31.7.08

10 Best Thrift Store/Garage Sale Finds Ever

1. Fisher Price tape player with microphone attached (don't remember where!)
2. Sonic Youth's Goo on tape: Goodwill on 2222 and Guadalupe (Austin)
3. 1970s Sony T-Shirt: garage sale in Los Feliz (L.A.)
4. a purple antique ice chest: garage sale on Silver Lake Blvd. (L.A.)
5. 2 anatomy books at the Blue Hanger (Austin)
6. Star Wars bedsheets, Charlie Brown bedsheets: Thrift Town (Austin)
7. a cheap gold chain with a cheap gold heart (Austin)
8. the Orleans album with the members of the band shirtless and hugging on the cover (d.r.)
9. t-shirt that read 'because i'm worth it' (d.r.)
10. a pink rosary from the Goodwill on Lake Austin Blvd.

30.7.08

15 Words I Over-Use (+ Synonyms that I can Use Instead)

1. excessive (exorbitant)
2. elitist (American)
3. redundant...which is ironic (superfluous)
4. ironic (sardonic...which is not really a synonym, but a cool word nonetheless)
5. amazing (amazing)
6. best (blank) ever
7. retarded (mildly vegetable-ish)
8. kind of (sort of)
9. really? (just stop this one altogether)
10. still? (tranquil?)
11. what? (say what?)
12. acceptable (admissable)
13. fucking idiot (fucking fool)
14. do you know what i mean? (do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?
15. ridiculous (retarded)

24.7.08

What my life consists of as of late:

1. loving my new house (wood floors, high ceilings, fans, trampoline, art studio)
2. cooking (pork chops, tacos, giant salads)
3. illustrating (on wood blocks) and making t-shirts
4. riding my bike everywhere i can
5. drinking ridiculous coffee drinks (triple iced soy lattes with almond syrup)
6. talking a lot of shit
7. re-listening to this one modest mouse album over and over again, re-reading Chuck Klosterman's 'Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs'
8. drinking a fucking lot of alcohol (mostly cheap beer or expensive gin)
9. writing a teen comedy with kerri (who doesn't love a teen movie??)
10. working for my pops (we cuss like sailors and make fun of republicans at the office)
11. having the best sex ever (sorry, but you should know this)
12. AND being so happy that if I died right now, I'd be okay because I finally feel like I'm doing what I want to do