KYTL: Afterthoughts

After finishing this book, it's hard to remember the story he told. I have to admit that sometimes Klosterman was really engaging and I could relate to the subtle realities he brings to light, but most of the time I was wading through the thickness of rock history, a history I couldn't really relate to. He uses this book as a way to make himself cool, and I can't really support his superiority 0r maybe inferiority complex- building. He just got too annoying and as I kept reading I just got tired of the way he told his story. I think he tried a bit too hard to make this trip out to be more than it may have been. The fact that he went alone to all of these places and visited people that are specifically special to him (the women) exemplifies how self-obsessed he is and how much he needs for everything to revolve around him--even people. It would have been different if he had took someone with him...Anyways, I wasn't a huge fan of the book, and a part from the few interesting pictures he paints of realities and relationships, I didn't really enjoy it.... -____________-

Killing Yourself to Live

The Goodbye to Lenore:

The way he and Lenore ended their pseudo-relationship was interesting to read but definitely seemed to be a part of the fifteen percent of his story that he embellished. What people say and don't say mean a lot, and the way Chuck tells his story fails to include all those words that fall between. The words that don't really matter and often dull the conversation and in reality bring people back to the fact that our lives aren't always on some kind of rythm that you can play a song to..I think Chuck tries to do that with his immense collection of music and try to live his life through the lens of rock. Music cannot encompass every sphere of our lives and finish our sentences...I think that would be the precise reason as to why Chuck's story cannot be 100% real--he's too busy trying to sync it up with the beat..

Whas Happnin

So, the weather these days is INCREDIBLE. I love spring, I wish it could occupy half of the year. It's amazing.

Currently, I am preparing to go to Saudi for the summer. I haven't been off the mainland in ten years, and I am dying to go visit the holy land as well as my brother's houses. I got a copy of my birth certificate and I have to send that in to the Saudi embassy in order to get the process going. I want to leave in May, but my parents want me to go with them in June. I'm not sure what I'll do, because I have to quit my job to go and I'll have to let my boss know soon... That is pretty much the only thing on my mind right now. I really want one of my friends to come with me to make it an EPIC trip. She's heading to Africa this summer and I really want to link up somehow. Her family lives in Sudan, and I think a ticket from Saudi-->Sudan would be cheap, but I'll have to go through the bureaucracy and red tape of it all...We shall see. I REALLY want to go to Africa. Other than that, I am seriously looking forward to the end of this semester. I can't believe I'm getting so old. This will be the end of my sophomore year and it's passing by so quickly. Lately, I've just been thinking about what the future has in store for me. At heart, I feel like I'm twelve, so time passing so fast is becoming the growing evidence against this belief. Getting older means so much....

I can't really picture moving out and moving on, but who knows when that'll happen. For now, I am clinging to the things that I know will soon be nostalgic.

P.S. That blue thing is what I want to take to Saudi with me ;] ;] ;]