since it'd inevitably drown in twitter's gushing runnel, i'm relegating this date to the reliably glacial eldge-ay...5/13/2010: first ever X-ray and MRI.

update: first ever surgery and stitches on 6/7/2010.

I was scouring my images directory for this when I came across these two delicious morsels. I don't have the reply screencapped, but it was appropriately pitiful and apologetic. Sometimes it's nice to be reminded (unexpectedly) how much of a badass I can be. The tale of how I ran down the guy who stole my coat last winter has apparently become ( Read more... )

once while i was working at pita pit someone played space oddity through the stereo, which was at the time connected to some busted-ass speakers. the right speaker was dead (we blew it out playing [loud] breakcore during a 3 a.m. drunk rush) so only the left channel of space oddity came through. the usually subtle harmonies came into focus, making ( Read more... )

I made a mixtape;

SMRTrap (MediaFire download)


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So Lieberman didn't do as well as I thought he would in the recent Israeli elections, but his marginal success was enough to uphold the realization: Israel is quickly moving in the direction of Nazi Germany. I know I know, Godwin's Law, but y'all know that I'm not usually one for polemic hyperbole. Given the extermination/occupation happening in ( Read more... )

Man, 2009 is already proving to be a fine year for new music! Animal Collective, Birdy Nam Nam, The Bird and the Bee and my newest find, Charles Hamilton (out of Cleveland).

I got my very first receiver, and I'm working up the courage to buy this behemoth, unless anyone has any other recommendations ( Read more... )

what do you dream up while i tongue you down?

Part of my job entails slogging through this poorly written intro sociology textbook a bunch of times, tasking away at the manuscript (TGI Word track changes function), the picture selection (TGI iStock.com), citations (TGI iPod), et cetera (TGIF). While this can get to be monotonous and monotonous and monotonous, it does allow me to think about ( Read more... )

Here are two songs I never put up on the LJ, but now that I have software that will actually decode the .rns files, why not?

sampleForSteveIn Chicago a few chums and I dabbled in a wall-of-sound post-rock collaboration, but never got around to recording anything. Nevertheless, I wrote this song for our doomed venture. The low melody would be ( Read more... )

I got 4 new vinyls today ( Read more... )