Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Collections

I talk about Wal­ter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechan­i­cal Repro­duc­tion too much. By too much, I mean every cou­ple of years. I really should read some other stuff that he’s writ­ten, so I don’t get too pseudo-​intellectually scholarship-​boyish. Like I’m about to. I col­lect stuff, not a lot, but stuff nonethe­less. It used to be baseball […]

Caveman Diaries 7, Megachurch, Clan of the Cave Bear, Swindlella

On 13 May 2010, I went to the Front Room Gallery for John G’s Cave­man Diaries 7 ‘zine release; Megachurch’s album release & show with Clan of the Cave Bear and Swindlella. Great crowd, great exhi­bi­tion by John G, and great music. Unfor­tu­nately I for­got my earplugs. For­tu­nately, I got my mitts on CMD7, the Megachurch album (which […]

Sun God

Big Pur­ple Records Smog Veil Records Snax Records Sun God This Moment in Black His­tory Cool shit hap­pens when you work together.

Mastodon

Mastodon blew my fuck­ing mind for two hours last night. For the major­ity of the show I was in the pit. At one point I was pushed over a dude right as he fell down and received an elbow to the face that popped a lens out of my glasses. I found it after the show, but it was scratched […]

Blue Arrow Records

I finally made it to Blue Arrow Records on Sat­ur­day, and picked up two Bowie albums that I’ve been hap­haz­ardly hunt­ing for: David Live at the Tower in Philadel­phia and Aladdin Sane. While I was in the store I deter­mined that Pete Gulyas doesn’t see his job so much as shop­keeper but as a cura­tor. This isn’t the […]

Junior Boys, Max Tundra, The Sleeps

Junior Boys kicked off their Amer­i­can tour the other night at The Grog Shop in Cleve­land Heights. This is the sec­ond time I’ve seen them and they put on a great show. That night was offi­cially the first time that any­one in the States had a chance to buy their new album Begone Dull Care, since it […]

Gunslingers, Terminal Lovers and NinePanelGrid

On Sat­ur­day I was at the Beach­land to see Gun­slingers: and Ter­mi­nal Lovers: Lou was there as well. So was John G at NinePan­el­Grid, who just fin­ished a month-​long poster-​a-​day marathon. I’ve col­lected a lot of John G’s work from shows I’ve attended over the years. Here’s his poster for the Gun­slingers show [click on it for high-​rez, it […]

Recorded Live by Adam 2007 – 2008

I used MPEG Stream­clip to snag the audio from the bands I’ve recorded over the last two years. The hard part was putting all of the meta­data on the result­ing MP3s [Many of the songs have ‘Unknown’ as the title. If you know what the title is, please let me know]. I’ve zipped them up […]

I Can’t Explain Going Out of My Head

I was lis­ten­ing to David Bowie’s cover from the 1973 album Pin-​Ups of The Who’s 1965 song I Can’t Explain when the main riff caught me in such a way that it reminded me of another song. After much thought I came up with Fat­boy Slim’s hit Going Out of My Head. Wikipedia con­firms. I’m not ready for […]

Toadies at The Grog

On Wednes­day I went to The Grog Shop to see Toad­ies, one of my all-​time favorite bands. They played all of their old hits and most of their new album, which, after a few lis­ten­ings, is quite good. The Grog was full of folks that looked like they hadn’t been to a con­cert since Cobain was alive, but […]

Cadence Weapon at the Grog Shop

Last Thurs­day I went to the Grog Shop to catch Cadence Weapon while every­one else was at the Beach­land see­ing Explo­sions in the Sky. I man­aged to chat with Rol­lie for a bit before the sets started. He said that their tour had been inter­sect­ing with EitS a few times already. He was also sick as a dog, but put […]

Music Power

I’ve been burn­ing up Immor­tal Tech­nique lately; dig­ging through a bunch of cov­ers by of Mon­tréal, Down­load­ing the thou­sands of songs in the SXSW music tor­rents, the online-​only release Over the Counter Cul­ture by Tim Fite [who was in my 2006 Best of CD] and this elec­tron­ica release by Fake Cor­po­ra­tion of Amer­ica: You Are Not […]

