MadelineAwesome

my friend forrest got me HOOKED on this song. i listen to it off the youtubes all day. but i am bad at a few things on the internet. and one of those things is finding popular music for free. so listen to this song, and then find it for me. FO FREE.

also: the video is disabled for embedding or i’d be ALL over dat shiz.

CLICK HERE TO DANCE YOUR LITTLE HEART OUT

I made some half-ass songs. i kinda like them. some people like them. maybe you will. wanna hear? wanna be my myspace friend?

http://www.myspace.com/madelineandthebigcatfamily

here is another painting deal.

my graduation party was on saturday and it was a complete success. My closest friends all came and mingled with my family and life coaches. And by life coaches I mean i have weird old friends. Like 40 year olds. Its complicated. Don’t worry about it.

but the party was great. Aside from one disastrous number, Vague Babies performed pretty well. I made a dress the night before that turned out to be pretty adorable and worked out well for me. Pictures to come.

Today i’m going to get some ballin bubble tea from BeBoBa and then return some sound equipment and go see my lawrence, kansas buddies– Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk.

We have some japanese students visiting from Kanagawa. They are really fun and really making me miss my time in Japan.

the family i stayed with was wonderful. Mom and Dad and Yuki, Yui and Yota. We went to this fabulous dance festival in the middle of toyota city and danced all night to the same song over and over again. It remains one of my favorites. I should make one of these Japanese kids listen to it. Oiden. google it. it was amazing. whatever. there is yota. eating an apple dipped in red hard candy. weird.

my dad got my mom a scanner like 2 or 3 years ago and we never opened it. yesterday i was sitting in this dirty ass room feeling ambitious so i cleared off the desk and rearranged all the machines and got rid of all the unnecessary crap. I opened the scanner box and set it all up. Now this desk has some nice feng shui. or something. Nice centered monitor with speakers on either side, phone, printer, scanner. and there is still room for me to stash some crap while i work on computer shiz.

basically, i have wanted a working scanner for quite some time. i even forgot we had this scanner sitting around. so i scanned a few things today. rest assured that embarassing and/or cute pictures of me as a child are to come. for now:

image 1 includes my receipt from reckless records last week and a completely overworked to do list of school assignments. to break it down for you: first i listed all my classes chronologically and wrote down the stuff i needed to do in them. then i ranked all of the assignments in order of importance AKA how poorly i’m doing in that class. then finally i took the time to remind myself of the location of all the materials i need to do this assignment. here is an update. this is from march 6th and to date i have completed two of these. i really need to get down to business.

image two includes a mix CD that my friend Adrian made for my friend Emanuel but i had to be the courier service for. too bad i intercepted it and i took the liberty of putting this on my itunes before forwarding it to eman. i actually still havent given it to him. its sitting right here. and i even saw him today. oops. i’ll get it to you eventually. it also contains a bobby pin, and a Madeline who is completely psyched to be having her picture taken some day in Kindergarten in her velour dress. holla.

today my friend Gaurav was like ‘hey. wanna make a flyer for the BABT show on saturday?’ so i pushed aside the homework that i was not doing anyways and made this. it pretty much is inspired by my new favorite domesticated animal. the blue russian cat. they are the tightest mofos in the cat kingdom*.

here is the flyer. coming to a myspace page near you.

*i have a solo project now. its called Madeline and The Big Cat Family. its ironic because its just me.

do you know i have a band? have i ever talked about it? i mention danny cohen sometimes on here. he is the other half of the band. you can buy us on itunes, amazon, and eMusic. Search for it. Vague Babies.

also: if you live in lawrence, Kansas, or near there, you should go to this show. BABT are my friendlies and they rule.

i knit. not well, but i knit. I basically knit things that are rectangular. Scarves…and well. scarves. but i happen to like scarves and so do my friends. So it works out. I dont even really do fancy scarves. I sometimes insert a stripe, but i think i do it the wrong way. whatever. it works for me. But i think knitting is a good way to pass time and do something productive during time that would generally be unproductive. When i am on the train or in a car (and not driving) or watching TV or listening to a lecture in class knitting is awesome. Once you get the point where you can do it mindlessly its just a matter of muscle memory and your hands just do it. I just gave away one of these aforementioned rectangular projects to a friend of mine. Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound. He’s a good guy. He really like this scarf. I gave it to him and he was like “YOU MADE THIS!? This is so cool! Its so 1993! I LOVE 1993!” the perfect reaction. anyways. he went on to say how he wished he knew how to knit and that he used to do cross stitching projects when he was a kid.

here is the scarf i made for him.

here is the show. it was hot on stage.

and if the picture alone isnt doing it for you: here is a video from the show that some guy took.

