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done with this
had it since like, sophomore year? yeah. or earlier.

new one

ghostofabicycle


hopefully it's mostly gonna be art stuff instead of my idiotic ramblings :]

friend me if ya want.

music. the weirder it is, the more i like it.

( some people. )


i skipped some important people but i guess i felt i needed to say these things to these people.
although none of them will hear these things.

dear baking gods
yes. i have finally learned that peppermint extract is not a substitute for vanilla extract. i will go buy flour and make cupcakes and PEPPERMINT FROSTING like a good little girl. just don't fuck up my meringue cookies.
love,
jim.






[lol when did i start calling myself jim again?]

Paris, Je T'aime est un film très beau.
my initial thoughts after seeing it were something like goddamn it, i really want to go to paris now. i'll explain a little. paris, je t'aime is a collaboration movie. 18 different directors wrote about 20 minutes of the movie, all taking place in paris. some of it is in french, some of it is in english, some of it is a totally american accented french that drove me INSANE hell i haven't spoken french in over a year and i sound better than that. all of it is beautiful. i wouldn't say this is five stars out of five stars because there is no continuity, and some of the sections are just weird and senseless. like the vampire section. it was so bad, i laughed. a lot.
but my favorite part was the natalie portman-blind guy scene. it was adorable and well thought out and it ended so much better than i thought. i was going to cry but then i didn't. i wish i could have JUST that scene. i'd watch it all the time.
the oscar wilde bit was interesting and so was the one where the muslim girl trips et ma clarks? but i am not a fan of the very very end when they went back and gave you just a shot of each one after you had seen it... lame.
but i recommend it and i will probably see new york, i love you, when it comes out.

i bought four records at salvation army today.


I DON'T HAVE A RECORD PLAYER.

i have the worst fucking blisters i have ever seen all over my feet right now.
this is what i get for wearing sneakers without socks. sneakers with fucking huge holes in the side of them.
i missed my chance to go on a month long trip and end up in chicago.
guess i'm flying in october or something.

speaking of which, i am [still] worried as hell. yes i am insane, muffin.

i woke up at 7 to clean the house and i am fucking exhausted. i'd put on the movie ashley lent me but i'll pass out 10 minutes into it.

i have a mini etch a sketch.

my toe that i jammed has the biggest and grossest blister of all. so that toe is bruised black and purple, weird shaped, swollen, and has a huge giant red shiny blister on it.
i used to have cute feet.

I want a record player SO bad right now. Ashley has one and I want it and I looked through the vinyl at Newbury Comics and I was like oh my god, I need a record player. She got hers at Target for $100, which is not that bad considering it is a record player tape deck CD player radio. I kind of really want a vintage one. I know exactly which album I will buy as soon as I get a record player. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. It's my favorite album ever currently and it just seems like the perfect thing to listen to on vinyl. Then I will probably buy Live at Leeds, because The Who will always be my favorite band.

Last night I bought Blonde on Blonde, Midnite Vultures and If You're Feeling Sinister. I'm not supposed to be buying CDs but I guess I'm doing it anyways. No Frank Zappa, though. That's a first.

Twiggy told me that I'm an audiophile.

i'm going to STARVE this week. i have barely anything to eat. I need to survive til sunday. i told you my mom hates me.

maybe i'll get twiggy to go out to eat with me tomorrow night. el azteca!


that is cool. i should draw/paint something.

i want cds. i'm not supposed to buy any for a while, but i desperately want to go and get some more beck and sonic youth. even though i don't listen to my sonic youth collection that much. i should. that's what i'll do today. sit through every goddamn SY album i own. :]

i want to make ice cream.

last night i rammed my toe against the door frame in the kitchen and thought i broke it.
which is cool cause broken toes are no big deal.
so i hobble back to the living room, and reach down to see if i can wiggle it without extreme pain.
and then i'm like, why are my finger covered in blood?

so i didn't break my toe but i did get a nasty cut on it.
right now, besides the oozing wound, my toe looks a little bit swollen,
but it's definitely not broken. which is good i guess.

i just thought i'd mention it.
i was kinda excited when i thought i broke it.
broken toes make better stories than extremely stubbed ones.


my hair is STILL standing on end. like http://tinyurl.com/5p8j6b yeah

.....i am slowly getting into country. which i guess is to be expected; i listen to "everything."
when i say country, y'all know i mean folk, right?
i guess i've always been a little into it. bob dylan makes me happy. neutral milk hotel is a little folky.
but now i am looking up different versions of OCMS songs, especially wagon wheel.
and i don't know why i don't own any bob dylan or johnny cash or OCMS...
you know, i first heard wagon wheel [probably, at least that i can remember/recognize] when ryan did a cover of it at Mr. AHS. and i still like his version best.

also, folk lyrics are always fkn awesome. i'm jealous. i haven't written anything in ages, least of all anything decent.

i'm wearing a bandanna around my neck.

