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?

mix cd's

so i'm back in socal, and i decided it was time for a new mix cd:

1. calvin harris - "the girls"
2. daedelus ft. paperboy and erika rose - "my beau"
3. hercules and love affair - "blind"
4. katy perry - "hot n' cold"
5. kevin rudolf & lil wayne - "let it rock"
6. MGMT - "kids"
7. MSTRKRFT - "chromeo - tenderoni"
8. MSTRKRFT - "annie - heartbeat"
9. paramore - "decode"
10. paramore - "i caught myself"
11. kid cudi vs crooks - "day and night" (this one's totally for you, GG<3)
12. pussycat dolls - "i hate this part"
13. ratatat - "shempi"
14. silversun pickups - "lazy eye (jason bentley remix)
15. the veronica's - "untouched"
16. white apple tree - "snowflakes"
17. 3OH!3 - "don't trust me"

yeah. i like it.

hoo. rah.

I love talking about books!

Also, I know it's an old one, but I'm definitely rereading Celia Reese's Pirates!

Has anyone read Scott Westerfield's series (Uglies, Pretties, etc.)?

booooooooooooks

I love books! Haha okay, so I'm just waiting to get my hands on Breaking Dawn now, but other than that, I highly highly recommend the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Her works are excellent pieces of historical fiction with romance infused. Actually as the series goes on, the books have a lot more romance in them, but the first book, Outlander, is my favorite of the six books. Interestingly it was about the uprising led by Bonnie Prince Charles (which I actually studied in my british history class last year), and it's just a great mix of history, adventure, and romance.

Also, Jhumpa Lahiri's books are excellent. Interpreter of Maladies is a very enjoyable collection of short stories. I absolutely loved The Namesake, and I can't wait to read An Unaccustomed Earth.

"i'm having a thought here..."

i was thinking. in addition to music, we shared books with each other too.
so why not extend mochi's infinite playlist to include not only music, and music related things (e.g. recommendations), why not also talk about the books we're reading, etc right now?

"what say you?"
(sorry for all the pirates quotes, but i wouldn't be me without them, would i? ;)
much love, hopefully i see you all SOON, at the christmas party<3

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?

ratatat

ratatat must be a wintertime thing for me. you may recall last winter break headbanging in the car to "seventeen years". well, i've been listening to their latest album, LP3, and the song, "shempi" is what's keeping me awake in the library all day. that's right. i hear this song, and i start bounce-dancing in my chair (i'm sure i get a lot of weird stares for this), it's that good.

a few christmas songs i like:
jimmy eat world - "last christmas"
hellogoodbye - "winter wonderland" (i love forrestt, he is so cute<3)
mariah carey - "all i want for christmas is you"

and the traditionals:
"rockin' around the christmas tree", "jingle bell rock", "deck the halls"
what are your favorites?