Brain litter

If you’ve sent me an e-mail or PM recently and haven’t received a reply, don’t freak out! I’ve just gotten behind on sending responses. I’ve been typing up replies into a Word document every chance I get, so that I’ll be able to just copy and paste when I have a moment. Obviously I need to shake a leg.

Cutter announced to me last weekend that Dam’s girlfriend gave him a handjob. I don’t know what disturbs me more about this piece of information…that I now know it, or that sweet lil’ Dam is growing up so fast and it’s only a matter of time before Cutter follows suit. I don’t need to know this about my brothers! I used to think that when we got older, we’d have this fantastic open relationship wherein we didn’t have a problem admitting these kinds of things to each other. Not in a gross pervy incestual way but in that sort of confiding way that some people have with their families. Now I realize I don’t want that kind of openness…it’s one thing to joke around and accuse one another of rubbing one out. It’s another thing to outright confirm such things. Gah.

I find lately that it’s all I can do not to bash my radio to bits every time I hear the annoying whine that is Gwen Stefani’s voice. For fuck’s sake…can’t she go away? Are we going to release every damn song from her stupid album? Why does she think she’s suddenly the queen of retro music? Who the hell told her it’d be a good idea to spin off into a solo career? Who can I sue for the mental and emotional distress her craptastic sound has caused me? How much do you think it’d cost to have her bumped off?

The only thing in the music world that I hate more than Gwen Stefani is that stupid “My Humps” song. Oh BEP, why must you release shit as well? The rest of the Monkey Business album is pretty good…and yet they choose the one rotten song on the whole disc to be their third single. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? I’m going to set fire to my copy if I hear that damn song one more time. I mean it.

I’ve been putting off polishing up my NaNovel. I don’t know that it’s really intentional avoidance so much as it is needing to get some breathing room after the November crunch that brought it into existence. Two months almost doesn’t seem long enough…not to mention the fact that it was based on a short story that I ended up reworking and turning in as part of my final portfolio in English class. I’m still detoxing I suppose. Which bums me out a little because I really do want to get back to it and get things smooth enough that I’m satisfied with letting y’all read parts of it. I just keep coming right to the brink of opening the file and then my brain lets out a giant sigh and shudders a bit and I’m forced to back off and find something else to do with the time. Writer’s burnout is far worse than writer’s block. Anyday.

In a fit of sheer madness, and partly because I snagged it from Ange’s journal, I tracked the last 25 songs that randomly played on my iPod. I’m not sure whether or not I should be embarrassed by anything on the list…

1. La Bamba – Los Lobos
2. 32 Flavors – Alana Davis
3. Ray’s Dream – The ‘Burbs Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
4. Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) – Baz Luhrmann
5. Freebird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Club Song – Blade Soundtrack
7. Under the Tracks – Coldplay
8. Sweet Surrender (DJ Tiesto Club Mix) – Sarah MacLachlan
9. Seems – Queen Sarah Saturday
10. Pennsylvania – Bloodhound Gang
11. Too Shy – Kajagoogoo
12. Kryptonite – 3 Doors Down
13. Right Now – SR-71
14. Rush (Live) – Depeche Mode
15. Golden Years – David Bowie
16. Merkaba – Tool
17. The Dead of Night – Depeche Mode
18. Techno Rave – DJ Skribble
19. Under the Milky Way – The Church
20. Squares – The Beta Band
21. Unity – Marc Antoine
22. Come Out and Play – Offspring
23. Places – Bullets & Octane
24. Forever For Her (Is Over for Me) – The White Stripes
25. Here I Go Again – Whitesnake

I should note that when I came to the White Stripes song, I giggled madly for about five minutes due to someone quite recently referring to the album as “Satan Got Behind Me”…to which Ange replied “I think you mean Satan Got Behind Me and then he used the feather.” Now that’s some funny shit right there.