Jon Hicks Design, Paleo, Chum

Jon Hicks has a show of his con­cert posters at B-​Sides under the Grog Shop. Last night was the open­ing and a free show by mostly local bands upstairs. Mys­tery of Two, Paleo, Brian Straw, Chum and Blk Tygr all put on great shows. I really need to get a bet­ter low-​light cam­era if I’m going to be taking […]

Tower Control Records CD Release at the Beachland Ballroom

This past Fri­day was an event that I’d been look­ing for­ward to for sev­eral months. Tower Con­trol Records’ CD Release Party for The X Bolex and Jerk. 12 bands, $5 cover and free food pre-​show. It was super-​well orga­nized, no chance to miss a band’s per­for­mance and just enough time in between them to snag a smoke if […]

The Very Knees, Heartwarmer

I went to Pat’s in the Flats last night to see a cou­ple of bands. I know The Very Knees and like them muchly, and wasn’t famil­iar with Heart­warmer. Heart­warmer are from Ken­tucky and had some dance­able poppy tunes, a bit rem­i­nis­cent of Of Mon­tréal sans the glam and nods to the orches­tra­tion of Arcade Fire. My only […]

2007 Pitchfork Music Festival

I was at the Pitch­fork Music Fes­ti­val this past week­end. I took the Megabus to Chicago on Fri­day after work, even though I still didn’t have my tick­ets. I’d called up Tick­etweb and had them hold the tick­ets at will call instead. Once I got there it seemed to be the case for just about every­one. No one had […]

Self Destruct Button, Proletarian Art Threat, Parts & Labor

I took a break from pulling sta­ples and inhal­ing what might be lead paint dust to go to the Beach­land for a show. Just about every­one I know in the Cleve­land music scene was there, which is always a good sign. I’d even found my old “THE BOSSES YOU LOSE” shirt on my last visit home, so I could bust […]

Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman

Dur­ing unend­ing hours in the back of a con­ver­sion van and brief respites on land in Canada I read Chuck Klosterman’s Fargo Rock City. This book was rec­om­mended to me by Nate Scheible dur­ing a dis­cus­sion out­side of Parish Hall while wait­ing for a noise show to start and over a few Com­modore Perry IPAs. He found out that I was […]

Division of Planes

I first heard Divi­sion of Planes on MetaFil­ter Music. I told them to come to Cleve­land because I thought they’d go down well. One of the band mem­bers con­tacted me for more info. Well, they’re com­ing to Cleve­land, and they got the gig on their own gump­tion. If you check out their web­site they’re described as post-​punk […]

Beastie Boys Video Anthology

A part of this view­ing list: Cri­te­rion Col­lec­tion Spine #100: Beastie Boys Video Anthol­ogy. I have a dis­tinct mem­ory of danc­ing Inter­galac­tic stop-​motion style at some dance or other with my high school bud­dies senior year. I was never a huge Beastie Boys fan, though I cer­tainly got down to their music. For a per­son my age, it is pretty […]

Uncle Scratch’s Gospel Revival

Blk Tygr was play­ing again at the Beach­land last night, so I went and heard one of their new songs. It was an odd bill for them, since all the other acts were rock­a­billy asso­ciates. I par­tic­u­larly enjoyed Uncle Scratch’s Gospel Revival. Their act is just as cog­ni­tively dis­so­nant as their band name. For instance, one of […]

Music Update

Been Lis­ten­ing to: Eccen­tric Soul: Twinight’s Lunar Rota­tion Pacha Mas­sive — All Good Things Ted Leo and the Phar­ma­cists — Liv­ing with the Liv­ing Life­savas — Gut­ter­fly Coco Rosie — The Adven­tures of Ghosthorse and Still­born The Very Knees Chum PJ Har­vey Char­lie Parker Getachew Mekuria + The Ex + Guests

