I DO do (some kind of) WORK.

So, this is what I spend time doing: RE-RE-ARRANGING SONGS. It's alll types of fun. This is the playlist that I'm sending my mixtape buddies on Last.fm. Mixtape 07.09: Schweaty Messes Summer '09: 01 To Hell With Good Intentions: McLusky 02 O Shot: The Gay Blades 03 Light of the Morning: Band of Skulls 04 Sleepyhead: Passion Pit 05 Ghetto Love: Spinnerette 06 Teen Creep: No Age 07 Daylight: Matt & Kim 08 In For the Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix): La Roux 09 It Get's Your Body Movin': Suckers 10 Skinny Love: Bon Iver 11 Some Things Last A Long Time: Daniel Johnston 12 Honest James: Thurston Moore 13 Cold Fame: Band of Skulls 14 The Wolves (Bon Iver Cover Song): Ellie Goulding 15 The Dillion Family Dancers: The Red Neck Manifesto OBLIGATORY PICTURE POST SO I DON'TS FORGETS (this is some kind of crude memory-jogging therapy):

It do, it do. Saw this at the PCC Flea Market back in 11.06. Time traveling!

Just Another Playlist.

This mixtape was sent to me by landmarcattack via The Monthly Mixtape on Last.fm. It is eclectic and strange; the first mixtape (yep yep it's a twofer!) is a bit 90s/college rock-ish, while the latter is screamo/emo/punk rock. What the what, am I right? Here's the list: Mixtape #1: Crybaby Pussyfaces 1) Br00tal – Drag The River 2) How To Live Here – Good Luck 3) Mess Me Up – Nobunny 4) Titus Andronicus – Titus Andronicus 5) Darwin Was A Baptist – Ninja Gun 6) Fire On Peshtigo – O’Death 7) Kingdom of Ice – Woven Hand 8) The Gardner – The Tallest Man On Earth 9) Black Pear Tree – The Mountain Goats & Kaki King 10) Sin – Chuck Ragan & Austin Lucas 11) Motivational Song – Algernon Cadwallader 12) Teenage Timebomb – The Okmoniks 13) Small Talk (blah blah blah) – The Max Levine Ensemble 14) Night Owls – Bridge And Tunnel 15) The Minimum Wage Song – This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb 16) Jus’ Folks – The Bananas 17) Say I Won’t (Recognize) – The Gaslight Anthem 18) Summer Grof – The Spinto Band 19) Toadvine – Ben Nichols 20) The Purgatory Line – Drive-By Truckers 21) Guilt: The Song – Andrew Jackson Jihad 22) Infamous Apology – Halo Fauna 23) Motion in the Ocean – Nana Grizol Mixtape #2: Meathead Doodbrahs 1) Trilogy 3 (Fall Days) – Loma Prieta 2) Letter of Resignation – Transistor Transistor 3) Awaken – Racebannon 4) The Shape of Punk that Never Came – United Nations 5) Dropping Cylinders – Mouthbreather 6) Retro Abortion – Double Negative 7) A. News Rips Through The Community – Jason Crumer 8) (My Head) – Times new Viking 9) Self Checkout – Off With Their Heads 10) I hate myself but I don’t want to die – Down In the Dumps 11) Lost – Jonesin’ 12) Fair Well – Young Livers 13) A Place To Die – Osceola 14) For Medications Only – Trainwreck 15) Speed of the Nail – Torche 16) I Hope The Ghosts Of the Dead Haunt Yr Soul Forever –Valient Thorr 17) Chapter 2, 3 – Verse 18) 体脂肪と戦う - Killie 19) Hounds – Cruel Hand 20) Not Your Choice – Wetnurse 21) Germ Freak (I Ain’t No) – Annihilation Time 22) Gotta Get The Gist – Shorebirds 23) Bridge above the Water – Ghostlimb And because every GOOD post should be accompanied by pictures, here are a couple of photos from a daytrip Jaya and I took to Solvang , CA (the home of wooden toys, craz-zaizie white folk, and ableskevers) back in the summer of 2007.

