2.26.01 - 10:06:50

the plastic thing on the end of your shoelace. the little thing that you thread through the holes. it's called an aglet.

that little depression in the middle of your upper lip. it's called your philtrum. it comes from a greek root meaning love charm. because it's supposed to look like the grip of cupid's bow or something and that's where all the love power or whatever is.

see, i'm thinking you probably woke up this morning and didn't specifically want to know what those things were, but now you do, and i bet you're glad. because knowledge is a good thing.

mary lou lord does a version of 'sugar sugar' with semisonic that's pretty cute.

ok. so i heard this song on the radio the other day. it was catchy. i thought, this is not a great song by any means, but i would like to have it on my computer for a little while. so i listen to the dj and he says this band is called powderfinger. i think, that's a stupid name for a band, but whatever. so i get home. go to it. search: powderfinger. like, a million songs. i download a few. listen to the first one that gets done. it sounds nothing like the band i'm thinking of. i go to powderfinger.com which actually turns out to be a (well-designed) website. ok. so they have lyrics to every song from every album on this website. i look up every song on the two most recent albums. ridiculous. but i do it. NONE of these songs fit.

i go to the ktbz website and look at their nightly news playlist, where they list all of the songs they play during the hours of like, 9-12, which is when i heard this song. powderfinger is nowhere on this list. of course at this point i've pretty much decided it's not powderfinger anyway, so then i start going through the list, band by band, checking out the lyrics to any song from any band i don't recognize. i finally find the song. do you want to know what it is? it's called 'drops of jupiter.' it's by TRAIN. wtf? where did i get powderfinger from? no, like, i am so perplexed. i couldn't really enjoy the song because i was so frustrated with the locating process. it just didn't sound as catchy and fun as it did on the radio. it kinda sounds like someone recorded it off the radio, really. it has piano. and strings. but yeah, don't like, waste your time. it'll be deleted in a couple of weeks.

then i put on stephanie says, the velvet underground, and we know lou reed is always good stuff. stephanie says. christopher says. brenda kahn song. also good stuff.

and now i'm listening to the donnas' cover of keep on loving you, which absolutely has to put you in a better mood. the female version of the ramones, they have been called. i don't know if i'd go that far, but they're fun. punk music is fun in general. in other news, they've started playing dynamite hack's version of boyz n the hood on the radio. exciting. also exciting is the fact that you can listen to the entire coldplay cd over at the buzz. ok, listen. if you don't own this album, if you haven't heard this album, your number one priority needs to be clicking on that link right there. you'll thank me.

i think i'm supposed to write a response paper about alan shapiro's the dead alive and busy tonight. i'll do that right after i finish this.

did i tell you my story about the salty baby? probably not. so the other day i was walking up the stairs, thinking about what i was thinking about when i wasn't thinking because you gotta do that sometimes. and i was thinking about how babies with cystic fibrosis are salty. because their kidneys don't work correctly or something so extra salt gets excreted through the skin. i think. listen, in any case, their skin is saltier than normal, ok. so baby books and doctors, etc, say if you kiss your baby and he tastes salty, then you need to take him to the doctor because he might have cystic fibrosis. so i was like, ok, it would be so funny if you were a baby and you rubbed salt all over your body and then your mom kissed you and was like, OH MY GOD, MY BABY HAS CYSTIC FIBROSIS!! and you'd be like, mwuh ha ha ha ha, i just rubbed salt on me.

then i started thinking about how that was what i was thinking about and got weirded out. next, i took a shower.

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