i want to see you smile again

new username

2007-01-22T08:23:02Z

Hello friends,

please update your friends list and add:

sewcecily

to your friends list. I will slowly but surely add you all as well.

happy new year

2007-01-03T22:57:06Z

i hope everyone had a great new year's. in the not too distant future, i will be soon using livejournal under a different username. it's time to start anew. more on this later. <3.

made with love

2006-12-18T07:14:48Z

(Albums arranged according to personal preference and number of times listened to.)

Top 20 Albums

20) Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
19) Love is All - Nine Times the Same Song
18) The Futurehads - News and Tributes
17) Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
16) The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love

15) Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
14) Mogwai - Mr. Beast
13) Thom Yorke - The Eraser
12) Hot Chip - The Warning
11) Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That

10) Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds

9) Cansei de ser sexy - s/t

8) Islands - Return to the Sea

7) Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back

6) Girl Talk - Night Ripper
(Okay, so I was only going to do commentary for the top 5, but I recently learned that Greg Gillis made this album on a DELL LAPTOP. WTF, mate. Come January, expect me to question his computer preference and to find out what music editing software he uses.)

5) Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
Probably one of the band's most accessible albums to date. The content is still honest, heartfelt, and personal. Jamie Stewart can really do no wrong at this point. Plus, I feel like Caralee has really found her place as an artist within the band. Her vocals on "Hello from Eau Claire" are probably the best she's ever done. (And need I mention that the tour line-up with Ches Smith makes me giddy like a schoolgirl?)

4) Cat Power - The Greatest
Oh Chan Marshall, how I love you. You can definitely hear the southern influence on this album. So many stand out tracks, but my favorite has to be "Where is my Love." What can I say, I'm a sucker for romance. I would love to see these tracks live now, being that she's newly sober but wrote the album before reaching that point.

3) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
So I bought this album when it was released in March, and I'm sure that I've listened to it at least once a week (sometimes on repeat for hours) since then. That's more than 50 times that I've played this record. Show Your Bones didn't really grasp my attention initially like Fever to Tell, but my goodness, I'm seriously addicted to it now. The band's original sound still remains, but Karen O's lyrical content is much more personal and dare I say, even vulnerable at times. Listen to "The Sweets" and you will understand.

2) TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
This album succeeds musically on so many levels. Seriously, I don't even know what instruments they use on most of the tracks. I highly recommend purchasing the actual cd. The band gives their numerous secret tracks a very clever name. The secret tracks are most definitely my favorite, reach Sigur Ros-like proportions. I'm tempted to say that this album is to this band as Loveless is to My Bloody Valentine. Both push the boundaries of sound into a very unfamiliar territory.

1) Joanna Newsom - Ys
5 tracks & 55 minutes of pure bliss. I don't even know where to begin. I first downloaded this album months before it came out but never ended up listening to it. After rediscovering it on my computer, Ys has never left my playlist or my car. Joanna Newsom strays away from practically every convention of modern musical form. Every song is longer than 5 minutes, and there is no verse-chorus-verse arc. Okay, so maybe those have been done before. But not like this. Joanna Newsom just has this innate ability to pull from these seemingly dreamlike thoughts and stories to assemble them into epic masterpieces. "Sawdust and Diamonds" pretty much steals my heart forever.

Honorable mentions (ie. I forgot about these notable albums when I put the list together):
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Oh No! Oh My! - s/t

Waste of my life:
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital
What the hell happened? I freaking love this band and can't even find a single track that I enjoyed on this record. They've done better, that's for sure.
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Sorry Decemberists, I STILL HATE YOU.
The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
So the record isn't awful, but seriously, the hype needs to stop already.
The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics
Don't get me wrong. Wayne Coyne is a freaking legend. But that's no excuse to put out this load of mediocrity.

