What I’m doing right now is glutting myself on indie rock. I’ve been listening all afternoon the Band of Horses, Kings of Leon, Spoon, Deathcab for Cutie, and Fleet Foxes. I just realized I can’t publish this until after Christmas, just on the off chance that the person who is receiving all those albums shows up here. It’s going to make a great gift, and I’m actually really enjoying the music.
I got my mom six cd’s and a (n admittedly second-hand) book, Devil in the White City, which is based on the true story of the serial killings at the 1929 Chicago World’s Fair. She’s going to love the music, I know it. I’m stoked.
I’m also excited to give another gift I don’t want to spoil, and this person would be reading, so now I really have to keep this under my hat for the next six days.
Anyway I got a certain someone some shirts from threadless. He’s always complaining, and rightly so, that you can’t find a guy’s shirt that doesn’t have a brand name, a crown, a cross, or an eagle. Or all four. Are there only four things in the world worth putting on a shirt? Just the eagle? Not the jellyfish, or the lion or the elephant or ant? And just crowns? Not telephones or chemical formulas and models or airplanes? And why does he have to advertise for some company that makes clothes? Why is their stupid made up name the statement he’s supposed to want to make?
“Hey everyone, I just wanted to get your attention and say, Billabong! Volcom! Ha! That is all.”
Babykin got everything he asked for from Santa. He is a good boy and I coached him into asking for what I wanted to get him–well, for the one main item that is, and then he asked for one medium thing I’d never heard of and cars. So he got a large, medium, and small from Santa, plus one surprise, and then gifts from Mommy. He also got a gift from his elf on the shelf, Krissy. Krissy took his camera that didn’t work up to the North Pole to get fixed, and get a new USB cord. He wrapped it in a box Isaiah loves and got him a matching photo album to put his pictures in.
I got myself something too, so I’m happy.
