<center>2006.02.06</center> <a name="thebangles"><h3>the bangles</h3></a> <p>월요일 오후: <font color="black">"it's just another manic monday. i wish it were sunday cause that's my fun day, my 'i don't have to run' day. it's just another manic monday." ~ the bangles, "manic monday"</font> have i mentioned dean gray's <i>american edit</i>? roland told me 'bout this awesome internet.based album a few wks 'go. it's an album that remixes <font color="#005500">green day</font>'s <i>american idiot</i> album, inserting samples from various pop n' rock songs as well as from politicians and movies etc. it's really kewl. i wish i had the time n' talent to do that, man. yah, i guess i just haven't really applied myself 2wards finding 15 mins'f fame via djing. <i>could</i> i do nething that kewl, achieve nething that kewl? *shrug* neway, 1 song, "whatername," uses the vocals from the bangles song "manic monday." it's an awesome track. u know what i just thought'f that's barely interesting? when the bangles got popular w/ hits like "manic monday," "eternal flame," "walk like an egyptian," and "hazy shade of winter"; skateboarding was going thru its 1980s popularity phase. that's <i>a li'l</i> interesting to me just cos i've picked back up skateboarding, as u all know by now. dude, that all happened when i was in middle skool! *sigh* crazy. all this 1980s nostalgia's quite crazy, eh? i haven't been to the mall in a few wks, but i know i've cn more 1980s retro fashion in the past yr, all that lacoste n' le tigré stuff. dude, when r gotcha, t&c surf co., n' z. cavaricci gonna make their comebacks? the cyclical nature'f it all, isn't it crazy? in the 1980s, we had a retro 1950s trend n' a retro 1960s trend, rt? movies like <i>back to the future</i> got us into the 1950s trend n' all those vietnam war shows n' movies got us into the 1960s trend. it's all crazy, ain't it? neway, man; i <i>don't</i> have time to discuss fashion n' pop culture rt now. what am i thinking?! i think i've just been feeling a bit isolated since i haven't gotten 2 much personal e.mail in recent wks. <p>[later] 저녁, 아직도 회사에서: well, i listened to the dean gray album all the way thru yet 'gain this afternoon while werkin'. i really like it. that "whatsername" song, if u don't know, turns into a duet btwn billie joe armstrong n' susanna hoffs. it's great; it's like a musi<font face="script" color="blue" size="+3">cal</font>. it's like the <i>buffy the vampire slayer</i> musi<font face="script" color="blue" size="+3">cal</font>, rt? since spike's kind'f a billie joe type, rt? well, i just wikied up <font color="#005500">green day</font>. don't 4get, i was @ a <font color="#005500">green day</font> / raggedy anns (the donnas) concert w/ phil rt up in the front row back in 1993. the show was almost empty, n' i had my foot on the stage, while i listened. that was just like a wk b4 they "broke," man. i'll keep repeating that like al bundy boasts having played hi skool futbol, n' <i>u know it</i>! neway, i was reading the wikipedia entry 'bout them. so "<font color="#005500">green day</font>" literally means a day spent smoking mariju@na, eh? gee, i have less respekt 4 them already, i'm sorry to say. (keep in mind how i prefer to call myself a politi<font face="script" color="blue" size="+3">cal</font> <i>progressive</i> rather than a "liberal" cos i believe that the gov't should take care'f its ppl, yet i don't believe in some other so.called "liberal' causes like legalisation'f mariju@na, etc.) neway, the album's pretty kewl n' hopefully u've heard 'bout it n' can dl it b4 it's gone. <p>so obviously, <font color="#ff99cc">v.</font><font color="#990000">day</font>'s coming up. how do u like that? some ppl like <font color="#ff99cc">v.</font><font color="#990000">day</font>, some ppl hate it, n' some r indiff to it. in genl, i'm ok w/ <font color="#ff99cc">v.</font><font color="#990000">day</font>. i guess it's a bit'f an effort to go out n' buy a <font color="#ff99cc">v.</font><font color="#990000">day</font> present so soon after <font color="#550000">christ</font><font color="#005500">mas</font>. true, that's a li'l ridiculous. <p>밤, 1136p: 2nite, after werk, i went to valley fair to look 4 gifts. i hadn't been to the mall in a few wks. it felt great to walk 'round in the mall. i've sed b4 that i like going to the mall. i stopped by safeway b4 going hom. i bought some salsa, some wheat thins (3 diff healthi<i>er</i> types: 100% whole wheat, 5.grain, n' reduced fat), 2 thhings'f <font color="#330033>blueberry</font> lite yogurt, some post great grains cereal, some clorox toilet bowl cleaner, some apple juice, ... what else? i 4get. then i came home n' ate some sausages that the beautiful <a href="http://www.realestatesforcharity.com" target="new">kaela hwang</a> bought from <font color="#005500">whole fuds</font> a while 'go. i grilled 2 louisiana hot links w/ some royal trumpet shrooms n' some <font color="red">red peppers</font>. i'm worried that the sausages were rotten cos they were so old. i'm not sure; my stomach <i>might</i> feel funny.<br><br><br>