice as long. everything about san diego was the best thing about san diego, especially mission beach.

i have set many lofty reading goals for my next trip to san diego (which will last 6 weeks, although it will maybe, probably, hopefully be interrupted by a trip to new york city), and after reading this article about people like me i now want to read the diaries of samuel pepys. my real goal is the power broker, as i have read 100 pages of it and it was excellent. i am probably not going to read much of anything or do anything at all, but i'd also like to play basketball again and maybe get a lifetime membership to the boomers batting cages, you know, if you can do that. i will also take a HARD STANCE against loreena mckennitt and my mom's inane winter obsession with her.

tomorrow night i am going to see iron lung. i have not been to a show in a really long time but when i am in san diego i am going to go to so many shows and it will be so awesome, right? you know? am i right?

everything falls apart but you gotta live with it, you know?! everything!