still not employed. have another interview thursday at a different library branch. hopefully one of these 3 interviews will come through. staying at home lots is giving me cabin fever. also; today my car (i.e. my parents' car that i still have) wouldn't start. so hopefully i can jump it later and it was just run down for some reason. the band ( Read more... )

i was lucky enough to watch a sort-of bohemian house wedding in athens. this is a rough piece i hope to improve on. will try and post a tour journal of sorts tomorrow ( Read more... )

i'm in chapel hill, or thereabouts. this would be one of the best tours yet, minus the old 1992 ford e-series biting it in texas. blew out the transmission at 75 mph in the hill country. had to sell it for $70. could have cut losses and come home, tail between legs, but we rented a mini-van on a credit card and press on. lots of people like ( Read more... )

the last part of my thesis. listening to tons of sun ra today, hoping i get a call-back on one of my job applications.

( part five: ever-present buzz )

On the evening of July 4th, Muncie blocks off the section of North Wheeling Avenue that runs beside the murky, sluggish flow of the White River. Townies and students set up lawn chairs, coolers, grills smoking with burgers and brats, listen to live music blaring from the gravel lot of the 909 Grille, and everywhere, drink flows. ( Read more... )

( part two: No Control )

since i'm jobless and ceaselessly working to finish our tour (i'll post dates when i knock off one of the now 3.5 open dates)...i figured what better time to post the 40+ pages of my senior thesis. i don't expect anyone to actually finish it, but maybe you'll be entertained by a part. there's a table of contents and everything. anyways, it's a ( Read more... )

oh yeah, my car (the one i bought in early february; 98 vw passat for close to 4k)...broke down on friday when i was supposed to be seeing amelia. so that was bad enough; and in addition, i thought, knew, it was the transmission ( Read more... )

man, booking is frustrating. DIY is frustrating....but very rewarding when things work out, cause you step back and say, "man...i did that!" i wonder how many DIY bands get feeler e-mails from major label a&r every 6 months or so. probably tons. stupid a&r. next one we get, our response is going to be, "yes, here is our record, if you want to ( Read more... )