my hair's still curly and my eyes are still blue

Hello, livejournal.

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:43:20 GMT

So, first time logging into livejournal in almost two years, and as I flip through friends' posts, as frequent as mine, I find myself missing it. Hate to admit.

Is anyone here? I was always uneasy about the social aspect of this place, and I'm glad that a nice chunk of life has happened that did not involve livejournal, but maybe I'll come back. Not to write for the people that I see regularly, but for those that I don't. And myself, I suppose.

hi, friends

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:21:04 GMT

have you, if you're interested, heard this song from joanna newsom's upcoming release?

http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/archives/fall06/ She is now orchestrated.

Tue, 09 May 2006 04:37:55 GMT

Go to your iTunes and fill out the first band that's in each letter... and don't be all like "Mmm, I don't want people knowing I listen to them, so I'ma pick the coolest one".

# -
a - A Taste of Honey
b - B52s
c - Caetano Veloso
d - Daft Punk
e - Eagles Of Death Metal
f - The Fairfield Four
g - The Gap Band
h - Hank Williams
i - İdil Biret
j - Jace Ewing (haha Jace are you there?)
k - Karoly Borvay
l - Labelle
m - M Ward
n - Nancy Sinatra
o - The O'Jays
p - Parliament
q - Quasimoto
r - Rachmaninov
s - Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata Academica
t - Taj Mahal
u - Uilab
v - Van Cliburn
w - The Wallflowers
x -
y - Yann Tiersen
z - The Zombies

So uh most of those came from classical or funk compilation CDs. Though, no lie, A Taste of Honey and The O'Jays are my faaaaaaavorite groups. And you haven't lived til you've heard Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata Academica in concert.

I'm yanking your chain.

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:03:13 GMT

so i got my lotus last year, right, well, i just repotted it and i have several rhizomes, bulbs, and i'm going to have to throw them away. you guys don't want any, do you? haha, i'm being serious though, free lotuses.

music lately

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:54:47 GMT

two things, Belle & Sebastian's new album, The Life Pursuit, and the song "Call My Name" by Charlotte Church.

No seriously, don't pass judgment until you've heard the Charlotte Church, she just turned 20, last summer she put out a pop album and i hadn't heard (about) it until yesterday. I was not prepared for that. If you still have the Ave Maria, O Holy Night Charlotte Church stuck in your head, you should really listen to this song.

Oh and The Life Pursuit is good, I think. It's not the old stuff, but it's not Dear Catastrophe Waitress, either. Sometimes they remind me of Lou Reed, Grass Roots, REM, and dare I say the Beatles? I don't know, I'm glad I bought it.

y'all doin good? good, good, glad to hear it.

getting excited

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:12:34 GMT

big news

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:15:06 GMT

friends, romans, countrymen. listen here, i got a new aim screen name: koodoopuccoon.

some guy did image searches for 33,000 english nouns, took the average color from all the results of each word, and compiled it here, and i was looking around on this thing and i found the words koodoo and puccoon. then i image searched them and this is what they are:

also i just bought a bike.

huh. how about that.

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:45:30 GMT

HELL LEVEL 1
Raw score: 47%

You're a fallen angel. There's some innocence there, but the sexual dark side has called you and, possibly, is already using you. But you're not evil, just naughty; dirty, but not filthy. You're certainly hellbound, and you'll most likely seek out other imps like yourself to work your wicked will. There might be a moral core inside you, but it's been overtaken by lust.

AVOID: the heavenbound. Your path is downward, and you'll need a guide.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 17% on hellishness

Link: The Sexual HELL Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid

woah woah, don't read this unless you want to see into my soul

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:33:03 GMT

Mark took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test!

"His need to feel more causative and to have a wide..."

Click here to read the rest of the results.

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:41:57 GMT

You are a
Social Moderate
(56% permissive)

and an...
Economic Liberal
(26% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Democrat

Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating

I'm it.

Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:48:59 GMT

List 3 things that bug you - things that others may find trivial. Then tag 6 of your friends. Only list 3 things because you may/can be tagged again.

