Friday, August 23, 2002 :::
holy crap. what a bad week when it comes to cars... so i went to borders in westwood to buy the new counting crows cd. i'm in the garage underneath trying to park and there's this square pole. i hit the freaking thing. dood. i'm lame. and it's square, so it left a crease in my bumper! plus it busted my signal light. and now i the bumper's a little off kilter.
my friend lara was visiting. she parked behind me. but a little bit on the sidewalk. there was still room between the cars for the supposed "wheelchair" to get by. $40. sigh.
my friend lucio stayed last night. he parked on gayley. this morning, when he went to leave, his car was gone. towed. dood. he was 20 minutes too late. freakin a. $140... double sigh.
and now i'm driving 350 miles home. i better not have anything happen to my car or get a ticket or anything. holy crap.
::sigh::
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12:23 PM:::
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Wednesday, August 21, 2002 :::
When you read books (do you read books?), do you ever listen to music? That's how I read. I ALWAYS listen to music when I read. Exceptions: in the library without a cd player, or, for some reason, i REALLY need to concetrate. But anyway, there are times that I just happen to reading a book when I first get a new cd, and so i listen to it over and over while I read. An association forms: when I hear that particular CD, I'm inexplicably drawn to think about the book. Strange, I know. Some examples:
The Count of Montecristo - Tony Bennett: 16 Most Requested Songs AND Ella Fitzgerald: For the Love of Ella Fitzgerald.
Atlas Shrugged - Radiohead: Pablo Honey AND Aterciopelados: Gozo Poderoso
Children of Dune - Duran Duran: Greatest Hits.
What an interesting sort. of books and of music. the first dates back to freshmen year in high school. the second to summer after freshment year in college. the third dates back to this past christmas. i feel like there are more, but I can't remember. association with one of the senses is a strange thing. when i first moved into my apartment this summer, i remember walking up the stairwell and thinking, "Boy, this is the same way my grandma's stairwell smelled when I was little..."
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so i noticed something this summer about when I listen to music, namely music that I've started listening to since highschool (ie not stuff i listened to when i was a kid, because that stuff was drilled into my head). i don't memorize the whole thing. ie, i have friends who can listen to a song and sing along with it for the WHOLE time. for me, i can't do that. but i kno some parts, probably those that are the most catchy. but it's weird, becaust i'll be listening to a song, and when a part i know comes up, i will sing it automatically, not really thinking about it. it just comes out. i'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is because i don't overplay my music. my musical tastes are just so wide and varried that i don't have time between everything to completely memorize a song. yes, that's it. i'm doap soap. hA!
Soup
12:23 AM:::
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