I can't wait for Friday...

I should be studding... I should be doing a lot of things. But what am I doing? Making a mixed CD of ladies names. Weak, huh? Not studding works for me tho. I got my test back from my Renaissance art class and I aced it (like usual). Suck on that, school system.

Lemon, out! Um, never mind.

Now I'm a little teapot short & stout... This is shake-up in around me know's talk, no doubt///

I forgot to write that I am getting more songs on my new mixed CD idea of songs from commercials... Here is what I have so far:

-'Spaz' NERD [From the new Microsoft Zune commercial]


-'Music Is My Hot Hot Sex' CSS [The Apple Touch commercial]


-'Shut Up and Let Me Go' The Ting Tings [Another Apple commercial]


-'Don't Speak (I Came To Make A Bang!)' Eagles Of Death Metal [Nike Soccer commercial]


-'List Of Demands (Reparations)' Saul Williams [Another Nike commercial]


-'Such Great Heights' The Postal Service [UPS commercial]


-'Souvenirs' Architecture In Helsinki [Sprint commercial]


-'After Hours' We Are Scientist [Sony camcorder commercial]

Closed circuit cameras... Before you're comatose///

I miss Paul. Corny... Yes, I know. Nothing seems as fun when he is gone... Not playing the video games... Listening to music... Or even waiting to see which item will be next on the woot-off. He is in Los Angels this weekend to visit family... His little sister, Lauren, is graduating from high school as we speak; his cousin, Katherine, is graduating from San Diego State this weekend, and his Aunt who lives in Austria is in town for his Grandmothers memorial and to get her headstone set in place at the cemetery she is buried in. I have the privilege of picking Paul up from the airport late Sunday night. I will be a grumpy bear if his flight is delayed like usual.

So, what has been going on in the world of me, you might ask? Currently, I am at home. I dropped my Public Speaking class today. I thought about it for the last day or so. I am just not comfortable with the class. The group I was in (that I feel bad for abandoning) was pretty cool. One of the girls went to the same high school as me long ago, too. I dropped the class online. I don't regret it. I decided that I will take another class come this Fall... Which brings my total up to about 4 classes and about 14 units next semester. 3 art classes and 1 math class. I think I am up for the challenge. The classes will be Into to Art, Asian Art, Medieval Art and Algebra Math (which I hate with a passion). I think it will be better off this way. I just feel like I let down Paul. I asked him if he was mad that I decided to drop this class, he said that he wasn't; I can tell that he is slightly. I have to kick ass this next semester. I wish that work wasn't preventing me from devoting my time solely to school and getting my degree.

I should be doing other things... I have been listening to Radiohead since 7pm (I think)... The same 2 songs actually. 'All I Need' & 'Jigsaw Falling into Place'. I keep playing out things in my mind... Like if I were to do a music video, what would it be like? I cant possibly describe what thoughts pop into my head while the song plays... Every time the song starts, I just close my eyes and disappear into something else. Maybe it has something to do with the lyrics, I hear that song and think of the Amanda I once was and how I am nothing like her anymore... Whore, no more:

"Just as you take my hand
Just as you write my number down
Just as the drinks arrive
Just as they play your favourite song
As your blather disappears
No longer wound up like a spring
Before you've had too much
Come back in focus again

The walls abandon shape
They've got a Cheshire cat grin
All blurring into one
This place is on a mission
Before the night owl
Before the animal noises
Closed circuit cameras
Before you're comatose

Before you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
The beat goes round and round
The beat goes round and round
You never really got me there
I just pretended that I had
What's the point of instruments
Words are a sawed off shotgun

Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out

Before you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
Just as you take the mic
Just as you dance, dance, dance

Jigsaw falling into place
There is nothing to explain
You eye each other as you pass
She looks back, you look back
Not just once
Not just twice
Wish away the nightmare
Wish away the nightmare
You've got it on you can feel it on your back
It on you can feel it on your back
Jigsaw falling into place"

Re-reading it, I don't like who I was before I met Paul... Constantly running from guy to guy and sleeping with the next guy who would have me. If the old me had a theme song, it would be that song. Hands down. Maybe I should make an "Old Manda" mixed CD. Ideas ideas.

Arg. I think I will play some games or clean up a little bit. I sold one of Paul's old N64 games today. Someone paid $17 for it. Manda = win. Mario Kart. I also need to work on my lame mixed CD... Yeah right.

Ill be waiting, with a gun & a pack of sandwiches///

I am thinking of doing yet another mixed CD. I think I need to finish with my other mixed ideas before I get too carried away with this. I got the idea some time ago while driving around with Paul one night listening to the latest Radiohead album 'In Rainbows'. I kept thinking that they have so many songs, I should put the ones I like into a mix. Any who, I am just gonna put my favorite songs on a CD... Maybe send them out to Woman. Who knows. Here are some of the songs I have in mind (in no particular order, duh):

• Pulk/ Pull Revolving Doors
• Paranoid Android
• Nice Dream
• Just
• No Surprise
• Like Spinning Plates
• Jigsaw Falling Into Place
• Kid A
• 15 Step
• Nude
• Idioteque
• Talk Show Host

Don't ask me which album the songs are on... I doubt I could tell you. I know there are more songs that I like off all their albums, but so far, these are the ones that I like the most. I am trying to get them all in a play list for the trip to Oakland this weekend. I know it will make the trip that much easier on all of us.

Your jeans were once so clean; I bet you changed your wardrobe since we met///

Ugh, not going to sleep till 3am is never a good idea! But then again, Vodka and Red Bull was sooooo yummy. Thus, in conclusion, going to sleep at 3am and waking up at 10am and cleaning the kitchen was productive.

