Mavis will save us

a professor showed us this video today in class and i am obsessed with it. wouldn't it be awesome if you could select little sections of space and just - zzzp! - fold them away for later?



i didn't start really listening to beck until... maybe this summer, even, when modern guilt came out. lame, considering he's been around since i was what, seven? i take much too long to decide i like things, and to get to know people. must be less tentative.

"I dried my tears & armed my fears
With ten thousand shields and spears,
Soon my Angel came again;
I was arm'd, he came in vain:
For the time of youth was fled
And grey hairs were on my head."

must drastically narrow thesis topic this week - off to firestone!

when a boy flirts with me i just flip out. i should admit it. i flip out and freeze out and drop off the face of the earth. i used to say to myself (the other fourteen times), well it's because he did this annoying thing, i just don't want to lead him on, i'll just lay low a couple days, etc. etc. but wow do i need to chill. wow.

i'm not sure how i feel about re-entering the blogging world. deleting my livejournal two (?) years ago was cathartic. and already i'm updating way more than is cool.

so let's pretend my blog has intellectual content. i like the new beck album. all the soft voices going "ahh" in the background of gamma ray. beck's voice going "ow." that's the final vowel sound in every line of the verses, and it sounds nice with whatever effect they've run the vocal through. he emphasizes it each time but then really goes to town on the second "arounnnnnnnd," and the last syllable stretches out and swings back like a boomerang. i guess it's conventional to like the single but i think gamma ray is my fave. maybe because of the video, which you should look up because i'm too lazy to post the link.

two more days left in the session - only one of my girls will be back for the next one, and she won't be mine anymore. i'll miss them a lot. i haven't written about them much, because of all these pesky confidentiality agreements they made me sign before i came here, but i pretty much wish i could adopt the whole hall.

sniff.