Valentine's Day.

these are the Valentine's Days in the past that i can remember.

2002: i got my hair cut SHORT (it was long, then it was short, now it is long) & received a life-altering (or so i thought at the time) note from the object of my affection of my high school years.

2003: i was sicker than i've ever been in my life and my band, the legendary Right Angles, played at a Valentine's Day show. i was barely there, but i made it through tunes by the Velvet Underground, Syd Barrett, & Beat Happening.

2004: i saw Super Furry Animals in Athens, Georgia & it was pretty amazing. here's some visual evidence:



2005: i ate some ice cream, which resulted in the abandonment of my 4 month long journey into veganism. yeah, veganism wasn't for me so much.

2006: i went to New York City all by my lonesome for the day & went to Marc Jacobs & the Magnolia Bakery.

2007: it was a SNOW DAY so i was housebound & watched my favorite movie of all time, Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past.

this year: i am baking loads of cupcakes to provide to my weekend guests, The Depreciation Guild, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Crystal Stilts, who are going to play for the enthusiastic coeds here tomorrow & it is going to be SWEET.

words.

my favorite words to describe music are jangly and twangy.

and irreverent is my favorite word to describe art and humor. one Halloween in high school, my two friends & i went as "famous people with one name." i was Nico, he was Moses, and she was The Fonz. i remember telling my uncle about our costume choices & he said, "that's so Dada." i don't think i really knew much about Dada at the time, but i knew what he meant somehow. somehow i realized the randomness & whimsy & irreverence of our one named people related to Dada. i was pretty cool when i was 16.

A Nice Holiday Story.

about 4 years ago, when i was in high school, my two friends & i were doing some last minute Christmas shopping, and we had some sort of baked goods with us- not sure if we'd made them or received them as a gift or perhaps bought them, i can't recall. anyway, we're driving along & we see a homeless guy on the corner so we stop & my friend offers him one of the baked goods. since we're all into the holiday spirit, you know. and he just shook his head No. he didn't want it!!! it was so sad! sounds like something that would happen to Larry David. oh wait, it did.