barbeque went well. came away feeling completely overstuffed though. usually i don’t have that problem because there’s never anything good on the table, but today was a tasty day. mad bratwurst action. [roommate] josh’s friend james came and brought three of his friends, so i think we achieved real ‘gathering’ status. they were cool kids too. james told a story about his mom getting some crazy urge to breed cattle and purchasing four gallons of bull sperm and keeping it in their freezer. it was even funnier when we all tried to imagine how you would go about getting the sperm into a female. yuck.

aaah, holidays. it’s so nice to have my weekend actually start on tuesday night this week. that’s rock and roll right there.

oh, i finished reading high fidelity today too. what a great book. i love the movie, and the two are pretty similar, but although the book lacks the hilarity of jack black, i think the insight into the male mind (or at least one variety of the male mind, one which i felt i could really relate to) in reference to relationships was better dealt with in book form. and i loved it. so i’d recommend it to you. next on the menu, a bit of shakespeare from a book i bought around christmas time but cut off without about a dozen other books for school and a couple since. everything in due time, i say.

one thing about high fidelity though, before i forget: there’s a part where the main character rob says (and i don’t think this was in the movie) that “no serious person can have less than 500 records”. assuming that the same goes for cds — because if it’s strictly records that puts me even farther from being a serious person — i still have a long way to go i think. last time i was troubled enough to count, i think i only had something like half that many. i know i can’t honestly measure myself by these possessions, but i can measure my status in the world of music collectors. . . am i that small-time? do people with multi-thousand disc collections smirk at my attempt to call myself a “music enthusiast”? i guess it’s necessary to point out that i’m only 20 (and a half) years old, and have never had any job that paid me much, as some sort of excuse as to why i haven’t attained amazing heights of collector-dom, but still. i wonder how i compare to my peers in this regard. any opinions can be sent in the usual way.