soul asylum

I shouldn't be writing because I'm sad and I'm usually happy
Wait, that's wrong; i can write when I want

It's really officially over and it's not September, I didn't want to make it til then in the end but then again I'M SAD

I'm a free bird, a beautiful one, didn't ya know
My soul is still there, it still shines you just have to dust it sometimes, oh, Yeah, seasons change, reasons remain the same.

Should I go back and hang with the "family" we cheersed to just a week ago... the four of us in that shitty Urbana house
I have the choice
they go on stage in 15 minutes -- Soul Asylum, yea the 90's band, at the place where I was all day already (doing the green tabling thing and giving $10 to the red-faced blue-eyed homeless man telling the flies to bugger off in his restless nap.........)
I just want to show up for this song!
C U, Gal

Lollapalooza

the clouds aligned just finefinefine
missed some shit but can't see 'em all can't go back in timetimetimetime

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I crowdsurfed in Chi city Sky High High High High, somehow they kept me up in my shirtless sweat so I could Fly Fly Fly Fly
I was grateful for Froth being there, and Cassie, we had a great time really. North Coast High

Duck Fest

listening to Shpongle's Divine Moments of Truth which is pretty cool, after going to a small fest this weekend in Martinton, IL called Duck Fest. Only around ~200 people and you feel like you know everyone at the end. Dancin' and chillin' and groovin' and meetin'... it was a good time, but I wouldn't go so far to say Friday nite was. I was on somethin'... kind of a bad trip because my friends weren't there. They say don't trip alone. well I felt like I was, surrounded by strangers, and in my mind my friends never showed up.

Went on an 8-hour adventure Sunday to Arlington Heights Racetrack, 80 mi and 4 tolls northwest, to a skybox suite and won $4.20 on the last race. My sister and I bet on the same horse, same amount, to show, separately...weird. It was so worth going for, minus the tollways. I got an I-pass from my parents on the way back, though, and the $15 I didn't spend on betting horse races.

Then I went BACK TO THE FESTIVAL around 7 and rocked Indigo Sun with a new crew, hung out back at the best tent set-up, tapestries all around 2 "eating tents" with lots of chairs and I duo-djembed in the darkness with ten people listening and we sounded reallll good, just strangers playing off one another...

The moon was at half mast, low and red
maybe bouncing light from an indigo sun

I looked at stars with a new friend, Addison
then we saw to the dreddy DJ who plays at Kinetic for a bit
then the djembe session, and back to jam to Strange Arrangement to finish off the night...........

Blasted dubstep then another mix in the car, maybe some Umphrey's sampler CD from Summer Camp, to stay awake as I sped 90 like a bullet home to Champaign......

.....Kitty was waiting for me when I got home, he looked thinner, and like he missed me. Phone was dead. Goodnight.

it's like gold dust

what I write here is gobbledygook

it's the actions I am taking in my work
that I hope will rewrite history

Can't get enough of myself

Summer Dubstep Mix

at least give the first 12 min. a try, my fave's around 4:20

http://soundcloud.com/djbellymusic/summer-nights-a-dubstep-mix

welcome to Champaign-Urbana dubstep. It's a really great scene, almost twice weekly sometimes. See many of the same people over and over and it's growing into a community of people who like to womp and get down

keep writing you silly thing

my life is a series of crazy shit!
mostly always good shit, no there ain't no complainin'
things just happen, and for a reason
I get hooked up !~
with warm handshakes with nice people
(in Central IL or anywhere)
and the only thing missing from me at the moment is the missing link... HA!
(I don't excuse that pun)

series of crazy shit

July 4 weekend

here's to the Amish, the original eco-friendly Americans
when green was already their black.
(ok, I took that phrase somewhat from an Amish-furniture poster)

listening to Seals & Crofts best hits on a record
I went canoeing today
several hours, with my parents
and the T
and the strangest thing happened
(that doesn't surprise me still!)
but the fish
we almost thought they were tadpoles, so grey and tiny
swam up to my body that I rooted into the sand
that suctioned into my skin and kept me still
I was sitting back in 2 ft waters
and the school of fish swam around me unafraid
curious
they then came closer and closer and
started pecking me...tasting me
picking at the air bubbles --
I don't know.
My chin was submerged, I was smiling at my new school of friends
and I was calm as more came to me
thinking I was a ginormous piece of food, maybe
or just curious of friendly.
Or picking parasites off of me.
I wish I could have stayed longer, but I think I gave them their pickin' fix
from a new species they're not used to swimmin' with.

Free time - Freizeit; Qué hacer en este momento
I should nap/shower/paint
learn German/do work (start a program, plan an event, research, endless possibilities for that)
Productive weekend: I fixed my whole room up and planted a garden. Thanks mom & dad for all the 3-inch tomatoes.
I saw lots of horse-drawn buggies in Amish-towns
ate dinner with my freshman roommate in Sullivan, IL
at the nicest restaurant in town, and Doug Wilson from TLC picked up my fallen cardigan
Ate at the Amish restaurant Yoder's
brought back plenty of cheese, fudge, and the best sweet PB&J
Saw great fireworks shows, twice
(many illegal & of private stash!)
swam in the biggest lake in central IL -- Lake Shelbyville
and went down 8 miles of river in one my favorite day-trips
for a very memorable 4th of July weekend in Central Illinois.

Oh, and they met Lincoln, my white adventurfür.