"Hand out the window, Floatin’ on air, Just a flip of the wrist, I’d be wavin’ you goodbye..." ~dashboard confessional

That's my song of the moment. I can't stop listening to it; I play it over and over. I absolutely love it. Adam Duritz sings "background" vocals, although his part is much more prominent than most background roles. It's a beautiful song on its own, but his participation makes it perfect. I seriously can't describe what his voice does to me. Just the way he says "town" in this song makes me want to cry and scream for joy at the same time. His distinctive, emotional voice floats through the song and layers it with something that I can't explain. Can you imagine how excited I am to see Counting Crows in a few weeks? I seriously can't wait.

Sorry I haven't posted in forever. I've been incredibly busy this summer with work. The hours are really intense with this job. I usually don't get home until after 8pm on days that I'm in the office. There have been lots of shoots lately (1-2 a week), and those last at least 14 hours, so with traveling time I'm often out of my house from around 4am until after midnight. So I've been busy. But good. Shoots are fun even though they're tiring. Last week we had one at Sam Ash's house (the owner of Sam Ash music stores). It was pretty cool. He has this room full of guitars (maybe about 30), and each one is hanging up in front of a music poster of a band, so I think they're guitars from those bands. I was impressed.

Another example of how my job can be cool: last week I got to go buy the first season of Laguna Beach on DVD and then "watch" the entire thing. I only had about an hour in which to do that, though, because I was only supposed to be looking for bedroom scenes (we needed to see what the kids' bedrooms looked like to use as models for the commercial we filmed at Sam Ash's house). It was an interesting assignment. Watching Laguna Beach in fast forward is pretty funny; I recommend trying it if you're ever bored and in need of a laugh. The drama seeps out even without the sound; in fact, the intensity of the teens' emotions and relationship angst seems heightened when the show is moving so quickly.

Funny story: last week I was walking on Prince Street after picking up some tapes for my job, and Paris Hilton walked out of a store just as I was passing on the sidewalk. So I ended up standing right in front of her/next to her. There was this papparazzi guy there and I was blocking his shot, so he yelled "MOVE!" to me and pushed me out of his way. I almost got knocked over. You can imagine how significant that made me feel, being shoved out of the way so this guy could get a photo of Paris Hilton leaving a store. I almost felt bad for Paris Hilton (almost). She can't even go shopping without being followed.

Let's see, what else...I've seen some good movies lately and have gotten to spend time with my friends who are around, for which I'm grateful. I recently got to see my friend Christin, which was lots of fun. I stayed at her apartment in NYC and we got up really early to go see The Beach Boys perform live on Good Morning America. It's a great summer so far, and it's going by so quickly. I can't believe I'll be starting my senior year so soon.