$3.25 pint of budweiser with jess & jim, squishing into a seat next to matt petricone, meeting james felice (for real this time), wondering why rhino rick is staring at me, hugs from bill clark, and the mid-hudson bridge lights soundtracked by pink floyd on WPDH (really, do they play anything else ( Read more... )

so, an old family friend who mostly talked to my oma and opa (when he was alive), called my oma and told her to vote for mccain and said that obama would make white people pay for what they did to black people. it was the first time i'd ever sworn to my oma, and the curse was "bullshit ( Read more... )

you can read it/watch it here.

my TMT editor forwarded me an e-mail with the subject "shudder to think review" and i was scared to open it, thinking it was reader e-mail pointing out an error. it was actually from shudder to think's publicist, who apparently liked it a lot.

this makes me happy.

you know, i'm actually kind of bummed that i won't go see a show tomorrow night... because it will be the first time in five days. CMJ 2008 was everything that CMJ 2007 was not. i did not drink at all, bumped into a ton of people i know, saw more than 20 bands, went to ... 8 venues? maybe more, and got a lot of pictures and video. it was actually ( Read more... )

i have purchased a GRE prep book from the princeton review.

jezebel posted a really hilarious/true article making fun of all the articles being written on how to live through the recession: http://jezebel.com/5063647/the-complete-idiots-guide-to-the-recessionRead more... )

and now for my show wishlist, in alphabetical order ... though more bands are added all the time, so this may grow! also, i wish they would announce the gol-dern schedule already so i can figure out which day (singular, sigh) to take off work ( Read more... )

i will finally be going to california in january, courtesy of carl fischer, for this:


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i bought a lot of books ( Read more... )