today i'm driving up to boulder to hang out with matches and jeff, possibly josh as well, and possible even cain. i'm looking to go to trident, bart's records, and the boulder creek. and later tonight, i'm playing raquetball with hannah. i'll probably let her win, but that's not the point. while i might not have had any family around for the holidays, right now i'm surrounded by my favorite people, and for that i couldn't be happier.

so i've been thinking of some good music categories. i'll start with top 5 go to albums while driving.
blackalicious - blazing arrow
sigur ros - takk
mountain goats - tallahassee
underworld - 1992-2002
modest mouse - the moon and antarctica

honorable mention:
stereolab - switched on

try that out for size. gotta drive.

current music: people under the stairs - "the breakdown"

Follow me through a city of frost covered angels
I swear I have nothing to prove
I just want to dance in your tangles
To give me some reason to move
But to take on the world at all angles
Requires a strength I can't use
So I'll meet you up high in your anger
Of all that is hoping and waiting for you

i am jack's complete lack of surprise. sigh.

just wanted to give a quick shout out, wishing you all a very merry christmas. i stayed up to try and see santa, but the bastard never showed.

current music: neutral milk hotel - "gardenhead/leave me alone"

regensburg reunion

this evening was spent with nearly forgotten friends, the regensburg crew. well, the crew assembled was short a few key players, namely brett, jack, andrew, keith, and rachelle. but you take what's given to you, and i think i can speak for the whole group when i say we had a great time catching up. these are people i spent time every day with for an entire year while studying abroad in germany, and what was great about our little soiree tonight was that we barely missed a beat. diana's been in ukraine since september 2006, yet our conversations were as awesome as always. and then there was kristin, morgan, kristina, and mike, people i absolutely love hanging out with, but haven't since graduation. there's my main man geoff, finally back in colorado after a two year stint at grad school in illinois. he's a totally great friend; i've never met anyone with as much overall enthusiasm. he loves colorado football more than i love colorado football. he's the nicest guy you could meet, and probably the coolest guy as well. and of course there's katy. i love this girl, i truly do. she's real sweet, cute, has a great personality, loves hip-hop, has a few really nice tattoos.. yeah, she's awesome. i've also been by her side during some rather tumultuous events, which brought us incredibly close in a time when close friends were greatly needed.

so here i am, spending my days in littleton, and that's fine i guess. however, i've felt quite alone at times living down here, and while that doesn't really change after hanging out with this group of people, as nobody lives closer than 30 minutes to me, it does show that there are more than just a few friends colorado has to offer. and they're good friends, friends one would be willing to journey a bit for. diana lives closest to me, about 30 minutes away in downtown denver, with geoff living the farthest away, in fort collins. but these are people that i want to spend time with, people i've forgotten how great hanging out together is. holy shit, katy and i used to write poetry together. we were tight; she sent me a care package! that's the kind of friend you don't let go. and i can't wait to see them again.

i truly am blessed.

current music: radiohead - "airbag"

i don't find myself to be a cynical person. there are, however, some things that really irritate me, and sadly a few things definitely come out during the holiday season. is it just me, or is christmas music absolutely terrible? i can't say every christmas song sucks; i've always been a fan of the little drummer boy, and i had an awesome version of santa baby ft. snoop dogg, onyx, and other rappers on this lame christmas cd from about a decade ago. but that's about it. the king sings carols? terrible. amy grant sings her favorite holiday classics? i just puked in my mouth. i wish i didn't feel this way, because the christmas holiday's awesome. christmas lights are cool, giving gifts, putting a conifer tree in your house!! is totally awesome.

i've also determined i can't stand people that have accessories for the outside of their cars. best example i can give are those redneck conservative dicks who have to proove their masculinity by dangling balls on the back of their gigantic trucks. i know balls dangle - i have a pair - but i don't need to be reminded about it while driving in my car. one time i saw a guy that had balls on his truck, and a set of longhorns on the top of his cab. i don't know anything else about that guy, but i guarantee we would not get along. and today, in the spirit of the holidays and my disgust towards car accessories, i noticed a car with reindeer antlers coming out of the windows, and i couldn't help but mutter to myself, "you have got to be fucking kidding me." oh, a car that's a reindeer. i get it. very clever.

not to sound bitter during this entire blog, i must say i am excited about christmas coming up. i am sad i won't be with any family this year. that's never happened. i decided not to go to lubbock for christmas with my bro, and my parents have to stay in china for my dad's job. i do, however, have plans to spend christmas eve at the nelsen's, a cross hybrid holiday celebrating the awesomeness of catholic christmas and jewish hanukkah. we'll have lobster bisque, probably eat some pork loin or something else that is equally dank, and finish the night playing win, lose, or draw. and i'll be spending christmas night at my irish neighbor's house. naimh and noel are super cool, good cooks, and always have a good selection of beer and appertifs. and their kids, oisin, aoife, and eoin are also pretty cool too. i'm hoping to play some wii with oisin, maybe take him down in mario strikers or wii boxing. yeah that'd be fun.

i updated my ipod today. unfortunately my ipod (nano) is only 4gigs, so i'm not able to have all my music on it. so i have to pick and choose. gone is radiohead's amnesiac, justice's cross, daft punk's alive 2007, dave's before these crowded streets, two mogwai albums, two muse albums, white stripes' elephant, and brett's 80's mix vol. 1. that's a lot of really good music i took off, but sacrifices must be made. added is yeah yeah yeah's fever to tell, tom petty's wallflowers, beta band's 3 ep's, cunninlyguists' dirty acres, hendrix' are you experienced?, joanna newsom's ys, mars volta's frances the mute and tremulant, muse's showbiz, people under the stairs' o.s.t., blackalicious' blazing arrow, and modest mouse's the lonesom crowded west and the moon and antarctica. that's also a lot of really good music. man, i need a more spacious ipod. hmm, never thought i'd say that.

job searches suck with such a depressing economy. yeah, fuck job searching. i'm going to boulder, new music in hand.

hit you with the funk, it's like who cut the provolone.

current music: blackalicious - "paragraph president"