Tour starts tomorrow and lasts until August 14. I'm going to be taking a camera along, so expect pictures. The rest of this post has nothing to do with tour and everything to do with blogs. Consider it a reaction piece and companion piece to my girlfriend's post on the same subject ( Read more... )

I GOT FRONT ROW TICKETS TO SUFJAN STEVENS.

Then lost them.

I hatteeeee thattttt websiteeeeeeeee.

I got ok tickets after that. Still orchestra level, at any rate.

The Hudson News is closed for business in the early morning hours, so I sit in wait at the exit with a bouquet of flowers. And I watch the stars move across the sky--which one is yours tonight? Trying not to glance at the arrivals board too often (I might go down). I'll meet you from the plane in the east baggage claim. I'll wait for you. It's ( Read more... )

Spending most of my time on campus, at my apartment up north, or at Jen's in east Austin, it's refreshing to take the rare trip to non-sixth-street downtown. Though it's bland, downtown Austin has a special place in my heart, probably since I spent so much time there seeing shows freshman year. The city blocks around La Zona Rosa are fairly ( Read more... )

Would you like to assist me with a project?
Please send personal anecdotes (any, past or present), interesting news articles, short stories, novels, films, historical facts, etc.

Much appreciated.

I'll share with you the key elements to writing a hit song these days ( Read more... )

So the Decemberists are planning a new album (you heard it here--take that, Pitchfork). It's called "The Crane Wife," it purportedly contains a few epic-length songs (a la The Tain), and also like The Tain, it's being pushed as a "return to the RAWK" for the Decembs. To clarify, the Decemberists can't really "return" to something they've never ( Read more... )

Recent topics of inquiry (alphabetical):
Battlefield Earth
Brontosaurus
Dancing Baby
Gigantism
Lambada
McDonalds in other countries
Mithras
Mr. T
Nicknames
Postmodernism
Prophetic Dreams
Tarsier
Tombaugh, Clyde
Worst Films of All Time

Check any one of these topics out for guaranteed entertainment.

If you're Rick Young, your whole life boils down to a nighttime encounter in a restaurant ( Read more... )

When I started this LJ, my primary focus was on recording my life, which I found I was quickly forgetting. Even when I think of my freshman year now, I can't remember many of the details. My secondary focus was on sharpening my prose. If you read posts from back then, you'll find that objective was largely secondary ( Read more... )