1) I'll use a quote: "Yeah, so I think we should only get three honks a month on the car horn, because people honk the car horn too much. Three honks, that's the limit. And then someone cuts you off, you press your horn, nothing happens, you're like, 'Shit, I wish I wouldn'ta seen Ricky on the sidewalk.'" -Mitch Hedberg

2) Slower traffic keep right. It's a very simple concept. I don't like when people pass me on my right before I have a chance to get over, or when people stay in the left lane so that I have to pass them on the right.

3) Reality TV. Except for America's Next Top Model.

Ugh, I'm not tagging anyone.

you can thank mindy

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:41:38 GMT

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Your personality type is RCUEI

You are reserved, calm, unstructured, moderately accommodating, and intellectual, and may prefer a city which matches those traits.

The largest representation of your personality type can be found in the these U.S. cities: Reno, Tucson, New Orleans, Norfolk, Austin, Washington DC, Albuquerque/Santa Fe, Portland/Salem, Greenville/Spartanburg, Minneapolis, Denver, St. Louis and these international countries/regions Iceland, Greece, Argentina, Czech Republic, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Poland, Netherlands, Spain, Croatia, Sweden, Slovenia, Norway, Hungary, Indonesia

What Places In The World Match Your Personality?
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Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:07:19 GMT

i ordered a book of schubert piano music for four hands, and it arrived yesterday. now all i need is two more hands. or, or a baby grand player piano. that would be awesome.

i'm not giving you a choice this time.

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:38:52 GMT

another picture

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:37:46 GMT

he cool.

Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:33:17 GMT

ok it's not blooming yet but i haven't taken a picture of the pond since a long time ago so here's something to get you started.

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:24:55 GMT

my lotus has a bud. pictures in the coming week.

mindy (dawn_moon) says

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 06:15:07 GMT

"List five songs that you are currently digging ... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words or even if they're any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist and the song in your blog along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to."

1. Masterfade - Andrew Bird

2. Your Cover's Blown - Belle & Sebastian

3. Naked As We Came - Iron & Wine

4. One of These Things First - Nick Drake

5. Fantasia for Piano Four Hands in F, D.940 - Schubert

tag? the people i'd tag have better things to do, i'm sure. but just in case. communitylife, leafygranule, spiderbitch, katta_tat_tat, johnwaynelove. it's a little annoying to get tagged, but also a little exciting, yes?

and if you're sad that i didn't tag you, tag your own damn self.

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:21:00 GMT

so, this span of time where i haven't updated has been taken up by preparing for the family reunion held at our house on june 11, saturday, and bible school. well all of that's done now, and i'm looking around blinking, trying to figure out what i need to do next. think i'm going to the doctor tomorrow about my hip.

this in-between time feels prime for doing some writing, eh? slime dime mime lime climb.

my mom made my dad watch an episode of oprah in which a world-renowned cardiologist said, this is what you should eat. and what did my dad get out of it? "drink a glass of red wine every day." so he bought some and has been drinking it, and my mom is very anti-alcohol because who knows why, probably something from her childhood, and she just knows that alcoholism is coursing through all our veins, like diabetes and glaucoma and high blood pressure. the genes come from all directions, she says. so her plan backfired a little.

I couldn't remember the word 'glaucoma' so i googled 'eye disease' and found this.

and one more thing. i happened across a blog a while back that provides me with lots of fresh, interesting information, and i've wanted to tell people about it, but i've also wanted to keep it a secret. it just feels like something i should keep to myself. but no more of that! it's boingboing.net, and might i recommend this entry for your enjoyment. another blog i enjoy is Drawn! (www.drawn.ca) and it has gotten me interested in illustration. i've also been pondering the phenomenon of good illustration paired with awful dialogue. Check out unusualcards.com. And another boingboing article.

