i tend to write in this livejournal when i am somewhat emotionally distraught (or when i'm just bored)--

and today i've been agitated all day over one rattling guitar string... just one! i don't think i have to adjust the truss rod for it since it's only one...

i bought a guitar on ebay recently, an ibanez artcore afs75T; it's a pretty decent ( Read more... )

...i'm tired but i don't wanna sleep

oh and this too, i really love this song:

bikini kill, "feels blind" in 1992. i was probably in kindergarten!

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check out the crazy dancing girl (aside from kathleen hanna the lead singer)!! she's my hero ...
i've been also watching some old sleater-kinney footage.... vintage stuff from '96. oh my goodness

next thursday (july 31st) thao with the get down stay down is playing in SF. i just realized that the venue that they're playing it is 21+ and a couple of minutes before that i was debating whether or not i should go because i'm a lametard without a car and would look like a total loser alone at a show plus i would probably get kidnapped in the ( Read more... )

nintendo ds synthesizer software based on the korg ds-10

how totes sweet!!

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i'm no synthesizer buff or even own one, but damn, this is so cool. :D

ladytron plays this song at the beginning of their recent shows...it's totes awesome.

madeleine chartrand, "ani kuni" (1970s)

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it's a traditional folk song of the canadian aboriginal "first nations" peoples (don't know much about them). i can see why ladytron picked this song to play at the beginning to get the audience and themselves pumped up for ( Read more... )

"strong"

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to be honest i really don't listen to cat power at all
but i came upon some super old footage from ten years ago!

cat power's "metal heart," @ bottom of the hill, san francisco:

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i'm in love and i'm going to cry now! ...and i fucking wish i was old enough in 1998 to know what was happenin' then, cos' back then i didn't know shit (or what was ( Read more... )

i'm in antioch right now (contra costa county). the past few days i've ( Read more... )

this is thao nguyen (as in thao and the get down stay down).

this song is called "beat (health, life, and fire)." (venue at rasputin's records in berkeley.)

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( and how? )

CATHERINE FERROYER-BLANCHARD - "tu fais le malin" (you look like a smart ass?)

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i love this singer! cute dancers (the masks! ahh!) ... don't know if she's lip synching or not, and the applause at the end seems so fake (part of the routine probably)! but still! the tune is catchy. sometimes i feel like they seem to be bored performing...or is this ( Read more... )