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Name: todd williams
Birthday: 4/24/1989
Interests: ...............music............ elliott smith, sigur ros, akron/family, beirut, devendra banhart, a.c. newman, apples in stereo, belle & sebastian, rocky votolato, the elected, the books, coco rosie, bob dylan, built to spill (doug marstch), outkast, iron & wine, nick drake, the decemberists, neutral milk hotel, danny elfman, the shins, damien rice, death cab, kanye west, the postal service, modest mouse, radiohead, elton john, bright eyes, keane, joe walsh. michael jackson.
..............t.v...........conan o'brien, whose line is it anyway?, chappelle show, friends, everybody loves raymond, boy meets world
Expertise: hand farts. laughing. sharting. mj dance.
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AIM:  modestlov
Member Since:
6/3/2004
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| just so i can keep this straight....
(new albums)
august 21
new pornographers
sept. 11
animal collective
kanye west
sept. 18
akron/family
sept. 25
iron & wine
sept. 28
devendra banhart
october 9
beirut
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| so yesterday a guy from the Associated Press called me to interview me about music. On some survey i took i wrote that music makes me happy and he asked me all these questions. He asked me if there's any certain music i listen to, to cheer me up/when you're sad or pump me up. I answered with elliott smith (to cheer me up), sigur ros (to cheer me up), outkast (pump me up), and michael jackson (pump me up) respectably. he then said "really, like older michael jackson or what." i told him like 90s michael, 'black or white' era and even way back jackson 5 style with forced smile songs like 'ABC'.
next, we somehow got talking about playing guitar and he asked who influenced me to do so and once again i told him elliott smith was a major part of that and also nick drake, akron/family, and michael jackson again. then we talked about slash but just for a second (slash played guitar on a lot of michael's songs).
later he asked me who influenced my musical taste. i told him my sister influenced my more modern indie rock taste and my father influenced my classic rock taste (eagles, joe walsh, elton john, clapton, etc.)
he even asked if music was something i could see myself doing for a career or is it just a hobby. i told him if that opportunity presented itself, i'd love to do it, but i guess for now it's just a hobby.
he thanked me for my time and i told him 'no problem, i love talking about music'.
and it ended.
laying in my bed last night i thought to myself how much this interview seemed real. as if i were some famous musician. i liked that.
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| so there i am sitting in my driveway with my back against the closed garage door at 12:45 a.m. a friend had just called who i was glad to talk to so i was already in a happy mood. i just sat there speaking out loud to myself how perfect the night was. how beautifully lit the dim street lights were, how comfortable the weather was, how peaceful absolute silence was and as these fairy tale thoughts raced through my mind it saddened me that i had no one to share this serene night with. then it hit me.
i don't need anyone.
i must have sat there a solid five minutes without movement, just a wide jubilant smile of calmness. i'd breathe in and out as loud as i could to show the world that i was content with this moment, that right now in the present i was happy.
but the world wasn't witnessing me. just the Lord. after that five minutes of stillness i was ready to break the muteness. and what better to rid myself of this anti-sound of a time than a song. i didn't hesitate, i didn't think, i just sang.
"lord can you hear me now? lord....can you hear me now? or am i lost?"
i than got up and started to dance. the gorgeous moon beamed down a warming light that when inflicted upon me cast a life-size shadow onto my garage door. i swayed back and forth and threw my hands up praising God for this moment. i couldn't resist pulling some mj moves because they looked too cool in the shadows.
then i walked down to the sidewalk, glanced down the long stretch and just started running.
why not?
oh and i ran fast.
my little adventure was nearing its end.... when i finally reached home again i looked up at the dark night sky.
"thank you Lord."
it's simple moments like this that can brighten your life. do something spontaneous, do something you've always wanted to, do something beautiful.
good night and oh the night is good.
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| happy birthday to me! i'm legal now...
it's nice catching up with everyone that calls on your birthday. from cousins to grandparents to friends. it makes me feel as though i should randomly call relatives and others more often. just to talk. talking is nice.
hmm what else. i played my dad in a basketball game today. that was fun.. ummm. i got some cool cds (apples in stereo, cocorosie, and menomena's new albums) and i got a pretty tight decemberists dvd that should be oh so lovely to watch. papa gave me 100 big ones. and my oldest sister took me to a dvd store and told me she'd buy me somethin. i got this weird movie (miss cast away island girls or something like that) because michael jackson was in it. it was so cheaply made that it was funny. as i told kelly it made snakes on a plane look like shawshank redemption. and i've never even seen shawshank redemption, but supposedly it's good.
thursday i have to go to kent and take all these placement tests. poop is what i say to that. i really hope i love kent though. because well you're supposed to love college are you not? i'll just organize flash mobs and it'll be sweet.
36 minutes left of my 18th birthday. i guess i'll sleep them away. good night friends!
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| i just had a michael jackson dance party with akron/family. i'm not even kidding.
before they started the first song, they were playing songs off the thriller album (on the speakers) and the band members went into the audience and danced with us. when billie jean came on my sister backed some people away and i moonwalked. then they told me to go on stage so i went up on stage and michael jackson style danced until they started their first song.
Here's me dancing on the stage: {--click here--}
there is so much to tell but i need to go to the bathroom really bad. basically kelly and i and others were on stage for 30 minutes dancing and playing instruments that the akron/family band members handed us. we talked with one of the guys in the band for a while and got pictures with him. oh so many pictures, i'll post them later. i have a major headache too, but it seems to be slowly going away. good bye for now.
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