This was a show I was happy to show up late for, because the two openers didn't sound like they would be much fun. I was proven right when I got there halfway through the second band's set and it was pretty lame ( Read more... )

Today I had my new More Expensive But Much Smaller desk (courtesy Room&Board) delivered, fufilling the desk-size-reduction drive I've had since moving into this apartment three years ago. Now maybe I can consider switching out my rental cable modem for the one I bought when I moved in. Someday.

And I caught up on my flickrs, which was backlogged ( Read more... )

Yesterday Lillie dropped her iPhone into the Sutro BathsOnly in San Francisco ( Read more... )

2010-03-02
Stripmall Architecture was great; they're the modern survivors of this other band Halou I guess, who I kindof like. Ima gonna see them again soon.
Twin Tigers was too loud and generally noisy-not-catchy.
Lilofee were their normal selves. I almost got showered with tambourine-stuff when she shook one until it broke.

2010-03-10In recent ( Read more... )

Dearest friends, potential friends, frenemies, strangers and strange enemies,

I have purchased tickets to the following upcoming music shows.

Day
Band
Place

2010-03-10
Slow Club
Rickshaw Stop

2010-03-11
Lovelikefire and Geographer
Rickshaw Stop

2010-03-23
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
GAMH

2010-03-25
Cymbals Eat Guitars
BotH

2010-04-14
The ( Read more... )

Man this is one short easy book. Gotta have the lowest word count of any Murakami. For all I know. I'm no good at reading, but this 200-pager must've taken me less than five hours total ( Read more... )

About three weeks ago, I finally stopped watching The Daily Show / Colbert Report, after a five year streak of never missing an episode. Prior to that I'd normally try to catch up on Sundays, and also experimented with watching them on the train with the Macbook Professional ( Read more... )

The hair is coming back okay. Soon enough it'l pass the stage of "why did you shave your head?" to "why did you cut your hair so short?"

A couple weekends ago there was a Steam sale: Civilization IV + expansions for $10. I hadn't played any Civ since II, so I figured why not ( Read more... )

Christmas break was hardly a vacation since I spent it in San Diego worrying about my life. How have things been since?

Wednesday: video games

NYE: Bootie. Seemed like just a regular bootie, albeit with more party favors / countdowns / balloon dropping. Not something I'd pay $55 (!) for again, but glad to see what goes on there for New Years.

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Oh, gawwg. I don't remember. But luckily I'm such a moneybags that I buy and keep whatever I read, so I think this is accurate, barring any books I've thrown away/eaten/sold:

FINISHED

Beth Lisick, Helping Me Help Myself C-

Bram Stoker, Dracula D (not just d for dracula)

Cormac McCarthy, The Road B

Dan Kennedy, Rock On C

David Foster Wallace, ( Read more... )