i have begun practicing guitar again!  by next fall i hope to be back to at least the level of proficiency i was at during my peak (junior year of high school ( Read more... )

comment and i'll give you a letter. in your journal, list your ten favorite songs that begin with the letter that i give you...

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the next few months are just INSANE for me in terms of concerts.  check it ( Read more... )

oh hey peter bjorn & john,

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING PLAYING IN BOSTON ON THE SAME NIGHT AS TED LEO???????

love,
marybeth

THIS WAS IN MY ROOM LAST NIGHT:


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the new shins album has finally grown on me.

(no snarky comments about it just coming out last week, please.  it leaked in like october.)

because i have way too much fun making lists, here are my ten favorite albums of all time:

1. weezer - pinkerton
this and the blue album seriously changed my life.  if i hadn't come across weezer back in the day, i wonder if i would be the music fanatic i am now.  because really, everything i listen to has branched off from them.  would i even be ( Read more... )

neon bible just leaked in its entirety.  it's everything i was hoping for.  this is looking to be such a stellar year in music.

the decemberists are playing TWO BACK TO BACK NIGHTS IN BOSTON in march.  i am FREAKING OUT.

AND THEY'RE PLAYING AT A SMALLER VENUE THAN THEY DID IN NOVEMBER!  THE SAME PLACE AS THEIR PICARESQUE DAYS!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i made a bit of a scene at work upon hearing this news. 

i am now the music director at my school's radio station!

i might be addressing some envelopes to myself now at my co-op job.