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August 9th, 2009
01:38 pm - no irish blood, a little bit of english heart
been a year since i posted. figured i'd say hi.
going mad across the pond. all the young adults change the "th" sound to a "f" sound, and the quotation mark and the @ button are switched on the keyboard. literally wandering back and forth through nottingham, occassionally stopping at my cousins house or my grandparents house to check to see if anyone's texted me via googlevoice. no one has. granted, only 4 people have the number, but they're the only 4 i want to talk to. Speaker is asleep and was firing little messages at me all through the night, but other than that i'm just going to go with "googlevoice doesn't send texts as fast as a phone, and they just haven't got them yet".
this is the only place where i ever act the emo-fool, so i'm just gonna say it because no one's reading, i feel alone.
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August 6th, 2008
12:23 pm - WAMU piece
so i produced a piece for 88.5 which airs today at 5:44 pm on All Things Considered. it's also up on PRX if anyone cares.
http://www.prx.org/pieces/27969
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March 6th, 2008
05:40 am - said i, (hey!) i got this feeling, that everythings gonna be all right
5:40 AM? awake! what the shit, i mean really.
did work today, strange experience. going to Vail tomorrow, not even remotely prepared. Still need to find my snowboard, shouldn't be too hard really, it's just the whole "standing up" part of the search process that i have trouble with.
also, Super Taranta! = 2nd favorite album.
top 15 for anyone interested:
1. "In Bocca al Lupo" - Murder by Death
2. "Super Taranta!" - Gogol Bordello
3. "Who Will Survive, and What Will be Left of them?" - Murder by Death
4. "Seafish Louisville" - The Gits
5. "Deadringer" - RJD2
6. "Robbers & Cowards" - Cold War Kids
7. "Black Holes and Revelations" - Muse
8. "Ratatat" - Ratatat
9. "Monument to the Masses" - Ima Robot
10. "Place Your Blame" - Alleged Bricks
11. "Sweet Oblivion" - The Screaming Trees
12. "Sawdust: B Sides and Rarities" - The Killers
13. "The Complete Stone Roses" - The Stone Roses
14. "Return to Cookie Mountain" - TV on the Radio
15. "Because of the Times" - Kings of Leon
Current Music: The Sun Never Shines (On Closed Doors) - Flogging Molly
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March 3rd, 2008
04:10 am - temporary fixes for permanent problems
-pay for coffee in quarters scrounged off the floor of the car at 2 o clock in the morning.
-share Tagalongs girl scout cookies with someone who has no cookies.
-eat honey and cream with a spoon out of those little plastic single-serving jelly things.
-spend time with people you know will still think you're cool even though you eat honey and cream with a spoon out of those little plastic single-serving jelly things.
also, "The Sea and the Rhythm" by Iron & Wine is good too.
i want: to say what i mean
Current Music: The Sea and the Rhythm - Iron & Wine
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February 20th, 2008
02:44 pm - He said, "Every mans concience is vile and depraved"
Mark Lanegan covered Bob Dylan's "Man in the Long Black Coat".
I first heard that song when i was 4 years old. and now MARK LANEGAN is covering it. i am so happy.
http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Lanegan/_/Man+In+The+Long+Black+Coat
WAAA!
yay :)
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February 19th, 2008
09:23 am - for lack of a better suspect, we nominate you
i have a scar on my thumb and i don't know where i got it.
i have headphones on and im listening to Cat Power, and David walks over and is smiling and saying something and i was like "what?" and took my headphones off. he says it again and gives me a thumbs up and smiles a lot, but i still dont hear him. i accidentally gave him a really blank look due to lack of sleep and general mental unrest, and his smile sort of slips and he just looks disappointed and says "alright", all defeated-like and walks away.
i don't even know what just happened. i wonder what he said.
