Monday, February 16, 2009

chicago, or, killing time while waiting for the government to pay me

my brother did this and i'm killing some time while on hold, so here we go!

put your iTunes on shuffle and fill in the blanks.


1. If someone says “is this ok?” you say…
Jacqueline - Franz Ferdinand
"it's always better on holiday, that's why we only work when we need the money"


2. How would you describe yourself?
What You Got - Justin Timberlake
"oh no! is that your hands feelin' on me?"
because, ya know, i'm a little handsy. or something like that.


3. What do you like in a guy/girl?
Hell - Foo Fighters
"come break this skin, i'll let you sink right in and show you everything"
it's all about the mutual trust and respect! oh yeah!


4. How do you feel today?
Yellow Cat (Slash) Red Cat - Say Anything
"these are my days, this is how they stay hey hey"
yep - my days repeat. it's a good life :)


5. What’s your life’s purpose?
Low - Foo Fighters
"hey you, don't go nowhere, i'm right beside you"
...just kidding


6. What is your motto?
Atoms for Peace - Thom Yorke
"no more talk about the old days, it's time for something great"
i like that motto a lot! very apt for my current situation.


7.What do your friends think of you?
The Last Song - Foo Fighters (ok enough foo, itunes)
"we pretend it doesn't matter, we pretend it all away"
hahaha i hope not!


8.What do you think of your future mate?
Hallelujah - Paramore
"this time, we're not giving up. let's make it last forever..."
finally, a fitting song!


9. What do you think about very often?
Sensitized - Kylie Minogue
"they got me messed up, but i like it that way"
sure.


10.What is 2+2?
Love Lockdown - Kanye West
"so i keep it low, keep a secret code, so everybody else don't have to know"
but everyone knows that the real answer is 5. i learned that in like, 6th grade. seriously.


11. What do you think of your best friend?
Black Thumbnail - Kings of Leon
"i'll be that person til my dying day, i try so awful hard but i can't change"
and that's just how i like it.


12. What do you think of the person you like?
All I Have - The Rocket Summer
"and all i have is all of me, and it's all that i can give"


13. What is your life story?
Malaguena Salerosa- Chingon
this is the song that plays when the credits roll at the end of Kill Bill Volume 2 - it's about a beautiful woman that the singer professes his love for her, despite their differences in wealth.
i can dig that


14. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Baby Doll - N.E.R.D.
"girl, you don't know what you mean to me, you are my everything"
er, maybe not.


15. What do you think of when you see the person you like?
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - Arcade Fire
"i went out into the night, i went out to find some light"


16. What will you dance to at your wedding?
Satellite - Guster
"maybe you will always be just a little out of reach"
this is actually quite a cute love song!


17. What will they play at your funeral?
Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead
"yesterday i woke up sucking a lemon"
hm.


18. What is your hobby/interest?
Gave Up - Nine Inch Nails
"covered in hope and vaseline, still cannot fix this broken machine"
yesssss.


19. What is your biggest fear?
The Drama Summer - The Starting Line
"guess i'll call or see you around...yeah"
this song's about losing a love - and this is, for sure, my biggest fear.


20. What is your biggest secret?
Elephant. - Damien Rice
"well i could throw it out, and i could live without, and i could do it all for you, i could be strong"
this hits home closer than i'd like to admit

21. What do you think of your friends?
So Says I - The Shins
"we've got rules and maps and guns in our backs but we still can't just behave ourselves"
ha! well, we do like to have fun!

22. What will you post this as?
Chicago (Acoustic) - Sufjan Stevens
"i made a lot of mistakes in my mind, in my mind"

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

functionality disabled

at the risk of sounding like a whiny-ass emo kid, i think that i'm a little depressed. everything feels like a chore and i've been ready for bed since 7 pm. hopefully it's just the way i'm feeling today, though, with my luck it probably isn't.

i'll figure it out eventually.

Monday, February 2, 2009

you must chill! i have hidden your firebird keys!

today has been pretty productive. i got a bunch done that i wanted to, which is always a good thing. i still have more to do tomorrow and wednesday, so it's a good thing that i'm not working right now :)

the last few days have been a little off - my sister and i went home to see cousins but then never actually got to see them. it was nice to see mom and dad again, though! they might be getting sick of me because i've seen them so much lately. last night was rough - i had two bad dreams, one of which made me scream and wake myself up, and the other of which made me cry when i woke up.

in the first dream took place in my old house. my boyfriend and i were participating in a new product study that involved the use of cameras that detect faces in the dark without the use of night vision. the study involved someone coming into your house at night, and the camera secretly catching their faces. so my boyfriend and i were in a room, watching the footage, and someone came into the house. the camera zoomed in on his face automatically. half of it looked like one of those phantom of the opera-esque white face masks, and the other half was totally black - no face at all. we were excited that the product worked and thought the study was over, so we went to bed. then, as we were lying in bed, i heard the door creak open. i turned over to see a faceless man coming at my throat as if to strangle me. i yelled out, but apparently also did so in real life and woke both myself and my boyfriend up. oops!

the second dream was so realistic, it freaked me out to the point of crying. the dream started with me leaving my boyfriend's house, saying goodbye to him. immeidately, i wake up in the living room of my old house, but things are a little different - there's different things in my house (like a flat screen t.v. and a new computer) but the house itself is just the same as it is now. the rest of my family is there, but everyone looks older. my mom has longer hair and is a lot thinner. i go out to our back patio and stand next to my mom, and she asks me how i am. i tell her that i'm confused and to be honest, i'm not sure how i got there or what day or year it is. her face drops and she takes me inside, where she tells me that it's halloween of 2012 and that four years previous, i was in a major car accident, where i suffered serious injuries to my brain and body. my brother then hands me a stack of papers as if he's done it a hundred times before. the stack contains a rehab clinic brochure, legal documents stating how much my parents owe, a newspaper article about the crash, etc. i can't bring myself to read the article, and my family members aren't paying attention to me - kinda like this whole scenario has occured before. meanwhile, my back starts tingling and i can feel that the skin on my back and legs is messed up from the accident. i'm siting on the floor, trying to take everything in and crying at the same time. i'm thinking to myself, "this can't be real, this has to be a dream...why am i not waking up?" then i start panicking about my boyfriend and where he is. i feel in my pockets for a phone and find one, which is a really advanced version of my current phone. on the home screen, there are a bunch of icons representing applications (like on facebook), but they're really stupid, so i get disappointed in myself for having such terrible applications. i can't figure out my phone to call my boyfriend, and my mom and sister say not to because it costs 70 cents a minute to call out. my sister tells me that my boyfriend and friends come up to visit me all the time. then, he call me, but i can't figure out my phone and end up hanging up the call. i go into a panic, and he calls my sister. i lunge for the phone saying that it's him and i need to talk to him, and she puts her arm out to block me and says, "nope." then she tells my boyfriend to call my phone again and she's gonna answer it for me. i'm still panicking and freaked out, and i wake up with a giant lump in my throat. the dream was so real, i was confused for a minute. but i looked over and saw my boyfriend sleeping and started crying. it was kind of a mixture of relief and being worked up...even now i'm getting a little choked up! it's weird for me to be this affected by a dream, but it really messed me up for a while.

blegh. i hope that got the bad dreams out of the way for a while...i don't need any extra stress right now :)