HALLO EVERYBADI so i've finally shifted and the past few days have been agonizing because the modem was only installed yesterday so i was without the internet for a few days which felt really strange and all but i found myself with so much more time on my hands and i mostly spent it devouring Kafka on the Shore (which is by far one of the strangest most curious books i've read to date) watching copious amounts of Running Man i stole off Charlotte's hard drive

and have been continuously attempting life threatening flips and jumps while hanging from the overhead beam (see the brown thingabobby at the top of the picture?) into my bed because there is absolutely nothing else to do but that's okay because i never feel like leaving my room much nowadays

"Do you think music has the power to change people? As though you listen to a piece and go through some major change inside?" 

Oshima nodded. "Sure, that can happen. We have an experience - like a chemical reaction - that transforms some thing inside us. When we examine ourselves later on, we discover that all the standards we've lived by have shot up another notch and the world's opened up in unexpected ways. Yes, I've had that experience. Not often, but it has happened. It's like falling in love." 

while reading Kafka on the Shore this was one of the myriad passages that struck me. sigur ros and bright eyes are two bands whose music has ineluctably changed something within me for the better or worse so i could not have been happier upon finding out that sigur ros'll be in singapore this november (O: