Shopping Spree!!

Sure, I was going to post my hair story (last week I got a horrible haircut)! But I rather brag about finally getting Vol 2 and 3 of Scott Pilgrim and spending a ridiculous amount of money on yarn! Yay me!!

Case of the Ex

I got my GCH CD yesterday afternoon. It's great! It was exactly what I needed because my ex showed up after I got off work.

I didn't even want to talk to him. We broke up about 6 months ago. I hadn't really thought about him too much since. I kind of hoped he had died. I'm not being mean, but I just wish he had gone away and there would never, ever possibly be a chance for me to ever see him again.

He's like some bad and embarrassing chapter of your (my) life. Imagine that you were afraid of closets and never walked in the one in your room and wanted the door taken off so nothing/no one could hide in it and your brother mentions it in front of your new roommate on your first day of college. Or even worse, as a kid you thought you were going to marry Lance Bass, but you've forgotten about it and an old, old friend brought it up while you're looking at magazine in Borders this week.

I was just really creeped out and upset. What did he want? I got all the closure I needed when we broke up. You can't step in the same river twice, so why try wading in it? The past is past, and I want no part in reliving it. The past informs the future, but it should never be the future.

I could never stand regret and nostalgia. They're the same coin, just different sides.

Rosario in Clerks 2

I know what that feels like. A few months, in-betweener job suddenly turns into two years. I'm just waiting for my life to begin.

"dying on an installment plan" - It applies to more people than just F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I still haven't gotten Gym Class Heroes' As Cruel As Schoolchildren in the mail yet. o.o#### <-chibi pissed Michi

Until I get it, I'm letting "Bring It On" by Cobra Starship and Snow Patrol's cover of "Crazy in Love" rock my brain. Seriously, that cover is wonderfully warped. It strips down the song to its obsessive lyrics and turns up the distortion. Absolutely lovely.




If you have a reason, you don't need to shout. -Zen proverb

The Highs Vs. The Lows

I need to stop grasping and start working. I'm working on a plan and a goal. And I should write more.

I haven't written anything in two weeks. What would NIN think? I know that's random, but that's how I'm feeling. Nothing seems to connect or fit or even makes sense.

The Highs Vs. The Lows is a reference to Red Dwarf's Season 5 episode "Demon & Angels" wherein the crew is split into triplicate.There is the normal Red Dwarf, the angel/higher side which , to quote High Cat is "your higher self; your spiritual side. I exist in you as potential" and is in pursuit "of spiritual and intellectual fulfillment", then there is the Low side which pretty much is your basic instincts like sloth, lust, envy, and my favorite sin, pride (actually it's probably a tie between pride and sloth).

Lately Low Michi has been winning. I sit around and complain more about how I'm not writing. I haven't made anything lately. Not even knitting. I'm just doing a row every other day of my little purple hat.

The silver lining is that I have been reading a lot. I'm still reading My Antonia, but I slipped in Grendel: Red, White & Black and Mage Vol. 1 both by Matt Wagner. Mr. Wagner is f'n awesome. His grasp of mythology has me in awe.

Writing

I don't know if it's a good thing or not, but I've been thinking about what would it be like to write a children's picture book. I'm trying to think of a few topics for a children's book.

Also, I need to get it into my thick skull that I should write about what I think is funny or entertaining, not what I think is "important" becuase if I'm bored writing it, I have trouble finishing the story.

What have I been reading?

The Old Man and the Sea - Amazing. The whole iceberg psychology was great. The language was sparse yet beautiful. I can't believe I wasn't forced to read this a some point in school. Of course, then again I was educated in Texas, but it was during the good Ann Richards years before standardize testing was shoved down kids' throats.

Possible Side Effects by A. Burroughs - I just love him dark observations of his word. I love his wit and weird imagination. Please write more, good sir.

How Opal Got a Life, Got Kissed, and Got Wild by Kaavya Visthanwan (sp?). It was well-written and deft for a chick lit book (-=cough=- ThedevilwearsPradasucksmonkeyballs-=cough=-) The original writers get props, but I was left wondering how good a book could she write on her own. I'm really ashamed to say I liked it quite a bit.

Thumbsucker by Walter Kirn. Wow. This is the first time time I'm saying this and I still can't quite believe it. The movie was much better than the book. The book had a continuity error.

a ton of magazines (Bitch, Essence, & Shojo Beat)

The writing was really good but tried to juggle to much. The film just boiled it down to its essence and made it very relatable.