Blisse Anonyon Atu, Chum, The Library is on Fire, The Very Knees

I was at Edison’s last night for some great music. First off was Blisse Anonyon Atu from a redi­rected show at Vis­i­ble Voice Books. It was just her, an iPod with her tracks on it, and an effects machine. The result was an ethe­real bit of indie-​electronica, dancy and lan­guid at the same time. The only […]

Chiara Giovando and Daniel Higgs

Last night was the first real night of sum­mer for me. Filled with music, famil­iar faces and late-​burning eye­balls. Aster­isk Gallery had a fairly impromptu show fea­tur­ing Chiara Gio­vando and Daniel Higgs [lead singer of Lung­fish]. Ha Ha La was the first act, a sort of Daniel John­ston with a dash of Sigur Ros and [when-​used] Jesus and […]

Musical Windfall

I went to the Beach­land tonight to see Blk Tygr and ended up with a cart­load of local music. I either know enough peo­ple, or the right peo­ple enough to end up with stuff just get­ting handed to me. Of course, I also stopped by Music Saves and picked up three CDs I’ve been mean­ing to get. All […]

Lazy Boy Concert Keeper

I just down­loaded this awe­some iTunes plu­gin called iCon­cert­Cal. It uses the iTunes index and then searches for artists in your playlist and makes a cal­en­dar show­ing when and where they’ll be in your area. It isn’t fool­proof, since I imag­ine smaller groups aren’t going to be eas­ily found, but it is cer­tainly bet­ter than check­ing every […]

Ratatat Deux

I saw Ratatat for the sec­ond time last week­end. The first time was almost two years ago when they were tour­ing with Clinic. Stroud didn’t appear to be pound­ing whisky as hard as he was last time, but I wasn’t pay­ing much atten­tion, since the Beach­land was inun­dated with mid­dle and high school kids in an […]

Music Notes

My favorite song off the new Air album is Napalm Love. Winc­ing the Night Away didn’t do much for me, I think I’m out­grow­ing Shin­sish music. On the other hand, Ratatat’s Clas­sics is finally start­ing to grow on me. Ratatat Remixes would be bet­ter if the rap wasn’t quite so gangsta. I’m lik­ing Cat Sci­en­tist, although no […]

Duplicate

What is inter­est­ing about this post is that I tried to post it via YouTube’s Word­Press API. After hit­ting sub­mit, I was given a notice that there would be a delay before post­ing. I fig­ured they meant a few min­utes. Appar­ently they meant two days. I won’t be using THAT func­tion­al­ity again. Soft Spots I saw Soft Spots, for­merly Friend, for­merly Lit­tle Songs at […]

Soft Spots

I saw Soft Spots, for­merly Friend, for­merly Lit­tle Songs at the Beach­land last night. They’ve quickly become one of my favorite Cleve­land bands, if not the favorite. They started less than a year ago, and their music, already good to begin with, has only tight­ened and matured with age. They blind­folded the will­ing last night and […]

Reverse Chronological Weekend

This was another ridicu­lous week­end of music, art and poetry in Cleve­land. Last night I went to C-​Space and lis­tened to a few local women poets fol­lowed by the double-​barreled fea­ture shot­gun that is Alixa + Naima [MySpace page]. The poem Being Human [read it here], made me tear up. I snagged their CD and a sweet DIY silkscreen […]

Not My Own Content

I’m not in a content-​providing mood this week. Instead, for a change, I’m link­ing to oth­ers’ con­tent. Today I’ll post some links to mp3s you may or may not like. Eric Satie: 1. Four Gnossi­ennes 1-​Lent 3:34 [mp3] — Satie was a French com­poser who lived in the late 19th and early 20th cen­turies. If you like this you can […]

Tremont is Dead. Long Live Tremont.

