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[20 Mar 2009|08:51pm]
[ mood | let down.. again ]
[ music | blue october- two a.m. lovesick ]

where am i on your priority list?

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Happy New Year [01 Jan 2009|12:04pm]
[ mood | frustrated ]


2009 is the international year of astronomy.

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a Halloween Passion Party on the 25th [22 Oct 2008|03:00am]
[ mood | hometownsick ]
[ music | starfirefive- coming back to life ]

but what's a party without these guys?
i've never hosted a party of my own in my own space before. i'm pretty sure that without the eclectic mix of my friends, my mom's friends, alex's friends, children, adults, artists and musicians, the atmosphere will be lacking pizazz, but it should still be a good time.
 
i can not believe what a different place i'm in, what a different life this is, what a different plane i'm on than when i started this journal five years ago. i guess i want to go home, not because i miss it (i do), but because i want a break from all these differences. i want a wealth of familiar faces, smiles, sounds, smells, tastes, hugs. listen to me, poeticizing something we totally already have a word for. 

my love to everyone, especially those who know the people in the photo.
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neighbors [27 Jun 2008|06:51am]
[ mood | annoyed ]
[ music | nothing now ]

maybe i'm too accustomed to free standing housing, but this bothered me. i was on a friend's myspace this morning, listening to their profile song for the first time, and i get a knock at the door. i open it and my not-so-friendly neighbor says "could you turn it down" - that sentence should have a ? after it, but she didn't say it like she was asking. i replied "really? i'm sorry, it's just my computer speakers.." she said, "yea , it's loud. it's echoing." so i said "ok, sorry" and i went back into the house and turned it down.

but i don't understand how she could have heard it. i was just listening to laptop speakers, and they weren't on full volume. we live in thick-walled concrete housing with heavy metal front doors.. and this woman lives below and across from us. we don't share any walls.

2nd floor
 our  place   atrium  vacant apartment
laid-back
neighbor
 atrium  complaining
neighbor
1st floor
 
i hadn't even finished one song before she came up to complain.

i can't make sense of it.

so after she left, i turned the music back up slightly, but not to its previous volume, for fear of pissing her off, and went outside to see what i could hear. i could barely make out any sound at all standing right outside the door! i'm sure that if i hadn't already known there was music playing, i wouldnt have heard anything. so how do you go from not hearing anything from just outside the door, to it being "loud and echoing" through the walls by turning it up a smidge higher. i mean these laptop speakers (the ones that come built in, nothing external here) are pretty decent at full volume, but even then they're nothing to bother the neighbors with.  

don't misunderstand me, i believe in being considerate of your neighbors. i think everyone has a right to request that music be turned down, if it's being playing continuously at an unreasonable volume, but i'm a little miffed at having to tip-toe around my neighbor's super-sonic hearing.

i mean, which one of us is out of our minds? because something doesn't gel here. 

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exhale [25 Jun 2008|01:19pm]
[ mood | thanking God ]
[ music | the andy griffith show ]

i finally heard from my mom! she's staying with my granparents for awhile and she sounds healthy. good grief, what a relief!

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family [25 Jun 2008|12:19am]
[ mood | so lonely ]
[ music | silence ]



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japan is cool [12 Mar 2008|01:12pm]
[ mood | peaceful ]
[ music | cocteau twins- know who you are at every age ]


so is living with Tyler. i love you, sweet love.

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wisdom teeth out [02 Feb 2008|09:42pm]
[ mood | lonely ]
[ music | vast- don't take your love away from me ]

i can not believe i missed VAST playing at club congress tonight! 

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another beauty [14 Jan 2008|08:52pm]
[ mood | anxious for airfare ]
[ music | these pretzels are making me thirsty! ]

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earth at twilight [14 Jan 2008|08:18pm]
[ mood | missing my love ]

 
my passport should arrive in 3 or 4 weeks. this separation is making me crazy!

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fezzik, are there rocks ahead? [14 Dec 2007|11:43am]
[ mood | uncertain ]

if there are...

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see ya [09 Nov 2007|02:42am]
[ mood | gloomy ]
[ music | bran van 3000- predictable ]

 
headbutting galaxies

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marrying japan [05 Oct 2007|01:35am]
[ mood | awake ]
[ music | slint- compassion for m ]

 all i want is support.

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a valediction from a terminal heart [07 Sep 2007|12:46am]
[ mood | actually happy ]
[ music | bikini atoll- desolation highway ]

 

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i've been waking up early [01 Sep 2007|12:44am]
[ mood | indescribable ]
[ music | yo la tengo- big day coming ]

 Let's be undecided, let's take our time
And sooner or later, we will know our mind
We'll be on the outside, we won't care
Cause we're together, that's somewhere

And there's a big day coming, about a mile away
There's a big day coming, I can hardly wait

Let's wake up the neighbors, let's turn up our amps
And we know we're used to without a plan
We can play a Stones song, sitting on a fence
And it'll sound pretty good, til I forget how it ends

I woke up early, couldn't go back to sleep
Cause I had been thinking of where it all would lead
So I made you wake up, I said, "Let's take a walk,
I wanna hold your hand, we don't have to talk"

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Tyler [09 Aug 2007|09:33pm]
[ mood | lonely ]
[ music | smashing pumpkins- the beginning is the end is the beginning ]


(messier 17) i can NOT believe it's only been 3 days! i'd have to be in love to feel this lonely.

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fuerza aĆ©rea [25 Jul 2007|12:59am]
[ mood | concerned ]
[ music | the postal service- natural anthem (their best song) ]

i'm concerned about missing him maybe even more than i expect to. or less. 
i wish he understood me. 
i wish my life was going somewhere. 
i wish i was the one getting out of this town.

that's three.

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preparing for algebra [11 Jul 2007|12:22pm]
[ mood | like a cat ]
[ music | brendon small- sunset theme ]


it's this light near midnight in france :)

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[13 Jun 2007|01:45pm]
[ mood | of a down bent ]
[ music | yo la tengo- our way to fall ]

family matters.

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CL0024+17 [15 May 2007|11:29pm]
[ mood | pensive ]
[ music | tomandandy- snow theater- final steps ]

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