gaddamn but i am sick of this election stuff already. click here to read my philosophy on politics and why i don't vote. i've been kinda sick lately. it sucks. i keep puking shit up. and today my ears are all clogged and so i keep losing my balance. i don't think that has ever really happened to me before. it's cool in a way. but it also really weirds me out in a way. so this past friday and saturday, i went to see this band called dark star orchestraand it was a really bizarre experience. see, for those of you who don't know, dso is a grateful dead cover band and what they do at each show is cover an entire dead show. and supposedly, if like the dead screwed something up musically at the show, dso does too. it's really uncanny. i mean, i never got to see the dead live. i almost went, but it was before i really knew what the hippie scene was like and it was gonna be with some people that i didn't know and i just got shy and decided not to go. i figured that i'd be able to see them some other time. a week or two later, jerry died. so going to this show, i was wondering what the crowd would be like. i half expected it to be a bunch of lame-os trying to "relive the old days" but it wasn't like that at all. it was just people who like to hear good live music, just dancin away to some of their favorite songs. it was totally cool. i'm having a really surreal day today. when my alarm went off at 4:10 this morning i was having a hard time figuring out if it was morning or afternoon (which is weird cuz i *do* take naps in the afternoon, but it's usually after 4); but i was just feeling really hazy. i kept pushing snooze, well i did once i guess and i finally got up at 4:25. then i saw that my ride was already outside waiting for me and i was all like shit, cuz usually i'm waiting awhile for her. so i have to start rushing around and i can't find a shirt to wear and it's just a mess. and then when i get out to her car, she's all like "yeah. i thought my clock said 4:10 but it must've said 3:10. i ended up leaving really early" so she's having a really surreal day too. weird. mail|past entries|headtrip