Seen From the "L ( Read more... )

"no one said life was fair, just eventful."

wake up, compile yesterday's coverage, send it in, decide which day show(s) to attend, go there (bus or cheap cab), eat tex-mex on the way, get to show, drink water, rock out, write, snap pictures, swig from clandestine bottle of cranberry vodka, rock out some more, go to hotel, dump video/photos on laptop, write, decide which show(s) to see ( Read more... )

also, my dog might have cancer again. if she does, that's it. she's really old. pretty gutted.

EDIT: she doesn't have cancer! her liver is a bit inflamed, so she is on meds and otherwise acting pretty perky. home from the vet. i cried at my mom on the phone. puppppppyyyyyy <3

where did january go? where the fuck is february going? i am spending half of this week in NJ, march 3-7 in oklahoma fucking city (!?), and march 17-22 in austin. i have no idea where the time is going. i'm okay with that. the faster we barrel towards the summer, the better. i am going to go to the beach all the time.

1. canon digital point-and-shoot with memory card, as recommended by photographer mark ( Read more... )

Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to ( Read more... )

january: this time tomorrow morning, in two weeks, kevin falahee and i are gonna be on a plane to tampa, florida, to see the hold steady in ybor city. blame it on the cheap post-holiday airfare and my powers of persuasion. "excited" doesn't even begin to describe it.

february: FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping
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on the hold steady message board, which has evolved to epic proportions, we have a thread called "stay positive." people write about things that make them happy, or cool things they've observed, or just anything of a positive nature. there's also "the bullshit thread," where folks sound off about things that are getting them down, or vent ( Read more... )

from nothing to radio songs to cute courting to the first strike to careful games to clandestine affairs to inseparability to sleepless fighting to fucking torture/heartbreak to silence to reconciliation to relapses to ending to careful distance to big changes to harsh reality to false ambivalence to quiet tearful realizations to nothing. rest in ( Read more... )