this blog.

so i have a struggle within myself about old forms and new forms. i tend to eschew new things until i realize just how useful and convenient they are, and then i become eternally devoted, like with my ipod. i hated ipods when they first came out because i thought they were way too expensive (which is still true) to just carry around in your pocket. then i realized i could carry my whole music collection in my pocket, and how goddamn convenient that was, given that i am such a freak for music.

for some time i have been planning on doing some type of weird magazine thing. but i am so busy. so so busy. with school. and there are other factors too. like money. and i am much more of an instant-gratification person than i like to admit. i got the idea in my head of “doing a blog,” right after i bought a digital camera, which i returned because it is shitty, but i think i have a better one on the way. and i haven’t been able to get the idea out ever since; it’s shamefully easy, it’s happening as soon as you can type, and everything is NOW, and it’s free. i really don’t know why more people don’t blog. i mean, obviously there are lots of blogs out there, and a lot of them are crap, but i mean about the people i know well who have interesting thoughts and know how to express them effectively. which is many people. and lots of little things happen every day, funny or sad or stupid, and i wish people would share them.

like, the other day, i was at my friend Ellen’s house, having breakfast, and i looked over, and there they had put some of those magnetic letters, the ones that are all different colors, on their trash can, so it spelled “fuck fuck fuck” all underneath each other in a row. besides the fact that their trash can must be magnetic, or the letters must be sticky or something, which just occured to me right now(?), i thought it was a tiny little trinket of some sort of worth. and i wished i had a digital camera (i hadn’t yet purchased the piece of shit Polaroid at Target for $60) so that I could capture it, since it seemed like the kind of thing people do without thinking too much about it, and change just as easily.

so that’s sort of what this is for.