( Curiouser and curiouser... )

I love Sour Patch Kids. Really, I do. I don't have an opinion on most candies and I actually use the word love for...well, only Sour Patch. But love is not enough to stop me from getting creeped out by those commercials. Seriously creeped out.

I've seen about one summer movie so far this year. I have, however, bought a copy of Scream, Blacula, Scream. A blaxploitation classic featuring Foxy Brown herself, Pam Grier. The exciting story of a former African prince turned WICKED PISSED OFF vampire. I'm excited.

In honor of that I've decided I'm doing a whole...So Bad They're Good Marathon. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, Manos: The Hands of Fate, and Plan 9 from Outer Space. I've got a whole bag of Sour Patch kids and a case a bawls. If I could make up mind whether to include the MST3K version of Manos I would be good to go.

I neglect this thing. Badly.

Funny, but I'm okay with that. I still haven't touched the summer assignment. I don't have much in the way of plans for my summer. Neglect studies: Check. Be a lazy bum contributing nothing to society: Check. Spend an absurd amount of time on YouTube: Check. Spend money at River Street that I'll never see again until Albert breaks down and makes good on hiring me: Check.

Okay, okay. I'm not actually that boring or lazy...but saying that you willingly woke up at six am during vacation just garners stares. But I really don't have any substantial plans until marching band starts. Just about one month left. I've been working a pissa new cadence. That's been a highlight so far.

So, today marks the anniversary of Vladimir Nabokov's death. I've decided that the author of Lolita deserves a tribute. Even if he died 31 years ago.

1 2 3 4 My Violent Heart

Why...NIN. You sound so perky.

Celebrating your birthday by compiling a list of songs from each year you've been alive? No, actually, I can't think of a better way to spend it. So long as it's followed by sushi.

( Better than cake. )

Big budget videos are overrated. Group dancing and costumes are all you really need sometimes.

Is it possible to do music requests for prom? And if so...Is there a maximum?

I need coffee. I can feel the caffeine dissipating from my system. It's tragic.

I have to admit, I'm quite proud of myself today. I, being too broke to afford an actual headphone amp, decided to build my own amplifier and am very pleased with the finished product. It's a CMoy, I still have the directions if anybody wants a copy.

( Photographic proof of my DIY skillz )

I figure come my birthday I'll have a upgrade for my headphones as well. I've all but submitted a written statement saying all I really want are a pair of Grado SRs. If Nancy hasn't gotten the point by now...I'll have to seriously look into whether I was adopted.

I am looking forward to some wicked awesome sound quality.

"On Saturday, April 12, 826 Boston will host the North American Symposium on Sasquatch Research—a night of drinks, music, readings, and "undauntable" science—at their new store, the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute. The evening will feature comedian Eugene Mirman (of HBO's Flight of the Conchords), acclaimed authors Jim Shepard and Josh Bearman, and renowned cryptozoologist Loren Coleman."

It's just not fair... Sasquatch! Why does Apple Creek SUCK so much?

Golly this place just gets better and better! 250 words to fulfill assignment requirements? I think I can do that.

I'm Allison Donaghy but WOULD REALLY PREFER to go by Al, thank you. I'm a Junior taking Mechanics, Algebra II, French III and Photography. Algebra is whatever, French is not Italian, Photography is fun and Mechanics is wicked pissa...so I can live with that much.

I live in Hyde Park, small apartment, just me and Nancy. Nancy is insane, frickin' Insane actually. But until I'm 18 I’m sort of stuck living with her so I try to make the best of it. When I graduate my whole plan so far is to move back to Boston. I don’t really have much definite beyond that but really the rest would just be icing.

Is that 250 yet? I like drums, I like my car, I like sushi, I like Boston. I don’t like Apple Creek. What else...

I like Stephin Merritt, Lou Reed, Nico, John Cale, really the entire Velvet Underground, David Bowie, the Kinks, Tweaker, Nick Cave, Animal Collective, the Pixies, Nirvana, We Are Scientists, !!! (does that count as a word?), Dead Kennedys, The Gossip, Daniel Johnston, Oasis, the Vaselines, the New Pornographers, the Mountain Goats, Stereolab, Sleater Kinney, Bikini Kill, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Depeche Mode, Dan the Automator, Gnarls Barkley, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Xiu Xiu, Pavement, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Dresden Dolls, Guster, George Harrison, The Ducky Boys, Social Distortion, the Clash, the Cure...

250 EXACTLY. That is what we call talent.