to the beat of our noisy hearts

School is so SOON! so so so soon. I love school. Well not really but sort of. I love structure. I drew my schedule in colored pencil already (nerd alert).

I forgot to talk about my trip to Graceland. It was AWESOME.

OKAY I just watched last night's Daily Show. I have really fucking had it up to here with the audience of that show whenever a conservative comes on. Stop cheering wildly at whatever Jon says and essentially acting like you are in a cult and he is the leader. Jon treats everyone with respect and genuinely wants to here what they will say. He is interested in discussion, not "winning". STEPHEN's show is the perfect forum for you to act like a mindless dickwad. Although I recognize that it is probably confusing for the show to go from dick jokes to like talking serious politics, and that is probably why the people in the audience seem like huge assholes. It just seems like the audience is ganging up on the guest, which sucks for them.

Conversation my dad and I had yesterday:
Me: We are going to Oberweis, but I don't think that I will get anything. Because Oberweis is expensive.
My dad: True.
Me: And fattening.
My dad: Also true...also it is owned by a huge Republican.
Me: THE TRIPLE THREAT.

Then he sent me outside to fetch the milk...from Oberweis. Okay Dad.

OMG Superbad comes out tomorrow. I am sad that Michael Cera will become famous, which means that I will be farther away from having his child. But the movie will be kickass. I love Judd Apatow too much. Also I found out (by IMDB stalking) that Michael Cera's next movie has Jason Bateman in it...his TELEVISION FATHER! Yay. Also Rainn Wilson. Yayy.

I may or may not have cut out pictures of Michael Cera from a magazine yesterday to make a Michael Cera collage.

If I ever met Spencer from The Hills in real life, I would punch him in the nuts.

I am sad that summer is over. This summer was kind of kickass. I went to Connecticut and Kansas and Tennessee, what a random assortment. I saw a shitload of my favorite bands.

Okay I have to poop. HAHA.

but at least the war is over

Concerts that I want to/am going to go to:
September 5--The Format, Pop's
September 24--Animal Collective, Gargoyle
September 25--The Good Life, Gargoyle
October 10--Ted Leo, Gargoyle (I hope he really comes)
October 11--Dan Deacon, SLU
October 22--Nada Surf, Gargoyle
October 30--Menomena, SLU
November 19--Of Montreal, the Pageant

Okay. That was just for record-keeping purposes. I would also potentially like to see Ryan Adams (sober) and Bloc Party.

ALSO Matt Nathanson's new CD comes out tomorrow, and it is going to be awwesome. Since it is the end of the summer, probably you are saving your money for like, beer or pot or that new New Pornographers CD or whatever. I mean you might not even like Matt Nathanson. His music is kind of pussy-ish. You might have to possess a vagina, I don't know. Sometimes I think that I only like Matt Nathanson because the shit he says between songs is so funny. But ANYWAY I recommend picking up his new CD.

I have gotten off my Pulitzer winner kick. This is sad but as my mother says I guess I have the rest of my life to complete this task. I read Middlesex which was amazing and now I am sort of very slowly reading The Road. It is phenomenal but incredibly bleak and depressing so it is sort of work to get myself to read it. Anyway I might not finish it, at least for a long time. I am in the mood to read frivolous books. I think tomorrow (when I buy my new Matt Nathanson CD), I will buy the new Jessica Darling book and maybe the new Georgia what's her name book. Well I have to read to see if these books are worth buying first. Also I need to buy A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

I have been rereading the works of Chuck Klosterman, which seem pretty frivolous but expand my mind at the same time, which is my favorite kind of thing to read. They also are easy enough to read that I can listen to pretty much any music that I want, which is also awesome.

Okay that's all.

if we sleep together would you be my friend forever?

OH MAN. Okay it has been a long time since I wrote a little something about my life. I am not going to write about Harry Potter because I feel like I spent the last zillion years talking about the subject. I liked the book, the epilogue much less so.

Last weekend I went to Kansas City. It was a barrel of fun! I went to visit my friend/alternate personality Melanie. We are sharing a bathroom next year, so basically my life will be sweet. Her family is really awesome. We went to the zoo and I took pictures of the animals. I am thinking about making a Facebook album of only animals called "My Only Facebook Album." Only I would find that hilarious.

This weekend I am going to Lollapalooza. I guess I am excited, but sort of apprehensive. I hope it is fun and not too crowded and not too hot. I hope I hope I hope.

Right now I am reading Middlesex which is excellent, in a completely different way than I had expected. My project is to read all of the Pulitzer Prize winners, which is an enormous task. I think when I finish Middlesex I will have only read 8 plus half of the collected stories of John Cheever which was just insanely long.

That is all I have to say.