Slide

I just got this new shirt, with lyrics from a song by Rachael Yamamgata, called "Would You Please", from her EP. The full lyrics are, "Would you please let me slide a few words under your door / The first three say I love you / The last five / but I can't no more."

Yeah.

School is back in for the Spring. I have to make a serious effort to be organized, because I have a lot of work to do in all of my classes—Writing for Mass Media, Digital Graphic Design, Intermediate Photography I, and Graphic Design I. So, that will mean that I'll have even less time to draw recreationally, but I'll be posting more stuff related to photography and graphic design.

When I got my fin-aid funds, I took the opportunity to buy a few new CDs. Actually, they were free, I just paid shipping and handling (BMG Music is great for that).

What I got:
—Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin ****
—Three Days Grace - self titled ***
—Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue ***
—Alicia Keys - The Diary of Alicia Keys ****
—JoJo - self-titled **

And while I'm rating entertainment I'll go ahead and give some movie recommedations. I just saw Coach Carter twice this weekend. It was that good. The story was engaging, even though I don't know how much it was actually factual. It had nice character development, and it wasn't all about the basketball, which I really appreciated. What I appreciated more what that Ashanti could actually act. My only crit would be that Ashanti has a distinctive Philly accent, and the character she was playing was from Cali. Other than that, she was great. Rob Brown has grown up nicely since Finding Forrester. He's so natural. But one performance that stood out to me in particular was that of Rick Gonzalez, as the conflicted character of Timo Cruz. I've had my eye on him ever since I first saw him in The Rookie, but that was just because I thought he was cute (He's got a purty mouth). But now it's refreshing to see that he's actually a pretty good actor. Even so, the other supporting actors were good in their respctive roles as well. I'm not gonna go spoiling the movie plot, so I don't want to say anthing else about the movie other than it was really good, and I went away quite entertained and satisfied both times I left the theatre.

I'll conclude with a photo I neglected to post on my last entry. I found this bottle of lotion on my dresser in my room. I don't know who it belongs to, but I found the packaging and product name amusing enough to share.


The label reads:
Enriched with Natural Canabis
Sativa hemp seed extract
THC Drug Free

Overrun

I've got some photos from the last two months that I've been wanting to post. We have way too many dogs at my house right now, the current count being six, not including the puppies.


Ana is my sister Nicole's puppy. I think they look alike.

Ana sleeping in the car.

Jaime, with his intense ice-blue eyes, is the mastermind of the litter. Every time the puppies escaped from the backyard, he was the ringleader. The day this pic was taken, he had gotten out of the fence yet again, and my sis decided to bring him with her to pick me up from school.

One day, for whatever reason, Max decided to break a board out of the fence, and hop through the resulting hole. He chain wasn't long enough and he couldn't get back through. My dad found him like this the next morning. He was lucky that he didn't hang himself. The pups we have right now are Max's grandchildren. They get their blue eyes from him.

This one has ice blue eyes as well. He was the quiet loner. We gave him to a friend of my little sister.

The puppies play around Nicole's legs.