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Archive for December, 2005

Alcohol: The Hidden Evil

• Sunday, December 18th, 2005 • No Comments

So, when I said, “I am never ever drinking again,” it obviously wasn’t a strong enough demand on my part.

I’m finally starting to not puke up everything I put in my mouth and swallow. It’s a great feeling after laying on the bathroom floor with a pillow and blanket and sleeping in ten minute periods, [...]


The Best Albums of 2005

• Friday, December 16th, 2005 • 2 Comments

Well, here we are again. It felt like it was only yesterday that I wrote my Best Audio of 2004 list. It was actually a year ago! Funny how time seems to fly.

I’m going to soapbox for a minute before I move on to my lists.

It seems to me that, critically, this year was ridiculous. [...]


Let’s Call It Love

• Saturday, December 10th, 2005 • No Comments

Hey, look, a song lyric as a post title. How novel!

I got Animal Crossing a few days ago. I enjoy it in short periods, for an hour or two. Trista, on the other hand, loves it so much I can rarely get her off of it.

If you’ve got it, here are some friend codes: Floated [...]


Spanish? No!

• Friday, December 9th, 2005 • No Comments

Most of the time, 16-year-old Zach Rubio converses in clear, unaccented American teen-speak, a form of English in which the three most common words are “like,” “whatever” and “totally.” But Zach is also fluent in his dad’s native language, Spanish—and that’s what got him suspended from school. – from “Spanish at school translates to suspension”

This [...]


Another Gutteral Groan

• Tuesday, December 6th, 2005 • No Comments

Fuck, everyone is publishing their Best of 2005 music lists already. It’s a bit early IMHO, but I better get to work on mine. I don’t think I’m probably going to have time or the energy to listen to anything else from this year anyway.

Just a blip.


Ergh

• Sunday, December 4th, 2005 • No Comments

God, I hate the world sometimes. I wish I was more secure, because as it is, at this moment, I want to smash in faces and yell mean things and be jealousy and, well, I’m already ucky feeling so I can’t feel any uckier. Whatever. It’s times like this that I hate the things I [...]


Just Like Heaven

• Thursday, December 1st, 2005 • No Comments

Some part of me is a softie for a well acted, well made chick flick. In particular, I am a major softie for Mark Ruffalo. I think it’s the nice guy vulnerability he manages to bring to the role. Every time he is rejected there is a look in his eyes that I indentify with [...]