Spring-field, and Fall

going to Springfield tomorrow for possibly the biggest presentation of our careers, yet

godspeed on a safe journey

sister got her assignment to Peace Corps, to Nicaragua
(guess she'll be breaking out that Spanish after all)

I gota free cupcake, a free hug, free cold stone, free lights for my bike, and bought a duvet cover and book about weed from Urban Outfitters
after a presentation to kids making a 1-minute video for us FO FREE

GODSPEED

stand in the light

we're all lost in our own little worlds and it's ok

home is Champaign-Urbana

http://www.myspace.com/edwardsharpe Press PLAY on Home by Edwarde Sharpe, just saw them at Lollapalooza. Beautiful song.

Weekend is going swimmingly, and LIFE is so good! My parents just left to go back to Chicago, they wore Orange and Blue all weekend. Both Illini and the Bears win!

I had a garage sale and sold away some objects for around $100. hey, it's something, and now everything's organized into (8) boxes for easier decision-making and donating, etc.

I must go do errands on this sunny day in September!

Can't Stop Listening

Hey

I can't stop listening to North Coast Music Festival videos
siiick

I want to go back it went so fast, it was so intense

Chemical Brothers I NEED YOUTO BELIEEEVE
Flying Lotus
Benassi
Boys Noize
Moby, freakin' MOBY

Daylight

"Daylight" by Matt & Kim has got to be some sort of song of a generation

I was talking yesterday at the Canopy Club in Urbana,
to some friends who said that Summer Camp was like the Woodstock of our generation! And it was. It totally was!

Stories of how social groups formed...
Many people I have met on my own, randomly
and then I bring them together sometimes and it works and it's cool
many times I just have kept their friendships for years and years and it's special. Some sort of treasured friendship, treasured relation we found but know we won't lose
Once you pick a dollar up off the street you change it's life and value.

Yesterday was awesome. It was The Hood Internet at the Canopy Club and I came early to check out local Dj White Rabbit ramp up the scene with his bouncin, epic energy. Speaking of DeeJays and Deja but not talking about Vous, last week I felt the need to talk to this guy with a french artist hat on and a notebook at this bar in Urbana out with some friends, I had just seen a disaster and was emotionally charged, I was exhausted, his loneliness intrigued me and upon talking with him I found out it was his 30th birthday. Afterwards he told me I helped him have a good birthday that night. I didn't think there was anything special about our discussion except for random deepness with a stranger... Random kindness and friendliness can make a stranger's day.

Here's to: Deja, Drew, Cassie, Jennifer, that little Jacob, the wompster crew, Peter, Chris, new friend Katie from North Coast, nice Canopy employees, and the new people I met, and thanks to Bailey for finding Jennifer one evening in the dorms and saving her because she is exponentially happier now. Hippie love and marijuana one unassuming evening saved her.

And I.
It has changed my life
every four years I discover something epic
like pot (and guy friends to hang out with every night til 4AM)
then music festivals, after college, and freedom of expression and *truer* happiness.
...just DANCE

check it out bro

going to North Coast Festival in Chicago in 14 hours
been home about 28 hours
packed my second 3-day backpack in a week to live out of a car again, stay in a new place every night
was just in Colorado hiking in the Rockies with the fam and experiencing/falling in love with Boulder

3 days can really change your life