8.48pm
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I have posted at least every day, but it's not coming up. All is lost from the past two weeks. Grrrr.

Shellac - 1000 Hurts - Canaveral - Great song. Go buy the album.

Today I am going to attempt at my Top Ten Best Albums of 2000, better late than never.
Top Ten Albums of 2000
(not in any order)
1. 1000 Hurts - Shellac
2. Moon and Antartica - Modest Mouse
3. Relationship of Command - At the Drive-In
4. Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons - Blonde Redhead
5. White Pony - Deftones
6. Figure 8 - Elliot Smith
7. Kid A - Radiohead
8. Left and Leaving - Weakthans
9. EP - Hey Mercedes
10. Heaven Ain't Happening - The Lapse

Ode to my cheating Ex
Insight to disbelief
I won't let harm come to me.
I am the one who will bring you down.
This innocent face mustn't lead you on.
I will crush you with a million bricks
And then I will castrate your dick.

See, I can be funny and bitter at the same time, I have many talents.

Tonight I will stay in and write. And write until my brain goes on overload. Then I will sleep. Then I will wake and write some more. Then I will die. And I will smile while my breathe my last breathe.

UnPop! will be posting something I wrote in their Lit section on Monday. Go check it out.

I don't mind it when people call to ask me if I feel like going out, I do mind when they call ten times a night trying to pressure me into leaving my room when I just don't want to. So, stop f-ing calling!

Mama Gina... OHyeah...

I'll stop now, the frustration of losing the past two weeks is getting to me and I have no more to write...

Send me an email, I like to read.

Have some fun!
Christine

5.17am
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I'm awake. Oh wait, that's normal...


I'm currently reading Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac (pic above). This one is a bit hard for me to digest as it runs back and forth and isn't realy in novel form, which is making me love it more. If you want to know about the real Beat Writers you should head over to: Literary Kicks - it's the best site out there for the Beats.

Most webpage guides tell you not to give your readers any reason to leave your page and you know what I say to that? Fuck it.

Here I'll put some good web reads so you can get the hell out of here. Just remember to right click your mouse on the link and "open in a new window" so that you come back and grab something else to read. And then when your done click the "x" on my page and get outside and have some f-ing fun in the nice weather! You computer geek! hehehe

The first thing I found is an article while I was reading UnPop a music webzine. And there I found a great article by Steve Albini about major record labels. Check it out: The Problem With Music.

Something else I found on UnPop was In Praise of Non-Commercialism... - another worthwhile read.

I also found this other cool music webzine called Nude as the News. It has this great piece on Music Obsession. Check it out.

And last but not least on the Chicago Reader Page in their Post No Bills section they talk about a rad hip hop group. Check it out.

My Top Five for the night is taken from my other journal, so WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE

TOP FIVE EXAMPLES OF GUYS BEING JERKS
1. "Wasn't Me" - Shaggy - A song about a lying cheating fucker who cheats on his girlfriend and his dumbass friend says to deny. Stupid assholes.
2. "Wanderer" - Dion - A song about a jerk who dates alot of girls at once and once they get serious he runs way. Fucking typical I tell you.
3. "When I Come Around" - Green Day - A song about a boy trying to avoid his girlfriend. Jerk
4. "Pretty When You Cry" - Vast - A song about a boy who gets off on making his girl cry, because he feels he's been hurt. Yeah right, so two wrongs make a right, huh asshole?
5. "Sorry About That" - Alkaline Trio - A song about a boy who sleeps with a girl and then realizes later (too later) that "well maybe if i would have thought about your feelings" yeah you dumbass, boys never think...

That's all kids!!

Have some fun!!
Christine

3.52pm
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I suck at Teen Jeopardy

Let's start off with the top five so you know where I stand:
Top Five Songs For My Ex
1. Baggage - Knuckleduster
2. Treason - Naked Raygun
3. 3 Libras - Perfect Circle
4. No Sensitivity - Jimmy Eat World
5. Barely Breathing - Duncan Sheik (Nick Drake)

Yesterday I got an email from my Adam that he mass mailed to his friends, I thought it was pretty interesting so I share with you this:
Truth cannot be conveyed in words

Truth cannot be conveyed in words.
Words disguise the subtle essence

We give names to truth,
but these names are unreliable
as a finger pointing to the moon.

As soon as the moon rises,
the finger points to empty skies.

