I Got Something to Say

Over the past couple of days, I've been on an emo/pop-punk kick and reminiscing to the early '00s when I owned Converse shoes with flames on them and went to Warped Tour and had a boyfriend who wore JNCOs. I didn't actually like this kind of music at the time, but it was all around me. Anyways, I found a bunch of random stuff, and I couldn't not share. It's too good! I found this stuff by memory association, so it's not all the same genre of music, actually.

I spared you Dashboard Confessional, but here's some entertaining stuff I found:

1. I hate NOFX but I used to love the original (non-NOFX) version of this song. My high school boyfriend and I used to sing it in the car all the time.


2. LOL


3. This is the epitome of silly early '00s semi-emo music. Wait, I just read the description of this video. I guess the director uploaded it to YouTube? He says he's obsessed with Requiem for a Dream, and that "the Moms" is in the video. James O. Incandeza, is that you? (Infinite Jest is taking over my life.)


4. I never listened to The Ataris. I think my friends and I made fun of them. But over the past two days I can't stop listening to this horrible mess. It is too good! "I'll treat you like a queen... a queen..."


5. I used to be obsessed with this song: Ozma's "Apple Trees," a collection of bad apple puns. Hey, I like bad puns as much as the next guy, but these guys are getting into Carrie Bradshaw territory. Still, whenever I hear that base in the beginning, I start to feel feelings.


6. And now for some actual good music! (Semi-sarcasm.) When I was 15, I was obsessed with Weezer. They filled the void that the Spice Girls had left behind. That may not make sense to you, but it does to me! Anyways, I spent all my time decoding Pinkerton lyrics and reading Weezer fan boards for new Weezer information. Then this super rare Weezer song from their abandoned rock opera Songs from the Black Hole came out, and I was all over that shit. It's a good song, or at least a cheap ho.


Sidenote: I think I will have to make a "favorite Weezer b-sides" blog post now because I'm finding too much good shit on YouTube.

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Feeling Infinite

Welp, I'm back from the US, so it's back to posting in ye olde bloggie. My trip to the US was fabulous--thanks for asking. I ate many a breakfast taco.

Now, back to biz.

I started reading Infinite Jest. I'm on page 42. Here are my impressions so far.

Reasons DFW and I will be BFFs in the afterlife. Or, things I like about Infinite Jest up to pg. 42:
1. DFW often uses the word "creepy."
2. His first footnote describes crystal meth.
3. His characters say "like" in dialogue.
4. This paragraph: "I tend to get beat up, sometimes, at the Academy, for stuff like that. Does this bear on why I'm here? That I'm a continentally ranked junior tennis player who can also recite great chunks of the dictionary, verbatim, at will, and tends to get beat up, and wears a bow tie? Are you like a specialist for gifted kids? Does this mean they think I'm gifted?" (pg. 28)

And these are the bad seeds of the book so far (It's okay, they're not TOO important, and who knows? Maybe I'll end up loving them.):
1. Who calls their parents "the Moms" and "Himself"? Too twee. What is this, a Diablo Cody film?
2. That Hal calls his brother(?) "Boo" and "Booboo." Shut it down.
3. The (seemingly) random chapter in badly written ebonics.

More to come.