So… 2.5 weeks at home (only 1.5 more ‘til I’m in DC) and it’s finally come to this… updating my livejournal.  I would have written something sooner, but to be honest there’s not too much to say.  Clinton Township is the same as ever, but I’ve kept busy passing out flyers for the Honorable Fred Miller (as well as introducing him as a guest speaker ( Read more... )

...done.

And with it, the semester.

I win again, James Madison.

warning- incredibly sophmoric male humor ahead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAIt4MgnHc

All I can say is that this is an honest to god commercial for an honest to god children's toy..... god bless America and its ad executives, who are either unbelievably idiotic or have one of the most twisted senses of humor mankind has ever seen.

from The New York Times today:

'High Fidelity' Gets a Broadway Remix

Desert island, all-time, top-five reasons rock geeks will start debating the merits of Broadway this year: 1. "High Fidelity," the 1995 Nick Hornby novel (and later a 2000 movie) about a romantically unlucky record store owner who incessantly makes what-would-you-take-to-a-desert- ( Read more... )

What?  Jeff is making an update?  Of substance?  Surely this cannot be....

Well, believe it kids... inspired by the triumphant return of
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The Billy Bragg Vol. 1 box set has arrived.

Seven CDs. Two DVDs.

Despite not seeing him play in Ann Arbor last night, you are looking at one very happy soulboy :)

so i came across this via
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top five things that have me geeked right now:

1. This song (scroll to bottom of story).  Just when you thought Elvis Costello couldn't get cooler, he goes and puts out an album that not only rearranges his hits for symphonic jazz backing, but puts lyrics to jazz songs that previously had none.  If you need me tomorrow morning, I'll be at Barnes and ( Read more... )

...I formed a blog!

after my growing addiction to mp3 blogs over the past tow months, I decided to utilize my long dormant blogger account and MSU webspace to make one of my own.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Best Songs Will Never Get Sung

Basically, this will be me dipping into my bast music collection to share a song every couple of days, ( Read more... )

"The point of the song is we are very well damaged by the legacy of the romantic poet, that we think of love as a thing that is with strings and is this force for good and then if something bad happens thats not love...I don't know so much about that I don't know that the Greeks weren't right, I think that they were, that love can beat a path ( Read more... )