THREE HUNDRED FORTY-SIX

SONG OF THE DAY #346
Friday, April 29, 2011
Fake Empire
by The National

Got up crazy late.. like at 12:45. I bought some tickets through Culture Shock before getting out of bed, to a strange dance company performing at a new theatre. The grass had just finished being cut and Gustavo was at my house. I watched The Notorious Bettie Paige, and then followed it up with the first three episodes of The Lost Room, which my mom and my sister joined me for. They'd gotten home. From that point, I started getting ready to go-- a process at the latter end of which I reminded Mileini to be here.

Together we took Archimedes to the South Dade Cultural Center to watch an incredible, unforgettable DIAVOLO performance, and then we headed all over the city scouring for an open restaurant. We settled at IHOP 20-30 minutes later. ^.^

MIDNIGHT BONUS TRACK
First Date
by Blink-182

We talked for what seemed like hours, about endless hilarities and the realities of life. It's always real with this girl.
It's so strange; the night was so simple, but an incredible show and simple sparkling, honest conversation turned it into one of the unexpected best nights of my life.

Riding on the high of the past few days, and coming home from a great night tonight made me feel strange. The whole day I felt half-awake, like it was all too perfect. This is the perfect song for today, which, little did I know, was the peak. And as for the Bonus Track, this is what hanging out at IHOP with Mileini, talking about first dates feels like. I love everything about this night.

THREE HUNDRED FOURTEEN

SONG OF THE DAY #314
Monday, March 28th, 2011
See the Sun
The Kooks

This morning I refused to go to sleep, and instead stayed up watching Hellboy until almost 4 in the morning. I woke up a few hours later for school at 9, on the way to which I rediscovered The Kooks. I've had a fun ride with The Kooks over the years, at one point loving it all, and then not having any of it, and then starting all over again... The current status on me vs. The Kooks is this: (putting the fact that their music has come at me in meaningful waves throughout the course of our relationship, further discussed soon) once you get past feeling silly for loving and relating to pretentious Brit kids with guitars, and when you learn to love the strange arrangement of B-sides that composes their catalog, you discover some kind of truth you never thought you could find in Brighton.

...I got to Ecology at 9:12 and was not the latest one, then went to the Environmental Studies office for packet on the on-campus preserve after class with Onstead.
Went home, cleaned, and then aimlessly lingered about on the computer until I left for school again, at 4, to meet with some reacting kids. Stayed until 7:30, then came home, ate a sandwich, watched an episode of Scrubs and went to sleep an hour later. Got up at 11, watched Tales From the Script, and went back to bed at 1:30. The next list I'm making is the "Great films come in twos" concept.
Goodnight, moon.

TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY

SONG OF THE DAY #270
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
Boyfriend
by Best Coast
and
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
by The Ramones

My sister woke me up blasting a lame Boyfriend song, which I responded to by brushing my teeth and showing her some actual good ones that are virtually the same, but based on my interest in them, are obviously superior. I tell myself every day the only thing Michael Ian Black ever taught me... or was it Fleet Foxes? Life gets much better when you realize you have horrible taste in music. I've started living by that credo.

Anyway, today we went to Naples for Albert's 19th B-Day. Ate fantastic food, met great people, and had a fun time. I never want to leave!

TWO HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE

SONG OF THE DAY #245
Tuesday, January 17th, 2011
Hong Kong Garden
by Siouxie and the Banshees

Mysticism/picked groups and topics for the final project
First day as president of the Assembly
Went smoother than I imagined it would.
Haircut
Shower
To the Gusman for the 4:00 run-through.
Back to the office, got sucked in for another few hours for a checklist deadline.
Apparently people live in Hong Kong, Hong King, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Address, City, State, Country. Asians.
Vivian and Hunter came by; as we programmed and checklisted he watched the Dark Knight and played online. We ate cookies. Great. Cookies.
Finished!
Went home to say bye to Feens, then came home to finish working on the pptx. for tomorrow.

TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT

SONG OF THE DAY #238
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Ça Plane Pour Moi
by Plastic Bertrand

Second day of school proved to be very interesting. First class: Myth, Ritual, and Mysticism, 9:30 a.m.
Professor Phyllis Baker is a free spirit, to say the least. She did something I've never seen done before: put a tablecloth on the desk at the front of the room. This is the same room I had Nutrition in.. and dreaded. Today proves a little change of atmosphere (and maybe studying something you actually enjoy) can brighten up the room. I mean, she also put out banana bread, cookies, magic candles and a crystal ball, but it was really the zebra print that did the trick. Haha it was nuts. Very different, very interesting. It's nice to see a woman that has a Ph. D. and hasn't completely lost her sense of humanity. It takes me back to the Ogden days! That is, of course, if Ogden were an African-American mystic. After that, the day got French, strangely. Well, not directly after. On my way to eat something I found Yelen, who was also hungry. Long story short, we shared the Einstein's experience. Trekked to DM to meet Weitz and she was there! We talked for a while, swapped festival stories and learned about Crazy Catherine and signed up for independent study. Reminder: look over all those Prague e-mails! Buy a calendar. OUI! Ça Plane Pour Moi! Finished researching Vendée and went to reacting. There was French pronunciation all over the place, and we were all full of Nationalism. Haha! Ah, Sound! I'm back on my bike. Ça Plane Pour Moi! Went back to the car and came home! Watched last night's Castle with the family, and then they left to eat at this place there. Ashley the cute baby's house. I stayed home, worked on the Sound and iTunes, shazammin', then watched Bottle Shock (which was great)! Netflix, baby! One of my greatest investments. Reminder #2: One of these days, get around to watching the rest of the festival films you have! It's almost midnight and I'm hittin' the bed. Early morning tomorrow, followed hopefully by calendar fixins and the fest. Peace, people! Ça Plane Pour Moi!

TWO HUNDRED THIRTEEN

SONG OF THE DAY #213
Friday, December 17th, 2010
We Are Sex Bob-Omb
by Sex Bob-Omb

Interview at MIFF at 2; got there early and interviewed, and am headed back Monday afternoon to figure out the rest. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This song is how I felt for most of the day.
Went to pick up Jesster, then to Itita's to do some cheer spreadin'. Spent some hours at Best Buy trying to figure out a phone plan, and I'm headed back there in the morning to wrap it up. Vicky is now a source of gossip? Yeah, she knows everyone. Who do I know? Alfred. It's like I don't even work there. I changed my work schedule to one day a week-- saturdays.
In other news, I ran into Elena and Lisa on my way out of the store, and we made dim-witted plans to watch Tron. Tix were sold out like a mo' fo'. I don't know what that means. Hopefully I'll get some Liselena time this week, before she goes off to New York for her fancy internship (the one I'll find out about on Sunday). Goodnight, moon. I have no phone.

P.S. 213-E was Haller's room at Coral Park. Ah, mem'ries.

ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-SEVEN

SONG OF THE DAY #167
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Lisztomania
by Phoenix

BONUS TRACK:
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
by The Ramones

Honors paper on Socratic social welfare due today, so I got up pretty early to start it lol
Turned it in at 12:30 after getting to school pumped by Ramones Mania! Ah, I missed those guys...
Couldnt quiz in history of film

ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE

SONG OF THE DAY #159
Monday, October 25th, 2010
Someday
by The Strokes

I was supposed to be productive today.. Ah, fuck it. It's my last day in Gainesville and I've been working for two days. Let's have fun!
Toured the school with Yelena, Anais and Joel! Went all around explorin' and went to an advance screening of the Psych Season 5.5 premiere! First stop on the Psych College Tour 2010 AND WE WERE HERE! It was a great day. And now it's nighttime and I'm back at the computer lab, uploading. I hate the internet. Except... whatever. Don't worry, honey. I'm behaving...

ONE HUNDRED ONE

SONG OF THE DAY #101
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Tokyo
by The Adicts