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July 28, 2007, 15:23

The coolest thing about my job is that on top of getting paid in cash, they gave me 3 working Polaroid cameras. I put them all on my shelf so I don’t step on them and I think I might be developing a camera collection! The camera second from the right is a Bell & Howell 16mm movie camera, pre-WWII. It runs completely on springs and clockwork mechanisms, no batteries at all! It’s pretty neat but I haven’t finished the roll of film and I haven’t sent it off to the lab yet so I have no idea how good my skills with a 16mm camera are. The camera on the far right is a Polaroid Spectra that has a sonar-powered autofocus!

Summer is already 2/3 over and I’m gonna miss it because I think this has been one of the finest summers I’ve had. Maybe the best! I don’t know. August is gonna be keen but August is the month of conclusions and it’s gonna be sad. It reminds me of one of 3 listenable tracks on the entire Joan of Arc album “So Much for Staying Alive and Lovelessness.”

“She remembered home as only degrees of summer. Entire afternoons devoted to a single green apple, the swirling clouds in glass jars of water that always resolved themselves in purples with each dip of her brush.
Ben, the teenage drag race casualty, with his slow studied ways and sudden smile or Albert, the teenage drag race champion, always in a different nice shirt that never fit right. They’d both stop by without anything much to say but a whole lot of questions if and when they’d ever chance upon each other.”

REPENT!!

July 26, 2007, 02:43

Does anyone have an imagination so active sometimes that it keeps you up? I think that’s what’s happening to me right now. Like I think about playing my first show and hanging out with people and what it was like recording my first song and writing that book and the first time I made a friend by going to a show or something. But then there are those unfortunate things that pop into my head like losing contact with my old Lanier friends and not meeting a bunch of deadlines for compilations I could’ve been on and declining playing shows with bands I really, really like. It makes me really happy or sad and my head just flips to “active” when I think about things like that; it’s enough to keep me awake.

Thinking about stuff also reminds me of how much I’ve purposely missed out on some pretty cool things. I wish I had the flyers and promos to prove it.

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July 22, 2007, 14:06

I went to a party last night,
What such things I saw!

Scott Johnstone and I had a pretty nice band practice yesterday. Then afterwards we went and celebrated Felipe Nunez’s 18th birthday. We ran into these guys we knew but hadn’t seen in years. We walked into the neon kitchen and stole a couple of sodas. Scott, Rachel Hirsch, and I slipped out the back door in search of a pool, which we found, but the gate was locked and we almost got the cops called on us.

I couldn’t believe how much dancing there was and I got soooooo drunk and danced sooooo much. And all the trash talking was amazing.

Scott and I helped Felipe clean up afterwards. It sure was messy. Rachel Hirsch didn’t have a ride home so I told Scott that she should leave with us and then he drove me home and then went off to drive Rachel home. I hope they got home safely.

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July 15, 2007, 14:12

That sure was an emo night.

DAM….

My wisdom teeth are causing me great pain! It feels like my jaw chewed twenty packs of gum for five minutes straight. It hurts worse at work because it spreads through my neck and up to my cranium. Writing, stamping, and addressing 500 notecards a day for $6 an hour isn’t that bad.

My grandma comes back today. It kinda sucks not being able to have the entire house to myself anymore.

I got a Ben Kweller ticket in the mail!