Anyone else going to the Mountain Goats thing at Easy Street tonight?

Man, I meant to write something almost a week ago. Last weekend was the Capitol Hill Block Party, which I went to on Saturday. Pretty much every band I saw (Smoosh, Silversun Pickups, the Black Angels, and the Murder City Devils) was at least good, and my ears even recovered from the massive feedback droning of the Black Angels after a night's ( Read more... )

I like this phenomenon in which I take off for St. Paul, and arrive just in time for the hottest weekend of the summer, while Seattle basks in 70-degree perfection. Now I'm back, Seattle is boiling, and St. Paul is temperate. The heat at Macalester did have the happy result of sneaking into an air-conditioned building, finding a classroom open, ( Read more... )

And I succumb as well. I don't know whether to pick from ITunes at my house, which isn't all that accurate, or last.fm, or whatever, so I'm just throwing shit together. Obviously, this excludes things that are a)in another language, b)without lyrics, or c)by My Bloody Valentine.

( LYRICS MEME! )

And yet, at 1:30 in the morning, the sun is most definitely not shining. How ironic ( Read more... )

Okay, why isn't MTV like this anymore? I demand an explanation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aRM6LCyzCA

"Just fancy, thoughts come easily today, and everything has become so straightforward. All you have to do is to walk out of the door with your hat on at a jaunty angle! Perhaps I'll take the boat out. I'll sail out to sea ( Read more... )

One more year completely done with. Tomorrow morning, I head off to Virginia, ALL ALONE, because my plans never ever work out. I get back to my uncertain and possibly depressing summer in Seattle on the 17th. At least I have high hopes for the next school year. See some of y'all in a couple weeks, and goodbye to anyone that I don't manage to

It's probably not the best time to be updating. Ah well. I'm currently researching Soviet propanganda/journalism during World War II, for a 12-15 page paper due Tuesday. At least it's a pretty fascinating topic. On of my subjects is Ilya Ehrenburg, an elite, worldly Russian Jew who loved France and thought America was terribly uncultured. He ( Read more... )

( My new favorite comic of 100 years ago )