i meant to mention this earlier. i'm sorry rozi, i just can't agree with you on the whole avril lavigne thing. i will admit that for a split second in the span of eternity i liked "complicated." it sucked me in. it was catchy. i was intrigued by the mysterious-sounding intro and the "lifes like this" or "nights like this" or whatever the crap she says at the beginning. and then i saw the video and was completely disenchanted. let me tell you why. i used to be avril lavigne. my parents and long-time friends can attest to this. i was a "sk8er girl" back in high school. i wore the baggy jeans, the wallet chains, the thrift store shirts. i never actually sk8ed, mind you, because i was always a little worried about injuring myself in such a fashion that would keep me from playing guitar. and i wasn't very good at it. i did try. i "dated" a sk8er boi my freshman year of high school. he tried to teach me a few things, but the only thing i managed to master was falling down. so really i was a "poser", a wannabe sk8er. but regardless of my authenticity as a true sk8er, i was still in the crowd, and i would just like to say that real sk8ers don't listen to avril lavigne. sk8ers as a social crowd don't really even exist anymore. from what i have seen, sk8erism has really evolved into the punk/emo/hardcore/pseudo-punk/pseudo-emo/pseudo-hardcore scene/s, and i'll be real honest with you when i say that i don't think avril lavigne's "music" fits into any one of those categories. little does she know that her "unique" look is being used as a marketing ploy to try and get sk8ers to listen to pop radio. she is merely a pawn in the game of chess that is the entertainment industry. maybe i am talking out of ignorance. i haven't heard her whole cd. maybe the rest of it is different.

and i don't care what you say. weezer is never going to be able to top their first album. it's sad, but true. it's really all been downhill since the blue record. or i should say that it went downhill after the blue record and came back up a bit with the green record, but they just aren't progressive enough to beat "my name is jonas" or "buddy holly" or "the sweater song" or "say it ain't so" or "only in dreams." i think they should go back into retirement.

while we're on the subject, i will say that jeremiah and i recorded some more today. most of you probably didn't know we were recording, or even who jeremiah is. he is a musical mastermind friend of mine from school. and he says that it's his goal to make me rock. actually he didn't say it quite like that. but something along those lines. we were talking about putting together a live show with some of my stuff, some of his stuff, and then maybe a radiohead cover or two. we're thinking "paranoid android," because that song rocks our faces off. also, i really really would like to cover marc cohn's "walking in memphis" song sometime. i keep hearing it on the radio and the more i hear it, the more i love it and want to do it. maybe i should go to memphis first. i've never been there.

i just heard that some of my friends are at the coldplay show tonight here in chicago. that makes me sad. i really wanted to go. i thought it was in october. sad day. oh well. maybe some other time.

anyhow, i should probably go to bed. my nose is all stuffy and i can't tell if it's allergies or if i have a cold. i should probably just sleep. mmmm... sleepy.