May I present to you, the loves of my life:

Love #1

This is the work of Ed Loredo. She draws a lot of really, utterly super-amazing things like that. Ed is an awkward gift-receiver who enjoys anime, manga, gay love stories, and making things much more difficult than need be. She has dreams of sitting in her room and playing ukulele to Beirut songs, but the only ukulele she has is a fake green one that her parents got for her quinceañera.
Despite the above statements, however, Ed is actually a pretty cool person. She takes really fantastic Polaroids that have a really awesome, old-timey grainy quality to them that I love. And when we watched The Blair Witch Project together in 7th grade, she wasn't scared at all. And I thought that was pretty cool. She is also completely adorable and has really good taste in a lot of things, including lots of super-obscure things you have probably never heard of.

This is her blog. Please go read it. And if you have a LiveJournal as well, be best friends with her. She also recently featured a scan of the letter I wrote to her while I was working at Camp Laughing Waters. Go read it and love my handwriting.



Love #2
Luke Arthur Newbury is the cutest person in the world. And that's a fact. He is my best friend who lives entirely too far away (Australia) and he is absolutely perfect. Don't laugh, we met on MySpace which yes, I know, is stupid and lame. But it's really okay. He somehow found me and there was a brief exchange of comments consisting of "I like you because you like Daniel Johnston, Joy Division and Dinosaur Jr. too!" "Oh, hey, wow, you like Descendents and Jawbreaker, too?! You're so cool!" "I like you! Let's be friends!" and then we started talking on MSN.
And I think it's around that time I got a crush on him, but because he's so damn far there's nothing I can do about it (for now, at least). He also plays bass in this really cool punk/oi band called Black Lung which are really good. This is their MySpace. Obviously, I'm not going to give you his MySpace because I don't want people lurking him, but I just thought you all should know that there are still people in this world who don't totally suck. He's proof. <3

(Despite that last paragraph, I still hold true to not liking relationships. Don't worry.)

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