I really want to see Slim Cessna's Auto Club at Spiegel World on Monday, October 13th and Woven Hand at the Knitting Factory on Tuesday,  October 14th, but Sara can't come and I freaking hate going to shows alone.

Both Woven Hand and Slim Cessna are incredible Southern Gothic bands, mixing Country, Bluegrass, tradition French and Swedish Folk with ( Read more... )

• 13:29 Today, I have donned a jacket and tie, against all logic and genetics, for a day of meetings and an evening of schmoozing. #
• 13:31 The look has been sufficiently modified, though. Black linen jacket, black shirt, black BDU pants, white tie...fuckers won't take me alive. #

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• 10:51 Hungover. Badly. Listening to a selection of Nordic Folk seems to be helping. Yes. Yes. Pleasantly Percussive it is. #
• 11:02 Now comes the Swedish Folk Metal. #
• 11:12 Swedish Folk Metal: Appropriately doomy for the thundercloud currently squatting in my head, but the vocals are pretty silly. #
• 11:43 Ok, now this stuff is a bit to Ren Fair: ( Read more... )

• 09:55 You work really, really hard to help a student win a scholarship to Egypt, and what happens? "It's rough living here. I'm going home." #
• 09:56 Hey, fuck you, you pampered brat. I'll take your place. All I need is a camel and a sleeping bag. YOU'RE IN EGYPT FOR FREE YOU INGRATE! #
• 09:57 My job satisfaction has just dropped beyond the zero. My ( Read more... )

• 15:38 FU Playwright #12: 2 republican political operatives invite 2 Dem political operatives over for a double date, with intent to poison them. #
• 09:35 The new TV on the Radio starts out good but too straightforward. At the half way mark, though, it absolutely loses its shit. #

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• 16:26 @ StructureD The dreaded insanity mangos! #

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• 10:00 Eating organic, dried, chili lime mangos: Tastes fine. Smells like mushrooms. The FUN kind of mushrooms. Can you have a fungus flashback? #

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Anyone interested in celebrating craft beer week with a pub crawl around Park Slope sometime this week? 

• 10:41 Watching this year's TV election coverage, I'm like a kid in Halloween 3, with the pumpkin mask, my head exploding into snakes and insects. #
• 10:42 "Happy Happy Halloween, Silver Shamrock." #
• 10:42 Too obscure? #
• 11:27 @ danfaust Quite possibly, I seem to live every day of my life on that razor's edge. #

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I haven't written about music in a while, so I let party shuffle determine the soundtrack for this morning.

So, here's the playlist full of pretentious comments by me. I'm in the mood to fight about some songs. Who's first?

Momma's Boy : Nancy Sinatra : Nancy Sinatra One of the lesser songs from Nancy’s 2004 come back record. A dirge written by ( Read more... )