Dance the night away!

add-ons from before

...since I'm not tired yet but the rest of the girlfriends went home. Oh, and this sucks, bc I feel like I waited all day to see everyone, but bc of work schedules, etc., we didn't meet up til later and now I have some shitty beer running through me and I feel like I could stay up all night! Ah well. Welcome to Adult Summer 2005.

some things I've been thinking about that maybe you should too:

"You don't write bc you want to say something; you write bc you've got something to say."
--Scott Fitzgerald (who I wish I got to first before Zelda, who fucked him up royally)

"I write for the same reason I breathe--bc if I didn't, I would die."
--Isaac Asimov (I normally don't like sci-fi, but I like him a lot more bc of this quote...and bc Rog reads a lot of Ray Bradbury, so there must be something to the genre)

"Being a star is every patriotic American's dream."
--Bart Simpson (this I found in the Quotable Quotes section of Readers Digest, which used to be one of my favorite sections--I used a bunch of their quotes when I Crayola-markered quotes on the back of my bedroom door in the sixth grade, an idea totally ripped off from Katherine Faydash--but now it's strictly celebrity/pop culture icon quotes and I HATE that...there's even a picture of Bart in this month's issue with his skateboard, which to me, seems to be going against everything Readers Digest once stood for...ah, my love/hate is stirring...)

what else do am I thinking about? Tonight I had some time on my hands when I was waiting for Anna's call (which came at 1030, after Katie, Will, and Maura had picked me up, of course) so I copied down lyrics from my favorite Bloc Party songs bc they seem to get where I'm at at this point in my life. The media is always asking for things that "define a generation" or whatevs (I don't even know what "generation" I'm in...the tail end of Gen X? Gen Y, which sounds gay, so I don't want to associate with them? I've invented the "nintendo generation" and maybe on another post I'll talk about that, but not tonight), and for me, right now, Bloc Party gets it. Or at least just me, a nerdy 22 year old who spends her Thursdays going on shopping outings with her parents. So maybe I'll just transcribe those again and then end for tonight. Bc I bet if I really try, I could go to sleep. I just don't want to right now.

BANQUET (#4--my jam!)

A heart of stone, a smoking gun
I can give you life, I can take it away

A heart of stone, a smoking gun
I’m working it out

Why’d you feel so underrated?
Why’d you feel so negated?

Turning away from the light
Becoming adult
Turning into my soul
I wanted to bite not destroy
To feel her underneath
Turning into the light

She don’t think straight
She’s got such a dirty mind and it never ever stops
And you don’t taste like her and you never ever will
And we don’t read the papers, we don’t read the news
Heaven’s never enough, we will never be fooled

And if you feel a little left behind
I will see you on the other side

Cos I’m on fire
I’m on fire when you come
I’m on fire so stub me out

THIS MODERN LOVE

To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
You been trying to reach me
You bought me a book
To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
I been paid
I been paid

Don’t get offended
If I seem absentminded
Just keep telling me facts
And keep making me smile
Don’t get offended
If I seem absentminded
I get tongue-tied
Baby, you’ve got to be more discerning
I’ve never known what is good for me
Baby, you’ve got to be more demanding
I will be yours

I’ll pay for you anytime

You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Well jump on, enjoy, you can gorge away
You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Jump right
Baby, you’ve got to be more discerning
I’ve never known what is good for me
Baby, you’ve got to be more demanding
Jump left

What are you holding out for?
What’s always in the way?
Why so damn absentminded?
Why so scared of romance?

This modern love breaks me
This modern love wastes me

Do you wanna come over and kill some time?
Throw your arms around me

I'm basically obsessed with this whole album right now, but these are my favs. Okay, well, goodnight.

posted by SES @ 2:23 AM