Let's face it.
Truth is naked, unadorned.
It has no name. It has no form.

Nameless and formless,
the subtle essence gives birth
to all forms that walk the earth.

Words and concepts come later,
giving rise to all kinds of theories,
explanations and beliefs.

Complexities abound.
Misunderstandings proliferate.

The more words people use,
the harder it is to understand them.

Paul Ferrini

I downloaded some songs and these I highly recommend to you:
Baggage - Knuckleduster
and violence lost - Kung Fu Rick
Noelans Angel - Oh! Ranger
All The Famous People - Little Champions

I read this in this kids journal, I think it's pretty rad... Go here Women Who Wear Glasses by David Shields

Shows I'm looking forward to:
May 6th - Last Day Parade
May 10th - Cursive, Enon and Dismemberment Plan (Noise Pop)
May 14th - Jets to Brazil
June 26th - Fugazi

I saw this: So You Wanna Fake Being an Indie Rock Expert? on someone's journal. It tells you how to fake talking to those pretentious kids. It's pretty amusing. This site has a ton of "So You Wanna.." it's rad, you should check it out.



Check out Diesel Sweeties, an online comic, it's rad as hell.

I think that's it for today kids!

Have some fun!
Christine

10.39am
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It's been a week

First off... I am online through AOL - yeah it's crap, but it's free... so I don't complain. Well, on AOL they have a "welcome" screen in which they put the daily news and highlighted articles... One of them being this:
Top 10 Things You Should Never Say To Her
By Shawn Croft
Relationship Correspondent - Every 2nd Sunday
10. Man, you look so much like your mom!
9. I would have invited you, but you're no fun
8. Anything related to marriage or children
7. Would have, could have, should have
6. You don't need another pair of shoes
5. Any story about your private life
4. Come on, a few little cramps never hurt anybody
3. What's the big deal? You have another birthday next year
2. Are you sure the dress shrunk?
1. That's not the way my ex did it
OK, so I ask you this: WHO THE HELL REALLY ASKS THESE THINGS? are men that dumb? I don't think so. I think the writer was stressed for time and jotted this out. But, god, if this applies to you: please, stop dating! you're hopeless!!

OK, normally, I don't put many private things in this journal. I like to keep it light. I have another journal in which i like to divulge a little more of my private life. BUT here's an update on what's going on and our ritual top five, which I've changed to a top ten:
Top Ten Things Happening In My Life
1. My friend moved to Las Vegas and is getting hitched, who wants to be my date and pay for my trip? hehe
2. I'm moving back to Albuquerque
3. I changed my mind, I hate that place.
4. I have a job. WOOHOO!
5. I'm still looking for another one.
6. The zine is in the process of almost being done - I amaze myself sometimes
7. There is a girl that hates me still. Don't you know "I ain't mad at 'cha?" Hehehe. Fuck it. (And I'm sure she'll promptly post about this in her journal as she does at least four times a week mention my name.)
8. I think I might mention the word "love"... yes, I will and it's not carlos... don't ask anymore questions, i'm done mentioning it
9. Did I say there's a boy? hehehe... ok,i'm really done now...
10. My acceptance speach for my oscar for screenwriter and director of my soon to be (in twenty years) movie: "I thank the girl who fucked my boyfriend for helping me write such a piece and all the rest of you assholes who created such anger that moved me to write about you so that the world will know what assholes you are. These are the following people: at this point I would name each and every single one of you. There's that Destiny's Child song "survivor" where they say they wouldn't talk shit aobut someone because "my momma taught me better than that" well fuck all that shit. You crossed my path and my pen will let the world know what kind of person you are. You shouldn't have dicked aroudn with a writer, we're vengeful people and words are worse than bruises. Ah, the feeling of evil is within, watch out! hehehehehehhehe

Currently I have been listening to:
The Wedding Present
Little Champions
Placebo
The new Unwound

Currently I have been reading:
ummm... I'll get back to you, becaues i'm too lazy to go get teh books to get the correct title and author... but i'm reading and that's all that matters...

I'm off for now... Phone is ringing and it's a .... nevermind, not your business. God! stop drilling me, I won't tell! Ok, fine, you twisted my arm... It's a boy... hehehehe.... i'm such a fucking girl it's sickening...

Have a fun day kids!
And welcome back to me and to you!
Christine

3.08am
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Where the hell is my friend?!?!

