| My bike was stolen last night. It's a green Cannondale H-300. The serial number is JC 01929 39758 P4Y2G1P.
There's a $100 reward for any tip leading to the recovery of my bike. | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment  |
| I decided to make a summer mix CD of some of my favorite songs that have come out this year that have that pleasant summer vibe. It's all new stuff or stuff that has been recently reissued. The title is Summertime and Mah Bukkit is Easy.
 1. The Avalanches - Ray of Zdarlight 2. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Forever Heavy 3. R. Kelly feat. T.I. & T-Pain - I'm a Flirt (remix) 4. The National - Brainy 5. UGK feat. Three 6 Mafia - Players Anthem 6. Kavinsky - Testarossa Autodrive 7. Deerhunter - Like New 8. The Cool Kids - 88 9. Boris with Michio Kurihara - Starship Narrator 10. Wu-Tang Clan - Ain't Nuthin' to Fuck With (Bird Peterson remix) 11. Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat 12. Selda Bagcan - Ince Ince 13. Dr. Dog - Weekend 14. The Team feat. Clyd Carson - Hyphy Juice 15. Frankie Valli - Beggin' (Pilooski edit) 16. Panda Bear - Bros (edit) 17. Petey Pablo - Get Me Out of Jail 18. Jens Lekman - Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death (long version) 19. Derrick Laro and Trinity - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough | comments: Leave a comment  |
| | Current Music: | Crooke and Color - The Underbelly | | Time: | 08:12 am |
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| I just got the best spam ever.
"You dont know what is the best revenge for your ex girlfriend. Just enlarge your dick with Penis Enlarge Patch and she will die from jealousy and regret."
Also, I had one of the best weekends ever. It was filled to the brim with wonderfulness, but was dominated by two things: Amy & Justin's wedding and the new R. Kelly album. The former was absolute life affirming beauty and the latter is transcendentally ridiculous. To quote a Brad Neely comic, Life Rules.
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| Goddammit, I think I'm turning into a lyrics person. I've been mega-obsessed with Leonard Cohen recently and then all of the sudden I discover this pretty sweet band called Coltrane Motion. I dug their sound and was listening to the album for the second time when I suddenly noticed they had some nice lines. "Let's play 60s pop star/You be Ronnie/I'll be Phil" "It's not a swagger/It's a limp." "All my love songs turn into hymns."
Their album Songs About Music opens up with a quadruple salvo of awesome pop songs that touch just enough on shoegaze, new wave, 60s soul and indie rock to keep everything fresh. Then it kinda craps out, but whatever. At least the songs have clever meta-musical titles ("Dozier-Holland-Dozier", "I Guess The Kids Are OK", "Ex-Girlfriend In A Coma"). That always gets me off.
Here's a song. It's really good. Coltrane Motion - How to Be
Also, hello journal, we haven't spoke in a while. | comments: Leave a comment  |
| 1. Hot Asian wife 2. Wrote a buncha books, some of which included graphic sexual content 3. Wrote an op-ed in the WSJ entitled "Class Struggle" 4. Verbally smacked down Bush and was this close to slugging him 5. Apparently rocks a pistol at ALL TIMES | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment  |
| | Current Music: | The Mike Gunn - Coduh | | Subject: | Grad School! | | Time: | 04:29 pm |
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| I have decided that I will be going to grad school at Michigan State. I just got back from visiting there and the math ed program there is awesome. It's a very large program and the people there are working in a bunch of different areas, which is great for me, as I'm not sure what I want to go in to.
Also, I saw the season finale of Battlestar Galactica. Holy shit! Talk about a curveball. No one cares what I have to say about the B-Star, though. :( | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment  |
| I did two things of note this weekend. One was play kickball. The other was finish cataloging my entire music collection.
A couple of months ago I decided to get plastic sleeves for all my records. And since I was going to have to go through my records one by one to put the sleeves on, I figured I might as well catalog them. I put them all on RateYourMusic, a user created database of records. After I finished that, I meant to do the same for my CDs, but I never got around to it.
Then, Justin introduced me to LaLa, a CD trading website. I decided to go through all my CDs looking for stuff that I was willing to trade, and I figured that was a good enough excuse to just catalog them all on RateYourMusic while I was at it. I finished the project last night. And now I have detailed information on my music collection. Here's the numbers.
