today has been a bit irritating on the job front, but still promising either way. the two jobs i spent awhile this morning getting a portfolio sent to just sent me the "we already filled the position" emails back. it sucks, but i can't be annoyed about it. craigslist isn't always the best way to look for a job. i've just went through all the state jobs lately, and i am taking that next alternative. i just want a damn job!
luckily it looks like my unemployment should come in this week, so this at least keeps me alive while i'm looking. i keep hoping that i hear back from these two jobs i applied for, but i'm waiting to get some feedback on them. if i don't hear soon, i probably will call them. i know half of these say, "don't call us or we won't hire you" basically, but i don't want to waste my time hoping on them if they don't call back. so now i'm just sitting here doing the crossword (yeah, i decided to take a break from the job search for an hour), and i probably will start working on invitations soon.
for some weird reason, i am looking at this streetlight outside. "what's the frequency kenneth?" just came on. i feel like i'm 15, probably wearing really ratty jeans, my hair a fright. looking at streetlights. i have no idea why these kinds of things make me feel so fantastic.
i havn't heard this song in a really long time, but for the first time in a long time, i actually enjoy hearing it. i hated this rem album, except for about 3 songs on it. monster was the weird, kinda confusing rem album.
oh shit. i just opened this gate that now i know i'll have to go off on....
MY LOVE FOR R.E.M. by holly "bling bling" johnson
since i was about six or seven years old, i have been listening to rem. they are probably the only band (well, other than the beatles, tommy james and the shondells, and queen) that i have continued to love for this long. one of my favorite songs as a kid was the all time most hated rem song, "shiny happy people", as well as "it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)".
then i got a little older and fell in love with "everybody hurts" enough that i went out and purchased the single, then the album. i don't even know how many times i have listened to "automatic for the people" anymore. i am sure i could write a book about that album. i could easily tell what i thought all of those songs have meant over a period of the last gods knows how many years, and i could describe these various vivid events when i listened to this album. then one day i discovered my little piece of heaven.
oh man. it was like i finally heard music. i thought i had heard the greatest albums of my life, and then i heard murmur.
"murmur" is one of those albums that i've tried to get almost every friend of mine to listen to. my friends think it is weird that i love this album so passionately. if they get in my car and it's in the tape deck, they take it out before i have any say. they think the album is funny and "silly popular 80's music." you know, i think its funny that they consider them so funny though. these friends have listened to new order with me a billion times over and got stoked about it, and they think depeche mode is revolutionary. what makes rem so funny then? they seem to have been preserved with such a universally traditional sound. you can play that album to date and feel as though it could easily fit in this day and age.
i'd continue going off about rem, but i actually don't really want to anymore. it was more of that "spur of the moment" kind of thing, you know?
instead it is time for me to post up pictures that will make you feel as though everything is going to be okay.
or...well, okay yeah it'll probably be okay.
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