I talked to an Australian from Canberra today on the phone. After I gave him directions to my house from Durham, he said he would start "beetling on over." I've been lolling about that all day ( Read more... )

I got into a semi-drunken argument with a friend over these girls who wore flip-flops to the White House. I called it a huge crime against good taste, and she held that since they were Ann Taylor flip-flops then it was okay. It all boiled down to me saying I would never ever date anyone who wears flip-flops in public places other than the beach or ( Read more... )

Summer TV. I'm in the middle of watching the third season of "Six Feet Under." Getting ready for episode 6. The first five have really sucked. In fact, the first two episodes were downright lousy. Worst of the whole series. Bad writing. Zero character development. Stupid story lines. After watching eps 1 and 2, I was ready to give up on the whole ( Read more... )

the one show in the next few weeks that maybe i can go to:

of montreal

shows i will miss:

bishop allen
bob mould
brian jonestown massacre
doves
sufjan stevens
electric six
new pornographers (i'm really annoyed i'll miss this one)
junior brown
holly golightly

i'm really going to miss the music scene. =(

i fucking hate mariachi music.

well, for my first time ever on the radio, that went well. somebody said we sounded rehearsed, but we were making things up on the fly the whole time. kind of nerve-wracking at first, but once we got a rhythm going i had things pretty well figured out. i suppose it helps that i've listened to a lot of radio so that i kind of knew what to do once i ( Read more... )

a friend of mine who i don't see very often got a job offer to write for "law and order." she was kind of undecided about whether or not to take job and move to new york - which also includes the fact that she could basically live there for free at her uncle's place on park avenue - but i think seeing my excitement over it has caused her to ( Read more... )

i went to a party last night at this house way, way, way out in the woods, far enough away from everything that it was kind of creepy at first. but the house turned out to be really cool - it was one of those giant houses crammed full of art and sculpture in every room. there were also random pieces of sculpture scattered around outside all over ( Read more... )

i figure you're around lj long enough, eventually this sort of shit happens.

( kitten photos )

iron and wine was not as good as i hoped it would be. the songs that were just him, samuel beam, were fantastic. but he also brought a band along, which was to be expected i guess, but it was five pieces in addition to himself. having that many people playing instruments wrecked a good number of the songs they did. after all, beam's main appeal is ( Read more... )

i finally got around to watching the last (3rd) season of strangers with candy. it's been out on dvd for many months. not really sure how many ( Read more... )