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February 18th, 2008
05:28 am - went back to ohio, and my city was gone
we went back to the U-turn, or whatever the fucking sports bar they turned it into is called now. what a fucking experience. we went looking for a place to drink and it was just were we ended up, because its where we always ended up. in that fucking alley behind the u-turn.
it was empty. there were no broken bottles. there was no one knocking down a fence. we had to fucking leave, we couldn't handle it.
it's like going back to that basketball court you used to play on when you were 5 years old and realizing that they paved it over and built high rises.
i miss punk in DC, miss the "they can't arrest all of us" mentality, miss the goons, miss the twats, miss tommy and the rest of the Deuces crew. i miss shitty beer and pooling our money for a bottle of whiskey. i miss ryan throwing me off the hood of oz's car in the parking lot, i miss Matt still being Ponyboy. dont think i realized it until a few hours ago, but i miss the fucking uturn.
please Cordoza, can we have our shitty punk club back?
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February 17th, 2008
06:26 am - A smile from a veil
6:30 AM is really a fucking weird time, not entirely sure what to do during it. but sleeping doesn't seem to be an option, so here i am on LJ. bizarre last night, bizarre tonight. tonight, mixed 2 people i didn't know could be mixed, worked out wonderfully. last night, reestablished an old friend then proceeded to almost die due to my own stupidity (yes, again). got sort of rescued by speed dial number 2. got sort of bitched out by speed dial number 3. pretty sure i also somehow managed to be a bitch but barely remember what i said. i dont know, maybe i should apologize or something.
whatever, fuck it, i'll just ignore problems, thats easy, maybe try to sleep for a change.
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February 11th, 2008
11:56 am - resurrected
update on world view since my last post:
1 bruce springsteen album (primarily the song "Atlantic City"), 8 cups of black coffee payed for entirely in change, 27 cigarettes, 1 Warren Zevon song, 3 dropkick murphys albums, 1/4 tank of gas, and 19 hours later:
im fine.
its crazy what 3 hours driving in a car with music i'd forgot about and a fantastic man to drink coffee and chain smoke with will do to fix your life.
gotta remember that shit next time i inexplicably feel like shooting up the world like its my neighborhood 7-11.
anyway, mad props to Oz for topping my list of people i love the living shit out of.
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February 10th, 2008
02:54 pm - reverting
i am going back to the way i was. dealing, drug addiction, unhealthy relationships, no sleep, fighting, bottling emotions and pretending not to have them and just grinding my teeth instead
the reasons/people i got my shit together for have all kind of slipped away, and im not doing it any more.
we're a whole generation of Cinderellas, and there's no glass slipper coming.
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January 27th, 2008
02:53 pm
im falling out of touch with 2 or 3 people who i didnt expect to fall out of touch with. i dont know what to think of it. its probably good, because they're all at least semi-hazardous to either my mental or physical health, albeit inadvertently.
It's just really strange to see who im unconsciously replacing them with. its not even like im replacing them with other people. its shit like my bands and all that.
oh, and Giuseppe Niosi. We had completely lost contact until last night, when i jumped on his back in the pit and ran around yelling about the crusade. Then he threw me into someone. It was at that point when i think we both remembered how awesome the other was. It was kind of like losing 20 bucks and then finding it in your pocket 6 months later.
supposed to go see There Will be Blood with him later, which one person has told me i dont have the patience for, but Giuseppe seems to be convinced i'll think its the greatest thing since the Marlboro red.
we shall see.
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January 24th, 2008
04:08 pm - lordy.
1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line or two from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike out the songs when someone guesses the name of the song and the artist who performs it correctly.
1) Well I'm changing all my strings
I'm gonna write another travelin' song
2) We get some rules to follow
That and this
These and those
No one knows
3)Come on say it loud
Look what we handed down
4) I never really had a problem
Because of leaving
But everything reminds me of her
This evening
5) Somebody play on the guitar strings
Makes me think of my favorite songs
6) How d'you do, I see you've met my faithful handyman
He's just a little brought down because when you knocked
He thought you were the candyman.
7) SEX
oooh, i can't get away (wikiwikiwikiwikiwik)
8) no lyrics
9) oh mama im in fear for my life from the long arm of the law...
