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Name: Jostlen
Birthday: 4/28/1987
Gender: Female


Interests: Obsessing over the following: Sports - Swimming, hockey, football; Music - Less Than Jake, Warped Tour, and just music in general
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Other than the courses I'm registered for this year, I need 24 credits to graduate yet.  I've filled all my requirements, but still need 24 electives.  Other than Academic Writing.  I still need Academic Writing.  I was gonna take it in the Winter, but need to get myself onto a waitlist.

More than anything I want to leave.  I love the frost.  I love the chill & the snow.  I just can't stand feeling uninspired.  I need to see some music.  I need to shake some shit up.  I need to learn to walk on my hands.

Funny, this.  Since I leave in 24 days.

However, there is still lots of ground to cover in this city.  So much I haven't done.

If you are reading this & haven't seen me in awhile, call me.  We'll bake cookies or something.

I've got the music in me.  Today is the first day in like a week my mp3 player's working.  First pop, now distortion.  Loud & distorted.  Can't stand melody.  Feral.  The ties that bind us.

, french kiss some french girls.


Monday, November 30, 2009

The weekend was alright.  Slow moving.  Watched black & white movies with my dad - one with James Stewart about escaping the Nazis, and Casablanca - then went out to play pool at Classics for many hours.  Ty, Justin, & Aaron, then Jess & Cody came later.  We all sucked.  We haven't done this in so long.  It's so hard to say who played the best when we had 30 minute games.  Should have played on the coin tables.  Oh well.  Fun!  Downloaded all the rest of my pictures!  Hooray!

Sunday we hoisted the moose, watched the Incredible Mr Limpett, then I was off to the radio station.  Not a bad show.  Kind of a - try to pelase everyone, but doesn't appease anyone sort of thing I think.  A couple technical mistakes I didn't let get me down too much.  Half an hour in I was feeling better.  The Grey Cup game was insane.  So intense.  25-27 at the last second.  Montreal comes back to win from a 16 pt deficit, and kicks a field goal to win.  First they kicked it & missed.  Sask had too many men on the field - a 10yd penalty.  So much for runny runny catchy.

Exam tomorrow.  Tomorrow I'm going to wish I were in two places at once.

I'm still waiting to hear from my war veteran friend.  I kinda thought he might be dead.  Today I got my first sign otherwise.

Here's 50 bands I've seen live.  The rules are that you can't put bands you've seen at festivals or openers, unless you can't think of any others.  It's harder than you'd think.  Especially for you I guess cause you haven't seen 50.

1 - The Cat Empire
2 - Dropkick Murphys
3 - Gogol Bordello
4 - Classified
5 - Less Than Jake
6 - Bad Religion
7 - Japandroids
8 - Motion City Soundtrack
9 - The Format
10 - Reel Big Fish
11 - Wilco
12 - Rage Against The Machine
13 - Rush
14 - Nine Inch Nails
15 - Tegan & Sara
16 - Ted Leo
17 - AntiFlag
18 - Hawksley Workman
19 - Minus The Bear
20 - Billy Talent
21 - Rise Against
22 - Mad Caddies
23 - Lagwagon
24 - White Cowbell Oklahoma
25 - Propagandhi
26 - Nomeansno
27 - Brand New
28 - Thrice
29 - Thursday
30 - Wilco
31 - Subcity Dwellers
32 - The Weakerthans
33 - Coheed & Cambria
34 - DOA
35 - SNFU
36 - Andrew WK
37 - Against Me!
38 - King Kahn & BBQ
39 - Ndidi Onukwulu
40 - Vieux Farka Toure
41 - Stars
42 - Moneen
43 - Strike Anywhere
44 - A Wilhelm Scream
45 - The Gaslight Anthem
46 - Elliott Brood
47 - The Hold Steady
48 - Bouncing Souls
49 - Rufio
50 - Barenaked Ladies

I started reading Shake Hands With The Devil yesterday.  I'm on chapter 2.  I feel sober.

Exam tomorrow.

, the clap.


Friday, November 27, 2009

My day's been up & down but mostly good I think.  Kicked it off with a mix - 200 pictures of Mombasa plus an ordeal with Ticketmaster.  If I had my credit card right now I could get tickets for far away, but I might be resigned to staying home.  They had to email me to drive home the point.  Looking at those pictures makes me fall on my face though.  "Were we there?  That's amazing."  I have never seen some of these pictures before.  I have to thank them thousand-fold.

