i got a haircut.

also, i'm going to california in less than two days. 36 hours, actually. hooooly crap.

here's my packing list.



i hope it is a successful trip.

i really really do.

just a sad song list. no order

fire and rain - james taylor
long december - counting crows
in the sun - joseph arthur -or- michael stipe
let it be - the version from across the universe or the beatles
fever dream - iron and wine
harmony - miles to dayton
top of the world - dixie chicks
goodbye my lover - james blunt
fire sign - david berkeley
hide and seek - imogen heap
traveling soldier - dixie chicks
black balloon - goo goo dolls
such great heights - iron and wine
world spins madly on - the weepies
golden slumbers - beatles
i can't make you love me - bonnie raitt
and so it goes - billy joel
sparks - coldplay
on a tuesday in amsterdam long ago - counting crows
landslide - fleetwood mac -or- dixie chicks
comfortable - john mayer
fell in love - moxy fruvous
fly - moxy fruvous
resolution - nick lachey
don't go away - oasis (acoustic)
wonderwall - oasis
last kiss - pearl jam
goodbye waves and driveways - the rocket summer
last day on earth - stephan couture
the seer's tower - sufjan stevens
6th avenue heartache - wallflowers


alright that's all i got for now.

oh hey i passed all my classes last semester.... three more classes and i get a fancy piece of paper

ah, christmas eve.

i'm working today, in an hour, til, well, scheduled til 7:15. but i'm not stayin' that late cause i gotta get home for a nice lil get-together with the fam and the gf's fam and whatnot. no brother though, which is too bad.

did all my xmas shopping yesterday and the day before, as is the norm. unfortunately for the economy, the stores really weren't that crowded. i mean, sure, they had a respectable amount of people shopping, but it sure wasn't a booming craze of consumerism. which is a shame. but not as much of a shame cause i didn't have to wait in line forever and whatnot.

i'm pretty excited cause last night han banan and i played a good few hours of rock band and unlocked a venue that has a gig that is a 58 song set. that's right, 58 songs. every song in the game. i looked up about it and people say it takes a good 4.5-7 hours to complete without too many breaks. i have to get in contact with my roomies and benny so we can get the old band back together and rock the crap out of them. i love ridiculous things like that, like watching a full season or two of lost in one day/weekend.

well, time to shower and shave and get clothes and put the presents in the car and whatnot.... preparations for xmas eve and xmas, you know. might pick up a few more little things....probably from radio shack...today for a few extras.

i hope that everyone reading this has a faaaantastic christmas. for realz.

look a weird blue picture of me

soon i will post a 'luke's all-time sad-list'

which will be a list of songs that are particularly sad for me. i have a headache.

also i'm a bit on the bummed side, so that's the motivation.

i'm gonna do it so readers can listen to the songs. just gotta figure that out first. well, maybe i'll post one song while i have a moment. heading out in a few minutes... after i eat something cause i think that's at least partially why i have the headache.

so song one...not the saddest, but definitely up there. 'black and blue' by the counting crows. just give it a listen and you'll understand.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/52747094c9c8a11b/

well, that's the link to it, though i wanted to be able to play it right in here...well, either way, it's there.

soon, like i said earlier, i'll make a full... probably 10+ song playlist. but anyway.

have a wonderful evening, and don't forget that things will always turn out ok for you. just sayin'.

i'm thinking about growing my hair out again. i have fond memories of the long flowing crazy curly mop that was my hair.

i like my hair at this length, actually, too. it's a bit grown out and it's pretty good. only thing about it is if i shower then just let it dry it poofs out and looks ridiculous. so i discovered, relatively quickly, and as is evidenced in this blog, that there is a way to combat the fro. and that, of course, is to either not shower or constantly wear a hat. sure, i'll have hat hair but it's better than the fro.

though perhaps i'll cut it again. i like the nice short look.

well, either way, i'm not shaving it.