Top 20 Songs/Singles

20) Oh No! Oh My! - I Love You All the Time
19) Mogwai - Travel is Dangerous
18) Cat Power - The Greatest
17) Joanna Newsom - Sawdust & Diamonds
16) TV on the Radio - I Was a Lover

15) Band of Horses - The Funeral
14) El Perro del Mar - Party
13) Phoenix - Consolation Prizes
12) Minus the Bear - Pachuca Sunrise
11) The Blow - Parentheses

10) Sonic Youth - Incinerate
9) Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
8) Hot Chip - Boy From School
7) Girl Talk - Bounce That
6) Cansei de ser sexy - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above

"Did I Step On Your Trumpet" video
5) Danielson - Did I Step On Your Trumpet

"Gold Lion" video
4) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion

3) Xiu Xiu - Hello from Eau Claire
Caralee on vocals and winning lyrics.
i can pay all my own bills
i can unroll my own tights
i can untuck all i have to untuck
i can weep through my own midnights

2) The Bird and the Bee - Fcking Boyfriend (http://www.myspace.com/thebirdandthebee)
They sell American Apparel hotpants that say "Would you be my fucking boyfriend?" How awesome is that?

1) Emily Haines - The Lottery (http://www.myspace.com/emilyhaines)
I love this song to no end. It's one thing to write a beautiful song, but to be able to draw on so many themes and feelings that other people can identify with gives the term "singer songwriter" an entirely new meaning.

Top 5 shows

"This Modern Love"
5) Bloc Party at The Grove
For the sheer fun factor. Plus the guys are super nice.

"Falling Man"
4) Blonde Redhead at Detour
Pretty much the decisive factor in me going to Detour.

3) The Bird and the Bee at the Silverlake Lounge
Because I want to marry Inara George.

2) Hot Chip at The Casbah
So many things about this show made it one of the best this year: opener The Born Ruffians, seeing my favorite Communications Department TA, seeing Alex the vocalist in the women's restroom, and that drunk girl who gave me multiple bruises on my left side.

"I Luv the Valley, Oh!"
1) Xiu Xiu at The Echo
Because this is a love that will never dwindle. Although it was my fifth time seeing them, they still surprised me with the new and improved line up. Ches on drums and Caralee and Jamie on guitar = <3.

Honorable mentions to Oh No! Oh My!, CSS, and !!!

And my favorite artist/band of 2006 goes to:

Okay so there are actually 2.

Phoenix's

(A really fun record, but moreover, it's the album that literally maintained my sanity in April. Yes, that week in April. That weekend, I drove from San Diego to Los Angeles for my Astralwerks interview. Upon hitting rush hour, I was caught in traffic for almost 5 hours. It took me everything I had not to bawl that entire car ride. After my interview (which landed me my internship), I left with a bunch of cds, this one at the top of the stack. My stomach was doing cartwheels and I decided to give the record a spin. 2 hours later, I was back in the safety of my home, thanks to this record that reminded me what it was to feel good again.)

And numero deux, Oh No! Oh My!, because they fulfilled my dreams of eating at Santana's with a band.

Honorable mentions to Ches Smith (hahaha) and Inara George.

I wish you all a wonderful holiday and a splendid new year <3

my brother is not afraid of you

2006-12-15T05:55:12Z

and he will beat your ass.

well, sort of.

Oh, my end of the year list is coming soon I promise! Call me lazy.

But because i like lists:
1) I watched my brother take his tae kwon do test today. He got his blue belt! It was fun. Imagine a group of 6 year olds doing simultaneous roundhouse kicks. There's even a photograph of their Master with Chuck Norris. Yes, it is amazing.

2) I just got back from Big Bear today. And if Facebook decides to let me upload photos anytime soon, there will be pictures to share.

3) I want a Mike & Chris jacket SO BAD. Yes, my recent obsession is hooded leather jackets. Shrug.

4) Torrance is boring. Everyone come visit me.

holiday

2006-12-03T04:25:14Z

Pacific Beach, dinosaur on someone's roof

Holiday party, Caroline kisses Cecily

Confused expression, Cecily realizing she doesn't know half the people that are in her house

Lastly, Vivian pays Cecily a surprise visit! The rest of the evening is spent talking about how alike they are.

