Sam, Sam the Onion Man?

What's more fun than my little neighbor kid wearing my best bud's wayfarers? I'm not sure, but it must have something to do with a fully-dressed turkey. This kid can't read or write yet, but can easily navigate himself around YouTube while watching Radiohead and Feist videos. If we all started out with those influences at the age of 4, I'm sure we'd be on to something good. 

 

The Fine-Toothed Comb

Nothing too much has excited me lately, so I've been forced to use the fine tooth comb for the past couple of weeks in deciding what is somewhat more fascinating than not.  

1. It is officially autumn, and the leaves have slowly but surely began to change. This is my favourite season, as I'm sure it is a lot of other people's too. The weather is still a little warm for optimal enjoyment, but I'm not about to rush the natural. I'll take what I can get. 
   
2. Sept 12th: The day the worms came out. Post rain of course, but it has been a while since this has occurred. Worms have 5 hearts -all the more love to give. 
3. Midterms have begun. I have discovered that now, more than ever, getting focused is a horse of a different color, but when I'm in the zone, I'm unstoppable. Sitting in the library the other night, "Dre is God 12/01" carved on the desk, I break a nail, and bleed all over my business notes. 
4. I finally picked up a memory card for the Gamecube, so now I can create my own Tony Hawk pro-skaters. 
5. On Tuesday, September 23rd, Jenny Lewis released her second solo album, and I pre-ordered a free autographed copy. How lucky. 
6. This weekend, I will start working on my halloween costume. 
7. Tonight is my first harmonica lesson.

"The Butterball"

Tomorrow is the excitedly-awaited "Indie Fest '08" aka Monolith festival at Red Rocks. Line up is something like this:

Saturday, September 13
• DeVotchKa
• Silversun Pickups
• Neko Case
• Vampire Weekend
• Mickey Avalon
• Del tha Funky Homosapien
• Cut Copy
• The Fratellis
• Superdrag
• The Kills
• Holy Fuck
• White Denim
• The Night Marchers
• A Place to Bury Strangers
• The Photo Atlas
• The Hood Internet
• John Vanderslice
• Darker My Love
• Cameron McGill & What Army
• Blitzen Trapper
• The Presets
• Pop Levi
• Pwrfl Power
• The Morning Benders
• Boyhollow

Sunday, September 14
• Justice
• TV on the Radio
• Band of Horses
• Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
• CSS
• The Avett Brothers
• Tokyo Police Club
• Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip
• Akron/Family
• The Bronx
• Tilly and the Wall
• The Heavy
• The Cribs
• The Ting Tings
• Airborne Toxic Event
• Bright Channel
• Chester French
• Grampall Jookabox
• The Rosewood Thieves
• Hearts of Palm
• The Giraffes
• The Elms

It's always a crowded mess of people who look too cool to be alive and functioning in the not-so-seemingly indie land of Boulder, or Denver... or Morrison. I'd like to know where these hipsters crawl out from. There must be deep dark caves full of them in the hills of Morrison and the Foothills. I'm sure I'll have much to say about this on a later date. Possibly an encounter with one of the cave-dwellers awaits me. In the mean time, take a pre-Thanksgiving Champion to mind.

From Room 265

It's strange living in a town that I've lived in all my life, and then going to school here while everyone else is moved away and working elsewhere. It's like a whole new different place. I have nobody to hang out with sometimes, the people I could do anything with and act like whatever I wanted to are gone, and I feel like a fishy in a small slowly draining bowl. Actually, that sounds horrible, it's really not that bad, but it will take some getting used to, not to mention I need to become the meet and greet pro. Good thing I'm a girl with bangs, sounds to me like it's supposed to get me places in life. Good, I need that now. I haven't drawn in a long time, or played music, I'm very uninspired by these "bros" and college gals. I need to get motivated.