This place is the reason I LOVELOVELVEO windmills and turbine energy.

Ohhhh, an OG Pancake "Haus".

Goals ACTUALIZED. Maybe. Ehhh, soon? BOOM.

Evidence of my janky-ass handwriting (aka AWESOME) and my love of lists. HOOLLLLA.

Other week, when my sister and I were having a late lunch @ Ichima, she gave me this wide-eye look and said, "YOU should make a list! You know, of things you want to do and go!! Exclamation point, exclamation point!!!" She was all KINDS of excited when she handed me one of the many, many pens floating around her bag and a discarded pay stub envelope. Here is what we managed to come up with in between stuffing our faces. ENJOY:

1. Move to/(or AT LEAST) visit Helsinki, Finland.
2. Move to/(and MOST LIKELY) visit Stockholm, Sweden.
3. Hand make and hand bind a "A Big Book of Crap (aka 'stuff')". Screenprint images, cut-out construction paper animals, crudely hand-drawn patterns; all in all, another way to remember the things I love.
4. Hunt for as many thrift stores and flea markets in the Greater Southern California area. *REMINDER: Venice Beach, Santa Monica, Culver City? And OHHHH, the fabled flea markets of Yucca Valley and surrounding desert cities! Done.
5. Get my shoulder/upper sleeve tattoo DONE already. Quit crying about it and GET IT DONE (and doner).
6. Get Baboooshka tattoo; thanks-a-plenty for letting that one goooo, Jaya.
7. Do something with WOOOD; i.e. woodburning images, build-a-wooden-box, BUT NOT whittling. *REMINDER: look up that homie who does those ink relief pressings of wood grain.
8. Go BACK to Salton Sea (see: Niland), Yucca Valley (see: flea markets), 29 Palms, and Joshua Tree (see: night photography, building my future desert oasis).
9. Cook/bake more things from scratch: i.e. cookies, bread, tastier cupcakes, biscuits, smoked salmon, NUTELLA. *REMINDER: create an picture album entitled "I Can't Stop Stuffing My Face or Holding Forks and Knives in my Hands." I gots, like, 343984238 pictures. DONE.
10. Find a HOBBY.
11. Watch AS MUCH T.V. as humanly possible (and movies), via Netflix. i.e. Parker Lewis Can't Lose (half way finished!!!), The Wire, The Professional, Legend of Billie Jean (for hair cutting/bleach blonde tips).
12. MORE Waterfalls! I don't think that I've seen enough of these glorious phenomenons in my life time. *REMINDER: Niagra Falls, Eaton Canyon.
13. Get HEALTHY. But still take as many "stuffing my face/fork & knife in hand" pictures.
14. Eat breakfast. Hopefully, that doesn't negate former.
15. OHHHHH ohhhh: LOOK LESS SCOWLY-FACED. I've gotten tooooo many compliments on how "angry", "bitchy", or "ANGRY" I look in person. Me standing around = Me pissed off? Apparently.
16. Finish reading books. I can start me a book, but finishing it is a whole 'nother ordeal. *REMINDER: Lolita, American Psycho, Lamb, The Fountainhead, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, amongst others.
17. Carlsbad: go to the Painted Hills in San Diego, CA and go to the Caverns in AZ.
18. Visit Machcu Pichcu, Peru. Save up enough $$ to buy awesome masks, ponchos, beanies, and a bundle of alpacas/llamas.
19. Pare down closet, drawers, and cabinets. I gots, like, 10 jeans and 23840923842 jean shorts, but I only wear 3 of the former and 4 of the latter. I also have enough grey t-shirts to last me 20 life times. That's not good.
20. Go back to Paris and London to find thrift shops and tattoo parlors (to buy SLAMMIN' shoes and fur coats, and to get sad, ill-advised tattoos of the Eiffel Tower and Harry Potter).
21. LASTLY (for now): Learn how to write more SUCCINCTLY and CONCISELY. Ain't nobody going to read this great American novel of a post.