( goofy faces for a goofy hat for a goofy guy )

ryan jackson, i want that hat. you are a lucky man.

it'd be cool if he'd call me so we can hang out... maybe i will call him again tomorrow or saturday or something.

so the title of the this livejournal? jim KNITS. and i do. occasionally.

i'm in the process of making my dad some socks.

( genesis models them nicely )


too bad you can't see her fkn sick bedroom wall behind that. one is green and one is filled with pictures of some pretty kickass stuff.

offer on the house. moving soon hopefully. i wonder if i'd be able to decorate my room where we move... we're renting, so probably not. oh well :[

my little brother is a genius.



:D

he won the freaking contest thing. his bottle rocket went the farthest. :] :] :] he's gonna grow up to be, idk, a mad scientist, if we're lucky.
you can see him in the video high-fiving everyone and stuff :] yes he got a haircut.

that is all. YOU ARE JEALOUS.

because i always end up talking music on this.

( big picture thing )

from a list of things to read/listen to/watch before i die, by mr. reed. i scanned it today.

yes i am ashamed that i've never listened to live at folsom prison
but the rest is pretty good.

i have been looking in all the wrong places for all the wrong things.

one day, i will write a screenplay and i will help you find what you are looking for.
[we all ask ourselves what we are the genesis of, but for you, it holds so much more meaning.]

i'm going to bcc and then i'm transfering to mass art. i'm scared, i'm nervous, of course i am, i'm fucking terrified of everything. but for the first time since like, april 07, i am excited.

i kind of want to paint? and that never happens.

i bought the new beck album ahahahaha it doesn't suck, but you know. it isn't fkn awesome like his other cds i own. the best song would be gamma ray, i guess, and that does not compare to girl or e-pro or devil's haircut or where it's at or think i'm in love or any of those other songs that just stick out from the rest of his music. maybe it just takes some getting into, i don't know, but it's definitely not my favorite beck album.

i did buy lumpy gravy [zappa] and in the aeroplane over the sea [neutral milk hotel] and they are both excellent. i had heard them both before so i knew this. i have always had a big big big soft spot of NMH. jeff magnum has maybe the most annoying voice in the history of annoying voices but when he sings it makes you want to sit down and cry about how you cannot evoke such emotion like he can. before buying this album, i had heard it many many times, but i guess nothing compares to buying it yourself and listening to it when you're most comfortable. as of now, i would say that this is my all time favorite album, which pushes the violent femmes out of the way. this will be true at least until i buy marquee moon by television, and they battle it out. television has to be my all time favorite punk band, and if you know me, that is saying a lot.

lumpy gravy is a good frank zappa weird album. there are two songs on it, they are both 15 minutes long, and it is apparently the follow up to we're only in it for the money, which makes sense because there are a lot of the same noises on this album. i think i should've bought like 2 more zappa albums because they were having a sale on zappa stuff, i guess? and i plan to collect all of his albums before i die hopefully.

also: in rainbows is fantastic, i like it better than the bends and ok computer, at least. post is wonderful, duh. window city is weird and quirky and has the best song ever on it: the old hag is sleeping. you can't find it on youtube, I TRIED. absolutely free is still my favorite zappa album.

i talk about music too much.

i love memorable conversation because i love to tell stories
and witty conversation makes for interesting dialogue.

( cds i want )


modern guilt comes out tuesday. i don't know if i will rush out and buy it because of my extreme becklove, or if i will wait around and get it later. probably wait.

i am going to weight these from more important to well maybe i will take this off.

most important ones are: sonic youth, frank zappa, aphex twin, sufjan stevens, neutral milk hotel, and the magnetic fields.

semi-important: bob dylan, can, beck, minutemen, iron and wine, pavement, cat power, my bloody valentine, radiohead, lou reed, thom yorke.

i might replace these later but at the moment i feel like my record collection needs them: elvis costello, yo la tengo, explosions in the sky, patti smith, serge gainsbourg.

why do i like cds so much?

eta: and then i added like 10 more cds to the list.... i need to go shopping.

( incase you didn't see enough fireworks today )

i narrowed it down from like, 97 to 6 for you.