[all the faces and the places just begin to look the same]

firewater's golden hour remains the best album of the year, no questions asked. why'd i go a month without listening to this?


because of course the line: i've been down so long that coming up is giving me the bends. which is so fucking brilliant i can't even talk about it.

(i think that the hold steady's stay positive is creeping into the second spot, slowly but surely. she's got boys on board and boys on deck: oh, craig finn, how'd you know what i was like in college?)

[as they do to you --]

a hummingbird just came up and hovered six inches from my laptop screen.


sometimes it's the little things that make the days worthwhile.

[is yesterday, tomorrow, today --]

today i made pasta salad and chicken salad (om nom nom nom, plus not having to use the stove in north carolina summers) and soon i'm going to go take a nap while the sky threatens to thunderstorm.


last night we went to see two local plus one almost-local-plus-they're-on-a-local-label bands play, tonight we might go see john darnielle do a solo set, and i feel happy. i like feeling happy.