current mp3: fascination street - the cure

Still using capitalization. Amazing that it's lasted this long. I don't know though, I might just go back to non-capatalization. Partly because it's a pain in the butt to capitalize every I. Did you know that english is the only language that capitalizes the word "I"? Think about it.... je, yo, ich, eu. Japanese doesn't even have capitalization. Maybe that's why I like Japanese so much. Then again, it has two different alphabets, and it uses chinese kanji. And there are over ten thousand kanji. Yeesh. Skip Japanese, I'll stick to English.

I finished the one-page lit paper we were supposed to write, the one in a Hemingway style. I'm not sure it really fulfills the requirements of the assignment, but I like it, so it stays.

Wow, yet again, it's late and I still haven't gone to bed. What's with this? I'm not even staying up on purpose. I just... do stuff, then I look at the clock and it's two and a half hours later than I expected.

Baylee's right, Stuck by Stacie Orrico is awesome.

I think I've been a little overly music-crazy lately. I ordered Radiohead's Pablo Honey used over the net, and it came yesterday. I've listened to it some, not a lot, and I definitely am glad I got it since it has Creep on it. I love that song. I'm liking some of the other stuff on it too, but since it's still in my mom's car and I'm too lazy to fish it out, I've been listening to other stuff. The two cds I bought yesterday: Parachutes - Coldplay, and Past Masters Vol. 2 - The Beatles. I must admit, I'm liking the coldplay one much better, but that's just because there are only four songs on the past masters cd that I didn't already own. Old Brown Shoe, The Inner Light, You Know My Name (Look Up the Number), and Rain. The one I'm most excited about is Rain. I heard it once on the radio, and fell in love with it, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Which makes sense, because apparently it wasn't released on any album. None of these songs were, and there are 15 of them. Most of them are on Beatles One, though. And, it's not like the other 11 are just crappy songs I already own and don't care about. I think Get Back and Don't Let Me Down are slightly different versions (though I couldn't tell the difference on my first listen), and Revolution is a noticeably different version of Revolution 1 from the White Album. So, not a bad cd. If you have this, and vol. 1 (which I need to get), and the other 13 albums, you have "everything that the Beatles, the most successful artists in the history of recorded sound, commercially issued during their remarkable reign." Trust the jacket to be flowery. Yeah, yeah, we know the Beatles were great. Anyways, I need to see what Beatles albums I'm missing. Here is what I do have:

1. Please Please Me
2. With the Beatles
3. Beatles for Sale
4. A Hard Day's Night
5. Help!
6. Rubber Soul
7. Revolver
8. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
9. The Beatles (The White Album)
10. Magical Mystery Tour
11. Let It Be

So, that's 11 out of 13. I'm missing Abbey Road (I should probably look for that) and probably Yellow Submarine counts as the other one. But, ugh, I don't want to buy either one of those. I know Abbey Road must be around somewhere, and Yellow Submarine either has a bunch of songs I already own (from Sgt. Pepper's and MMT) or it has a bunch of instrumental tracks from the movie's score. Still, I really love Hey Bulldog, so there's a reason to buy it. Anyways, that's not all the cds the Beatles/Apple has released. There's also One (which I have) and the three Beatles Anthologies, and the best of 1962-1966 and 1967-1970, which really have no point, but Uncle Scott had the 1962-1966 one. And don't forget all the songs originally written by the Beatles that were sung by other groups, like World Without Love and I Wanna Be Your Man. And the solo work by John, George, Ringo, and Paul. And all the bootlegs and abandoned recordings, and I think they're doing a new version of Let It Be without the instrumentation. So, for those who really want to own every Beatles song: give up hope now. Or, settle for buying the 13 albums, or the 15 albums including past masters, or just the compilation albums, or just One, or the 15 albums plus the 3 anthologies, or just John's solo stuff, or just a best of solo stuff for John, or whatever. You have to draw a line somewhere, but that's true for anything...

Enough of my random babbling about the Beatles. Hmm, did you know I have a Japanese Beatles poster in my room? It says "Yeah, yeah, yeah" in Japanese katakana. Aargh, no, must stop.

Hmmm, it's been about a half an hour since I started typing this. Probably a bad thing.

Well, I drove with mum for the first time today. I drove to the new smoky hill library. This time it's actually on smoky. It's pretty cool. But, ugh, I was parking and I did a really crappy job, so my mom made me repark. And since I wasn't doing a good enough job she took the wheel and turned for me. Aaargh. Although I'm probably giving my dad an ulcer, I think I prefer driving with him, since he clutches the door and not the steering wheel when I screw up.

Man... Blur is having a concert in New York next Sunday (the 16th), but apparently, minutes after announcing it, it was sold out. Great, just great. They're not even that well known in the US, and their show sells out in minutes. No way I'm getting tickets, even if they DO come anywhere near Colorado. Oh, well, it wouldn't be the same without Graham anyways. Still, I swear I'm going to see Damon in concert someday.