Cassette 8 CD 575 CD-R 52 DVD 13 Vinyl 609 Other 1 SACD 8
93 of those got listed on Lala.com as potential trades. Hopefully I'll get rid of some wack old shit and get some hot new shit. I've already gotten rid of 5 lame promo CDs that I had and I'm getting 3 Neil Young albums, Wu Tang Forever and Three 6 Mafia's When the Smoke Clears in exchange. | comments: Leave a comment  |
| Holy Shit! The long promised Neil Young Archives box set will be coming out this year. 8 CDs, 2 DVDs, and a 150 page book. And it only covers up to 1972! I don't care if it's 300 dollars, I am on that shit. | comments: Leave a comment  |
| Here's an mp3 of my Neil Young feature show.
And here's the playlist.
Buffalo Springfield - Broken Arrow - Buffalo Springfield Again Buffalo Springfield - It's So Hard to Wait - Last Time Around Neil Young - The Emperor of Wyoming - Neil Young Neil Young - The Loner - Neil Young Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Country Girl - Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Find the Cost of Freedom - Ohio/Find the Cost of Freedom Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Cowgirl in the Sand - 4 Way Street Neil Young - L.A. - Time Fades Away Neil Young - Revolution Blues - On the Beach Neil Young - Speakin' Out - Tonight's the Night Neil Young - Danger Bird - Zuma The Stills-Young Band - Long May You Run - Long May You Run Neil Young - Homegrown - American Stars and Bars Neil Young - Human Highway - Comes a Time Neil Young - Powderfinger - Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young - Like a Hurricane - Live Rust Neil Young - Captain Kennedy - Hawks & Doves Neil Young - Southern Pacific - Re·ac·tor Neil Young - Computer Age - Trans Neil Young - Mystery Train - Everybody's Rockin' Neil Young - Bound for Glory - Old Ways Neil Young - Weight of the World - Landing on Water Neil Young - Mideast Vacation - Life Neil Young - This Note's for You - This Note's for You Neil Young - The Ways of Love - Freedom Neil Young - T-Bone - Re·ac·tor | comments: Leave a comment  |
| | I'm doing a feature show on KXUA on Wednesday at 10pm. It will be on the lesser known works of Neil Young. If you just know Harvest, I've got some schoolin' for ya. | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment  |
| Okay, so I was flipping through the RateYourMusic user reviews of the new Arcade Fire album Neon Bible (my short review: good, but not particularly exciting) when I found this gem from Mikey2000
"I just find it so hard to get through this album; it's so tedious and such a chore to listen to. The title track is OK and "My Body Is a Cage" kicks off towards the end, but that's it, the rest I just find painful. Infact, over this past couple of weeks I've been going off so called "indie rock" a lot. Maybe this is a transitional phase, or maybe this is just a phase, or maybe it's because I'm turning 17 next week and I'm starting to become a man, instead of a teenager, or some crap like that anyway." source
I couldn't have said it better Mikey2000. | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment  |
| Well, I took a sick day. I went to work yesterday feeling kinda crappy and got progressively worse. I slept in really late today and I'm feeling halfway decent now. I've spent most of the day watching TV. Well, TV on the internet. Shaun was watching Heroes yesterday and I got sucked in, and since I didn't have anything else to do today, I've watched the first few episodes. And drank lots of tea. All the episodes are up for download as high definition divx files at http://stage6.divx.com.
My trip to the University of Maryland went very well. I'm thinking very seriously about going there, but I'm not making any decisions until after I've visited all the schools that accept me. | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment  |
| Oh shit, I just heard the fucking new hot jam. Wes Fif - Haterz Everywhere A six and a half minute Florida rap single with a beat that sounds like Paul Oakenfold faking Timbaland. Sounds like it should be a disaster, but so do most shocking new things. To call it Trance Rap would be a bit of a disservice, but, still. It's Trance Rap! The future is now!
TRANCE RAP
Also, from an interview with Wes Fif: So, you’re in Atlanta, right now? Yeah, I’m in Atlanta right now. What’s in Atlanta? A whole bunch of shit. I’ll be back in Florida soon. | comments: Leave a comment  |
| | Current Music: | Jackie-O Motherfucker - Candyland | | Subject: | events | | Time: | 11:13 am |
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| There was a show at the Dinosaur House last night. It was a good way to spend Valentine's Day. The highlight was Tippy Canoe. They were awesome. So raunchy and cute at the same time, like a twee version of Miami Bass.
I will be DJing at another party on Saturday. Eric, who DJs at KXUA, is having a party with some out of town DJs and he wanted me to open. I'll be DJing from 10 to 11pm. I'm looking forward to it, needless to say.
I'm going on a trip! I'll be flying to College Park next week to visit the University of Maryland. They're flying me in on Thursday and I'll be coming back Friday evening, so it'll be a very quick trip. I'll be visiting Michigan State at the end of March which will be a longer excursion. | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment  |
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