he is from georgia where it like doesnt get cold so i hope its at least scarf weather for the rest of his tour…

i’m not sure if thats a real life expression/idiom that i just used, but it totally works for me right now and i am sick and i dont care. i am sick. i usually run a nice low 96degree temp but at the doctors yesterday i was pushing 101. so i went home and slept from 3-9 and then woke up for like an hour and talked to my mom and then continued to sleep from 10-7. 15 hourrrzzz. what is that?! and i was still tired when i woke up. but antsy. so i went downstairs only to find out there was an ANTM MARATHON! of a season i hadnt seen most of. it was awesome. so i watched from like 8 to 4 before finally bugging out and watching some discovery health special on ‘I AM MY OWN TWIN’ which to be honest was some messed up shiz. some shiz about fused embryos. ooo man i want to go buy some FUZE draank now. i swear i am pregnant or something 24/7. i’m always craving weird ass foods.
       

oh mah gahd you dont even know how good this stuff is. when i went to pitchfork this summer, fuze was a sponsor and they were giving away free samples all dayyy. so good. and at the end of the day i also realized i hadnt eaten anything, which, obviously, is not me. i think this stuff has an appetite supressant. i might be making that up. here goes a fact checking expedition:

okay so it looks like they have a few different kind of drinks, one of them called slenderize, which must have been the pitchfork plug because i didnt eat ANYTHANNg. they say nothing about appetite suppressant, but i will check the label if i can goad mom into driving me to CVS or something to pick it up because, considering i almost fainted on our expedition to CVS this morning when i was going to die if i didnt get some new facewash, she is not letting me drive.

anyways. that was a nice graceful return to me being sick. i am about to google for celebrities when they are sick. okay so all ’sick celebrities’ yielded were ‘healthy’ pictures of Michael Jacksone, Celine Dion and some Amy Winehouse-Drew Barrymore love child. whatever. i am not searching further. i’m sick and i need a nap.

Sometimes I drive to school. Like once a week. I enjoy driving a lot, and I get to sleep later when I drive, but its expensive and not very eco-friendly.

On a usual drive to school I manage to get some quality music time. I spend more time than I should in the garage in the morning trying to decide what to listen to. This morning I was really pumped. I was going to listen to The Who’s ‘Tommy” on the rides to and from school. I get in my garage and although I had already made my music selection, I was delayed by another issue. My ipod was not in my purse. Sometimes my purse is just really junky so I spent a lot of time making sure it wasn’t hiding under a receipt from starbucks or a scavenged sewing pattern. By the time I had concluded that my ipod was for sure not in my purse I definitely had to go. So I pulled out. Sans ipod. And I did something revolutionary. I turned on the radio. WFMT was on and I’m a fan of classical music, but I dont need to be chillin that hard when I’m doing my best to stay awake at the wheel. So I decided I wanted to hear some oldies. It was glorious.

here is what i heard on the way down to school.:

7:30 AM		BEE GEES		Nights On Broadway
7:26 AM		KINGSMEN		Louie Louie
7:23 AM		DAVE CLARK FIVE		Over And Over
7:14 AM		MONKEES		I’m A Believer
7:10 AM		BEACH BOYS		Good Vibrations
7:06 AM		RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS		You’ve Lost That Lovin Feelin

Glorious. They do this thing called the ’short-stack’ where they have people send in 3 song mixes that all have something in common and people call in and try to guess their common trait. I was listening to the righteous brothers and the beach boys thinking this mix can only be 1 of 2 things: songs with sweet-ass male harmonies or songs that Bradford Cox/Atlas Sound should cover. It turns out Glen Campbell played on those three tracks, but whatever. I stand by my guesses.

::UPDATE!!!::
i was in second period when i wrote this. I opened my backpack during 4th and found my ipod had been thrown into my backpack rather than my purse. i never do that. an early morning accident obviously. Whatever. it was fate. if i hadnt misplaced my ipod i wouldnt have listened to the radio and had this terribly exciting post.

I saw the movie Juno twice this week. Thursday and today. It was pretty great both times. I was already a big fan of kimya dawson so the music was good. Michael Cera is a beautiful human being so that was nice too. Ellen Page is really adorable and a great actress. I cried the second time i saw it. It made me want to be a teen mother. I arranged for my friend to impregnate me. Just kidding. Don’t ground me or anything Mom and Dad. But it did feel like it was a film inspired by parts of my life. Inspired very very very loosely. Like here is an example of how the inspiration would go. A cat looked at a dog –> A CAT MAULED A DOGS FACE OFF AND THE DOG STILL WAS ALIVE AND BIT A PERSON WHO WAS NICE BECAUSE HE HAD NO EYES TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE CAT AND THE PERSON.

(by the way, animals can’t love. they arent self aware.)

but the music was good. the mix of lowbrow humor with highbrow humor and emotional circumstances was flawless. It might have sucked to see it with me the second time though because i reacted to everything in the movie about 3 seconds before it happened. sorry danny/kyle