Items On My Possible 5-10 Year Plan

• Go to policy school

• Join the Peace Corps

• Go to law school

• Apply to New Leaders For New Schools

• Move to the Pacific Northwest

• Move to Amsterdam

• Move to Finland (supposedly the best school system in the world)

• Apply for a recruitment position with Teach For America

• Apply to a big ginormous consulting firm

• Apply to TeachFirst

…thoughts?

I Wouldn’t Kick Them Out Of Bed

• Joaquin Phoenix

• Andy Samberg

• Bill Hader

• Christian Bale

• Ryan Gosling

• Paul Rudd

• Christopher Meloni

• Hugh Grant

If I Did Acid, This Mix Would Probably Make Me See A Lot of Pretty Colors

• Scissor Sisters, “Transistor”
• Jeff Buckley, “Dream Brother”
• Ian Brown, “Solarize”
• Jane’s Addiction, “Kettle Whistle”
• Delerium, “Flowers Become Screens”
• My Morning Jacket, “Gideon”
• Air, “Sexy Boy”
• Panda Bear, “Comfy in Nautica”
• The Beatles, “Tomorrow Never Knows”
• Smashing Pumpkins, “Porcelina of the Vast Oceans”
• The Black Angels, “Empire”
• Soundgarden, “Black Hole Sun”
• Dave Matthews Band, “Don’t Drink the Water”
• Lawrence of Arabia, theme
• Led Zeppelin, “Kashmir”
• Devendra Banhart, “Be Kind”
• The Doors, “Five to One”
• Fiona Apple, “Across the Universe”
• Flaming Lips, “Do You Realize?”
• Fleetwood Mac, “Gold Dust Woman”
• Gomez, “How We Operate”
• Polyphonic Spree, “Light & Day/Reach For the Sun”
• RJD2, “Silver Fox”
• Spiritualized, “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space”

If This Song Comes On Your iTunes, We’re Making Out

• Broken Social Scene, “Anthems For a Seventeen Year Old Girl”
• Charlotte Gainsbourg, “Jamais”
• CocoRosie, “Promise”
• The Cure, “Pictures of You”
• Feist, “One Evening”
• Hot Chip, “Boy From School”
• Imogen Heap, “Closing In”
• Iron and Wine & Calexico, “Burn That Broken Bridge”
• John Coltrane & Miles Davis, “In a Sentimental Mood”
• Joy Division, “Atmosphere”
• Kings of Convenience, “Misread”
• The Knife, “Heartbeats (Live)”
• Malcolm McLaren, “About Her”
• Massive Attack, “Protection”
• Mazzy Star, “Into Dust”
• Miles Davis, “Flamenco Sketches (Alternate Take)”
• My Morning Jacket, “Wordless Chorus”
• Nelly Furtado, “Say It Right”
• OneRepublic, “Apologize (Timbaland Remix)”
• Peter Bjorn and John, “The Chills”
• Postal Service, “Recycled Air”
• Portishead, “Glory Box”
• Skye, “Stop Complaining”
• The Smiths, “How Soon Is Now”
• Stars, “Heart”

The Rules, Weissy Edition

Never date anyone…

• who is prettier than you
• wears more hair product than you
• orders girlier drinks than you

It’d be schadenfreude, except I don’t really give a crap

Jenna Bush’s fiance has a combover.  That shit is about two inches and 2 pounds of grease away from being emo.

Chelsea Clinton’s boyfriend actually looks kind of cute.  Dems win again!

A G-Chat Conversation #4

Or, When Anal Retentiveness Attacks!

The Reamster: I am kind of ridiculous

I’m just throwing it out there

Me: kind of?

haha

The Reamster: in case it was ever in doubt

Me: you really know how to start a gchat conversation

1:43 AM The Reamster: well yes

that’s part of me being ridiculous

I made an excel file

with 15 tabs

that is color coded

and shared it with my Recruitment Associate

Me: haHAAAAAAAAAA

The Reamster: and was like this is everything we have to do in the next 25 days. Let’s get started

do you want to see it?

I think it might entertain you

you can say no

I wouldn’t want to see someone else’s frightening OCD playing out professionally

Me: that’s like asking me if i want to see a snuff film

like i think i would be horrified

but i would also be morbidly curious

1:46 AM why are they so color coded

what exactly are you color coding

area schools?

The Reamster: let me just send it to you

me: i’m looking at it now

this is CRAZY

is this russian

The Reamster: haha what makes it russian?

me: i don’t know

it’s like in another language

The Reamster: no it isn’t

is it?

me: for me, yes

ive been on duff time all summer

i’m rusty with deciphering acronyms

The Reamster: wait but the words are English right?

oh, you scared me

me: hahaha yes matt

The Reamster: I thought it broke

me: HA no

1:54 AM The Reamster: look what TFA has done to me

I used to drink beer

now I delight in excel

Songs Played Last Night at Making Time (That I Can Remember)

1.  !!!, “Must Be the Moon”

2.  The Rapture, “Get Myself Into It”

3.  New Order, “Temptation”

4.  Technotronic, “Pump Up the Jam”

5.  LCD Soundsystem, “North American Scum”

6.  Hot Chip, “Over and Over”

7.  New Order, “Bizarre Love Triangle”

8.  Arcade Fire, “Neighborhood #2″

Let It Not Be Said That Gwen Stefani Rips Off Madonna’s Shit

This is the ad for Gwen Stefani’s new fragrance.  Shades of the “Cherish” video, anyone?

As for the scent itself, if you like smelling like shower gel, then by all means go buy it.

Or you could just use shower gel and save your money so that Gwen Stefani doesn’t have more money to lightheartedly co-opt more Eastern cultures all in the name of love, angels, music, and babies.

(But when I’ve had a few, her music is kind of the bomb, in an “I’m going to pretend to be ironic to cover up the fact that I’m so not” kind of way.)

Mad Awesome

I just feel the need to repeat what a crazy awesome weekend this is going to be.  Madonna Michael Prince at the M Room tonight, Making Time at Transit tomorrow.  I’m ’bout to be all danced out.  Peace out cubscouts!