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lileks.com you should check it out. a favorite site of mine for quite some time. i suggest starting in "regretible food" and moving on to ... well, on to everything else in the site. if you have been there before but not sor a while, there are some new things.

i very much like the 40s, 50s and 60s... for various reasons. some of it was the overall plasticity of it- the american dream and everything being peachy keen- and yet the dark underlayering of family dynamics and everything else that was going on in a country that was hurling forward through more movements than it wanted but needed to. so movies to see: october sky, mona lisa smile, godsford park [set in the 30s, but faboulous cloths and all around beautiful film.], the hours, far from heaven. i am sure there are many others, but these are the ones that come to mind right now.

i tryed to find the CD by Eagle Eye Cherry last night... and could not. there was a song that came out our freshman yr. of highschool, that i really liked, but never had. i heard it again the other day and thought "i havent bought a CD in 5 or 6 years, maybe i should buy a new one." i am also lokoing for the LP from The Descendents that came out a few years ago- they had a song that, i'm not sure what the actual title is but something to the something close to "all i want to do is do nothing with you" it was our song in both a good and bad way.

tonight. i want to do nothing but be w/ you.

i dont think i'v ever really had a "song" w/ anyone i dated, but that was as close as it ever got.

maybe its a girl thing but i always wished that [well the guy you are dating, or wish to date, or something] would say "this song makes me think of you" or something to that extent. i told him once that Jack Johnsons Banana Pancakes made me think of him.. he hadent heard it so i played it for him. he was offinded and mad and al he said was "i hate acustic guitar. you know that" honestly i had forgoten that, or as least didnt think he hated it that much. and really it had nothing to do w/ the fucking acustic guitar, it was what the song was aobut. but as usual. i tryed to explain it and he thought it was stupid. silly me and my stupid ideas.
anyway... were going to just back away from that rant. but a song i think is horribly [romantic] (god i hate that word, just makes me cringe, but i use it for lack of a better one.) is BNLs If I Had A Million $$. really, its very sweet.
i re wrote some of it the othernight for my self.. i replaced the monkey w/ a vespa, and the green dress w/ a red side car, becase i really would like a green dress, but not a real red side car- that'd be cruel. i kept the tree house. and went for a house in the country. replaced kraft dinner w/ a washer and dryer- now we just wash more! and i tryed to replace "picasso or a garfunkle" with ""a Higgins or a Remington" but it didnt work so well.

when i origionaly started looking at colleges i wanted to be an illustrator, do childrens books. i am now thinking that if i were to go back for a masters it would be for Illustration. i would, one day like to say that i had some drawsings published in a story. currently i find jow in seeing prints that i have made and screen prints appearing on cloths that willl be in stores with in a year. i will try to have 1 of everything.. at least some of the more impresive things, fo a kind of port folio. and its is very exciting to see things you have done in mas production.

the pashion fruit slerpie is great, so run out and get one. but be carefull they try to excape.