In other news, Cecily bought the most amazing dress for the upcoming New Year's party. Thrift stores are amazing, no?

should we go outside?

2006-11-14T08:21:58Z

asks Joanna Newsom. It's 11:52pm and I'm still at school. Story of my life, really. Olivia and I are working on our second sound project, and it's amazing. But I need to sleep before my body gives into exhaustion and fatigue. There really hasn't been anything especially notable in these past 2 or 3 weeks (nothing that most people aren't already aware of) so I present to you a collage of sorts in list form.

1. Vivian, Shazia, and I saw Xiu Xiu again this past Thursday. I could go on for hours about how amazing the sets are now with the addition of drummer Ches Smith, and how I would marry Jamie Stewart lord willing, but I shall refrain. It was an amazing feeling, seeing one of your favorite bands for the 5th time and still feeling just as excited and elated during the show as I was 4 years ago.

2. The new Joanna Newsom album is beyond superb. She has this unique gift of weaving these complex story lines through song, yet they still retain the intimacy with the artist that is so desired.

3. Christmas is quickly approaching, and although it's not even Thanksgiving yet, I already feel behind on my holiday shopping. There are the family, the girls, and of course secret santa here in san diego. Plus, I'm excited to see Katie again.

4. I feel like I've aged more this quarter than in my entire life combined. I've definitely learned a lot about what I want and the type of person I am. I realized that you really do mold your own existence within the world. There aren't excuses but only moments of weakness where one accepts less than they deserve. Human behavior is so random and oftentimes just plain stupid. But the point of living is to prevent these moments of weakness, when one settles for less, or nothing at all. I suppose this really only makes sense in my muddled thoughts, but for now, even if only for this single moment, I feel whole again.

skip to the end

2006-11-05T06:03:32Z

I feel like my life has been stuck on fast forward this last month. From school and work and Halloween and taking care of Caroline, all I've been doing is jumping from one thing to the next. I haven't take the time to sit down and think, but it's probably for the best. I still love San Diego, but now I know that nothing will compare to Los Angeles for me. Today I watched Marie Antoinette with Vivian, Shazia, and Anam. Not only was the movie really enjoyable, but seeing my girls made me at peace with myself again. It's like going home to the most important people in your life. They remind me what it is to feel happy and content not in the past or in the future, but right now. Not to mention Shazia said "Yo mamma" to the ticket guy. It was a hilarious moment. I wish I could put them in my pocket and carry them around with me each day. Creepy, yes.

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to winter break. More Los Angeles randomness, and a most grand visit from Katie!! Also, the H&M in the Beverly Center is opening next week. It really could be the day I die from shopping joy.

More later.

Vivre Sa Vie

2006-10-26T00:36:53Z

My Life to Live, Jean-Luc Godard

To communicate, one must talk, that is our life

Yes, but it is very difficult

I think life should be easy

Your talk of The Three Musketeers may make a good story but it's terrible

Yes, but it's a pointer

I believe one learns to talk well only when one has renounced life for a time

That's the price.
-So, to speak is fatal?

Speaking is almost a resurrection in relation to life

Speech is another life from when one does not speak

So, to live in speech one must pass through the death of life without speech

I may not be putting it clearly, but there is a kind of ascetic rule that stops one from talking well until one sees life with detachment

But one can't live everyday life
with... I don't know

With detachment

We balance, that's why we pass from silence to words

We swing between the two because it's the movement of life

From everyday life one rises to a life we call superior

The thinking life

But this life presupposes one has killed the everyday

too elementary life

Then thinking and talking are the same thing?

So I believe

Plato said so; it's an old idea

One cannot distinguish the thought from the words that express it

An instant of thought can only be grasped through words

So one must talk and risk lying?

