it's a rock and roll sort of day

Today I wore my City Built on Rock and Roll shirt. It's my favorite shirt.
I was in Gov. class and had finished the test which was rather easy, and so I was reading a John Lennon biography that I've been reading for ages now but it's just been getting interesting- Lost Weekend and all that, and so I happened to be on a page with a picture- Lennon drinking and looking sad, I think, and Mr. C (the gov teacher, the same one who's friends with my mom and is buddies with my brother Kody) walked by and was like, 'Can I see your book?' so I showed him it and I know he likes rock 'cos at the beginning of the year he was like, "and y'all will be glad to know I have the complete works of Led Zeppelin on my computer." so he was like, Oh, John Lennon, very interesting. I like him I'd have to say my favorite Beatle is...mhm, and here he thought about it and was like, George. And I grinned was like, Dude, yeah he's my favorite too. It's a good book though. And then he came back like 10 minutes later and was like, 'even though Lennon has the best album title- Shaved Fish.' I was all, 'yes, that is awesome.'

Instead of choir today, there was a college rep from Whitworth in the guidance counselors so I told the choir teacher I'd be there- then I went there. Anyway. I have absolutely no intention of going to Whitworth but it was pretty fun. And then I went to Knowledge Bowl where a girl I might have mentioned before (I know her, she likes classic rock like I do, she's a little weird, she plays electric guitar in jazz band, and she's uber republican so when I was in a class with her last year we'd get into loud arguments about Obama or whatever) was like, "where did you get your shirt?" I was a little caught off guard so I said, "The Internet." and she was like, oh, and I said, d'you get it, it's a city..rock and roll. and she was like, uh yes. And then the Knowledge Bowl coach (cool math teacher) was all, "AJ is that any particular skyline or.." "The city of rock and roll. is the city." I said. And for one question I'm not sure why but he asked- Who sings Paradise By the Dashboard Light? and this girl rang in at the same time I did- she said Axle Rose and I was like, MEAT LOAF. I was riiight. Anyway...

The other day in German I was bored and had Eric Clapton on the mind, so I wrote on my paper: Eric Clapton, then connected him to Jimmy Page with straight line and the words: Yardbirds/New Yardbirds, Led Zep. And then I connected Clapton to George Harrison with 'While my guitar gently weeps, Pattie Boyd', who in turn was connected to the Beatles with 'lead guitarist' and then off of the Beatles were Paul McCartney and John Lennon and Ringo Starr. And Ringo Starr connects to Keith Moon with 'Two sides of the moon' and also to Clapton with 'never without you' and to Harrison with 'Photograph' and...well, Ringo Starr is connected with most everyone. And so I was making this interlocking web of rock stars. And at the bottom I put: Map of Rock Stars.(Still in progress.)-Is everyone connected to Ringo Starr? And today in Foods I was reading my Lennon book and to Heather, who was playing with my pen that looks like a syringe I was like, do you have a pencil? and added 'Lennon---got drunk with----Keith Moon' and 'Lennon---Whatever Gets You Thru the Night-----Elton John' cos Elton John did the keyboards for that, who knew? And I think John and Paul are the only Beatles who don't connect with each other directly--which is to say they didn't really do anything together post-Beatles. We're not counting Real Love or Free As a Bird because that is zombie music.

I love this radio station. Just a minute ago- Layla. Now, Get Back. Classic Rock 102.9 for the win.