Mangle Your Mind

Hi mom. Thanks for reading my livejournal. You need to learn when not to cross the line. This is WAY beyond the line. Thank god I'm leaving in two months. I'm 18. I can take care of myself, and you interfering isn't going to change anything, so you need to learn to back the fuck off.

Have a nice day.

Comment, credit, whatever, I don't care as long as you're not saying you made it.



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and more coming, s o o n. maybe. later. [ish.]

er... excuse me while i burst out laughing, hysterically.

This isn't going to be a very "cool" slash indie slash anything list... because in the early 90's I was a little kid and guess what?! I listened to the alternative radio station my parents listened to. But it definitely brings back memories. Tell me if you guys have similiar experiences with any of these songs... I'm always curious whether people nostalgize (NEW WORD!!!) over the same things I do.

Teh List
1. Live - I Alone
2. Blind Melon - No Rain
3. Nirvana - everything?
4. Marcy Playground - Sex & Candy
5. Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
6. R.E.M. - Man on the Moon
7. Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
8. The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen
9. Jonatha Brooke - Blood From a Stone
10. John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters


Now I feel schitzophrenic because all the lyrics to all of those songs are trying to replay themselves in my head at once.

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andddd, go to afireinside.net and then watch the NEW VIDEO for Miss Murder, which is freaking amazing, bytheway.

Today was rough. I'm bitchy and tired and trying not to cry every time someone talks to me, which is stupid, and I will be able to realize the stupidity of it from the safe vantage point of several days in the future.

( LJ cut for emo content. You have been warned. )

ONCE AGAIN, I ASK: WHY THE FUCK ISN'T THERE A BUS TO SCAPPOOSE?! PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF MY SANITY, GIVE US A FUCKING BUS!

Does anyone else ever think back to their music tastes of a few years ago and grow very, very alarmed? Or just amused? I mean, my idea of moody music right now is Imogen Heap, The Smiths, Morrissey, and Ladytron. Hrmmm. That's a far cry from Korn and System of a Down, if you ask me. Sometimes I want to go back in time and strangle my younger self, repeatedly.

The Stills are coming to Portland. The show costs $7 and I can't remember what the venue is, but I'm sure it's not that hard to find out. Sounds like a fun concert though. We should all go. Cheap entertainment, baby!

OMFG, HOLY SHIT!!!

*hyperventilates and dies*

NEW AFI ALBUM. NEW FUCKING ALBUM. *waited way too long for this*

Haha, it's not coming out until June 6th, but I just downloaded it. *nyah nyah*

OMG, SO EXCITED!!!

SO EXCITED!

( lj-cut for the benefit of the ADD and easily bored )


Now, for some not so fluff, meaning questions that don't pertain to you, really, and questions that might have something to do with you if you wish it.

What job should I get this summer? Ideas are very much appreciated.

HEEEEEY, anyone want to go to the Snow Patrol and Artic Monkeys concerts? Please? Pwetty pwease? Snow Patrol is on Fri, June 16, 2006, 9:00 PM and the price is $21.00. Arctic Monkeys is on Mon, May 29, 2006, 8:00 PM and the price is $18.00. Both are general admission and at the Roseland Theatre. I think it'd be fun to see Arctic Monkeys, just to have a good time. And, that's only my lunch money for the week, so it wouldn't be that big of a deal. Any takers?

So, I'm on my way to see Death Cab and Franz Ferdinand. That's right. Oh baby.

I LOVE LIFE. Kikikikik!!!!!

*sob*

research paper

*sniffle*

That is all.

SKIZZORE. My first SMA 4.0 (4.047, to be exact) arrived in the mail this morning and I am officially NOT failing as I had assumed. Although, I suspect my grades have been fucked up (to my advantage, for once) by Mr. Hemmen and Salvi. Now I just hope they don't realize what they've done and change my grades. They can't do that now, right? Grades can't be changed after they've been sent home, yes?

Kite Runner is fucking amazing. Read it. For once, you'll find yourself absolutely hating the first person narrator through the whole first part of the novel, which I admire. Plus, the historical facts weaved into the plot are fascinating. Just a warning though... it's kind of violent. But then again, we're reading it for Contemporary Fiction right now, and 'Everybody Reads' is doing it at the same time, so apparently it's not that shocking for a culture used to violent movies.

*dreaming of West Wing*

Hah... (Alphabetized for your reading pleasure) ( I've downloaded so much in the last two days... )

Studying is not going so well. And yes, i realize this is NOT the revelation I should be having at 10:00 pm before finals. At all.

I haven't even finished my creative writing portfolio. I still have to polish up all my poems and wrestle this piece of shit 90's thing into some kind of coherence.


Who's for an APUSH study party after school tomorrow? I think we should go to Coffee People and snag some couches in the back for a few hours of hardkizzore knowledge-absorbsion time. Oh baby. Because I just love history SO much.

Righto. 150 calorie massive root beer floats basically win all the gold stars in the world.

I have lost six pounds in a week. *happy* Sometimes stress works in good ways.

FUCK. CRAMPS.

Why now? On top of four tests today and two hours of sleep and feeling like shit besides, I have to deal with this too. Sometimes I really wish I didn't have to get up and go to school and I'm late now so I should go put my shoes on and down lots of ibuprofen.

I think it's time for me to change my layout... but code is looking intimidating and I have too much work to do. Maybe this weekend.

Any votes on what my new theme should be? I really like the colors still... but Shirley Manson has been up there a LONG time.

Anyway, here's some headers I keep procrastinating on putting up. They're kind of old now. XD Although I think I've gotten worse instead of better.

( link )

I hope you enjoyed that exercise in pointlessness, again brought to you by too much homework and one very stressed-out monkey, who needs to stop thinking in terms of what she can quote from Fight Club.

*gurgle* Some days I wish I made sense. Or could sleep.

If i had a birthday party this year, would any of you actually come?


Skipping school is bad for my mental health. Seriously. But sleep is incredibly nice.

And no, I did not actually skip. But I can't believe I didn't even make it until the end of the first week back. Lizame.


Bridget, I wish I had your sense of humor. The Mr. Hemmen post made me fall off my chair.


In other news: iPod case of indestructability (well, it better be...) and colored sharpies! Yay!

And iTunes is still a bitch+5

*bounces* Guys! Look!!!

( Fight Club Fun )


It was a slow day
And the sun was beating
On the soldiers by the side of the road
There was a bright light
A shattering of shop windows
The bomb in the baby carriage
Was wired to the radio

These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry
Don't cry


Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble (1986)

things I've looked up today: nihilism, existentialism, communism, Karl Marx, the Beat Generation (geez, wonder what kind of mood I'm in) and Chuck Palahniuk. Woot. So now I know stuff. I think I learned more today than I have all year. Go interweb.