Then ate like 7 pieces of dessert while visiting my gramma.  I am restless every day now.  I need to write more & do more.  (I am unsure if it's the wind-out-of-my-sails that could happen after a great show.)  I need a challenge, I need to make bets.  The only thing I could think of was betting Ty who would miss class first - starting now.  But I just promised my gramma I would miss class Tuesday to help her get to the airport.  Maybe at the end of this semester.

I think about my grade 11 science teacher asking "are you comfortable staying home on friday night, or do you have to go out?"  Yeah, I do.  I'm feeling anxious.  I'm pretty jealous of Ty's awesome night out.  One of those things that worked out perfectly.  And how the phone kept cutting out on Jess & I, so I just went home.  We have a date next week, but if it snows, who knows if she'll remember.

My Aussie friends are right.  Muse are way better than they get credit for.  I kick myself for not being at the Burt that October night - especially after Hysteria came out as a single - & being at the last show at the Wpg Arena instead.  I'm not one for nostalgia.  I should live in Europe.

I wanted to play the drums to get it out of (or back in) my system tonight.  Regardless of who's here.  I couldn't do that to the family though.  Dad's upstairs with Susan watching West Wing.  I might make nachoes soon.  I don't feel hungry, but haven't eaten.  He says there's some sort of tribute show at the Zoo tonight for Randy Booth, who's from the Pas & there might be some big names there.  Like, guys from The Who.  According to my sources there's a touring band there tonight, but I guess he's already called them & asked.  Sounds cool.  Oh well.

Travelling is supposed to save the world.  My next adventure starts a month yesterday.  It turns out there's a bunch of stuff in this city I have still yet to do.  I have itchy feet.  I spent the day planning my next way out, and dreaming.  I'm so restless, but there's so much I could be doing.  I'm planning for routine.  Ugh.

I know I didn't say anything since The Cat Empire but it was really very good.  I haven't listened to anything but that album So Many Nights until tonight, which makes it about a week.  A week of straight listening.  They had the energy.  They had the crowd participation.  They had the thirst.  They were way more jazzy than I'd expected live - going into long instrumental jams & really downbeat mellow stuff, just to pick it back up with the horns & pounding keyboards.  You need the lows to achieve the highs.

I wish somebody would invite me to a concert.  I'm tempted to go to Cowboys tomorrow, just cause somebody asked.

I need more beautiful things in my life.  My life needs more beauty.

I love things that seem impossible.

, Starlight.

*I just found a blog called Live Fix (formerly Live Exhaust) that breaks down live music.  I may have found a conversation I've been looking for.*


Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Ty's party was pretty fun.  A bunch of people left while I was taking care of Ty.  He was disappointed he ducked out so early, but still maintains that "it's my party and I'll do whatever the fuck I want to!"  Or something.  Nothing says party like puking into family heirlooms is right.  I kicked it at 5am while Jess Matt & Zach were watching South Park.  I had already checked out, playing on my laptop in the corner.

Sunday was for recovery.  All day recovery.  Awoke with a girl above me and a dude next to me.  Not enough sleep.  Ty finally bought us orange juice & made us eggs.  Then I slept into the afternoon, dreaming about parachuting onto the beach.  Oh yeah!  All my ID is still lost.  Good on me.  Oh!  I should cancel my credit card.  Like, right now!

I am ultimately drawn back to the cycle of Hilltop Hoods and The Cat Empire greatness.  The cd player calls me - "I don't give a goddamn...", then I pop in the earbuds on the way out the door & guess what's waiting for me.  Welcome Fishes to my Hook.

Let's pretend this doesn't happen every couple weeks.  The Cat Empire is going to be so so good tonight!  Like Hold Steady epicklee good.  There must be about 10 guys in this band!


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, Pablo.


Monday, November 23, 2009

How much of the day do I spend waiting on you?  By you I mean...me.  I've got alot of work to do.  I can't do fun things for the rest of the day.  I will do my best.  I'll try to try.

My weekend was highlighted by the big event - Ty's party on Saturday!  Friday the 4 of us explorers went to see Boondock Saints 2.  Saturday I left my house within 10 minutes of waking up, forgetting my drinks, uniform & cell phone charger.  Worked, to gramma's, to the Bud Spud & Steak, then to Ty's.  In some sort of order.  Lost my ID & all those important things.  Need to visit to banque today.  Brandee bestowed on me a bottle of Bacardi for the occasion.  Later that night, Ty was throwing up the serendipitous rum.  Earlier than that he was chugging it.

Sunday was for recovery.

More on all this later!  I'm no longer allowed on the computer today.



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