Lots to catch up on!

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Thought of the just woke up with a grin on my face day: You kissed me so right and now my breath smells like your breath.
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Finished Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning (another ARC) a few days back. It was good in the Fluffy British Teen Girl Lit way. As evidenced below, it was very predictable with sprinklings of good phrasing here and there.

p.21
I actually had a theory that I'd sprung forth fully formed from the froth of the ocean, but my birth certificate tended to discount that theory.
--I really like this, except she should NOT use the word 'theory' twice in one sentence.

p.71
It was like a Quaker prayer meeting or a Mexican standoff. I couldn't decide which.

p.90
SHOUTY NOT POUTY
--In the book, she has a handmade sign in the studio reminding her how to sing. This pretty much sums up her character.

p.172
Eyes like black holes.

p.192
The blue cobweb of veins across her wrists.

p.197
I gave you my heart and you've stomped on it with your horrid boy feet.
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Concept: Star Wars as a metaphor for organized religion. Discuss.
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VLB needs a new nickname, and I'm struggling to come up with one. I keep wanting to make one that's all cutesy and spells something (a la Creepy Ugly Naked Tattooed guy) but nothing's coming to mind. For now I'm calling him T, for The boy. He reminded me the other night of a word I'd thoughtlessly neglected: scrumptrelescent. Say it. Scrumptrelescent.
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Finished Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini this afternoon (ARC again). In addition to being this year's Feed, this book is well-written and by a very talented, friendly young fella (22! How are people this age writers now? How am I so much older than that already?). I wanted to bring the author in for the MLA Fall Conference this past October, but it didn't work out - hopefully we can get him next year.

p.22
You know Shakespeare - the sweet lines are really sweet.

p.28
What'd you do, crap your pocket?
--You probably have to really 'be there' for this one (boy gets chocolate all melted in his pocket), but goddam it, I was laughing out loud.

p.33 (On MTV's Dismissed)
What kind of show throws menage-style blind dates at teenage boys? What are you telling them - all of a sudden, you're not Cool unless you're going out with two girls? You're entitled to two girls? Where's my one girl? And if you are a girl, are you better suited to competitive harem living than any sort of independent, self-sustaining existence?
--Damn, right on the nose with the phrasing here.

p.60
That amazing high-school romantic movie moment, with drinking and young lust and strawberry-flavored lip gloss.
--Did I never outgrow this, or did I just come to it late and thus it became more a part of my grown-up being than it would've for those who got to it earlier? This line of questioning is scaring myself, so I'm stopping.

p.181-2
The sexuality that enthralls present-day females:...boyish yet casually superhuman.

p.213
Bombs have dropped and I'm happy in craters.
--This is a song lyric, or it should be.

p.270
I've made every decision I can make in this world and I'm nailed to a rocket, headed to the sun.
--Ditto this one.

p.279
I cry like I'm trying to make icicles.
--This reminds me of the Rudolph stop-motion xmas special from childhood. It terrified me then to think that Rudolph's tears became icicles and that he could be trapped there forever, fastened hard to one spot by his own sadness. This sounds like Sad Bastard Music fodder.
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T. turned me on to Fuse, which I should've realized I had before now (o, Digital Cable, your abundance of channels overwhelms me). One of the VJs was on Queer Eye awhile back. Fuse is an MTV competitor, and I wish it well. During an hour of random listening/barely watching while reading, I saw at least three new bands I like, and they've got a show of old metal on which Slayer is played. Not perfect of course, I did see the Most Annoying Band Du Jour - Jet ('Are You Gonna Be My Girl,' a track I've been avoiding on 91.5 a lot lately). Other music notes: Bayside Is a Cult is the new Morrissey. Speaking of which, this is what I think draws me to the music I call sally. It rings true in the way that Morrissey/etc. did - whereas emo feels hollow and false (pretentious).
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Listening to: They Might Be Giants - Mink Car / Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter
Mood: blatantly happy