I'm currently reading My Antonia by Willa Cather. It's quite good if you like or want a detailed description of pioneer and immigrant life in the 1880s. I'm not quite wowed yet, but I'll see how it ends.

Michelle's Warped Tour By the Numbers

7 - CDs I Got
5 - CDs I Bought
$100 - approx. how much I spent
$3 - cheapest item I bought (I haggled with a Hare Krishna monk. It was $5, but I got it down to $3. I don't know whether the late, great George Harrison would be proud or ashamed. Hey, he started out as the poorest Beatle, got into Hinduism, but still stayed financially pragmatic. Other prices: $3.50 for a strawberry slushie, $5 for two AA batteries, and a bottle of water for $4.25 [I should've faked passing out during Aiden's set and gotten some water for free.])
5 - houses owned by that mexican dude in NOFX ( I think Fat Mike's a little jealous. He said that like 8 times during their set.)
3 - offensive jokes told during NOFX's set (Jesus/Mexicans, Jewish pedophile, and Jewish dilemma)
1 - of those jokes that Jaime, my sister's boyfriend got
3 - Bands NOFX talked shit about during their set (Aiden, AFI, and Ric the Spic from the Casualties)
6 - Item lost or broken ( 2 Pretti Vacant pins ( the spade became a weird heart & I lost my skull & crossbones), my cellphone during Aiden's set [but it was worth it for the best circle pit I've been in since England - That's 3 years, duke!], my Aiden T-shirt [not lost during Aiden's set like most of the other items], lip gloss, and an earring)
4 - hours without my cellphone
15 - minutes without my earring (I looked on the ground after the set and found it)
$20 - approx. cost of lost items ( My cellphone turned up at the lost and found before the last set)
4 - Rules of mosh ( 1. Mouth closed [no bruised, busted, or cut lips; 2.Legs stay knee length apart [prevents getting knocked off balance]; 3.Elbows up [Ludacris and them crunk cats know the importance of throwing 'bows]; 4. Push back [or to the side, but keep momentum going. It's physics; it's easier than trying to absorb the impact.])
6 - people who asked to use my Sharpie after Gym Class Heroes' acoustic set
2 - entire bands I got to sign something (<>Gym Class Heroes and Ferus <>)
$15 - most expensive item ( either the GCH t-shirt which is gorgeous or my subscription to A.P. magazine)
11 - Acts I saw (GCH, NOFX, TAI.., Paramore, the Randies, Ferus, Aiden, the Pink Spiders [which I was totally underwhelmed by], Hellogoodbye, Black Britt, and the Bled [I was practically glued to the Hurley stage])
8.5 - Acts I wanted to see and missed (PWT's, MCS, Moneen, the Sunstreak, Riverboat Gamblers, Greeley Estates, the Scotch Greens, and Ferus's plugged in set)
2 - acts I NEEDED to see coming in (GCH and Aiden - everything else was icing.)
3 - Bands I now LOVE (GCH [duh], Ferus, and Hellogoodbye)
8 - People I saw reppin' Canada (It was July1st, Canada Day.)
3 - Members of GCH I saw elsewhere (Eric at the Aiden set, Matt watching bands from the GCH tent, and Travis getting artistic on some busts in the Girl Garage)
2 - T-shirts I bought ( I lost the Aiden t-shirt, but still have GCH's "You serve no purpose. You're purely decorative." t-shirt.)
3 - Bands I wanted to see who weren't in Dallas ( Joan Jett & the Black Hearts, Gogol Bordello, & Bedouin Soundclash. I don't care about AFI.)
11 - pictures I took of the schedule boards
3 - Baggies of food I bought
1 - Baggies I ate (the carrots)
20 - approx. how many carrots I ate ( I thought I was becoming one.)
1 - little person/dwarf/midget I saw. He was a concertgoer. WTF? Unless he was in the front row or on a friend's shoulders or came for the smaller (hehe) acts, WTF was he able to see?
3 -Covers (Hellogoodbye's "Welcome to Atlanta", GCH's "Under the Bridge", and NOFX did Hedwig's "Wig In A Box")
1 - Interesting fact I learned from Matt in Gym Class Heroes (The fact: During a thunderstorm if you have a coppery taste in your mouth, you have 5 seconds to run before you get struck by lightening.)

Also:
Wildest crowd - Aiden (NOFX came in second again.)
Wildest act - Hellogoodbye (They had Flaming Lips-esque surreality on a budget. It was so great.)