A while back, I had mentioned that I wanted to make a mixed CD of songs from commercials that I actually like (remember; CSS, We Are Scientist, Architecture in Helsinki?). Well, I added one more to that list. The band is called The Ting Tings and the song us called 'Shut Up and Let Me Go' and it has been in the newest Apple commercials for the ipod and itunes. So, here is the list as of today... In no particular order:

-Hum 'Stars'
-Cansei de Ser Sexy 'Music is my Hot Hot Sex'
- Saul Williams 'List of Demands (Reparations)'
-Architecture In Helsinki 'Souvenirs'
-We Are Scientist 'After Hours'
-The Ting Tings 'Shut Up and Let Me Go'

Final Mix!

The new mixed CD goes as followed:

[ ] = original artist

-'Keep The Car Running' Foo Fighters [Arcade Fire]
-'Shadowplay' The Killers [Joy Division]
-'Never, Never Gonna Give You Up' Cake [Barry White]
-'Jolene' The White Stipes [Dolly Parton]
-'Leaving on a Jet Plane' Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies [John Denver]
-'In A Big Country' Dashboard Confessional [Big Country]
-'Stuck in the Middle With You' Eagles of Death Metal [Stealers Wheel]
-'Drive' Deftones [The Cars]
-'Working Class Hero' Green Day [John Lennon]
-'Mama Told Me (Not to Come)' The Wolfgang Press [Three Dog Night]
-'Pretend We're Dead' Cansei de Ser Sexy [L7]
-'Never Say Never' Queens of The Stone Age [Romeo Void]
-'Say It Right' Bloc Party [Nelly Furtado]
-'Do You Think I'm Sexy' Paris Hilton [Rod Stewart]
-'War Pigs' Cake [Black Sabbath]
-'Lake of Fire' Nirvana [Meat Puppets]
-'Stairway to Heaven' Rodrigo y Gabriela [Led Zeppelin]



off to class now!

In a room without a window in the corner I found truth///

Iron Man was awesome. O.M.F.G



PS: The song "Shadowplay" by The Killers was originally done by Joy Division... Its added to my cover song list.

I'll finish this shit this month, day ten///

Things I love/ Things I hate:

When I hear a song by a band that I like being used in a commercial... There was a commercial for one of the new Cadillacs some time ago that used the song "Stars" by an obscure mid 90's band called Hum (which I really loved a long time ago... An old boyfriend knew that I love it so much, he put it on a mixed CD that he made for my 19th birthday back in 2002)... Apple used a song by a band that I liked but once that commercial/ song was played for about the 100th time in the span of a few short months, the song lost all possible meaning to me (the song being "Music is my Hot Hot Sex" by Cansei de Ser Sexy or as the lame scenesters like to call it CSS... I tell you, they are a pretty bad ass band from Brazil). About a month ago or so, I heard an awesome song used by Nike for their new "My Better is Better Then Your Better" campaign which I thought for some reason that it was a new Gnarls Barkley song, but it turned out to be by Saul Williams called "List of Demands (Reparations)" which I think it probably the most inspiring song I've heard in a long time. It's one of those songs that I would totally add to a play list of songs to work out to if, that is, I actually attempted to work out. Sprint used a song by Architecture In Helsinki called "Souvenirs" for one of their new innovations or something like that. Today, while I was doing something not all to productive online and while Paul was watching Lost on ABC, I heard a song by a band that I really like called "After Hours" by We Are Scientist... I really did get happy because I know some people won't know what is the song unless they are total nerds like me and can hear faint things like the tune of a particular song (I think that would be my super hero ability if I was ever one). Anyways, I got to thinking right now of maybe making a mixed CD of all the songs that I like that are also used by commercials...

I lost track of this post now... Oh, yea. I love the fact that I get to hear these songs that I really enjoy but sometimes, it just totally turns me off to them. I think that all these bands are awesome and amazing but I cant help but think that having a song in a nation wide/ world wide promotion will end up killing them not only from me but from other fans/ potential fans everywhere. But, like I said earlier, I think I am totally gonna make a mixed CD of those songs now.

Your smile is like a breath of spring, Your voice is soft like summer rain & I cannot compete with you, Jolene///

I am working on a new mixed cd for my special lady friend on the east. i am no good with coming up with ideas with current songs, so i think i am gonna resort to making a good old cover cd like usual... here are the only ones that come to mind that i havent used on any other previous mixes...


-'Jolene' The White Stipes [Dolly Parton]
-'Never Never Gonna Give You Up' Cake [Barry White]

[edit:] here are some others i am considering...

-'War Pigs' Cake [Black Sabbath]
-'Leaving on a Jet Plane' Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies [John Denver]
-'Stuck in the Middle With You' Eagles of Death Metal [Stealers Wheel]
-'Love Will Tear Us Apart' Fall Out Boy [Joy Division]
-'Pretend We're Dead' Cansei de Ser Sexy [L7]
-'Mama Told Me (Not to Come)' The Wolfgang Press [Three Dog Night]
-'Working Class Hero' Green Day [John Lennon]
-'Do You Think I'm Sexy' Paris Hilton [Rod Stewart] (Kinda ironic since I hate her guts & I think that she looks like a deformed rat)
-'Never Say Never' Queens of The Stone Age [Romeo Void]
-'Drive' Deftones [The Cars]
-'Keep The Car Running' Foo Fighters [Arcade Fire]
-'Lake of Fire' Nirvana [Meat Puppets]