Tuesday, 8/13 :: Dead Air Space

If you’re really bored or something, you could check out my friend Thom’s new blog. He’s written a lot of good poetry on there. At least I think it’s poetry.

Wednesday, 8/14 :: Penguin-y Goodness

I just got back from seeing March of the Penguins. It was really good for a documentary. The penguins ran and jumped, and almost laughed like humans. Almost.

I went with my friend Dave. He said the penguins were “representative of the greater world, tossing and turning like so many scrambled eggs in griddles. My heart leapt and felt, climbed an intricate representation of 80s pop culture symbol David Hasselhoff, then dropped away into what still passes for infinity.”

He’s always saying things like that.

Friday, 8/16 :: Show at Double Door

I went to see my friend Sufjan play at the Double Door this evening. The show was great. I heard he’s going to put out another album, this one about Wisconsin! You heard it here first! Because we’re friends.

Afterwards, we went out for coffee, but he wouldn’t take his helmet off. He’s kind of weird actually. I don’t think I’m going to hang out with him again.

Sunday, 8/18 :: Movie Day!

Lots of rain outside today, so I just stayed in and watched movies with my friend Paul. He really wanted to watch Magnolia and Boogie Nights for some reason, but I hadn’t seen Sin City yet, so we watched that.

I couldn’t hear anything, though, because he kept talking to his girlfriend. I don’t know what he sees in her. Total skank.

Tuesday, 8/20 :: Cereal with Ben

Ben (he keeps telling me he’s going to get that website done any day now, but I don’t believe it) and I went out to that new restaurant, Cereality, where they only serve breakfast cereal.

He ordered Cheerios! How do you order cheerios at a place where they have like 200 different cereals! I got half Crunchberries, half Cookie Crunch. Cooooookie crunch.

I asked him about Jenny, who I haven’t seen for a while since we had that little fallout at the Give Up release party, and he thought I was jealous of her! I’m totally not!

Ok, yes I am a little. The Wizard was such a great movie.

Thursday, 8/21 :: Skee-ball! And a Surprise!

My friends Corin, Carrie, and Janet and I went out to Dave and Busters to play some skee-ball. I won, big time, but I gave all my tickets to some little kid because that’s much more indie. Afterwards, we all went out to the record store and talked about how lame MTV2 is. Also, the New Yorker, U2 and mainstream radio. Lame.

Oh, btw, while we were there, I saw that they had released a new album! Isn’t that weird, that all my friends are working on cool releases right now? I mean, I’ve known them all a long time, but it seems like they’re all selling their books and albums and art and stuff! How weird! I know!