I love this holiday, I got to listen to drop kick and the pogues on a commercial radio station. I had wonderful company and listend to swagger five or six times while frantically slurping car bombs. I'm eating brie and listening to new music with a few friends. College is sublime tonight

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This morning, the lineup for Lollapalooza 2006 was announced, revealing a galaxy of alternative rock stars, indie icons, jam bands, has-beens, up-and-comers, and even a few token rappers. The big name headliners seem to be Red Hot Chili Peppers<<>>, Kanye West<<>>, Manu Chao (?!)<<>>, Wilco<<>>, Death Cab for Cutie<<>>, Jack White's new baby ( Read more... )

first of all thanks for all the birthday wishes, sorry this is a little belated, but life has been a shit-storm lately ( Read more... )

Its about that time eh ( Read more... )

one of my facets is Max Burke---host of Songs tell Stories, an Alt-Indie show on Kups the Sound. One of my favorite songs right now on rotation is called Ambiguity by David Thomas Broughton, from his cd A Complete Guide to Insufficiency, a terrible name for an album, but the cd is sooooo dam good it doesnt matter....The whole dam thing was ( Read more... )

Tell you what i'm gonna do ( Read more... )

I got a friend whose goal in life ( Read more... )

really i wont----fuck inside my head is a lot, getting typed is little

i am enraged tonight....i'm gonna go read a book, it may calm me down

I was writing this dreadful post about how i think i'm halfway done with college and ready to be an adult, but i got sick of it and decided to post my course books for this semester which look like fun. An annotated bibliography to max's homework ( Read more... )

What is it about New Years that makes everything from shitty sitcoms to my family go nuts with the need to self-improve? Doesnt that same something degrading about the state of our nation/culture when once a year is really all we care to think about improving ourselves. At least have a day in June that we could call "Half way there day" or better ( Read more... )