lipstick again last night, this time with just my sis and her crew, it was really awesome to see pete and mykle dancing (which they did towards the end of the night). i am amazed that lipstick has been fun the last two times that i have gone, which just reinforces the idea that the people you are with are way more important than anything else. i have been trying to utilize this idea as much as possible, i feel sometimes that i can be too solitary. i am very content sitting in my very comfortable house reading a book or watching a movie when i could be out and about socializing with people who i feel are my friends and yet i see most of them so infrequently. my goal for this spring is to spend much more time out doing things, of course that will cut into my netflix obsession, but i think that i can deal.

jesse returns from tour today, it has been kinda a weird separation because we have been in contact but he has been travelling and playing shows and doing really amazingly from what i can tell, while i have remained here doing what i normally do. it has made me want to travel, i need to move around, i want to see the places that i saw as a little kid and hope that they are just as amazing now.

i watched a david gordon green movie last night called Undertow. i think that his films capture all that i love about the south, the scenery is so languid, yet so vibrant and all the characters are very human, prone to mistakes and yet very endearing. i have never gotten into a director so completely that i wanted to see all of his films, and i think i like green even more because at least from what i can tell he is fairly unheralded. i think he has found some acclaim on the critical level, but i brought him up last night in a car of fairly astute movie goers and no one knew the name.

i was told last night that when i talk about music that i like, i do it in a way that makes people want to listen to it. i really like hearing things like that because so much of my life in the past couple of years has revolved around music and getting people to hear music that i think is amazing. i really hope that this ability to talk about music translates into being able to write well about it. my piece in theLegend should be coming out soon, and i am kinda aching for the editor to give me another assignment. i really feel like i could do the writing thing, and my first submission wasn't anything special so i want to write more to prove that i can develop the chops necessary to do this on a bigger level.

i can't believe that after so little time here, kai is leaving again for like another three weeks. hopefully that will be the end to her and mykle's travels for a bit because i really love having them here in davis.

time to go prep for my radio show and hope that this week unlike last week i actually get to do a show. i have been told by erik that next quarter my show is moving from wednesday to tuesday, but i get to go back into the old hour and a half spot that i really like. i want to step up the content of my show a bit, i really need to work on discovering new stuff, so much of the stuff that i play week-to-week is stuff that i am already familiar with and it is chosen simply because i do not have a lot of time to prep. so that is going to hopefully end, i want to play more traditional songs, whether it was recorded recently or not, i love it when music sounds old.

Well after a pretty hectic week, I have kinda taken a couple of days off from the general craziness. And it has really been pretty good, watched Amores Perros with my sis, Mykle, and the folks tonight and then picked Kristen up from F and 6th. Everyone I know had apparently been celebrating that fact that it was spring-ish while I was at work. It is strange to live on a schedule that is completely different from everyone else, pretty much everyone I know lives on a Mon. through Fri. schedule I live on a Wed. through Sun. So while I am relaxing, everyone else is either in school or in class and sorta vice versa, except for the fact that because I work mid-shifts so I can go out at night but I do miss out on things like this afternoon. Either way, being mellow has been nice, especially since I think I am going to try to pack the fun in over the next couple of days because Jesse leaves for SXSW on Wed. I think he will be back for like a couple of days and then Kai is going to leave for Italy, everyone is getting to take these little trips here and there, and yet I haven't gone anywhere since the last time I went on a mini-tour with BRL. I really need to get out of Davis and go some where cool, with ample distractions. I realized now how much I loved having Kai live in SF (except that I love her living in Davis more) because I could always take a day or two and visit her and forget about Davis and everything that goes along with it. Don't get me wrong, I love davis, but it is such a small town that every now and then you need to get away with everything that it entails for a little bit.

Well the wine and dessert party went very well, it was fairly low-key and no one spilled wine on our newly cleaned carpets. I think I am a much bigger fan of mellow parties where the emphasis is on conversations these days, I don't know, maybe I am getting old or something, but the idea of going somewhere and trying to yell to some over terrible loud music doesn't really appeal to me.

However, that being said, Jesse, Katie, Kai and I all went to Lipstick in Sac last night. We decided to go when Jesse and I made an abortive attempt to see the 300 preview screening, which sold out over an hour before we got there. I haven't been to Lipstick in quite a while and this was the first time that I have ever gone as early as we did, it is free before Ten and so we took advantage of that and made it in the door just in time, although Katie had a bit of a problem because apparently Old I doesn't accept passports as a valid form of ID. But that got resolved later due to a little help from her photographer friend, Thomas. Anyway, after we all got inside Jesse, Kai, and I proceeded to dance for the rest of the night. Last night really proved that company is way more important than surroundings. As long as the people around you are fun, you can have fun anywhere. Also, I kinda wish I had brought a notepad because Shaun and Roger totally played some tracks that I need to use for my own set.

I guess that I might DJ at Delta this friday while there is a show going on, but i am not really sure, because the parents are coming into town that day to see the sis, so I will have to see what our plans are.

I spun music at the Delta of Venus on Friday, and while it is definitely not Rock It it is kinda a nice little event. Although there is certainly an emphasis on the little part, this is the 3rd month in a row and no one time has drawn more than about 30-40 people. Which is kinda strange to me because the event is free, all ages, on a weekend night and at Delta which pretty much covers all of the beefs that people have with Rock It. However, I like DJ-ing at Delta because there is no real pressure about attendence, any time that I DJ at the Grad I field constant questions from the staff about whether people are going to show up. Whereas when I DJ at Delta, I show up, chat with Lee for a bit, and from then on it is up to me and Nix.

Kai has returned from Antarctica, and it is amazing to me how much I realized that I missed her when I first saw her again. I had thought consciously about missing her while she was away, but it too her returning for it to hit me. And although I have not seen him yet, Mykle is back too. The addition of those two people has now made Davis 100% more amenable to me. I still have no desire to be here for that much longer, but with my sister living in the same town I can certainly enjoy it for a little while longer.

We are having a wine and dessert party at my house tonight (which means that anyone who reads this is of course invited) which I am going to have to show up fashionably late to because I have work until 8:30. This is the first real, planned party that has gone on while I have lived in this house and so it should be pretty fun. I can't say that I wholeheartedly agree with the theme because I am not really a fan of dessert. Aside from maybe a little ice cream here and there and then a slice of pie (not cake, never cake) on a birthday, I never eat any dessert foods. Although I do concede the point on cookies, but I don't really consider them a dessert, they seem more like a snack food to me.

I have been having this really bad habit of falling asleep watching movies recently, which I am usually pretty good about, but for some reason lately I keep missing parts of the movie. And then, if they are from Netflix I have to weigh the pros and cons of holding on to the movie longer to re-watch it all the way through, or just returning it so I can get something new. Thus far it is about a 50/50 split but after i fell asleep watching the Protector last night I think the scales lean towards holding on to it (although the fact that today is Sunday and the mail won't get picked up till tomorrow anyway, has something to do with it).

The first night that Kai was back we went and watched Babel at Chris and Jess's house, and I must say, I was not really impressed by it. Sure, it was a beautiful movie but I never really got invested in any of the characters. To some extent I cared about the little boys, but I had no interest in the deaf mute's storyline and only a rudimentary one in Brad Pitt's. Wes at the comic shop offered me a free pass to go see the 300 at the preview screening, but it is one of those screenings where they give out way more passes than there are seats and so you have to get there pretty early to get in. So now I have to decide whether I want to go to Sac and get a chance to see the movie early, or whether I am content to just wait for it like everyone else.