now, if you came home late at night and found your kitchen and bathroom lights both on, and your bathmat disheveled, and the plunger atop your toilet tank, and a pot from your stove on your bathroom sink, wouldn't you expect to find a note somewhere in the apartment, something to ameliorate the perfectly natural fear of finding your apartment in ( Read more... )

brief things:

1. the best birthday present i got this year was from glowworm28, who filled a tiny blank book with 26 things she likes about me. it was really sweet and made me happy. it's fun to know how others perceive you, too.

2. music writing: i have my first full-length article up on stylus today! it's about the music in the film morvern callar, and ( Read more... )

c'mon man, it's my birthday, fuck this wet snow ( Read more... )

i "called" in "sick" today (e-mailed) (not really sick) because i stupidly stayed up until 4 am. my body has been letting me down lately (the main symptom is frequent muscle spasms), which i think is a result of not enough rest, so i figured i shouldn't push it. also, canasta is playing tonight at the double door, and i want to play an awesome ( Read more... )

so i'm bummed out because i found out last night that canasta is doing some recording this saturday, and i'd been hoping to have a relaxing saturday to myself, especially after being away for the last two weekends. and because it's my birthday weekend. (i turn 26 on friday.) and because i have no idea now when i'm ever going to get anything done. ( Read more... )

it's nice to feel welcome! (hi mark, chris, mike, kelsey, and sylvia.)

i just got an apologetic e-mail from a.p., the cute-as-hell village voice writer who was supposed to meet up with me at sxsw but never called (yeah, i'd given her my digits and everything). she said it was a crazy few days for her. i understood: in her blog, she talked about ( Read more... )

i wonder what would happen if i actually started posting here. well, let's see. lowercase is key. if i go uppercase, i will fret about making it perfect. and that's not why i want to post here. so: beautiful lowercase ( Read more... )