Talking to Walls will be played on Rob DeRosa's Homegrown radio show this week on WESU. Homegrown, a rad show focusing on CT bands, airs from 5 to 6 PM on Thursdays. Check it out-- and remember, you can listen to WESU online at wesufm.org. Also, Rob DeRosa is (if I recall rightly) the guy who runs Red & Black. Neat ( Read more... )

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Also: come on, that Obama/Phil Lynott action is scary.

Theory: When Phil Lynott died in 1986, he was reborn as Barack Obama in order to enter Harvard Law two years later.


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Album mixing is done. Mastering is this week (we think). Art and production is still up in the air, and we still have bonus tracks to do, but it feels good to have this thing done. We could have tweaked forever...

Political life has been for so long a series of disappointments. The first real opinion I held was in 1999, when I supported removing Clinton from office; it wasn't going to happen, of course, and would have been lousy for the Democrats, but I stand by that decision, and anyway it's not like we did so hot in 2000. I wasn't sure whom I supported in ( Read more... )

Just played an awesome acoustic show. There were a bunch of Darien high school kids there (no school tomorrow, don'tcha know) and they LOVED US. Sold a bunch of T-shirts and CD's, and we're gonna play some school events or something.

PLUS I GOT FREE CAKE

Tonight was a win.

According to Sarah Palin, our commanding general in Afghanistan is one General McClellan. This is the only General McClellan in U.S. military history:


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My IRA has lost about $500 in the past couple of days. Oh, $500, there are so many things I could have done with you...

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So Iron Man was super awesome. Weirdly, we didn't get the Dark Knight trailer at my screening, which I'm bummed about. Also, we stayed through about 80% of the credits, then went, "Eh, there won't be a secret thing afterwards. Who cares." BUT THERE WAS. Boo. At least it's on YouTube ( Read more... )

Friday: Maria Pia and I drove to Philadelphia for my birthday present, which was to go to the Star Wars exhibit at the Franklin Institute. So awesome. They had a ton of props, models, and costumes from the movies, and then some displays trying to relate Star Wars to real-life science. But man... so good. We also waited in line for an hour and a ( Read more... )