Glasses. I have this new theory. I am borrowing my friend's glasses because I can see perfectly out of them and am too poor to afford my own right now. And now all of the sudden I completely understand him. And trust me, if you knew him, that's a scary venture. He's a very rad guy, but, a little, hmmm, not right? Hehe. So yeah, I have these glasses and all of the sudden when he tells me a problem, I'm thinking like him. It's like I'm seeing the world through his eyes. Fucked up right?

Placebo rocks

I have problems admitting that my friend Rob likes Rush. Please don't say it's true. He told me that the other day and then I was in his room. And all shock and horror, there it was, the Rush CD. I was so dissapointed.

"I wish I may I wish I might have this wish I wish tonight" I'd tell you my wish, but then it wouldn't come true and I'd really like a goodnight kiss tonight. *wink, wink*

Wood floors are the devil's curse. You can everyone moving everywhere. If you ever move to an apartment building, make sure they don't have wood floors. People get all happy about them, but they suck.

Top Five Reasons I Need New CDs
1. I'm bored with my old ones
2. I don't have a CD burner
3. I need to listen to Placebo 24/7
4. The new Shipping News is still absent from my CD collection
5. I'm having problems getting my ex to send MY cd's back to me. DAMNIT.

Have some fun kids!
Christine

9.49am
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The Day Punk Rock Died
Joey Ramone, lead singer of legendary punk band the Ramones, passed away at 2:40 p.m. Sunday. He was 49. He died from failing to get treatment of lymphatic cancer. His death was confirmed Sunday by Arturo Vega, the Ramone's longtime artistic director.
Did you read that? Fucking Joey Ramone is dead!
What a horrible fucking day.
And to make it worse - AOL's Entertaiment news has a fucking Spy Kids story as their top story and Joey's death near the bottom of the list. How fucked up is that?

And of course you know what the top five is:
Top Five Ramones Songs
1. Blitzkrieg Bop
2. 53rd and 3rd
3. I don't Wanna Walk Around With You
4. Psychotherapy
5. Beat on the Brat

Here are some "Speak Out Your Thoughts" from AOL's message board:
(screennames removed)
Joey was an amazing rock singer and an amazing person. Supportive of local bands and incredibly important in punk and just basic rock and roll. Without artiface or pretense he changed the way I heard things. The way Rock and Roll should be played. With a sense of humor, amazing energy and a new way of playing that blew the lid
off of what I thought was good. He will be SORELY missed!
God help Rock and Roll.
andrea

joey is a punk rock god and in heaven (or somewhere) now jamming with darby and sid and the rest of the boys.....
r.i.p. joey
i remember you

go out and listen to your ramones records kids...

christine

1.38am
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Friends Come and Go...

Went to my friend's going away shindig tonight... It was... lacking? To say the least...

I had some beers, I have a headache now...

Big News
Christine has a job! Well, sort of... I want to find something else as well, but I will be working security at the old World Theater near Chicago... Woohoo! free concerts, that's all I care about... So yeah, a job...

I'm going to Frank Black, hi-fives all around...

Have you ever noticed that when you want someone to dissapear they come around more?

Top Five Reasons To Move Out Of Town
1. That annoying neighbor who always seems to be in your way
2. Walking outside your door and ducking the stray bullets
3. Your parents don't seem as cool as they used to be when they let you and your friends drink in the basement
4. Your sister is the laziest person alive
5. You want to walk into your living room and see a poster of Built to Spill rather than bunnies

Have you noticed that you go into spurts with the internet? You're addicted for a month, then you hate, then you're addicted, then you hate it, and so on and so on...
Also have you noticed everyone says, "you have my email address, right?" That's creepy...

Bands I recommend for the transistion into spring:
Hey Mercedes
Sloan
Sparklehorse
and... Weezer (well weezer is good for anytime of the year)

Bands I recommend you never hear:
Insane Clown Posse
Dream
Slipnot
most rap/metal...

I've figured out the I love getting phone calls from boys... Especially when the boy says, "Hey baby"... I used to HATE, HATE, HATE, cheesy sentiments like that, but oh how nice they sound now, it makes me giggle like a school girl...

I'll miss you all when you're gone: one of my bestest friends is moving on Tues all the way to Las Vegas... I'm very sad about this...

Have some fun kids!
I'll update alot more often if Blogger doesn't not work for me again, like it did the past few days...