December, 2008 has been the greatest month for music that I have ever had.

• Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass. Maybe there's something about white boy Long Island rap that speaks to my own experience. Regardless, about half of this album is incredible - specifically the part that isn't overproduced. Find "Coffee," which sticks funky guitar licks next to ( Read more... )

To Jess/Shann: What are your plans for London? I need to book train tickets ASAP.

To everyone else: Hi!!!

Sometimes nothing is happening in my life, but I hear songs that I wish applied in some way to my life. This one is just fucked up, but the point still stands.

Say say my playmate
wont you lay hands on me
mirror my lady
transfer my tragedy

Got a curse i cannot lift
shines when the sunset shifts
when the moon is round and full
gotta bust that box ( Read more... )

A few things that have to go under the radar of the parents ( Read more... )

A temporary link to my new blog (which will probably be changing in the next two days): http://appendixa.dyndns.org/blog/

I am going. I am going. I am going. Going, going, going, going. Going. I need this fact to actually congeal in my head. Today I bummed around all day playing Simcity 4. This cannot continue.

But because one of my modii operandi (sp?) has always been that mind must always deliver a giant can of whoop-ass to matter when times call for it, and because ( Read more... )

The following comprises my to-do list for Friday, September 8, 2006.

• Orthodontist appointment at 10:30 a.m. Thanks, Mom. I've been telling you I don't want to go back for the last year. My teeth have not moved in the intervening time, and that despite the constant crumbling of the plastic that comprises my upper retainer. Also, there's nothing ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my last day at work. I feel very mixed about that.

They made me a cake!

I've been asked a few times what I do at work this summer. This post is an attempt to resolve those questions.

Today is by far the weirdest day I've had here at work. And it caps the end of a pretty weird week too ( Read more... )

4. I didn't know the answer, so I decided to go right to the source. Going through my various digestive organs, I managed to pull out exactly one molecule of maltase. I carefully placed it on a petri dish ( Read more... )