Lies, too, are part of our quest.
Errors and lies are very similar

I don't mean ordinary lies

Like I promise to come tomorrow, but I don't, as I didn't want to

You see, those are ploys

But a subtle lie is little different from an error

One searches and can't find the right word

That's why you didn't know what to say

You were afraid of not finding the right word. That's the explanation

How can one be sure of having found the right word?

One must work

It needs an effort

One must speak in a way that is right, doesn't hurt
says what has to be said,
does what has to be done
without hurting or bruising

One must try to be in good faith

Someone told me: "There is truth in everything, even in error."

That's true. France didn't see it in the seventeenth century

They thought one could avoid error
and what's more, that one could live directly in the truth

It isn't possible

Hence Kant, Hegel, German philosophy: to bring us back to life

and make us see that we must pass through error to arrive at the truth

What do you think about love?

The body had to come into it

Leibnitz introduced the contingent

Contingent truths and necessary truths make up life

German philosophy showed us that in life, one thinks with the
servitudes and errors of life

One must manage with that,
that's true

Shouldn't love be the only truth?

For that, love would always have to be true

Do you know anyone who knows at once what he loves?

No. When you're twenty you don't know

All you know are bits and pieces, you make arbitrary choices

Your "I love" is an impure affair

But to be completely at one with what you love, you need maturity

That means searching.
This is the truth of life

That's why love is a solution,
on condition that it is true.

What an amazingly tailored film. Anna Karina is beautiful beyond words. The film moved at a pretty consistent pace until that amazing piece of dialogue in the cafe between Anna's character and this old man.

"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."

Maybe a real update soon.

Oh No! Oh My!

2006-10-13T07:52:22Z

Wednesday: CSS & Ladytron at The Belly Up.

yesssssssss

2006-10-09T01:08:10Z

My life as a pseudo "LA girl" has reached the pinnacle of success.

Vivian and I are on the Cobra Snake website (from Detour Festival). Fuck yesssssssssss.

Btw, no, we don't know that person standing next to us. And yes, I look like a big fat dork.

http://www.thecobrasnake.com/partyphotos/tourdetour/index.html

I'm sure you'll find me.

Let me restate, I look like a big fat dork.

this month, day 6

2006-10-07T05:39:39Z

In list form:

1) Detour fest tomorrow, and all I have to say is that LA Weekly, you can go to hell for overlapping Beck and !!!. You made me so sad. But I can cure it with beer, and lots of it.

2) I'm going to the Asian American Film Festival next weekend here in San Diego (Saturday to be exact). Any takers?

3) I think I'm going to drop my Chinese class although I really don't want to. But yeah, there's a point where being on campus for 12 hours straight takes away your sanity. And so something's got to go. Besides, my professor for that class is really intense.

4) My first issue of Jane Magazine came in the mail. My parents witnessed as I squealed and hugged my magazine saying "I love you Jane" over and over again. No joke.

5) My grandmother is going to China for a few months. This means her granddaughter gets another faux Balenciaga motorcycle bag. And perhaps that wonderful Chanel wallet. And a pashmina in every color imaginable. Well okay, maybe not every color.

6) I bought my Halloween costume. For those of you who don't know what I'm going to be, let's keep it a surprise. Anywho, I am making some alterations to the one I got. Also, I am making Vivian's costume as well!

7) I am still on the search for the winter coat of my dreams. Yes I realized that California has a very limited winter season, but I don't care. I want wool, empire waist, and mid length. Preferably cream/light gray with hidden buttons. We'll see how this goes.

8) That was probably more than anyone needed to know.

9) oh yeah, I have that date on sunday. i can't wait for miscommunication and awkwardness! the things a girl does for a free meal (kiddiiiiiiiiiiing).

knives don't have your back

2006-10-01T06:48:32Z

I really love the emily haines album. Listening to it feels like running through a meadow, falling in love, and never turning back.

This has been such an insanely busy week. But I'm determined not to let my 20 units (five courses) and 11 hours of work get the best of me. Alas it is a crazy schedule. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays I leave my apartment at 8am and don't get home until 9pm. I don't have class on Fridays though, which almost makes everything worth it.

