summer time.

you know its summer in uptown when on any given night of the week you can hear people outside at night. lately its been arguing; which for someone who has no life such as myself, that kicks ass.

the other day there were two drunkers outside. i was marathoning 24 like an respectable 22 year old in the prime of her life would be doing (just putting it out there jack bauer kicks wicked ass, kim bauer sucks, and president palmer could totally sell me car insurance). at any rate these two fools who were obviously dating and were probably oh.. 24 tops? were standing outside at like 10pm (who is that drunk at 10pm seriously?). both were screaming about how they lost everything and the dude kept saying "let me take you home one last time". no one understands them, they have nothing.. blahblahblah. maybe thats a direct result of you getting drunk at 10pm and standing in the streets of uptown making asses of yourselves.. just sayin.

well naturally i had to go find crista. to which i walked out of my room to find her spying out the living room window exactly as i had been in my room (there is a reason why we are bests folks). every other apartment within view had people staring at t hem out of it.

that was one of the most entertaining things ever.

i love summer. im always so happy in summer. here are my favorite things:

my nostrils not sticking together

sleeping with the window open

reading outside

coffee shops late at night

walking everywhere

attempting to ride a bike

leaves on trees

flowers

open water

bbq's

driving with all the windows down

tanktops

flip-flops

swimming

parks

car trips

friends being in town

feel good music

mass amounts of live music

adventures

warm ground

block parties

parades

flying kites

bocce ball

pick up football games

four square

boats

fireworks

moms garden

ice cream on warm nights

thunderstorms

lake calhoun

stoopin it

there is perfect music for summer too:

romantica

nappy roots

old school rap:

biggie

wu tang

dr dre

snoop

not so old school rap:

omaur bliss

certain atmosphere

mos def

shitty rap catchy radio rap

sublime

tegan and sara

chromeo

electric six

i have missed summer so much. i am going to do so much this summer:

road trip

go fishing

golf

frisbee

cabin

get out of the city

hammock

hang out in stillwater

go to small town mn

chi-town?

grill

dance pary

canoe

stoop it every damn day

slip n' slide

super soaker fight

nap outside

so much more to summer...

i love sunshine.

the dream life.

so i have recently been thinking more and more about the life i wish i had. musician. not just any musician. singer in an awesome dark ass folk metal band - much like asmegin or moonsorrow.

lets face it - the office job life is not for me, for the long run anyway. its starting to wear on my psyche. not to say i dont like my job and the money it affords me. but i have always had aspirations for much greater things. much more fun. and i can think of nothing more fun than making music and being completely immersed in it. too bad i cant play an instrument and i am way too chicken to ever sing in a band - even tho i can actually sing.

an additional point of amazingness - being in a sweet metal band would almost necessitate moving to a scandinavian country. most bands of note (at least from my perspective) come from there and they have musicians grants which provide money to bands just to record... amazing!

at the end of the day i want to go to sleep thinking "holy shit i did a bunch of awesome stuff today" not "wow i went to work.. that was the same as every other day... came home.. watched tv.. how boring..". the only way i can see myself accomplishing that is doing something with music/metal whatever.

its hard being a girl. i feel like my dreams to really be a part of the music anything are kind of stinted by the fact that i was born with a vagina. at least im not as hideous as 95% of the other girls that listen to metal and am not as skanky as 100% of them. but even still...

even if i can never be in a band (which is likely) i at least need to do something like produce or manage or promote. i just need to figure out which and how i will go about doing that...