like emily (elladin_sane), i have given into peer pressure and created a livejournal. i can't stand it, everyone but emily has abandoned tabulas for this silly little thing called a livejournal. i guess i'll keep both -- it's not too hard to copy and paste.

so anyways, i am very excited ::cough:: not ::cough:: to make this switch.

so liam just left -- i unfortunately had to ignore him for a bit, as gabby called about the ringo party and we had much to figure out. he was okay though -- he just played blackbird and let it be on guitar. he's gotten very good, and has a really snazzy orange guitar. it was fun singing along, though i sounded terrible.

so, am seeing the hanks/mattie today, twill be fun.

so, welcome to livejournal jane.

thankyou jane.

no problem.

PS: www.livejournal.com/usesrs/davidluffsyou

hello! here i am at the promenade, in the apple store with my good friend Guru Parkash (yes emily, the inspiration for your name) we are having a lovely time, and i am greatly missing my ipod and laptop. they are still in the hospital, they are very very sick.

anyways, i love this store and this is very fun!

so...where was I?

oh yes, Yale. Yale was great -- my dad and i had loads of fun. we visited the digital arts media center -- they had many great facilities, then we met with the admissions guy (!). the meeting was very unexpected, my dad and i thought it would be a quick hello, but he ended up taking us up to his office and talking with us for a bit. it was pretty funny, as he was basically pitching to me how great of a school Yale was, and how I should definitely come there. well, i kind of knew that Yale was a great school. my dad whispered to me: "maybe they're expecting me to die and leave a lot of money." that was great. anyways, unless he was really flattering, Marlborough has a great reputation. he knows them all -- wagner, scrumbis, burnett, etc. and he seems to really love the school.

then we went to some art museums there, went to atticus books, and to louis luch -- the first and the best hamburger in the United States. oh it was good.

then we caught a train at around 3, and went straight from the train station to this nickelodeon thing for lemony snicket. it was very exciting, i met steve oedekerk (i am not going to even try to spell his name) which was amazing for me, as this video of his was an obession of grahammysand mine. and best of all: I PLAYED BLACKJACK WITH SPONGEBOB AND PATRICK!!! well, actually the voices of spongebob and patrick, but it was still very exciting. SB and P did a scene from lethal weapon that was pretty great. jefferey tambour was also there -- he's playing king neptune in the spongebob movie. he looks so much like mr. scrumbis, but (no offense mr. scrumbis) he was so much cooler. we spent a good ten minutes talking about how much we love Prince. he was hillarious -- he said he cried the entire time, and hugged the guy next to him. then my parents presented a series thing -- which was so great. JUDE LAW = MOST BEAUTIFUL VOICE I HAVE EVER HEARD. i couldn't stand it he had such a beautiful accent! ahhh...i swoon every time i think of it. but you know what, his looks match his voice, as jude is gorgeous. but the accent is half of it really. Now think of this Shaggy Bear: Jude's gorgeous voice "Klaus loved to read books, and everything he read he remembered..." with a beautiful shot of liam from the back on a beach reading, with weird trees coming out of the water. yes.

then we went to dinner at a restaurant called the cub room -- it was very tasty.

the next morning we did a quick shopping trip to all of these furniture stores, which was actually quite fun as i love 60's furniture.

on the plane ride back i watched school of rock, the last waltz, and an episode of the office, as well as reading some more murakami. i came to a wonderful epiphany at the end of the plane ride, and would love to share the thought processes with you all:

1. i was flying over los angeles, so i started thinking about LA
2. then i thought of that saying, I love LA
3. then i thought, does NY have a saying like that? well, actually I love NY is kind of a saying
4. then i thought, well if "New York's In Love" had been a bigger hit, maybe that would have been a saying.
5. then i thought, "well david, New York's In Love is one of your most annoying songs in my opinion, you know, i don't really care for Never Let Me Down, it was kind of a low point in Bowie's career."
6. with Never Let Me Down in mind, when i saw i was on page 87 of my book, i thought of thesong "87 and Cry."
7. then i thought, "maybe i could use that to remember something, like i used db record release dates to remember the dates of the revolutionary war."
8. then i thought "hmm, i'll be doing European history next year"
9. then i came to this fascinating realization...

SCHOOL IS OVER. SUMMER IS HERE.

wow, must have had one too many cosmos -- don't remember posting that last entry at all! and my my do I lie sometimes, as none of that happened.

here is the true story:

we had a 9 o'clock flight monday morning, which i spent reading. i am so addicted to murakami books right now, i finished sputnik sweetheart on the plane and now am on to dance dance dance. i am determined to read every single one, they are wonderfully bizarre and japanese.

we got into new york at around 5, where we checked into a lovely hotel. that evening we walked to a restaurant in soho -- balthazar -- where we met the tweedy's, david tweedy being my dad's best college friend and band mate. the tweedy's are loads of fun -- i love the whole lot of them.

the next day my dad and i woke up at a 7, in order to catch the train to new haven at around 8. that was hard -- as it was like we were waking at 4 and had stayed up past midnight the night before. we had a lovely time though, and bought a special rolling stone issue of the 50 moments that changed rock and roll. it started out GREAT with many wonderful pics and stories (including the opening of the ziggy stardust tour, according to rolling stone lou reed actually DID kiss david, after an interview. it also had sgt. peppers, exile on main street, etc...) but then really went downhill once you got to the 90's, nsync etc.

we got into new haven and my dad took me on his own tour of yale. it was really great having him as a tour guide -- "here's where tweedy and i wrestled..." the yale campus is absolutely gorgeous, i was utterly impressed.

okay, need to go, will continue after the terminal premiere (exciting!)

New York was awesome!!!! We went to Times Square and all sorts of other tourist attractions. It was so much fun, though I am glad to be back in LA. I missed my friends so much. Emily:: I saw this candy store and I thought of you. . . So sorry I did not tape Alias for you, I know how much it means to you and you can come over anytime to watch it if you like. I also missed Maggie and Grahammy as they stayed in LA to get off of Hollywood Highs. Crack baby crack, show me your reel, smack baby smack. . . Anyways, glad to be home, Gabby and I are having Ringo party this weekend on Sat or Sun so call us and let us know which one is better for you.

--Jane