hello internet

there have been many days in the past two weeks that have been among the worst of my life.

i really used to hate that phrase "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" but i think i understand it now. a whole month of being alive.

i'm now in cszechtowa, the city of the black madonna. cool.

so, family, huh? travelling with family members i rarely see anymore and meeting all of these people related to me whom i've never seen before has been pretty eye opening. i think i really like the idea of family, even though my own family life generally sucks so bad. regardless, i really didn't expect to be so surprised by family members i can barely even communicate with me.

anyways, poland's been really nice and my time here's been mostly great, but i'm starting to feel ready to go home. i miss my lady, my friends and my bed. i'm really anxious/excited for tour and the rest of summer as well.
this little internet cafe is overwhelmingly hot and smelly.
good night world

i'm in poland now. maybe it's just me but the air seems to smell really good.
driving here is scary, the roads are so terrifying. i'm updating this on my cousin's daughter's computer and everything is in polish and it's picking up the english as spelling mistakes. my family's 250km away from here, and toronto's seven hours in the past.

bye london, miss you
hi poland

so, i just got back from america. great weekend but it looks like my summer is ending on a down note.
i'm confused, and i hate all this uncertainty.
more later.

whoops rain.
no more moving tonight :(

- i am moving. getting out of this hole.
- i was out of money so i took all my change to dominion and poured it into that change to money machine. i had 53 dollars, holy crap.
- my jeans smell pretty bad and i am probably going to wash them soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYrSDoqPvbY&search=jens%20lekman%20f%20word

i have a crush on jens lekman.

friday 8pm: finally get brian, print off directions and leave.
saturday 230am: directions from mapquest turn out to be completely wrong. uh. at this point we are in indiana on interstate 90.
saturday 405 am: after an hour and a half of blatant disregard for the speed limit and reading interstate signs we arrive at the hotel and check in. pitchfork weekend is a go. woow.

water only being one dollar= if not i would have died, seriously

day one was cool. started off by seeing eight bold souls, then bought some water. caught the end of chin up chin up, which was kind of meh, and then man man played after and were totally sweet. chicago underground duo were cool. saw some of tyondai braxton but left when he blew the PA and the sound guy didn't know how to fix it.

tried to watch destroyer after but left after seeing only a few songs. just couldn't get into it. saw art brut who were really entertaining, and a bit of the walkmen who were boring. the futureheads afterwards were awesome, and the silver jews were good as well, though we left early.

day2. joel took a long time in the shower so we left a bit late, but still make it to the festival pretty much on time. saw the end of tapes n' tapes (meh) then stuck around the front of the stage, and then jens lekman and his band totally steal my heart. my favorite performance of the entire festival. i sang and clapped to every song, except for the two that i hadn't heard before. jens only did six songs and then said he'd sit down somewhere in the park and play some more songs. i looked around for him a few times but was never able to spot him. come to canada jens!

the rest of the day was really good too. liars had a really fun and noisy set. saw mission of burma after, and dug them even though i'm not really crazy about them. i skipped devendra banhart, and then yo la tengo played. i was really looking forward to them but unfortunately found them dissapointing. i dunno. they didn't play for very long, and played a bunch of new songs instead of stuff everyone knew.

didn't care to see spoon, so i stuck around at the front and waited for os mutantes who totally blew me away. awesome set.

the drive back was pretty uneventful. 9 more hours. 1872 kilometres both ways. oh man am i exhausted. goodnight livejournal!

i think i'm gonig to start to use livejournal more.

yeah so, i don't know. today i couldn't eat or sleep and my head hurt all the time. i tried to eat because i knew you'd be mad at me if i didn't but i didn't have much luck.
i think i'm putting too much energy into making others happy, but it seems like everyone's mad at me anyways. i should stop caring so much.

hahaha oh god school
march is going to kick my ass so hard.

argh
damn you internet, and your being more interesting than islamist activism in algeria
damn you islamist activism

i almost forgot that i had a livejournal.
so, things have been really quite lovely lately, even though i've been sick for like a week. i saw high on fire yesterday with JAMES. i'm excited to hang out/make music with him again. alex and i talked about some songs for a new panserbjorne ep to be recorded sometime this month. it's going to RULE.

also, i bought a pair of imperial brand jeans. they are super nice.

hey livejournal.
i decided not to sleep tonight. it is now 730 am. me and joel had breakfast (second dinner?) at boom at 6am. we were the first ones there.

so, kiam told me to get one of these and i did.
it is 425 am, joel is watching star trek in the other room. i was thinking about going to sleep a minute ago, but i changed my mind.

tomorrow me and the rest of this house are going to go SHOPPING. it's going to rule.
goodnight livejournal