quad party was a lot more fun than anticipated. i mean sure, it was pretty much what i expected it to be with tons of random drunk people everywhere mostly making fools of themselves, but if you were with the right people, as i was, it was a lot of fun. plus, some people who don't go to canisius were there, which was nice. the fun pretty much ( Read more... )

saturday afternoon before i'd left for ithaca, i was with mike and we were discussing how Junior Boys would perform their set, i.e., what means they would use to play the music, i.e., instruments (namely synths) vs. laptops. obviously, we'd both hoped that instruments would be used, so when they were setting up and getting ready to start their set ( Read more... )

saturday, 30 april 2005 ( Read more... )

Animal Collective were fan-freaking-tastic. the only complaint i'd have about that night was that Ariel Pink was having "van trouble," and they weren't sure if he was going to make it, so it was a while before anyone took the stage, which AC finally did about 90ish minutes after doors (Ariel Pink finally did show up in the middle of AC's extended ( Read more... )

tonight.
tonight should be nothing short of magnificent.
if you don't know why, go to soudlab at 9pm and find out.

The Deep North will forevermore exist solely in the memories of those who took part in it and of those, few though they are, who were able to briefly witness its majesty first-hand.

let us embrace and celebrate the next chapter.
details will be provided as they take place.

so DFA79 were in the middle of "Romantic Rights," and suddenly the drummer just gets off the drums and starts singing into a mic that was set up in front of the bass player while the bass player keeps playing. originally i thought it was just gonna be a short thing where he was gonna do something wacky and then get back on the drums, but it became ( Read more... )

last week didn't exactly end as nicely as i'd hoped/thought it would/might, but whatevs ( Read more... )

last week was pretty shitty, although there were a couple positives here and there.

the week before that was fucking great. valentine's day = probably the best yet. buying 5 cds = always nice (minus the whole spending of money thing, but i still do it anyway). cory arcangel @ albright knox = great, great time. john finding DFA Compilation #2 @ new ( Read more... )

i guess Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney aren't coming to town.
liar.
they are, however, playing at suny purchase on april 16, i believe. i have no idea how far that is from here. maybe i'll go. i probably won't [hangs head in shamei'm much more seriously considering going to toronto to see M83 in april. going alone might be weird, though. i ( Read more... )