i want to be kim gordon when i'm 50

those who know me well would know that i am kind of a tea aficionado. my current favorite is earl grey on a chilly night. anyways, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that i really want to try kombucha tea. sounds completely disgusting ("a symbiosis of bacteria and yeast," yum!), but i am curious nonetheless. i keep reading about it but i have yet to see it in any supermarkets. does anyone know where i can get a hold of some? has anyone tried it?

i will not pretend that i am well-versed in each of their 9000000 albums over the last two decades (i only have daydream nation and rather ripped) but... i've been listening to a lot of sonic youth lately. try listening to "do you believe in rapture?" if you ever find yourself walking around alone at night. i wasn't aware that there was a pleasant kind of loneliness, until now. and that's not all - watch this video. kim gordon and thurston moore are such BAMF's.

vito of south el monte

friday night i went to my favorite sushi bar, where i ended up sitting next to an old italian couple. shortly after the man introduced himself to us, and a conversation was started. vito has six kids and has been running a food distribution company (specializing in none other than... pizza), about two blocks away from my dad's company. the last time he met a vivian was forty years ago. one thing led to another, until he started telling me about how unfortunate nuclear weapons were. from there on we talked about the state of russia and the iraqi war. he didn't think he would live to see the iraqis achieve peace, but hoped that i would. i told him i was hopeful as well, but thought it highly unlikely.

as kids we were all taught to not talk to strangers, but i find that often times the best and most memorable conversations are with people i don't know. it's such a breath of fresh air to chat with someone who is in a completely different walk of life than the one you're in.

for better or for worse

saturday was fun. this is basically what i did in the afternoon:

and then the rest of the day got much more interesting.

i feel like some people embark on college with a determination to change their image, to take advantage of the fact that noone knows them and that they are getting the opportunity to start over. i honestly never intended to change myself, but i feel like i'm changing nonetheless. but like kim says, just have fun with everything now. so i am. :)

who needs ear drums anyways

i have recently become addicted to odwalla juices. i especially love the strawberry banana and orange honey passion... citrus c was a bit too sweet for my liking. will definitely try the original superfood next, even though i must say that the green thickness does not look too appetizing. if they weren't so fucking expensive and high in sugar i swear i'd have dozens lined up in my mini fridge. which reminds me... i need to get some more carrot sticks and ranch dip for late night snacking purposes. no more brownies or cookies or cakes for me at the dining commons! i can feel freshman fifteen looming over me.

songs to wake you up on a chilly tuesday morning:
- "timebomb" by beck
- "almost crimes" by broken social scene
- "black tongue" by yeah yeah yeahs
- "judy is a punk" by the ramones
- "deceptacon" by le tigre
- "aphrodisiac" by bow wow wow

i'm probably going to be deaf by age thirty.

how disappointing

i recently remarked after reading two of rené descartes' meditations that i may be reading the words of a genius. then i came across this:

"...i can infer both that god exists and that i am completely dependent on him for my existence from moment to moment. this inference is so obvious that i'm sure humans can't know anything more evidently or certainly. and now i think i see a way of moving from the contemplations of the true god, in whom are hidden all treasures of knowledges and wisdom, to knowledge of other things."

i feel like the more i hear about god the less i believe in him.

how proper

i decided to give blogger a try. quite frankly i don't see any point in maintaining a myspace anymore. noone uses that shit anymore; i certainly don't.

anyways, i am nearly two weeks into college. ucsb is gorgeous. my registration sticker came in the mail yesterday, which means i now have free access to public transportation around the area. a little exploration is definitely called for this weekend.