"Thats right - 24-7 SPYZ! One of the most influential bands on the planet, and originators of "HeavyMetalSoul" as defined by their 1989 groundbreaking disc, "Harder Than You", will be making a rare US appearance. Over the course of six influential releases Bronx natives Jimi Hazel and Rick Skatore have garnered critical acclaim and legions of ( Read more... )

someone got shot at ernies cafe a minute after i'd just walked out the door. it's had me rattled all week. the shooter ran out the back door and shot two kids in the back of the head a few blocks away. dead. he's on the loose. he'd already tried to kill someone when he was seventeen, and spent four years in jail. this is two weeks in a row there ( Read more... )

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i am succeeding quite well at being a dirtbag. for the third time this week i hit up the record stores in providence, peddling my wares, vinyl and cd's i no longer want. first stop, because they close earlier, in your ear. dennis was working, which  was a good thing; he generally hooks me up pretty good. his band, the deterrents had played ralphs ( Read more... )

i have been looking at the frozen tundra around my house for too long, simply admiring it. it was time to venture out, wander it, freeze with it. i went to christian's house down the driveway, bundled up, armed with an ice axe; i wanted to check the wind speed, and look out the picture window in his living room across the river. from this vantage ( Read more... )

surprising even myself, i didn't go visit danielle. she gave me directions to her work and we were going to meet up, eat dinner, go to her meeting. i knew i shouldn't really even get that much involved with her though. i followed the directions she'd given me, but couldn't find her studio. i knew she meant left instead of right off the exit ramp. ( Read more... )

five communities, and one hundred and thirty people list 'chuck e cheese' as an interest... i want nothing to do with any of them!

worked in pennsylvania... yesterday? ...two days ago? ....three? i had to re-bury our non metallic EMT conduit before they pour a concrete floor; it wasn't deep enough apparently. i'd checked it out the day before and it was to spec on the blueprint, but the next morning the superintendent for the entire strip mall (who's authority supercedes my ( Read more... )

slept on the couch, only slightly better than the previous evening. feeling anxious to go home, sort out this week, wear my own clothes, get away from the boring matt, the strangeness of being around danielle. they were going to drop me off in RI on their way home to PA. they took their time packing things up; john and i played pool, and we ended ( Read more... )

... a terrible nights sleep. the air mattress i was on made me feel like i was floating, gave me weird(er) thoughts, messed with my brain. girls whispered all night, nearby; at four thirty i got up to listen to wind chimes and the wind itself... slept for two hours maybe. the matress was largely deflated, my spine rested on the floor, the ensuing ( Read more... )