When I first moved to Tremont almost two years ago I only knew two peo­ple in the neigh­bor­hood. They’ve since moved to New York City, greener pas­tures, and bet­ter oppor­tu­ni­ties. As I’m not very good at mak­ing friends, I decided that a good way of meet­ing peo­ple in the neigh­bor­hood would be to start a weblog and forum that would […]

This Is Spinal Tap

A part of this view­ing list: Cri­te­rion Col­lec­tion Spine #12: Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap. This will be short since I don’t know if I’m capa­ble of speak­ing crit­i­cally about a film that is so near and dear to my heart. In a sense, its exe­cu­tion was pre­scient, though rock­u­men­taries like The Song Remains The Same and […]

Yes, But What Goes Unsaid

I had a full and excel­lent week­end, full of superla­tives. I had sushi at Pacific East because Kimo’s was closed for the Indian’s game, watched A Mur­der of Crows by Mac Well­man at The Lim­inis and had a Pisco Sour and Bour­bon Daisy at the VTR. A Mur­der of Crows [I’m prob­a­bly going to go see it again to make […]

I Keep Forgetting These Goddamn Titles

My high school buddy Phil came in this week­end for a visit. We did a tiny music odyssey, went to a show at The Church, the Rock Hall, and the Happy Dog. Even though this wasn’t the best week­end to see a band [nobody par­tic­u­larly big was play­ing] we still rocked out to noise on Fri­day and blue­grass on […]

Slackjaw, Amy Kasio, The Shondes and a musing

Last night at The Church I saw three bands. Slack­jaw [soon to be Early Girl] was a folky-​moving-​toward-​rock band from Cleve­land that put together a decent sound but I seem to have caught them in the awk­ward part of the tran­si­tion. The vocals are still folky and get over­whelmed by the music. Amy Kasio was a two-​piece elec­tronic out­fit with poppy lyrics […]

Cleveland Bus Tour, The Compound, The Red Krayola

Sat­ur­day was an extremely full day for me. I rode my bike down to the Hanna build­ing and then took a 6 hour neigh­bor­hood tour of Cleve­land. Once that was over I went to a free all-​day local band rock show at The Com­pound and then went to Parish Hall to see the leg­endary The Red Kray­ola. The bus tour […]

At the Grog

I went to the Grog Shop last night to see my friend’s band Humphry Clinker and Tim Fite and Taran­tula A.D. and drink a few Newcastle’s. HC put on a good show, but the sur­prise of the evening for me was Tim Fite. He’s got a pas­sion­ate South­ern feel to his music, a bit of twangy Appalachian and a great sense […]

Bands at the Beachland

I watched just over half of the Super-​boring Bowl [com­plete with lame-​ass com­mer­cials] and then headed over to the Beach­land Tav­ern to hear a few bands. I saw two locals, The Dri­ven High and my friends Humphry Clinker and a band from Boston called The Beat­ings. All three bands had chick leads, which was nice. I also had an Irish […]

Lead Singer Disorder

My bros Bo and Phil [who are bros] just started an mp3 weblog. Go check out Lead Singer Dis­or­der, bro.

Nostalbums

We all have music that reminds us of cer­tain times in our lives. So here are my top five albums from High School, and the top five from Notre Dame. Also, what I asso­ciate them with.

Emily Strand

Emily Strand played at the Bark­ing Spi­der last night. It was a good show despite the fact that I was almost asphyx­i­ated by cig­a­rette smoke. I bought her CD for a cou­ple of fivers, found out she works for the Uni­ver­sity of Day­ton and sur­prised her [I think] by request­ing Voodoo Doll [mp3]. She played a bunch of songs, including […]

Promoter II

Press Release: West Lafayette, Indi­ana. David Led­man, recently of the Prozak Kit­tens, releases Burn Through Me [2.7Mb mp3], and the world was never the same.

Promoter

If you’ve noticed the appear­ance of a cou­ple of mp3 links up top, it is because my new host pro­vides me with 3Gb of trans­fers per month. I don’t come any­where near to using this much, so I fig­ured I might as well share some of my band­width. “Guz­zle Greed” is a live track recorded at the Bark­ing Spi­der and […]

Umphrey’s McGee and Ray’s Music Exchange at the Odeon

Wednes­day evening was the annual com­pany ‘event.’ Since no one really knows if it is a Christ­mas din­ner or a fall party or what, it is just known as the ‘event.’ It was at the Craw­ford Auto Museum, so I pretty much only went to see the antique cars. I saw an elec­tric car from 1906 and a mag­netic car […]

First Show

I played live for the first time as a mem­ber of Sub­lim­i­nal Self last night. Got free Guin­ness out of it too.