hooo boy what a movie this is. dark knight, i mean. hoooo boy. i worked at the ol' shack 9-1 and we all watched most of it there, and i'm watching the second half now. love love love this movie. soon i shall shower, which'll be nice. i have my geology and CPL 300 exam tomorrow... CPL 300, you may ask. i haven't been very good at all at explaining the class... but the title is Introduction to Global Issues in Resource Development. it's not bad. i'm not fully prepared for it, though. and geology? not the best at that either. buuuuut i will be studying today and tonight and tomorrow so i'll be ok, i think.

then i have but two more written exams, theatre history and astronomy (grossss) but then i'm done! on december 16th! hooray!

i wanna get more hats. i think i'm pretty decent looking in hats. and what's even better is that they keep my hair from fro'ing out, and that's pretty sweet.

you know, i liked maggie gyllenhaal in the movie. i liked katie holmes too, actually.

but anyway. i have callbacks to go to tonight! hooray! last night was auditions and it rocked pretty hard. so many good auditions! i'm excited for 420's audition because it'll be really fun to cast my show. there are so many strong women in the department, i have many to choose from. hooray hooray.

i don't want to work overnight on thursday. i don't want to work overnight at all, really. just doesn't do it for me anymore. i prefer to work over at the shack and just screw around the vast majority of the time. workin' 30 hours next week, that's pretty sweet too. i'll probably work one or two nights/week in the coming month or two.

niice, i was just checkin' my schedule out for the spring... three classes, all on tuesday and thursday, from 9:30-5 with a three hour break. pretty much the same schedule as now but without class on monday and friday. that's nice.

'nough ramblin'.

showertime.

ps here's a random picture of me



i hope people like lookin' at me. haha

ahhhhhh wife swap.

i'm not gonna explain it. but elise and i are watching it and it's really ridiculous. (ok it was texas horrible woman and ny shock jock hippy woman... so good. sooo good and crazy.)

really really ridiculous. but we are enjoying it so much.

soon i will write more. haha, i say that every time, but only sometimes is it true.

in other sad news i have a bunch of article summaries to do for tomorrow's geology class... 12... but they're easy, or so i've heard, so i should get it done eventually. it'll be a late night, i'm sure.

i'm pretty boring, tbh. i should really do some craaaazy stuff. so i have things to talk about and tell my THOUSANDS OF READERS.

i got the new ipod touch yesterday. sold my older one because the newer one has an internal speaker and that's something i wanted. so i bought it after selling the other on craigslist. and i have a case and everything and it's awesome. love love lovin' the speaker and volume rocker (the two things that are different)

i don't like when i shave and my neck gets all sensitive and whatnot. :( but anyway, time to shower. then go in to school to see a theatre 100 play. then lotsa work.

tomorrow is auditions for the foreigner! which i'm ad'ing!

hooray!

love
luke

omg omg omg just saw grease at ppac.

well, saw it last night. but it hit me so hard that it feels like i just saw it.

see now i feel bad because i honestly enjoyed it, and those last two sentences make it seem like i didn't. so, to clarify, i did enjoy the performance. but what i enjoyed most was


TAYLOR HICKS

awww yeah he's too old to play any of the main characters so he played 'teen angel' and sang 'beauty school drop out' to frenchie.

and i'll be the first to tell you that i was never really big into mr. hicks, there. or american idol at that moment. but now that i saw this show? well, i will also be the first to say that he stole the show.

really, he did. good song, good acting, really enjoyed himself. of course, he has sang this song hundreds of times, but he seemed to really enjoy it. and thus, i did too.

ahhhh i was doing so well those first two weeks of blog!

and now look at me. 8 days from post. come on, luke, pull it together.

sooooo anyway, check out this song cause i love this song and it's really good. can't really remember the origin of it, to be honest, i think it has something to do with the falconridge folk festival.... sister could clarify for me, i'm sure.

the video i did find on youtube is about a baby, too. so... not only is it a great song, there's a cute baby to look at when you listen. ....other than creepy baby eyes at times.



i'm a small amount bummed cause the version i have is more acoustic, but i couldn't find that one.

i'm gonna update more, i swear.