and now for a rather significant digression...

1 | i finally gave in. and got an iPod.

2 | idk if you guys are into A Fine Frenzy or not, but she just released a new album. i am still slightly unimpressed w/ this new one, esp given how good the first one is, but "Blow Away" definitely grew on me after i watched the super cute video. i'm a sucker, what can i say.

3 | i have Mochi the Bear! whose turn is it to have him now?

my new fav song

the black ghosts - anyway you choose to give it.
man i love it when itunes plays AWESOME songs.
listen to it here.

also, i'm really liking stuff off of the ratatat album, LP3. and the new the fray album. oh and i reaaaaaally love the new franz ferdinand album hehe :D

you lot

are certainly quiet :/ i will assume you are busy with school (as am i, which is kind of why i haven't been posting either hehe...)
book stuff: i was having dinner at dom's place with him and sara, when i stumbled upon his copy of the his dark materials trilogy. i haven't reread it in quite some time, so i picked it up, and kind of walked out the door with it haha... yeah.
other than that, i'm reading il decamerone, by giovanni bocaccia. it is very... canterburry tales-esque, but a lot more lewd. sigh.

music: i was recently introduced to tecktonik, by sara. apparently, it is the dance they invented to dance to techno music, since there previously hasn't been one. it's also huge in europe right now; she said kids would do it in clubs and stuff while she was in italy and spain. check out the dance here. i found the song catchy, so i downloaded the entire mondotek album.

other stuff i've been listening to lately include: belle&sebastian, ladyhawke, phantom planet (especially the song, "too much too fast"), and the nightmare before christmas soundtrack.

hope you all are doing well (:

new things

music: finally got the new the killers album in the mail today (thank you, amazon)!! i have yet to listen to it, but i did like the single, "human". my current favorite song though comes from the band, 3OH!3, and it's called "don't trust me".

books: received tolstoy's anna karenina and amelia atwater-rhodes' persistence of memory for christmas at the secret santa party last night (: thanks, danh!! some of you may recall rhodes as the author of hawksong and those vampire books we read in high school. this is her latest book, and i'm quite excited to read it. also, i went to barnes and noble today and couldn't resist picking up the last cavalier by alexandre dumas. it's like 800 pages long, but i'm going to love reading it.

we four need to hang out sometime together when miss chai gets back from espana. also, who's turn is it to have mochi the bear?

albums i like [nearly] every song to:

read the title.

anberlin - never take friendship personal
cartel - chroma
coheed and cambria - in keeping secrets of silent earth: 3
daft punk - discovery
the fray - how to save a life
girl talk - night ripper
jimmy eat world - chase this light
matchbook romance - stories and alibis
mika - life in cartoon motion
paramore - riot!
shiny toy guns - we are pilots
snow patrol - eyes open
thursday - war all the time
underoath - they're only chasing safety

and of course, the twilight soundtrack (lol).
agree? disagree? what are yours?

taste change

so my main playlist right now centers around: MGMT - "kids", the virgins - "hey, hey girl", lady gaga - "summerboy", daedelus - "my beau" and "make it so", devotchka - "how it ends", MSTRKRFT - "chromeo - tenderoni", phantom planet - "do the panic," etc.

there are others, of course, but these are the ones i can remember off the top of my head (:
albums i'm enjoying: jimmy eat world - chase this light (especially the song, "dizzy"), all anberlin albums, and i'm trying to listen to all of the new bloc party album, intimacy, but so far i've only really listened to a couple of tracks ("mercury", "ion square"). but yeah. check that stuff out, ladies. gone are the days when my main music influence was basically jimmy, and my daily playlist contained mostly thursday, thrice, coheed, a7x, etc. blah blah time passes, things change, tastes differ, etc. sorry, pooks :/ right now i'm very much into chill mellow music, and things with a beat you can dance to.

enough procrastinating studying, i have work to do.
&exeunt.