To say that the assortment of people at Water Canyon tonight was a motley crew is to insult spandex-wearing hair-metal bands everywhere. There were some good folks there, definitely. But then we had an unusually large contingent of the BMX-riding, trucker-hat wearing crowd. It's so adorable when they grunt monosyllabically ( Read more... )

Two music quizzes to break up my morning:


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Two corrections on last night's post, and one new thing before I toddle off to school ( Read more... )

A new look for the ol' LiveJournal. Why? Because I've been grading research papers for an hour, and I need a break. I'm truly too cool for school.

A good show tonight, although the crowd was a little smaller than usual. But all the feedback I've heard was good (except for one person, and those of you in the know realize who I'm talking about [and you also realize how little that one opinion means to me]), and I'm looking forward to the reactions people have for the next two shows. There ( Read more... )

An altogether tiring day. I cranked out the usual seven hours in the classroom, did the dress rehearsal thang, and then realized that I had a couple more hours of odds 'n' ends to finish for the show tomorrow night. So I had to pass on a Starbucks rendezvous with Summer and Ashley to come home and do the following ( Read more... )

Music good. There are few things in life more satisfying than buying a new CD and discovering that it is, in fact, godlike. Besides the new Walkmen disc (which is tickling my eardrums as I write this), I also dropped way too much money on the Cure B-sides box set. But oh what a pleasure it will be to listen to that ( Read more... )

If liberal politics annoy you, skip this post ( Read more... )

No post tonight. Rehearsal was over at six, I worked on the set till 9:30, went to Wal-Mart to buy more stuff for the set, graded a couple poetry analysis rough drafts, then discovered that six more had been emailed to me this evening. It's gonna be a looooooong night ...

After doing my music-assisted stroll down Memory Lane, I thought I'd see if I could do the same with movies. My thinking went something like this: "As pivotal as movies have been to my life, surely there are certain memories linked to specific titles. That might be an interesting thing for people to read about." So I thought about it just long ( Read more... )