10) JUST A SMALL TOWN GIRL!
LIVIN' IN A LOOONLEY WOORLLD
(fuck yeah)
11) "this is a song about havin a good time,
its about havin fun
with your closest friends
anywhere"
12) I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S! Ring the bell and call or write us
13) Stay with me
You're the one that I need
You make the hardest things seem easy
14) (garbled screaming)
15) Stay with me
You're the one that I need
You make the hardest things seem easy
16) IN THE NAME OF GWAR IN THE NAME OF LOVE
IN THE NAME OF THE BLOOD DRIPPING OUT OF THE SUN!
I call out your God, 'til before me he stands!
but don't send me Jesus, HE'S ONLY A MAN!
17) Julie’s clocking out at the station
hurry up and get your pay
18) If your right hand is causing you pain
Cut it off, cut it off
If your colors have started to run
Let them all run, run away from you
19) This is the moment that you know...
20) hey jude...
21) this is a heartwarming tale, of friendship!
22) The greyhound's rocking out tonight
To maximum rockabilly
When two punks chose to risk the subway
For a tube to Picadilly
23) Come ride with me
Through the veins of history
I'll show you how God
Falls asleep on the job
24)
The litebrite's now black and white
Cause you took apart a picture that wasn't right
25) I Want In, Like A Substitute
I' Ve Been Working Awful Hard For You
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January 22nd, 2008
03:32 pm - You! Yes, you! Stand still laddie!
*ahem* so a band-mate was all like "gah so we have all this music but we don't have any lyrics at all."
this seems to be a running theme with all my bands. we seem to always be the music-y types with no poetic inclinations whatsoever. This is, and has been, a problem.
so.
in History the other day, my teacher Julia cottoned on to the fact that i'd been playing WoW all through her lecture. this is a theme. justly, she confiscated my ethernet cable. Robbed of my favorite distraction, i was faced with a bleak prospect. i could listen to the intensely boring lecture, or find some other way to amuse myself. and unfortunately for you, my dear livejournal readers (all 3 of you), i wrote song lyrics. i say unfortunately because i am going to post them now. and i want you all to tell me how awesome they are, and then trash talk them behind my back.
also, they're not actually lyrics. they started as lyrics, and turned into angry, pseudo-satirical babbling about the second amendment and how it doesn't work anymore.
guess more of Julia's lectures got through to me than i thought.
anyway, let the slandering commence:
Hey America, can I have a tank too?
This popgun isn’t good enough for me anymore,
I would really like something a little more substantial.
I, too, should be able to wreak havoc upon nations.
What makes you so special?
Drinking in the backyard
Missing shots at beer cans
They say “a shoddy workman blames his tools”,
But I’m pretty sure if I had a tank my aim would improve
There’s a country or two that I’d like to see brought to their knees
And there’s only so much I can do with a .45
So please America, the second amendment blah blah blah.
Arm the everyman.
You know you want to.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/sad.gif) restless
Current Music: "Organ Donor" -DJ Shadow
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January 14th, 2008
11:34 am - internet-y goodness
this website has my full endorsement
www.stumbleupon.com
it installs a toolbar on your Firefox with a button that reads "Stumble!" and if you click it, it essentially shuffles all the awesome pages on the internet that fit the specifications of a short form you fill out and takes you to a random one.
it has been the most effective timewaster i've found yet.
...and i play world of warcraft.
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January 12th, 2008
11:48 pm - America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry
i'm announcing this on the internet because i feel that it's that important. i am getting a decent nights sleep tonight, god dammit. if anyone that is not Irie, Luc, or Gears wakes me up, they have my personal guarantee that i will have them killed before Martin Luther King Day.
also, happy birthday to Luc, you crazy irish sonnuvabitch. (i mean this in the best of possible ways)
my jaw feels like it's going to fall off from a combination of last nights copious amounts of uppers poured into my body and from tonights two hour long teeth-chattering marathon.
that was the least significant thing that happened today, i feel that it's fitting for LiveJournal.