My five classes are as follows:
Second year Chinese
Comm - How to Read a Film
Comm - Sound Manipulation
Comm - Communication and the Community
Comm - Business of Media

It's a really great mix of classes because I'm taking one Communication course from each of the 4 sections of the Comm department. Admittedly I must say that I feel like I know the majority of the concepts we've been covering, but there's no harm in refreshing my memory.

Campus hasn't been the same since my beloved KSDT is undergoing construction. Some days I have a gap between classes and all I want to do is crash on one of our couches, but for now, I'll have to wait.

Vivian and I (and hopefully Shazia as well) are going to LA Weekly's Detour Music Festival in Downtown LA next weekend. This will be my 3rd weekend driving back home in a row, but oh will it be worth it. I'm most excited for Blonde Redhead and !!!. Explosions in the Sky are coming back to LA in November, but it's going to be on a weekday and I won't be able to go. My heart is a little bit broken, but I will survive. Hopefully we'll get to see Beirut (Oct 21) though. The two shows I really want to go are Cansei de Ser Sexy (Oct 26 Echo) and Xiu Xiu (Nov 9 Echo). Ya'll know I'd do pretty much ANYTHING to see Jamie and Caralee. It's times like these I wish I was in LA.

Tomorrow I drive back to San Diego, to another week of stressful classes before Los Angeles saves me again. (And as much as I don't care for The Decemberists) Los Angeles, I'm Yours.

as my last week of summer approaches

2006-09-16T20:56:09Z

Septiembre
in list form

(1) I've been spending too much money. Let's do some math:
Xiu Xiu's The Air Force = $12.98
Final Fantasy's Has a Good Home = $12.98
TV on the Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain = $9.99
Best of Nina Simone = $8.99

=$27.80
Black leather "Peter Pan" boots = $10.00

=$5.99
Levi's 503 Skinny jeans = $51.00
Black lace shirt = $20.00

Grand total = $159.73
I need to cut my debit card into a million pieces. I basically spent a week's worth of piano lessons.

(2) Favorite albums (2006) update.
1) Cat Power - The Greatest
2) Xiu Xiu - Air Force
3) TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
4) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
5) Cansei de ser sexy - s/t
6) Thom Yorke - The Eraser
7) Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
8) Islands - Return to the Sea
9) Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
10) Mogwai - Mr. Beast

11) Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
12) Nouvelle Vague - Bande a Part
13) Hot Chip - The Warning
14) Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
15) Love is All - Nine Times the Same Song
16) Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
17) Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
18) El Perro Del Mar - Look! It's El Perro Del Mar
19) The Sleepy Jackson - Personality
20) Mates of State - Bring it Back

The Rapture and Yo La Tengo will also be included at some point in time (as well as Emily Haines).

(3) Photobooths are the best invention ever. Until they invent the teleporter of course.

(4) I'm taking 20 units this quarter. I'll post my final schedule once school starts.

(5) www.myspace.com/danielson
He's so fun.

(6) San Diego veeery soon. I finally finished packing. Now my room is clean and vacuumed; I love it. There is so much that needs to be done in our new apartment. Expect pictures. Sometime.

<3

ceciplay @ 2006-09-14T00:53:00

2006-09-14T08:07:38Z

How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.

xiu xiu, i love you.

2006-09-13T19:24:37Z

Hello From Eau Claire
featuring Caralee on vocals.

I know it's dumb to say
that you are on my mind
I know it's stupid to dream
that you might think of me as a man
I can loose my own tie knot
I can button up my own pants
I can buy my own cigarettes
I can pluck my own moustache
I read it's lame to wish
that you won't walk out on me
but I'm not embarassed to sing
plainly the words 'love' and your name
I can pay all my own bills (debts)
I can unroll (rip off) my own tights
I can untuck all I have to untuck
(I can humiliate myself to your face)
I can weep through my own midnights

it's the lottery, baby

2006-09-09T19:14:54Z

(testing the 30 second interval function)

Piano recital for my students today. It's basically a year's worth of lessons condensed into a thirty minute performance. It should be fun.

