About a month ago, I wrote and recorded a demo for a song called Paint It Red. It didn't really have a chorus, but it rather repeated the same five verses three times. The point of the song was that no matter how hard you try, life doesn't really change ( Read more... )

The Jimmy Carter Experience, my brother's band, had a gig tonight. I was standing around during the openers, and the singer actually singled me out and told everyone how great my T-shirt was (a Mr. Show shirt)... Embarassingly, I was not paying attention at the time. My friends had to tell me that I was part of the show! After that, I thought I ( Read more... )

Every year, my parents host a halloween party for my friends and me. It isn't your standard costume party at all, and it actually focuses another Halloween tradition: the Jack-O-Lantern. Each year, the works become more and more creative, and in recent years, we've even voted on which was the best ( Read more... )

Last April when I went to Italy, I wrote the following ( Read more... )

so by now, you all know of my insane plan to travel 1460+ miles for concerts this Fall. Well, guess what, I'm adding another show. I've fallen in love with Tilly And The Wall. They're a group out of Omaha and their main bass section is an amplified tap dancer. This is the eclectic stuff I love. Why didn't anyone alert me when they were playing ( Read more... )

I hate hate HATE the new yahoo.com. On the old version of the page, they'd have prominent news stories, but now it's all garbage. Here are the four stories that Yahoo now thinks are important to me ( Read more... )

Lately I've been posting movie related stuff to my myspace blog -- mostly just the reviews I write for the Georgetown newspaper -- but I thought this was interesting enough to cross-post. Oh, and if you haven't already, subscribe to my myspace blog so you can tell me how much my taste in movies sucks ( Read more... )

Well, late summer/early fall is shaping up to be a mighty strong period for concerts. Here's the rundown ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to me, I guess...

Recently, our roommate Chad decided that he was going to move in with his girlfriend. Considering that we've rarely seen him in the last 8 or so months, this really wasn't much of a lifestyle change for my brother and me. As he started emptying his overly cluttered room, he started noticing a bit of a smell and the fact that his feet were getting ( Read more... )