So i know this guy, and his name is Jim Carroll, and he's a fucking genius. He's told me 2 out of the 3 valuable things i've ever been told.
one of these things was that "if 2 or more people who don't know each other all tell you something about you that you don't believe, you should reexamine it."
and now that it's gotten to the point where 3 people i give a shit about have told me that im unhealthily impatient, it's gotten through to me that it might do me well to learn some of that "patience" nonsense. i got hit screaming in the face with a revelation in the car on the way home today. if i weren't so bent on this whole "instant gratification" shit, my life would be better.
and better is always better.
"I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts
factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway."
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/tired.gif) tired
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January 7th, 2008
07:55 pm - Slow dancing in a burning room
i suddenly feel like i'm in a ridiculous hurry to do everything. it's like put a tape recorder on repeat in my brain and the only thing on the tape is a really fucking annoying bitch screaming "NOWNOWNOWNOWNOWNOWNOWNOW"
and i'm all like, "shut it bitch, where's the fucking fire?"
but does she shut it?
no.
i went back to school today and realized i'd forgotten not only my schedule, but half the people in the school. i think i have fucking whiplash from all the double takes i did.
it's on the strange side.
but on a lighter note, today was fucking beautiful. walked to Bill's house from Woodley Park, which is NOT the closest metro stop, re-acquired my cell phone, and then walked BACK to woodley park and chilled outside for a good 3 hours.
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December 29th, 2007
10:15 pm - a whole year of waxing ridiculous
alright lets see how much of 2007 i can remember
January: i turn 16. i can now legally do absolutely bugger all (except drive, but applying myself would be way too out of character)
February: booked a punk show. people came, danced, and ate cake. Happy birthday party to me.
March: Went to telluride. snowboarded. de-socketed my shoulder. well done me.
April: no memory
May: failed 3 exams.
June: George Mason University Jazz program. fluted my face off for a week. good time had by all.
July: skipped the family italy trip in favor of spending 10 days being kept up at all hours of the night by the people i love most. Honorable mentions to Irie, Speaker, Tex, and Luc for making this month my best yet.
August: 2 of the above honorably mentioned bail on DC and life gets a little more boring. Film Boy appears.
September: return to manzanar...or school.
October: halloween, 2007. Nero, Speaker, Park, Psychonaut, and Coin stage a Zombie attack on Adams Morgan. We are the paragon of humanity. you may watch us from afar.
November: Saw stellastarr* play. Almost wept when it was over because i knew it was all downhill from that. Exit Film Boy
December: potentially failed more exams, went to Canada. Win.
Catherine: 1
2007: 0
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December 7th, 2007
03:58 pm
just reread my last 10 entries, and i would like to apologize to those foolish enough to read this nonsense for the excessive mention of proxys.
reason for it is i usually write during my statistics class on the school network, so i require a proxy to post an entry.
resolution: stop babbling technical nonsense at the general public.
on a lighter note, i have a thumb piano. it is, in fact, the shit. and in a few short hours i'll be on my merry way to the Pessimist Parade show.
complaint: Tom Slick quit the band. totally unacceptable Thomas. Your mother would be ashamed of you.
that's a bluff, i've never met your mother.
anyway.
off to buy a christmas tree with the family.
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November 29th, 2007
07:52 pm
as a sidenote, Luc, you're a dead man for reminding me livejournal exists. i should be writing a history paper, but no, instead im doing this.
i recommend Waxridiculous-proofing your home so you can sleep without fear of never waking up.
Current Mood: still cold
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07:39 pm
marat was a teenage mutant ninja turtle.
think about it.
that mother fucker wandered the sewers of Paris, getting anchovy pizza and kicking Shredders ass.
except replace "anchovy pizza" with "horrible disease that will confine him to his bathtub for the rest of his life" and "Shredder" with "French royalty".
so...kind of like teenage mutant ninja turtles.
Current Mood: cold
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