Fermata

I read music pretty well, but some­times I think my gui­tar instruc­tor thinks I’m an idiot, because I read music strangely.

Forecast

I woke up today to this on my weather page: But I’m not going to let that get me down. This week­end is the Cleve­land Music Fes­ti­val, and while GWAR is no longer head­lin­ing, I’ll still get the chance to see The Mis­fits and avoid Mush­room­head. Tonight I’m going to see one of my ex-​coworkers […]

Ratatat and Clinic

I saw Ratatat and Clinic at the Grog Shop last evening. Ratatat was sur­pris­ingly good. Just two guys and their gui­tars, some groovy bells and whis­tles [and a cool pro­jected psy­che­delic accom­pa­ni­ment] and lots of jam­ming. They didn’t have any lyrics but since each song seemed like a blend of exper­i­ment, impro­vi­sa­tion and vir­tu­os­ity, words prob­a­bly wouldn’t […]

What I Think About My Art.

I was rum­mag­ing through my old sheet music last night in search of some­thing sim­ple enough for me to play on my gui­tar. While doing this I came to the con­clu­sion that eight years ago I was a damn good sax­o­phon­ist. Up until high school march­ing band killed my love of musi­cal per­for­mance [a love that had already […]

Free Concert Friday

So, because I have devel­oped a few con­nec­tions through my work and have started writ­ing music reviews for Urban Dialect, I have now had guestlist access to two shows that I would oth­er­wise had to pay for. Last night I waltzed in to the Grog Shop to see Wait­ing For Evan­ge­line, Mur­der By Death! and Rasputina. The evening cost me […]

The Format and the Twilight Zone

Look, you all know that I am a frig­ging doo­fus. The fact that you know this is prob­a­bly part of the rea­son you read this [if, in fact, you read this]. Thus, it might not sur­prise you that, in my typ­i­cal over­en­thu­si­as­tic way, I could pur­chase con­cert tick­ets that are not even worth using as toi­let paper [too […]

The Format: Interventions and Lullabies

This album is absolutely amaz­ing. I might have said that about some other albums some­time in the past but I was lying or under the influ­ence of some sort of mind alter­ing sub­stance. In fact I’m under the influ­ence of a mind alter­ing sub­stance right now. That sub­stance is, of course, this won­der­fully vibrant and unas­sum­ing band called […]

Show Tonight

Tonight I’m going to see Sub­lim­i­nal Self at the Hi-​Fi club. Five Dol­lar Beer is part of this musi­cal cre­ation so I expect most of the songs to be about world foods. I was teamed up upon yes­ter­day by those who I thought were my friends. They tried to con­vince me that tonight’s show was also a cos­tume party. […]

Two Unrelated Reviews– Franz Ferdinand and the Riflemen

Franz Ferdinand’s [FF] self-​titled album is released tomor­row and is very antic­i­pated. I’ve been lis­ten­ing to it for about six weeks now due to cer­tain con­nec­tions I have. From what I’ve read they seem to get lumped in with The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and other neo-​garage rock­ers. I think this is pretty spot-​on but they thankfully […]

Musical Dustbin

My musi­cal tastes change with the weather and sea­sons. I might have taken this down before but I’m doing it again. Just mark it up as a tes­ta­ment to the fal­li­bil­ity of human mem­ory. …any­way The weather has warmed up a bit here in Cleve­land and that means I am going back into the dust­bin of my CD collection […]

laissez les bon temps rouler

I just got back from a sweet night of the blues fea­tur­ing Robert Lock­wood Junior. Lock­wood is allegedly the only per­son to have actu­ally learned gui­tar from the king of delta blues, Robert John­son. The blues ensem­ble that played with him was quite good, but it was obvi­ous their style of blues wasn’t the same as […]

