A Thousand Angry Panthers!

i recently got bradley hathaway's newest ep 'A Thousand Angry Panthers', and have been listening to it constantly.

i love it! its so different from his old stuff, but definitely still bradley. The ep consists of four songs rather than poems, but all the songs have the essence of bradley's poetic qualities. Each song tells a story. It is very easy to listen to.

Also, to me it feels smoother than his last album, 'A Mouth Full of Dust'. For one thing, the music is very well put together in 'A Thousand Angry Panthers'- not to say it isnt in A Mouth Full of Dust, but I think A Thousand Angry Panthers was produced better. Bradley's voice has also been fine tuned into a smoother version of what it used to be.

Overall, i'm very happy with it. Bradley has such a way with words; the tone and expression of his music convey such emotion and thought. i am very impressed. Can't wait for more!

A Thousand Angry Panthers tracks:

1)she was raised by a man with a sickness

2)carolina

3)would you think less of me

4)the world is screaming

you can get it on itunes or here: http://bradleyhathaway.storenvy.com/

other albums available are 'A Mouth Full of Dust' and 'The Thing That Poets Write About, The Thing That Singers Sing About.'

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you know i'd fight 1000 angry panthers screaming in the night

if it meant you'd be safe, sound, and alright

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i want a mandrake.

if you get that, you are possibly as addicted to harry potter as i am.

im almost done with the chamber of secrets, and last night laura and i watched the order of the phoenix. also apparently the filming for the next harry potter movie was finished today, so its coming out sometime in november.

i have been complaining at work a lot. in spite of this, i realize it is WAY better than subway! There is so much more work involved, and stress too, but i prefer that to doing nothing and watching the clock to see if another hour has passed, and counting how many hours until I can leave. im so thankful!

i had mint/chocolate swirl fro-yo at keva the other day. it is officially my new favorite.

also, after watching the order of the phoenix, i think that helena bonham (who played beatrix) is my favorite actress. She was phenominal in fight club, and she was my favorite character in alice in wonderland.

im thinking about being the red queen for halloween, actually. it would be really complicated though.

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things that josh and i love:

1) vlogging

2) road trips

3) fight club

4) comic book stores

(especially Astro Zombies!)

5) frozen yogurt

6) adult swim

7) taco bell

8) dailybooth

9) reading

10) surprises

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you know i would fight 1000 angry panthers in the night

if it meant you'd be safe, sound, and alright.

im drowning in my sleep

i get called lots of names at work.

not anything bad, just stuff like 'darlin', ' honey', 'sweetie', 'babe', 'girlie', 'lady', 'woman'. its weird. maybe they don't know my name?

the only one i really mind is sweetie or sweetheart. it always comes out condescending to me, as if i am five years old or something.

i really like this job, except for old habits that are hard to shake. I keep telling people to enjoy their sandwich no matter what they've ordered. i told a lady to enjoy her sandwich right after i handed her a bowl of pasta.

today i got an apron with lotsa pockets in it and one of those little pads that you take orders down on. Also i know how to put orders into the computer where they are automatically sent to the kitchen to cook, and i know how to ring people up. I can pretty much do everything myself, except when things get busy i feel like im slacking off even though im working really hard, because every table is always needing something else and i feel like im always slow getting it for them.

but all in all, i lurve this job. and i lurve my apron, because it makes me feel official.

also i lurve all the free food i get.

yum.

laura and i have been having a continual harry potter movie marathon. so far we are on harry potter and the goblet of fire, which we're watching tomorrow. i never followed harry potter much, but now im pretty excited about it.

all ive wanted to listen to lately has been underoath, fleet foxes, and modest mouse.

nothing much else has been happening. i feel like my life has turned into getting up, going to work (which is a place where time disappears and i just leave when they tell me to) and then trying to find things to do to fill in the rest of the time.

thats not hard though, with harry potter marathons, dinner with friends, hanging out with josh, small group, pocket pals, and skip-bo/uno nights with my family.

life is good.

i am happy.

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So hold your head up high and know
It's not the end of the road
Walk down this beaten path before
You pack your things and head home
At the end of the road
You'll find what you've been longing for
I know 'cause my feet have the scars to show
I was lost with vague direction and no place to call home

At the end of the road

You'll find what you've been longing for

taze eric.

so i didn't get the tsa job. i couldnt pass the intro test. it was freakin hard!

there were two parts to it. the first half was all about english. it was basically a much easier version of the SAT. i actually think i got every question right.

the second half was an x-ray assesment where you have to identify random objects in a bag that went through an x-ray machine. this was hard because the objects never looked like they were supposed to. through an x-ray, a cell phone looks like a bunch of wires and circuits. try looking for that in a bag jam-packed with a bunch of crap. also there was only 15 seconds to look for it.

so that job fell through. it ended up being ok though, because a few weeks ago one of my regular customers at subway basically offered me a job as a server at Boston's Gourmet Pizza. I start tomorrow, actually.

Tomorrow is also my last day at subway. its so weird... ive been working there for over a year and now i will finally be free of it.

it was fun at times, but i want something more intense.

i still have not gotten the license for my car.

this last week i house-sat for a friend, so it was basically filled with hanging out and having fun. i watched a lot of movies and played alladin on nintendo, jumped on the trampoline, fed the chinchilla raisins, and went swimming. it was awesome.

they have a pug named daisy, but i named it troll instead because it is really ugly and snores. by the end of the week, it was responding to that name.

hehe.

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You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.
You'd be like Heaven to touch.
I wanna hold you so much.
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.