buster keaton

In the realm of silent comedy, Chaplin is the most famous, but Buster Keaton is the funniest. In fact, Keaton is hilarious. I have been completely obsessed with his movies lately. Three Buster Keaton movies made AFI's list of the one hundred funniest American movies: The General (18), Sherlock, Jr. (62), and The Navigator (81). Also, he just so happends to be my great-great 2nd cousin on my great-great-great-grandma Emmeline Keaton's side. Or something like that. Pretty cool.

thank you, thank you

I want to thank everyone in my family who made my eighteenth birthday so great!
It was really fun tonight. I am always wanting to make pizza for dinner but if it's ever pizza, my dad insists on Vito's. So, this being my birthday and my decision on the food, I made 4 pizzas for everyone! horray! they were O.K. I suppose, considering our oven kept shutting off. But anyway, It was a really fun time. I got such great gifts, thank you everyone! I truly loved them all! And I must confess..I did recieve, most humbly, my dream acoustic guitar..A Martin. It is a Martin DX1 and its gorgeous.



I love the neck, it's beautiful.



And yes, my craving for this guitar came directly from Bob Dylan. He owned Martins throughout his career. It has an amazing sound! I am loving it.

yes, I am!

Thats right. I turn 18 sunday and have just sent out my voting registration forms in yesterday. Pretty neat! Glad it finally matters that I pay attention to politics.

WHAT A NIGHT

tonight was great. I went to the john vanderslice show at the modified and it was brilliant of course. before it started some friends and i went down to circle k and bought him a 'Suprise Bag' they had there and put it on the stage adressed to him. he opened it and gave all the stuff out to people. there were also a pair of goofy glasses in it which he wore for the next song. it was hilarious. he also gave out blue berry oatmeal cookies to everyone and they were really good. Then after the show i was very fortunate enough to talk with him. he told me that i should open up a business with my name and thats all it would be."people will come and you say 'Leslie Carling' then they leave and you take all the money!" he gave me a nice hug and my friends and i got a picture with him and the band. LOVE HIM! cant wait to see hima gain in the spring! he is so friendly to everyone. probably one of the nicest people ive ever met

okkervil river on conan

I cannot beleive they were on Conan!(then again, I can) but the first time I saw them it was about 3 years ago and Angela took me and there were about 50 of us cramped up in Stinkweeds. I literally felt the mist of his saliva as he sang. Anyway, I just saw them again on Friday and it was probably one of the most enjoyable shows I have ever been to in my life.