HARVARD BABES

This girl is my cousin's roommate at harvard. That's so funny. Good bread and french men trying to make out with my girlfriend right in front of me are the only memories of france I have. Oh and some kidneys I tried and didn't like. And good pate; the country kind. And the pays basque which is almost like another country, everyone's so sweet there.

YAY VACATION

I like egg nog. I like eggs in general. I hard boiled some yesterday. It's nice not to be depressed and bored anymore and like little things. A couple years ago I was visiting my friend in Milan and she would make me hard boiled egg sandwiches on little italian soft bagettes for lunch. I had never experienced hard boiled eggs like that. They were delicate and soft with a startlingly bright yoke that seemed creamy on it's own. For her boiling eggs was an important enough thing that you did it with precision and care. Little things like that can be the best. I don't know why we all waste so much time worrying about big things beyond our control so much.

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Arabic melodies, hyphy drum beats, bits of disco, dub, and Baltimore club

Alex was written up in SF Weekly this week. When he comes to town he puts all this shit on my computer. My friend's girlfriend was over and was like, "no shit you have 'watch out for the big girls and khaligi." And I'm like, ummm what?? Oh yeah, totally, of course.

They're pretty cool to see live. Alex shows up to almost any musical event he's performing in with about 50 musical instruments and/or random shit that looks like he found on the side of a freeway or pulled out of the garbage, then he plays them all live into a sampling machine until all the loops overlap into something that sounds like a seriously produced arrangment. The on-the-fly abilities of the human ear are amazing. I also like the idea that classically trained naturally-talented musicians who can play everything from the harpsicord to the flute, have graduated to tricky advanced instruments like the large crooked stick. I like their song Nasifon the best on myspace. Hopefully they'll become big in england soon so I can have an excuse to travel somewhere.