Bands I'm looking forward to seeing

School of Seven Bells
Dr. Dog
Coheed and Cambria
Andrew Bird
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Raveonettes
Grizzly Bear
Bon Iver
The Decemberists

Those are just the bands I'm familiar with. I'm pretty sure I won't seeing all of them, I may wander off to other stages. I can't believe I'll be seeing Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I can't believe I'll be spending the whole weekend with Danish.

In other news, I did decently on my exam today. I was so anxious this morning that it caused me to vomit! After the math retake, I ate lunch at Pei Wei with Danielle and Julie which was pretty awesome. Then Julie, Danish, and I watched a movie called "Blood Creek" at the dollar theater which was horrible...I felt bad for making Julie watch it. It was gory, cheesy, and ridiculous.

Next, here are some gory, cheesy, ridiculous lyrics which I love from Ludo:

I'm a killer
Cold and wrathful
Silent sleeper
I've been inside your bedroom
I've murdered half the town
Left you love notes on their headstones
I'll fill the graveyards
Until I have you

Moonlight walking
I smell your softness
Carnivorous and lusting
To track you down among the pines
I want you stuffed into my mouth
Hold you down and tear you open
Live inside you
Oh love, I'd never hurt you

But I'll grind against your bones
Until our marrows mix
I will eat you slowly
Ohhhhh
The horror of our love
Never so much blood pulled through my veins
Ohhhhh
The horror of our love
Never so much blood

I wake in terror
Blackbirds screaming
Dark cathedrals spilling
Midnight on their alters
I'm your servant
My immortal
Pale and perfect
Such unholy heaving
The statues close their eyes
The room is changing
Break my skin
And drain me

Ancient language
Speak through fingers
The awful edges
Where you end and I begin
Inside your mouth
I cannot see
There's catastrophe
In everything I'm touching
As I sweat and crush you

And I hold your beating chambers
Until they beat no more
You die like angels sing
Ohhhhh
The horror of our love
Never so much blood pulled through my veins
Ohhhhh
The horror of our love
Never so much blood

You're a ghost, love
Nightgown flowing
Your body blue and walking
Along the continental shelf
You are a dream among the sharks
Beautiful and terrifying
Living restless
We dance in dark suspension

And you bury me
In the ocean floor beneath you
Where they'll never hear us scream
Ohhhhh
The horror of our love
Never so much blood pulled through my veins
Ohhhhh
The horror of our love
Never so much blood

(The Horror Of Our Love)

They're playing at The Door November 13.

Then and now

We haven't aged.

Jump Five

And some sweet news...Danish and I are going to ACL! Unfortunately, it's looking like some kids with disabilities won't be having me for camp that weekend. I'll make it up to them somehow.

Parking violation

I have no time for anything anymore.

Romance

I wonder if he knows anything about it.

Let me explain

My making a Twitter account is completely for academic reasons. Today in class the teachers enthusiastically informed the class that they would be "tweeting" announcements, helpful hints, and reminders to enhance our learning experience in both Pediatric and Adult health. I feel so lame for doing it, but at least I don't have Facebook to go along with it. Hm...as Daniel said, I've "entered the Blogosphere" or internet realm. I do spend a lot of time on the internet - everything is internet. Definitely music.

Speaking of music, over the weekend we went to The Cavern to see Bad Veins and Lauren's husband's band They Were Stars, and apparently it was a good show. Unfortunately, I totally missed out on Bad Veins! I was across the street at Taco Cabana with Meagan, chit-chatting about marriage and relationships and stuffing our faces with delicious tacos and quesadillas. Oh well, at least Daniel was there to enjoy them so I'm happy. Their sound is much like The Strokes, The Killers, and The Bravery. I liked "The Lie":

I know this week will go by pretty quickly. This Labor Day weekend, we're going to make a trip out to see the Grand Canyon with my parents. They've never been so it should be exciting.

The "Root"

The "Root" refers to the way I tie my hair when I'm at home or wanting to be comfortable - it's pulled away from my face so that the pony tail is not just in the back of my head, but acutally sitting on top so that the hair splays out like a fountain or what Daniel calls a root. He says it is as if I can be pulled out of the ground by the pony tail like a carrot or some other root vegetable. To be honest, it's not an attractive look, but what do I care since I'm usually home or hanging out with him. But out of a barrage of insults from Daniel last night, one happened to poke at the unkempt look I sported when we went grocery shopping. "Let your hair down," he said. "I can't, it'll leave a crease," I replied. "Well at least redo it so it doesn't look so crazy." "Why? You think I'm ugly?" To which he said, "No, but I don't want anyone else to." On the car ride home, he made it a point to let me know I wasn't as smart as someone we go to church with. And he said he didn't trust my cooking. I clammed up throughout dinner and went home early and had to choke on my frustration when he neither called or texted me on my car ride home. We didn't even pray together for my first day of school.

I'm not that upset and it's really not a fight. Just irritating/insensitive things he does sometimes. I'm sure I do plenty of annoying things to him, too. I know there are things I just have to let slide when in a relationship, but once in a while I get this crazy notion that if I let him slide with one thing, then he will try to get away with another thing, and pretty soon take complete advantage of me. Of course that is just silly and untrue. The man is not out to get me, to poke and prod until he finds a loophole. But I get worried sometimes. I've gotten a lot better...it's the controlling, insecure side of me that destroys life and the world. And I'm going to throw in that it's pretty egotistical to believe that someone has to be sweet to me at all times when I'm not always so pleasant myself. Yeah, I'm a terrible person.

So I've made a resolution of some sorts - I'm going to stay sober all semester long! I'll have a beer here and there, but nothing to get me drunk. I think it's possible not to mention I may gain some respect from people, i.e. Daniel. To my dismay, Daniel wasn't as excited as I was. "You can't set a goal for an entire semester," he said with considerable airs, "You have to set short-term goals, such as 'I will try to stay sober for one week.'" Exasperated, I said, "I don't have a drinking problem. Quit talking to me like I should be in AA." Sometimes I wonder if I do have a drinking problem, and he happens to be the "Root" of it! Grr.