I finally feel like I can breathe easy again. But I know it won't last long as classes are about to start again. Right now I'm looking at pretty much a back to back schedule Monday thru Thursday plus work and hopefully a pilates/yoga class. I'm glad that I still get excited thinking about San Diego. Although I must admit that I will always love Los Angeles the most. Luis is coming down to visit Honore, which will be really fun.
They changed the bus routes around school, so now, one bus will pick up eeeeveryone who used to take the 41 or the 34. For reasons that are more or less obvious, this is not a good thing. At all. Oh well, what can you do.

In other news, I bought Cat Power's The Covers Record on vinyl. I'm such a sucker for novelty, because really, that's the only reason why I bought a record player.

Next Tuesday, a bunch of great albums are coming out (the primary one being Xiu Xiu). So the girls and I are heading to Amoeba!

san diego

2006-09-07T16:41:57Z

I never knew that furnishing your home could be so tiring (yet rewarding) at the same time. Our new apartment is beautiful, and if I could, I would live there for a few more years. I don't think I could find anything in Los Angeles that could compare. I love the vaulted ceilings, the gaudy chandeliers, and our patio. Caroline brought most of our furniture. And after much work on Brian and Graham's part, we finally put the sofa bed back together. Caroline and I also bought vintage chairs for the dining room. They're all wood with different designs on the backrest. We're going to reupholster them sometime. Honore's and my garden is coming. We bought some pots and I got some tulip bulbs. Upon my return to San Diego I will plant the tulips as well as the basil. We haven't found a tomato plant yet, but that will come in time.
Our master bedroom is well on its way to becoming a beautiful room. Honore hasn't gotten any furniture yet, but when she does, it's going to look wonderful. I have my single bed and a desk I got off craigslist. The desk is gray laminate but I am spray painting it black to match my black damask comforter. I also got an old red desk chair. We're getting seafoam/turquoise curtains for the window, so the contrast of the red and blue tones should look amazing. I also got a record player and vintage sewing machine this weekend! The sewing machine actually works, which is exciting because it can do a lot of stitches that my "modern" one cannot. I'm very excited to buy vinyl, but I'm going to keep the record buying to a minimum.
Living on your own is certainly quite a test on your sanity. But the girls and I managed to get through it all without killing each other. We definitely could not have done it without Brian and Graham. They are refreshingly just as dedicated and hard working towards the house as we are.
I realize now that in only 9 months, I will have (hopefully) graduated and entered the world of no summers, bills, and a full time job. I can feel my early school years gradually unraveling as my mind begins to prepare for the future. As a child I tried imagining the type of person I would be at 21 or 22. But honestly, no dream of my youth could possibly compare to my life now.

Driving to San Diego mix

2006-09-02T06:32:07Z

60 minutes.

1) Doves - Black and White Town
2) TV on the Radio - I Was a Lover
3) Xiu Xiu - I Luv the Valley
4) Wolf Parade - Modern World
5) Islands - Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone
6) MIA - Bucky Done Gone
7) Love is All - Ageing Had Never Been His Friend
8) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Love?
9) Les Savy Fav - Hold on to Your Genre
10) Cansei de ser sexy - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
11) Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes
12) The New Pornographers - Falling Through Your Clothes
13) Tegan and Sara - Where Does the Good Go
14) El Perro Del Mar - Party
15) Des Ark - Some Are Love
16) The Bird and The Bee - Fcking Boyfriend
17) Final Fantasy - Many Lives 49 MP
18) Sigur Ros - Gong

party like it's august 28, 2006.

2006-08-29T02:04:36Z

So the storm has passed, because I sent out my paper this morning. 20 pages of glorious communications research and theory.

Tonight I will probably try to finish my shiraz and consume dark chocolate. Yess lush.

I also want to start packing. My room is a catastrophe.

