the time has come for me to come clean with a recent guilty pleasure.

i like the killers.

(insert foot in mouth)
...lauren, you were totally right about the killers. but keane still sucks. :-P

oh, but for the record: sam's town > hot fuss

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holy shit that show was good. as anticipated, i got there late. at 7:05, i was inside a classroom. by 8:05, i was in san jose getting on 85. by 9:05, i'd stopped for food and gotten to the warfield. all things considered, my lateness was fairly minimal ( Read more... )

yesterday, i saw one of the coolest types of sticker graffiti i've ever seen. you know how people will tag their name on a bunch of stickers, and go around just slapping the stickers up, since it's less risky than taking the time to do a toss-up on the spot? well, this guy (or girl) did something like that. it was a US postal service mailing ( Read more... )

WHAT THE FUCK.

why is it that every time i cruise over to pitchfork to see what's goin on, another one of my favorite bands is reuniting for an unattainable show!? first, i had to deal with the excruciating pain of missing THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN's reunion, which really sucked, because that review said they tore the roof off. it was just a two- ( Read more... )

so on may 19th, something kinda rad will happen: bjork will play a show in the bay area, along with joanna newsom.

that same day, something kinda sad will happen: it'll take place at the shoreline amphitheater in mountain view.

talk about the two artists LEAST fit to rock a stadium....WTF, mate?

hey, if anyone's reading this in santa cruz on thursday night, you should be like me and come to:

CLOUD NINE'S ANNUAL DRAG SHOW

boys in dresses.
girls with codpieces.
a dick in a box.

WHAT MORE COULD YOU POSSIBLY WANT?!

tonight.
stevenson cafe.
8:30pm.

....just puttin the word out for my homies.

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patrick

so...i deleted my last two posts. if you saw christyal's most recent post, you can probably guess what prompted this choice. she was pretty mad at me for those, and i can totally see why: i used my livejournal as a weapon against her. i used the "public media" aspect of it to expose shit in a way that made christyal look really bad to a lot of ( Read more... )

now this is what college is all about. tomorrow, for my grad course, i am to give a 30 minute presentation to my one classmate and my professor. my topic? rachmaninov's playing of his own prelude no. 5, opus 23, versus the performances of this prelude by ten other pianists since his death. i've probably listened to this prelude upwards of 150 ( Read more... )

hey, i just found the music videos to a song by one of the coolest new bands of 2006. it's called "montreal -40°C" and it's by malajube. the video reminds me a lot of the gameboy game, "kirby's dreamland." enjoy:

...and on that note, i'm off to the library to prepare for a half-hour presentation on rachmaninoff that i'm supposed to give ( Read more... )

what a crazy weekend ( Read more... )