How to Make A Compilation CD

Mak­ing a Com­pi­la­tion CD [c-​CD] is quite an affair. The process is described in detail in sev­eral places, some shal­lower than oth­ers. I never make c-​CDs for myself. The discs I burn that are com­pos­ites of artists, aren’t com­pi­la­tions. I just put them on a CD so I can lis­ten to them else­where. A c-​CD must be made for some­one else, […]

Cash

I won some Cash for Christ­mas and today I received it. I got the CD– Amer­i­can IV: The Man Comes Around and the DVD– Johnny Cash: A Con­cert Behind Prison Walls. I also received a cou­ple of stick­ers. I had heard the album with Phil right when it came out and was impressed, so it was great to win it […]

69:20

I’m typ­i­cally not very excited when I am given a hypo­thet­i­cal ques­tion along the lines of ‘If you were on a desert island what five things would you want with you?’ My answer is always some­thing along the lines of ‘A Coast Guard ‘copter, fuel for it, a book on how to fly a ‘copter, enough food and water […]

The Shins

So I just found out today that The Shins played in Cleve­land 3 days ago. I could have seen them for $15. Motherfucker.

Transform

Pow­er­man 5000’s lat­est LP, Trans­form, marks a tran­si­tion for the band from gothic space-​rock to a niche between n?-metal and stan­dard hard­core. Its not as good as it used to be, but at least it ain’t Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit. If it is any­thing, Trans­form is one of the strangest calls to arms I’ve ever come […]

Deloused in the Comatorium

Deloused in the Coma­to­rium [DITC], the new seman­tic expe­ri­ence from The Mars Volta. Read my pompous review, but first go buy the album. When At the Drive In split a while back, my friend Kyle was pretty miffed, they were one of his favorite bands. From the splin­ters of this band emerged two new musi­cal direc­tions: Sparta […]

The Decemberists: Castaways and Cut-​outs

Hell, I’m always on the look­out for some good new music. Unfor­tu­nately my search often results in less than good new music. There are far too many bands out there with delu­sions of grandeur, weird gim­micks, and stranger sounds, all of which don’t par­tic­u­larly agree with my con­sti­tu­tion. Thank­fully, The Decem­berists album Cast­aways and Cut-​outs […]

Turn On The Bright Lights

I’ve been burn­ing up Inter­pol in my CD player lately. Theirs is a musi­cal expe­ri­ence that I have never had the plea­sure of lis­ten­ing to before. Turn On The Bright Lights is a very taut album. It goes through a series of anx­ious peaks and intro­spec­tive val­leys but remains rife with a feel­ing akin to what post-​traumatic stress dis­or­der (PTSD) […]

April Fool’s Day Music Review

I saw Queens of the Stone Age and ZWAN last night in Nor­mal, IL. It was a pretty good show, with two very dif­fer­ent but capa­ble bands. QOTSA rocked out hard, ZWAN was more of a musi­cal odyssey than any­thing else. Billy didn’t talk to much, but it was obvi­ous he enjoyed the crowd. Paz Lenchan­tin, the […]

No Love Songs

i real­ized as i went through my col­lec­tion of mp3s and deleted 853mb of them that i have very few of what might be termed ‘love songs’ on my com­puter. most of the few that i had were sub­se­quently deleted. what does this mean? does it reflect an inher­ent lack of love within myself, or per­haps an alienation […]

The Vines

So plenty of peo­ple think that The Vines sound just like Nir­vana. I can see what they mean. Plenty of peo­ple also agree that Creed sounds just like Pearl Jam. I agree with them. Why do I like The Vines and abhor Creed? Per­haps its because every Creed song sounds the same, or per­haps the fact that Creed […]

Jurassic 5

Stu­dent Film Fes­ti­val was last night. ’twas excel­lent. leav­ing in a few hours to fence at OSU and kick some buck­eye ass. The Fri­day mp3 I’m not too big on rap, yet I like Juras­sic 5. They rap with an old school fla­vor that in a way that is refresh­ing from crap stuff like Nelly or Nel­lie or eminem or […]

