Pink Triangle (Cover)

My Top 15 Favorite Bands Right Now

15. Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes

14. Anathallo

13. Cake

12. Kings of Convenience

11. Arcade Fire

10. Electric President

9. Coconut Records

8. Dirty Projectors

7. Broken Bells

6. The Temper Trap

5. Pinback

4. Portugal. The Man.

3. The Republic Tigers

2. Local Natives

1. Thom Yorke/Radiohead

Honorary Prospects

The Acorn

Emiliana Torrini

Justice

Peter Bjorn and John

Spoon

The XX

Gorillaz

Cursive

Top 15 All-Time Favorite Bands

15. Red Hot Chili Peppers

14. Steely Dan

13. The Shins

12. Gorillaz

11. Jimmy Eat World

10. Jethro Tull

9. Incubus

8. Brand New

7. Modest Mouse

6. Cursive

5. Death Cab For Cutie

4. Cake

3. Yes

2. Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes

1. Thom Yorke/Radiohead

Honorary Prospects

Portugal. The man.

The Dismemberment Plan

Fine Young Cannibals

Phantom Planet

Pink Floyd

Wilco

The Good Life

Taking Back Sunday

My Top Ten Favorite Movies (First Draft)

10. The Princess Bride

9. 28 Days Later

8. The Science of Sleep

7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

6. Donnie Darko

5. City of God

4. The Darjeeling Limited

3. The Graduate

2. Garden State

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Roadtrip Day 1

Hello. Today I began a cross-country roadtrip with my two friends Richard and Isaac. We have been driving all day and now I am exhausted, so this post will be quite brief. Today we drove from Bakersfield, CA to Flagstaff, AZ. We drove through Las Vegas just for kicks, then went to see the Hoover Dam between Nevada and Arizona. From there we came to Flagstaff and spent about an hour trying to find the best deal on a hotel room, settling on a Super 8 motel which included free wifi and breakfast. Some memorable moments so far have been hanging on to the back of a semi truck on a longboard on our way to Vegas, seeing the van in front of us shatter their windshield with an exploding bird, and watching Isaac spit off the side of the Hoover Dam only to have the wind bring it right back at him. So many good times already and it's only the first day. I'm looking forward to the free breakfast tomorrow and seeing the Grand Canyon in the morning. Sorry for the boring first post, im tired. Goodnight.

You're Not You

I realized something today that I feel like I need to warn people about. I was playing around on photobooth and I hit the "Flip Photo" button. The effects of this button are mind-blowing. I did it and it immediately turned my good picture into a terrible one. I had just switched it back to the way it was when it hit me. The way the picture looks originally is the same way I see myself every day when I look into the mirror. It's a flipped image. That is not what everyone else sees, unless there is someone who happens to brush their teeth at the same time as you every morning and again before bed. I always knew that about mirrors, but I had never realized how different I looked in real life. I regretfully continued to flip all the photos of me in the past year. It was shocking. I am not who I thought I was. But then I reasoned with myself. I mean, all of our unbalanced features are probably so noticeable to us because our eyes have adjusted to our own faces that we see in the mirror. This makes it so that when we see the way we really are, the asymmetry is basically double what someone who has never seen us sees. I hope you are still following, because this is some serious stuff. Now, the people who have seen us and know us well have probably also adjusted to the asymmetry of our faces, so what they see of us is okay. What a relief, right? Wrong. Think about all of the photobooth pictures you show people or post on facebook. They might look great to you, but because your friends don't usually see you in the mirror, this means that the x2 asymmetry that we experience when we hit that awful button is now being seen from the eyes of the people who we know. No one can tell exactly how another's mind interprets images from the eye, but the math suggests this theory to be quite true.

Think twice before you show off your favorite picture of you, you narcissist.

Life changing..

PS. If you have the film stock effect on your photobooth and you choose to use it, go ahead and publish it to the world, you look great.

For a Minute I Lost Myself

Hi.

Lovely weather we have been having

Today I ate a black bean and pepper jack cheese quesadilla.

I don't like black beans

I liked the quesadilla.

Funny how those things work out.

I never work out.

Its not that I'm against it, I really have no feelings about it at all.

I say this stupid little thing like,

"Real men get buff without going to the gym."

But it doesn't mean anything.

It's just what I say.

I don't know why, it's not even funny.

I cut one of my nails too short today.

It was my right thumb.

The thumb I use to hit the space bar.

It's uncomfortable.

Each time I hit the return key,

That's one less time I have to hit the space bar.

This blog sucks.

Raise your hand if you are reading.

That sounds depressing, but it's not how it was intended.

I'm happy in general.

I like that only a few people read this.

Keeps it intimate.

Hello you.

I know exactly who you are.

I imagine all 5 of us sitting in a circle.

And I am talking in a very quiet, calming voice.

We are in the very same classroom in which I attended kindergarten.

But there are no desks, only a large round rug.

We sit Native American style.

I address Benjamin.

"Hey man I'm excited for summer."

and

"Dude! I'm pretty positive I'm going to THE Lost Finale Party in LA. I have a ticket. I'm going to see if maybe I can get you one. The cast is going to be there and everything, it's quite a big deal."

Then back to everyone.

I am going to try to make an effort to consider updating this thing more often.

But no promises.

Did you ever read the book

But No Elephants!

?

Where do you put the question mark?

But No Elephants!? no

But No Elephants!...? no

Anyways, a good book from my childhood.

I am exhausted.

Goodnight everyone.