I was going through some old junk today and found this business card:
Ordering music online via modem and telnet? How old-school is that? I had ordered from them back in 1992 — purchased a few Pearl Jam import CDs. Ah the good old days of being a slacker college student. This takes me back to when I’d go to the computer lab, log into one of the VAX machines, caught up on my “Garden of Stone” digest (a Pearl Jam majordomo mailing list), read through some alt.music. USENET groups, and browsed through cdconnection’s catalog. I just thought it was one of the coolest things ever. While everyone else was fighting over the PCs and Macs to use Word or whatever, I could pretty much find an open VAX machine and just explore a “live” network. Little did I know I was just getting an early taste of what the internet was going to bring to the masses. Can we go back to those days? I miss it.
Got my Garbage CD and DVD today from Amazon — 1 whole day before the official release date tomorrow. Hooray! Watching the DVD now and damn, this takes me back. I haven’t seen some of these videos since they first came out. Hard to believe they’ve been around for 12 years now. God I feel old. >_< The documentary on the DVD is worth the price alone — seeing the band members behind the scenes and hearing Shirley speak in that Eric-melting accent of hers. Unf! She is seriously the sexiest woman on the planet. Marry me, Shirley. K thx!
just wanted to publicly give a huge thank you to one of the most rockinest girls evar for taking the time to send me the 2 Boston Pearl Jam shows from September. i was feelin quite shitty from this annoying cold and talkin to her on IM and listening to my boys raised my spirits a whole lot — enough for me to stick thru the rest of my work day. thanks much, and <3 ya! =)
i just went down to Best Buy during my lunch break to pick up the new U2 CD / DVD / Book, and i'm listening to it right now. life is good. 
Dead as dead can be the doctor tells me
But I just can't believe him, ever the optimistic one
I'm sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me
Don't play dead 'cause maybe
Someday i'll walk away and say
You dissapoint me
Maybe you're better off this way
Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have been
It's your right and your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me
Don't play dead 'cause maybe
Someday i'll walk away and say
You fucking dissapoint me
Maybe your better off this way
Go ahead and play dead
I know that you can hear this
Go ahead and play dead
Why can't you turn and face me
You fucking dissapoint me
Passive-aggressive bullshit…
i bite my lip too much but it's okay
cause i had you once
you disappeared on me but i'm not angry
i miss you
i miss you
i take too many pills but it's okay
cause i had you once
one day i won't wake up
well i'll be happy
you'll miss me
you'll miss me
nothing left to
complain about
no more drinking
no more going out
no more violence
no more bravery
no more intercourse
no more easy
just a hand shake
from me to you
scaly skin disease
has got inside of you
no more intercourse
no more easy
no more easy
i really like that new Gwen Stefani song… i'd play it more but i don't want my cube-mates to murda me. =(
ever had a song you really liked only to have its music video absolutely ruin it for you? i'm here at work listening to iTunes, and A Perfect Circle's “The Outsider” started playing, one of my favorite songs off Thirteenth Step, but now it just reminds me of the god-awful video for it i saw a few months ago. gaaah!
up here in my tree
newspapers matter not to me
no more crowbars to my head
i'm trading stories with the leaves instead
i wave to all my friends
they don't seem to notice me
all their eyes trained on the street
sidewalk cigarettes and scenes
up here so high i start to shake
up here so high the sky i scrape
i'm so high i hold just one breath deep within my chest
just like innocence
i remember when
i swore i knew everything
they say knowledge is a tree
it's growing up just like me
i'm so light the wind he shakes
i'm so high the sky i scrape
i'm so light i hold just one breath and go back to my nest
sleep with innocence
up here so high the boughs they break
up here so high the sky i scrape
and my eyes peeled both wide open, and i got a glimpse
of my innocence… got back my innocence
still got it, still got it
i'm gonna save you fucker, i'm not gonna lose you
i'm feeling cocky and strong, can't let you go
too important to me, and too important to us
we'd be lost without you
i'm there, let yourself fall, i'm right below you now
and fuck me if i say something you don't want to hear, from me
and fuck me if you only hear what you wanna hear, from me, if i care
but i'm not leaving here
you helped me when i was down, i'll help when you're down
why are you hitting yourself? c'mon and hit me instead
let's pick up your will, it's grown fat and lazy
it's sympathetic as well, don't go on me now
and i'm not living this life without you, i'm selfish and clear
and you're not leaving here without me, i don't wanna be without…
my best friend
wake up to see you could have it all
cuz there is but you, and something within you
has taken control, let's beat it
get up, let's go
oh, you're in your own world, let's see the whole world!
let's pick up your soul
and fuck me if i say something you don't wanna hear from me
and fuck me if you only hear the treble in your head
please help me to help you help yourself!
help me help yourself
help me, please want me to
please let me to, help you…