This week has seen two fucking incredible shows: The Notwist and Super Furry Animals. I wasn't able to write down the Notwist setlist but they didn't play anything I hadn't heard before (although the songs were all much better live than they were the last time I saw them). The Furries played a wonderful set as you can see here ( Read more... )

Recent rumors have suggested that Nine Inch Nails will be joining the Coachella lineup, along with Massive Attack, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Broken Social Scene, My Morning Jacket and !!!. Hrmmm, seven more reasons why I can't afford to miss this festival. There're still a few days until they officially announce the lineup so I have had to satisfy ( Read more... )

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So, after much deliberation and consideration, I have finally found the time to compile my top ten albums list for the year two thousand twenty-three. Don't know why I put off writing it for so long, but I guess I'm glad a did since a few of the albums that made the final cut I only picked up very recently. Number ten seems just as good a place ( Read more... )

YAY! Back in the Ham at long last. You people should give me a call so I don't get stuck at Manly's every night I'm home :p I am unfortunately without any mode of transportation at the moment, but that ought to be solved tomorrow.

After much deliberation I finally got my Best of 2003 compilation disc thrown together. I unfortunately had to leave out about a dozen songs I really wanted to include, but if had been able to include them then it wouldn't just be the best of the best, would it? It'd be the best-of-2003-with-some-other-songs-I-really-like-thrown-in-there-for-good ( Read more... )

Last Friday night just before the Seneca show, around 10, it started snowing. It didn't stop snowing until late Sunday afternoon. Thankfully it wasn't enough to keep the Comcast guy from stopping by Saturday morning and hooking my internet back up, though now I need a computer of my own so I don't drive my roomate insane using his. By the end it ( Read more... )

The weather folk are predicting a foot of snow fall between tonight and sunday... Sounds like its time to hunker down in my den with a large bottle of gin and some tonic to wait out the threatening storm. But first I shall be going to see Seneca tonight at O'Briens, right down the street. I met these guys through a friend's ex-girlfriend and I ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving in Ohio turned out to be pretty good. I got to see nearly all of my relatives and ate a ton of good food. Plus I managed not to smoke a cigarette for 5 days which is at least a step in the right direction. My grandfather's memorial service was very good. He had a prepurchased burial plot but told my dad and uncle he'd prefer ( Read more... )

I awoke Saturday morning to receive a phone call from my mom very similar to one I got on a Saturday morning three weeks ago. My grandfather had been fighting cancer for the last few years and recently underwent a very risky procedure, so it came as little surprise to hear of his passing. I was never very close to him, but it saddens me to think ( Read more... )