When the ink dries, we'll have another bastard's peace.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

a few true things:

it's warmish outside and i hate this weather. yesterday when i was going to pay my rent i heard (between the headphone-noises) one guy tell another "winter is always like this in vancouver." i'm glad i don't live there.

i just made guacamole for the first time. i added some salt + pepper and some cheddar and miked it for 22 seconds and ate it with some hella ghetto corn chips my dad sent me home with and it was really really delicious. simple pleasures +1.

i had my american history midterm this morning/afternoon. i think i did well; my studying served me well on the identify questions, but i might have flubbed one or three of the multiple choice. i still think i'll get at least an a-minus. i'm pretty happy.

i'm drinking apple cider right now. i realized i go through drinks too quickly because i buy 2-litre containers and just drink them straight without pouring them into glasses. without a framework to order my drinking i tend to consume them willy-nilly. i considered getting glasses and forcing myself to use them, but then i'd probably just end up with a couple of dirty glasses, no inclination to clean them, and i'd be back to drinking from the carton. i wonder if i will be less of a slob as i age.

i have downloaded a lot of new music in 2009. songs by a wilhelm scream (1), rusty horse band (5), radiohead (1), lykke li (13), bon iver (13), girl talk (14), titus andronicus (1), polar bear club (11), new mexican disaster squad (15), western addiction (4), kid dynamite (23), ninja high school (5), fucked up (11), thursday (11), propagandhi (12), vampire weekend (10), the loved ones (15), the sainte catherines (9) and the tragically hip (1). so... 175 songs. in 43 days. and that's not counting the crystal castles album i downloaded and deleted after deciding i didn't like it. at this pace i'll have 1310 more by the end of the year. and my three-year-old ipod wouldn't even be full yet. the future is crazy.

i need to be writing more. i've knocked off some poems lately but i need to be writing more. and reading more. i'm resolving to spend less time online. and i really want to start working on batroom. so. yuss. goodbye.

3 comments:

Vivien Leung said...

there should be a book written about you. you'd seriously make for a great protagonist...or at least an anti-hero (I mean that in the best of ways... not sure how. it makes sense to me.)

Vivien Leung said...

I also like that this post is a bit less esoteric.

alex icon said...

you're very kind. that's probably the best compliment i've received in 2009.

i guess the straightforwardness is fun to do, every now and then. by which i mean... i will probably be blogging more often, and out of that will spring more posts that make sense.