Shonen Knife

I’m not a big one for japan­ese pop music, or even japanese-​american pop music, or even pop music. but i’ll make an excep­tion for this song by Shonen Knife. It is called Jaka­lope. I find no end of inter­est in the fact that a some middle-​aged japan­ese women were so fas­ci­nated with an ani­mal that lives in the […]

Metal Christmas

it is rather dif­fi­cult to get into the christ­mas spirit with finals/​papers/​projects loom­ing over me. every year i attempt it and every year i can­not seem to get excited for the hol­i­days until around the 20th, when school ends and i get to go home. i guess for me hol­i­days don’t exist with­out fam­ily. The Fri­day mp3 this week is […]

Milk

This Friday’s song comes from a band that kicks no end of ass: Jimmie’s Chicken Shack. They are funny, cre­ative, some­time polit­i­cal and always good to lis­ten to. They hail from the south­east coast of the US. Heav­ily influ­enced by reg­gae and the dead it is inevitable that they smoke up alot, but hell peo­ple have […]

Organic Mechanic

today’s choice was a no brainer. the band coin­ci­den­tally has the same name as my site, Organic Mechanic. you can sam­ple 4 of their mp3s on their site. but if you just want to grab some­thing now I rec­om­mend Life is Every­where. jazzy, poppy and catchy describe it pretty well. its obvi­ous these guys know a bit about musical […]

Concerts and Chicago

Balls! tis been awhile. Here is the last week. wednes­day: went up to Pur­due then drove with Phil to Chicago where we stayed with his brother Bo and his fiancé? Kerri. played monop­oly. lost hor­ri­bly. i HATE that. thurs­day: area2 con­cert fea­tur­ing Ash, Blue­man Group, Busta Rhymes, David Bowie, and Moby. all around good con­cert. but David […]

Upcoming Concerts

I’m start­ing to get hyped up, in a week i get to go see David Bowie and Moby on the Area2 tour, and Juliana Hat­field. Plus I’m going to get to chill with some friends a I haven’t seen in awhile in Chicago. I’ve also been lis­ten­ing to some new music. my buddy Matt rec­om­mended Dove­tail Joint, they […]

Weezer, buh-​dy

Weezer, budd-​y! Last night was a good con­cert night and could only have been improved if the Strokes hadn’t had to can­cel. Of course, there was the inevitable road­trip asso­ci­ated with attend­ing a con­cert in the mid­west but O My how fun it was. I got some free con­cert tix to a 12 local band show in Sep­tem­ber and a drumstick. […]

Trigger for Happiness

wish I could write like this: Enough search­ing to know that we’ve lost our­selves in our slot machines, shot­guns, and strip­malls baby your tech­nol­ogy so slick and func­tional and me with­out my nuclear arse­nal And if I could kill with­out guilt or sin there’d soon be a few less record exec­u­tives and if I could kill and recieve for­give­ness there’d […]

Concerts and Catchup

5.20.02 INT. SIEGFRIED HALL RM 450 9:44pm NIGHT i’ve got a lot to talk about. home was good, i stayed just long enough but didn’t see a whole lot of mom which i know she doesn’t like. bo and ker­ris place in chicago was pretty nice as well, the q101 jam­boree wasn’t very fun. the bands i saw were ZWAN, Tenacious […]

Soft Collision

i don’t want to write any­thing today. so here are some song lyrics. what do they make you think about or feel like or what do you think they mean? actu­ally just say any­thing about them that you want, i’m inter­ested. Soft now– the lips that dragged me down Soft now– until I hit the ground […]

Concerts as of 2002

mom is show­ing up today for Junior Par­ents’ Week­end. I hope this is a great expe­ri­ence. We have porn­star seat­ing at table 1 and table 6 for the meals. i’m not get­ting any work done this week­end, i can already tell you. con­certs i have been to: The Beach Boys: I think I was 8. All I remem­ber was that there was a huge column […]