The Flaming Lips*Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

What a great Thanksgiving! I worked this morning... not so great... but I made $35 in tips. And I actually enjoyed opening ( but not knowing I had to close as well...); it was fun being all alone in the store at 6am making coffee in the dark. It makes me feel so productive, being up early. I should do it more often. But then again, I love to sleep more... so maybe I need to start going to bed at 8. Yes. I wouldn't have to cut out anything important. I'll start on Monday.

The Flaming Lips kept me company on my drive up to Simi Valley. I like them a friggin' lot. Just for fun, here are my top ten artists that are getting the most air time in my head:

1)The Shins, 2)David Gray, 3)Flaming Lips, 4)Garden State soundtrack, 5)Led Zepplin, 6)Frou Frou, 7)Radiohead, 8)U2, 9) Franz Ferdinand, 10) Eisley.

Enjoy the holiday. Much love...

The Incredibles.

AMAZING. 'Nother fun date night... I spend way too much money on myself...

"Our concern with truth is an inevitable expression of our concern with God. If God exists, then he is the measure of all things, and what he thinks about all things is the measure of what we should think. Not to care about truth is not to care about God. To love God passionately is to love truth passionately. Being God-centered in life means being truth-driven in ministry. What is not true is not of God. (Can you then say that what is true IS of God?) What is false is anti-God. Indifference to the truth is indifference to the mind of God. Pretense is rebellion against reality, and what makes reality is God. Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God.

"To love God the Father, the Son, and the Spirit is to love the truth. To pursue them is to pursue truth. (also, 'to pursue truth is to pursue God?') Passion for their vindication in the world involves a passion for the truth. There is no separating God and truth, as if one can put relationship against truth. 'God is' precedes 'God is love,' and 'God is' has content and meaning. God is one thing and not another thing. He has character. His nature has contours that define him. Concern with the true God, who is not created in our own image, is at the bottom of a truth-driven life."

Mmm... I watched an amazing movie last night. Make fun of me all you want; I can handle it. For $3.50 I saw "The Notebook" and cried my eyes out. SO good! It was especially moving 'cuz I thought about my grandparents a lot... all those years of my grandma taking care of her husband... even though he had no idea who she was... I just bawled. What a beautiful picuture of love!

And... I cried at work again today. Lame. I need some anti-depressants. Or maybe just more Jesus.

And the church I visited on Sunday was not at all what I was expecting. My mom made it sound sorta progressive.... and... it wasn't. Not at all. We sang old songs, led by 50 yr. old zombies on stage. BUT! To show myself to be completely shallow, I finally braved the 'skirt-over-pants' combo - and I loved it! I felt hip for the first time in a LONG time. Sweet. I went out to lunch at a place called "Millie's" and I wasn't too impressed. I took a nap... and then headed out on the town. And then cried a lot on the way home and went to bed. I'm such a sap.

Anyway... I'm hungry. I surely do miss all you peeps. Much love to you...

Yes. Finally saw "Napoleon Dynamite." Good times... especially because I saw it for $3.50. I discovered the 'Captain Family Theater' in Brea - the shows are usually $5, but they asked for my student I.D. I think I'm gonna be going there a lot more often! Like, say... tomorrow night! Okay, maybe I'll pace myself. But I got a hot cider at Starbucks, walked around Borders and finally settled on Calvin and Hobbes. Seriously makes me laugh. Then I went to my movie, and now I'm back and shall go to bed. I'm curious how long I can keep this all up...

I got a friggin' huge paycheck today. Steaks on me! (Just kidding, mom...) Much love to all...

Mr. Rogers beware...

Stole this off my friend, Dan's xanga... lots o' good laughs

http://www.buriedlede.com/projects/sweater.html

In other news, I made $42 in tips today!! Heck yeah! We've got a quasi-Clover show tonight at a place called the "Gypsy Lounge." Should be some fun times... you ALL should come. No, seriously, be there or we're not friends anymore. Later...