Sat, 28 May 2005 05:57:35 GMT

so i saw in the news that the us postal service has added, on their website, the ability to turn any photo into a greeting card or postcard or whatever, and then mail it to whomever for you. well, I want to get a picture of hell, a picture of something easily recognizable as hell, and in big summery letters, write "Wish you were here!!" so i've been doing google image searches of things like hell, satan, devil, burning, flames. i've found a lot of varied pictures. one of a dead deer with a disorder which gives it monstrous antlers. a few of the twin towers falling down. anyway, i'm going to share with you some of the most notable pictures i've found.

precious:

you'll probably be wanting more

i just like this picture a lot.

now i'm going to bed. grass to cut in the morning.

my friend asked me if i wanted a frozen banana

Thu, 12 May 2005 05:37:23 GMT

last night or this afternoon i had a dream, it was around christmas and i had some shopping to do, so i went to the mall (it was one of those times when you go to the mall in a group, and you feel like a pack of people, hunting, reminded me of a gov. school trip), and i ended up in this boutique kind of thing, by myself, that was gray and lit like an art gallery. i don't really remember what sort of things they had for sale, maybe big glazed ceramic bowls. and i'm looking around and suddenly joey from full house is right in front of me, his back towards me, like we're in a single-file line, and he turns around and talks to me, says something chatty along the lines of "i feel like i've met you" and in the dream i knew that we had had a run-in before, where he'd seen me a lot but we were never introduced. (he has his early 90s hair and he was short, or my height, and wearing a trench coat, a very shane dempsey effect.) the line goes away, i don't pay attention to the other people in the store, i tell him who i am. he talks to me for a long time, just sitting on a bench in this gray store full of glass shelves and halogen accent lighting. made me yearn for his friendship. i would say, remember all those times you were touchy about your hair on full house, or i'd ask about the olsen twins, and he'd roll his eyes and smile at me like a flame. that's about it.

in your face, kat

Wed, 11 May 2005 03:43:22 GMT

Your Geek Profile:

Fashion Geekiness: Moderate

Academic Geekiness: Low

Geekiness in Love: Low

Music Geekiness: Low

Gamer Geekiness: None

General Geekiness: None

Internet Geekiness: None

Movie Geekiness: None

SciFi Geekiness: None

How Geeky Are You?

These results are misleading. I game, but I don't own any consoles. I have listened to Weezer, but I've moved on to geekier music than that quiz talked about.

I'd rather open a deli than a general store, but no one would come, because the old ladies who live nearby can make a sandwich just as well as I can. Well, that might not be true; I can make a damn fine sandwich.

More pictures

Sun, 08 May 2005 02:25:33 GMT

I just took some pictures of a moth outside my kitchen window, because I thought it looked nice.

This is without flash, the moth and what's outside the window, the kitchen light turned off, and I doctored it so you could actually see what was in the picture.

This is without flash, but the kitchen light is on, so you see the reflection in the window. I like how it turned out. My mom would kill me if she knew I was showing you how dirty that window is.

Sun, 08 May 2005 01:48:24 GMT

I walked out the front door sometime today and noticed that lizard, crawling around on the windchimes, so I went to get the camera and took a picture of him puffing out his throat, but I don't know how to manually focus on my mom's digital camera, if you even can, so it didn't focus on the lizard.

Turns out my brother hasn't bought an earth-mover yet, he's just testing one for a few days. Another busy day, full of cake-baking and repotting.

here's what I did today

Fri, 06 May 2005 23:50:59 GMT

Today I made muffins, hamburger buns, fried rice. I helped my brother smooth out the slope where the grapevine used to be, and put out patches of grass. I trimmed off all the dead iris blooms. My lotus and 'water celery' and pots and fertilizer came today, but the pot i was going to plant the lotus in was out of stock so they didn't send it, and I had to drive to Newberry to Tractor Supply Co. to get a big rubber bucket used for feeding horses to plant it in--I think it works better than any plastic crap I could've bought. I planted sugar cane, and I cleaned the filter in the old pond (it was nasty). Oh, and I mailed my resume to The Newberry Observer. I hope something comes of that.

Enjoyable weather we're having. Maybe in a week or so i'll post pictures of my baby lotus.