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I love my mother, but...

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:15:54 GMT

I despise liquid DayQuil.
Ingesting that foulness makes me feel worse
than I did before taking it.
Next time, I buy the medicine.

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:29:08 GMT

genuises, thy names are Kings Of Leon. wow.

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:45:27 GMT

die, infernal headache.
go back from whence you came.

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:35:42 GMT

We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how

We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to time
Reliving, in our eloquence,
Another auld lang syne...

"hot" mail

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:12:18 GMT

My space is twittering about... and hey, my face is in a book! Yahoo!

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:36:08 GMT

cryptic.
incomprehensible.
confusing.
ridiculous.
bullshit.

take that!

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:13:12 GMT

I just used my tax forms as a writing surface for my jury duty summons questionnaire.

fuck you, state/federal.

it's back.

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:25:10 GMT

howdy, kiddos. here is my 'year in music' review of 2006. it's mostly the same categories as last year, with a few changes and additions. enjoy.

favorite new "indie" band- Windmills In The Ocean and Sparrows Swarm And Sing, equally. check them out, seriously-- WITO is on Robotic Empire, SSAS on Magic Bullet.

favorite new hardcore band- I really like Mastodon, but this award goes to Intronaut. not that one is necessarily better than the other. i just got to see Intronaut actually play live and had the pleasure of meeting such nice upstanding gents.

best local show- 12/19, Madhouse Records... most fun I've had in years. (who else can say they had a really hot girl doing an interpretive dance behind them while playing "Hotel California" to a room full of kickass people singing along to every word? not to mention the guitar solo...)

best live band- probably Sparrows Swarm And Sing. they were exceptional.

best new local band- HEATSTROKE. dude, by FAR. very amazing.

best local band that broke up- Vessels. i never even got to see you fuckers play! death to shady asshole guitarists.

best album- honestly, i'm not gonna lie to you. i truly think Kites' Killing Ray Brauer is the best damn thing I've heard all year. I got a rough copy of it 6 months before it was released and haven't been able to put it down since. very honorable mention goes to HEATSTROKE's demo (it's that good), and seriously I have to say... beyond these, I have been disappointed by everything I have heard throughout the year at all the Borders' listening stations I've visited. (oh, and if Mono released an album this year, then it's probably really good too.)

biggest disappointment- The Mars Volta's new album Amputechture. It's still good, it's just that compared to an amazing effort like Frances The Mute, it really sucks.

guilty pleasure- goddammit... that Nelly Furtado song about being promiscuous. forgot what it's called... ;-) also that "Out Of Control" song by Kenna isn't too bad either.

group that still kicks ass- Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. old people's music and tequila, anyone?

worst video- good god, almost all of them. kinda done with music vids.

best new song- as much as i hate to say it, that damn My Chemical Romance song from their new album that's always playing. i'll get parts of that song stuck in my head for days and it drives me crazy.

classic rock artists i respect more nowadays- Foghat. SO overlooked. those fuckers brought the serious rock. also, I've gotten to where I don't change the station when Styx comes on. btw, anyone heard of Rory Gallagher? that man is the shit, I'm sure there's a Myspace for him.

surprise of the year- Incubus getting way better. i mean, what the HELL?

best thing that happened to me- pretty much the entire 12/19 show, but especially when I got to scream with HEATSTROKE on "Dr. Killingsworth". that was pretty boss. and of course "Hotel California" earlier that night... that show just kicked so much ass, seriously.

shittiest thing that happened locally- Counter Culture Cafe closing down. honorable mention goes to Leslie not booking shows for Modified anymore. both of these just depress me.

best lyric heard whilst driving before sunrise- "well, we've got no class / and we've got no principles [get it? haha.] / and we got no innocence / we can't even think of a word that rhymes!", from alice cooper's "school's out". that shit'll make you laugh at 6 in the morning.

have a happy new year, everyone... and please don't die.

show

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:41:46 GMT

Tuesday, Dec. 19th

Shredosaurus Rex (Portland, OR)
i am cataclysm (San Diego, CA)
HEATSTROKE
Vessels
WAKE
How apropos.

@ Madhouse Records
7 PM
$6

GO GO GO!!!

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:12:25 GMT

Breaking The Sky (Everett, WA)
Blane (Everett, WA)
We Fly Our Kites At Night (possibly)
How apropos.

@ Madhouse Records, Tempe
November 12
7 PM

dude. PLEASE come.

i'm the biggest geek you know.

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:17:01 GMT

here's why... my current listening rotation:

Chopin- Waltzes (D. Alexeev, piano)
Chopin- Etudes (M. Perahia, piano)
Chopin- Mazurkas (R. Smith, piano)
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass- Whipped Cream and Other Delights

and swing tunes.
yep.

i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass.

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:19:13 GMT

Yeah... it sucks. Like, really bad. I enjoyed maybe a minute of one track. Very disappointing.

This, however, does not suck, at all. Very good stuff. I'd even recommend buying it w/o a listen.

This is pretty good. Punk-influenced Brit rock... never bad. Some good moments here.

And I couldn't find an image for the cover,
but Ben Kweller's new album is pretty impressive,
seeing as he wrote and performed the entire thing himself.
Not great, but quite good... very catchy. Poppy and whatnot.

Anyway.

season 1 dvd

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:00:15 GMT

I think I am officially in love with Robot Chicken.
I'm only 4 episodes in,
and my sides literally hurt.

triumphant return much?

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:57:11 GMT

So.
Here I am, back on LJ...
with, like, almost nothing to say.

Lately just been doing the murder mystery dinner theatre...
also got cast in two shows with a professional company
that performs for children in the daytime, and that
starts in January, so I'm a little
anxious to get rolling on that.
Wrote a couple a capella pieces for a show at
Theater Works, been studying music history,
becoming enamored with the works of Chopin
(mostly mazurkas, waltzes, etudes,
but it's all amazing), trying to enjoy film again
but not really succeeding (i do love that Walk The Line
is in rotation on HBO, though), been watching too
much Arrested Development (if that's even possible),
got back in touch with my stepbrother,
all kinds of wild, wacky shtuff.

anyway...
that is all for now.

Oh, and Heroes is the most amazing new show this year.
Also, Criminal Minds... still the best drama
on TV-- until 24 comes back.
Yeah.
I'm such a TV geek. (Go watch some Frasier!)

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 03:24:47 GMT

hi there.

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:49:07 GMT

man, do i
wish i was
elsewehere.

motherfuck Arizona.

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:00:29 GMT

professional acting is
so much more fun.

think J &SB

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:14:12 GMT

fuck
fuck
mothermotherfuckfuck
motherfuck
motherfuck
having the flu.

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:17:43 GMT

i'm already on
my way to bigger and
better things...

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:25:45 GMT

another movie i want to see:

The Benchwarmers

i haven't seen a good slapstick
in a long while. it's time.

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:20:53 GMT

three movies i want to see:

Coffee And Cigarettes
Lucky Number Slevin
Thank You For Smoking

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:19:59 GMT

talk about not making things
the way they're supposed to--
y'know, the way they used to be made.

nowadays, an Orange Julius
tastes like shit. and smoothies
have taken over. if i could find
a good Orange Julius, I'd be happy.
Stop changing good recipes! wtf.

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:50:54 GMT

i am not an elitist--
i just have a tendency
of picking and choosing.

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:30:20 GMT

i am usually just kidding.

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:04:17 GMT

i love my parents,
but if i have to live here
one more fucking day,
i'm really gonna lose it.