does anyone have the christmas spirit? i've come to a point in my life where i don't get it until 2 days before and it goes away on the 26th. i liked it a lot more back in 4th grade or whatever when we were force-fed christmas spirit. granted, i was in texas and there weren't any jews so christmas was the only game in town.

so anyways, i'm going to jersey for christmas. yay. i'll be there the 23rd to the 26th. just takin acela both ways. gotta love acela.

been sick the last few days. i'm gonna be over it tomorrow at the rate i'm going, which is nice. should be set with colds until spring now. what the hell is spring again? stupid boston has a high of 25 today.

so those of you with portable music players might be able to relate to me on this one. you know when you get that album or those mp3s on your player and you always see them when you're scrolling through for somethin to listen to but you never happen to hit play at the same moment that these songs are highlighted? the songs just sit there on the player, wanting to be heard, but you just don't give them a shot, for no real reason at all. this is the situation i had with the streets - a grand don't come for free until sometime last week. i finally hit play on the way to jen's. let me tell you, it was hard to hit stop. the lyrics are incredible. the album had me engaged, even though no one in this band has any singing talent to speak of. i just thought it was very powerful and very cool conceptually. mark it down as another album i wish i had made, or at least a concept i wish i came up with before those fuckers did. what is this mysterious concept that i've mentioned twice now but i haven't really described? well, the album is kind of an autobiographical stream-of-conscious story told by the lead singer, with a few other characters filling in holes in the story. you feel like a good friend is telling you about their tough day, and your emotions swing around with him as he takes you through a day where he loses a grand, tries to run errands and fails, gets in a fight with his girl, has an epileptic seizure, breaks up with his cheating girl... and then the ending. god. its just amazing. but you have to pay close attention to the lyrics, which i did for some random reason. i'm really glad i paid attention. anyways, that's the end of this rambling review. synopsis: go listen to the streets cd. now. 8/10 tamales

i'm going to go ahead and end this entry here. we'll discuss more later, yeah?