Love is just a four letter word but don't think twice babe, it's alright...

3OH!3 tomorrow!!! ( ^_^)/\(^_^ )

The following things I find myself LOVE-ing hard these days:

Kurt Vonnegut
Joan Baez
Waaaay early Bob Dylan
Johnny Cash: The Biography
Cabernet Sauvignon
Playing my guitar
Skiing

I finished Slaughter-House Five. It is fucking awesome and I recommend it very much seeing as it's a corner stone of Vonnegut's work and beyond that it's brilliant and funny and odd and a bit challenging and just plain great like Catcher in the Rye.

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall is an excellent song. There are a few versions but Joan Baez's is great and of course Dylan's version is my fav obvs but I'm aware his vocals aren't really of everyone's taste, Baez has such a great voice thus forth comes my recommendation for that song. Te Ador (Baez) is also very nice.

My dad gave me a few CDs one of which was The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. I have it on vinyl but I'd forgotten about it since my receiver has been down so I've been listening to that at work.

The Cash biography my mom got me for Christmas is turning out to be really good. I'm always weary of bios... but this one is so far accurate (as far as I can tell, apart from the personal accounts, etc) and the writing is a notch or two above decent so it's pretty easy to get into.

Cabernet Sauvignon is so nice on cold nights.

Finally, after two or so years I've finally been able to churn out a couple of decent songs with lyrics. I'm very pleased with this.

Skiing was interesting. We started out on a blue and I was a bit intimidated by the whole thing considering I've never been on a blue before... but the day turned out well. We forgot the camera in the rushed jumble of the morning so I've got nothing to show. George and I were very, very disappointed. The chairlift stopped for an eternity--way longer than your usual let the awkward newbie or child off--and though I didn't go into full-on panic, I was getting a bit restless. I found humor in the fact that I recently watched the episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry gets stuck on a chairlift with this chick who's an Orthodox Jew and she can't be with a man after the sun goes down so the sun starts setting while they're stuck on this thing and she comes to the conclusion that someone must jump. It was my first reaction that he should be the one to jump but no, this is Larry and he proceeds (this is all after eating a pair of edible underwear in front of her) to argue and firmly state that he will not jump. So she does and I think she breaks or sprains something, poor girl. What a chump, that Larry David.

I filled out my application for CU Denver earlier. I started working on my essay which is optional but why wouldn't you take advantage of that opportunity? I think it's a really good chance to show them why I'm seeking a degree in English with an emphasis in writing one that thereby promotes by final goal of being a writer. Not only can I punctuate this but the paper itself shall serve as an example of what I'm capable of so it has to be done very well. This shit is getting pretty serious here with the school and the growing up and the life. I'm intimidated by CU which is why I'm not going to DU because if I'm intimidated by CU then I must be, well, scared shitless of DU. I don't know what the work is going to be like. Is it more than I've been doing for ACC? I assume so because it's a better school. Getting shouldn't be too tough though, the good thing is I'm not going to have to go through any trouble with obtaining Lakewood transcripts because I have enough credits and a wonderful enough GPA that college shall stand alone in academic representation. My anxiety is somewhat eased by this.

"These are the songs I keep singin'"

I spent way too much money at Twist & Shout on Thursday. I bought the following:

CD:
Ry Cooder's Bop Till You Drop

Vinyl:
The Band's Music From Big Pink
Bob Dylan's 1973 Self Titled release
Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding
Cat Steven's Back to Nature
Queen's Queen II

I couldn't resist; it's been so long since I've been able to recklessly indulge in that little vice of mine.

New Years was nice but we got jacked by the Man. Jerk. Phony. Phony jerk.

Skiing tomorrow with LOLrissa and her bros. I'm totally stoked! Pictures to come...