Tomorrow I am spending the evening with Shazia and Vivian. We're going to be little LA kids, visiting the Elliott Smith memorial and walking around Silver Lake. And then dinner at Swingers Diner!

I feel like this summer has been very long, and I don't even start class until Sept. 21.

I really need to go to San Diego soon. Or I will lose my mind.

san diego on my mind.

2006-08-24T17:53:49Z

Since I've been working so intensely on my research paper, I've lost the will to write in paragraphs. So here's a list.

Things I'm excited for:
1) Moving to San Diego, driving around town to get free furniture with Honore
2) Santana's burritos
3) Astralwerkssss stuff
4) My new boots for the fall.
5) Starting that garden
6) Going to the flea market this Sunday
7) Graham Lee. Haha seriously, we're bffs.
8) Finishing my paper, which by the way is titled "Indie: The Style of a Continuously Evolving Subculture" (Yeah, I don't know what that means either)
9) Shazia starting her USC career. I feel like a proud mother.
10) Going to see Sia with VLee tonight.

PS. Katie Sozansky, when is your motherfucking Mac coming? I miss you. Which Mac did you get btw? Give me a link. I miss your face, sweetie pie.

ceciplay @ 2006-08-18T20:23:00

2006-08-19T03:25:22Z

today i feel overwhelmed.

i want to feel something good again.

fall then summer

2006-08-10T04:19:19Z

Cecily's excited for fall.
Fall Top 3 Wishlist:
1) Flat suede/leather boots
2) Wool blazer
3) Wool gray tights
Yes, wool and menswear is going to be amazing this autumn.

Vivian and I traded music (finally). So now both of us can.....update our top albums of 2006! So I actually haven't listened to everything on her cd, but there are other things to add/change.

1) Cat Power - The Greatest
2) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
3) Thom Yorke - The Eraser
4) TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
5) Islands - Return to the Sea
6) Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
7) Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
8) Mogwai - Mr. Beast
9) Nouvelle Vague - Bande a Part
10) Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds

11) Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
12) Love is All - Nine Times the Same Song
13) El Perro Del Mar - Look! It's El Perro Del Mar
14) Hot Chip - The Warning
15) The Sleepy Jackson - Personality
16) Mates of State - Bring it Back
17) Stephen Merritt - Showtunes
18) The DFA Remixes - Chapter One
19) Bonnie Prince Billy and Tortoise - The Brave and the Bold
20) Radio 4 - Enemies Like This

and last but not least,

chronological beginning in June until now.

new discoveries on my camera.

driving to hollywood

going to shady parts of hollywood

building sandcastles with my brother.

long beach lighthouse

sewing a random party dress

bowling in san diego.

sleepy jackson at amoeba

sewing the vest of my dreams!

bloc party with vivian and tim.

hot chip at the troubadour.

the magnetic fields - absolutely cuckoo

2006-08-07T22:16:02Z

why is stephen merritt so amazing beyond words. yes i'm listening to 69 love songs nonstop.

Don't fall in love with me yet
We only recently met
True I'm in love with you but
you might decide I'm a nut

Give me a week or two to
go absolutley cuckoo
then, when you see your error
then, you can flee in terror
like everybody else does

I only tell you this cause
I'm easy to get rid of
but not if you fall in love

Know now that I'm on the make
and if you make a mistake
my heart will certainly break
I'll have to jump in a lake
and all my friends will blame you
There's no telling what they'll do

It's only fair to tell you
I'm absolutely cuckoo

pictures when i don't feel lazy.

things i'm excited about:
astralwerks
the vest i made
dresses
rothko
snakes on a plane
san diego
graduating

new apartment

2006-07-25T03:02:16Z

So the girls and I finally found a fabulous apartment for next year. I cannot wait to move in during September and decorate my room and grow a garden and oh my goodness I am excited.

I am really enjoying my summer thus far. Life is as it should be.

first project

2006-07-06T03:25:13Z

a skirt for Caroline