Krispy Kremes!! <3

First I was excited because the Peet's I spied the other day in the train station opened up! So I could get my coffee before even leaving the station! The manager was super cheerful and coming around to talk to the customers about how they had a ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday and stuff.

Then, when I got to ground level, these college students were selling Krispy Kremes to fund a trip to go to Uganda and help rescue the child soldiers. Krispy Kremes? And for a cause I know something about (thanks Pete!) ? I was so in, even though I had to take cash out to buy the donuts, since I'd spent my cash on my coffee.

So now I have Krispy Kremes, which make everything better! And I get to give them to people at the office, which is fun! I get to make people's mornings better through the power of donuts!

EDT: Yay! I love giving donuts to people!! I wish I could give donuts to people every day! But then it would not be that special, I guess.
P the super hot nice girl with the unfortunate last name told me I made her morning! <3 K-san said I was yasashii. I had a conversation with S-san about how they have Krispy Kreme in Shinjuku now, and about how I went to PonJo for a year, and I got to give M-san her first Krispy Kreme ever.

Wow, go Tokio Hotel!

Rolling Stone gave 'Scream' 3 1/2 stars!!

TOKIO HOTEL ***1/2

Scream Cherrytree/Interscope

Impish German glam rocker pummels world of sad teenagers into submission.

It's Official: These guys are the greatest German bubblegum-neo-glam-goth-emo-boy band. Ever. On their English-language debut (they're already huge in Deutschland), the four fresh-faced lads from Magdeburg unveil a genre-and gender-bending act that justifies superlatives. Much of the credit goes to lead singer Bill Kaulitz, an 18-year-old androgyne whose stupendous electro-shock hairdo stands a good six inches taller than Tina Turner's Eighties coif. Kaulitz is a technically limited vocalist, but he has the charisma of a natural frontman, delivering both yowling rockers ("Scream") and sentimental ballads (the acoustic weeper "By Your Side"_ with an audible twinkle in his eye that suggests he's not entirely serious. (His dodgy English diction - he pronounces the word "eyes" like "ice" - adds to the charm.) The taunt power-trio arrangements mix the whisper-to-a-scream dynamics of post-grundge with glam-rock power chords and a big dollop of emo's teen psychodrama. ("Ready, Set, Go!" has already soundtracked an angsty scene on The Hills.) And then there's "Love is Dead," which sounds like a lost Eighties hair-metal chestnut. With some strategically applied spandex, Kaulitz coudl become the rock god Bret Michaels always wanted to be.

Jody Rosen for Rolling Stone Magazine, May 15, 2008.