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 (:

aar

this is twice in two days that i have been pleasantly surprised by tracks from the new all american rejects cd i recently got in the mail (thank you, amazon). (:

reunion

the four ladies behind mochi's infinite playlist, as well as mochi the bear got together today, for the first time since the formation of this blog (:
mochi has been passed from j. to other j.
it was good seeing you today, my lovelies<3

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.