blocking out the world

things:

i had to write a 16th century style dramatic scene for a class last week. when my father read it, he told me his first thought was, "did she plagiarize this..?"

i'll take that as a compliment.

also, Sasha Frere-Jones reviewed the Deftones' new album in this week's New Yorker.

"With his black hair and small beard, [Chino]Moreno, who is thirty-three, looks like someone who's stranded between boyhood and adulthood."

yes, i would say that's fairly accurate.