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| Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 |
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Tonight:His Name is Alive(myspace.com/hisnameisalive)w/Testa Rosa $10 21+ Come see this well established and talented group in between the release of their two albums of the year! We are lucky to have them, only one of 3 shows! Shank Hall 1434 N Farwell Ave Milwaukee, WI 53202 (414) 276-7288 |
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| Monday, September 10th, 2007 |
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Six years ago today, I saw Mates of State for the first time. At that time I also had a hickey the size of a softball that coincidentally looked like I'd been hit several times with a baseball bat or something of the like. Working more or less to keep myself busy (first real job in a year and a half), and am making pennies. I'm getting a lot of reading done. A lot. And the job is only a month long. UPS lost a few camera's I left in Boston a month ago and tried to have shipped back to me. Kind of has me asking the universe what I did to deserve it in karmic terms. Speaking of photos the only site I tend to really enjoy anymore is flickr. If anyone sees this, you should head on over to my flickr, which probably sums up much of my life. |
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| Friday, May 18th, 2007 |
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today's playlist: "The Man Who Sold The World" - Lulu "Everyday Is Like Sunday" - Morrissey "Tesla Girls" - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark "Wildcat" - Ratatat "Under My Thumb" - The Rolling Stones "Get Off My Cloud" - The Rolling Stones "Mr. Somewhere" - This Mortal Coil "Rotterdam" - The Wedding Present "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House" - Yo La Tengo "Tu Mens" - April March "Bailed Out" - The Auteurs "Harley Davidson" - Brigitte Bardot "Sick And Wrong" - Built To Spill "Moonshake" - CAN "Don't Fall" - The Chameleons "Five Years" - David Bowie "The Intergalactic Laxative" - Donovan "Parking Lot" - Galaxie 500 "The Whole Shebang" - Grant Lee Buffalo (Velvet Goldmine ST) "April Skies" - The Jesus And Mary Chain Also, Animal Collective were outstanding! Plus, I had the best company humanly possible. |
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| Monday, April 30th, 2007 |
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Far from alone, just in a mildly lonely state. Nothing desperate. Things at the Krishna temple are exciting. Spent the last 5 days in East Troy. Canoe Trips, long hikes, railroad tracks, etc... I lost my Holga, and eventually found it when I ventured back down the railroad tracks, just me, my flashlight and the cars buzzing down Walworth County Highway ES sometime closing in on 11pm- with the threat of rain flashing its way at me in the distance. It wasn't until damn near a mile (or at least what felt like) down the tracks from the road on which I parked did I find it. Jumped in Lake Beulah with Sri Betsy earlier in the day. Didn't last long. Beat her back to the dock ladder. Ravel asked what the letters tattooed onto my knee meant. I then proceeded to show him the ones on the tops of my butt cheeks. It made him giggle.  ( visuals ) |
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| Friday, March 30th, 2007 |
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saturday I jotted some words I thought all about a girl that I thought I loved told the story of what we did and what went wrong you've heard it all before it's the same old shit so I won't bore you with all the details I'm sure you can listen between the lines I screwed her and she screwed me but we never once has sex all we ever have is too much time love is just a joyride drink a lot of beer and climb inside lay your foot down on the gas leave it there until you crash love is just a joyride [love] drink a lot of beer and climb inside [is just a] lay your foot down on the gas [joy ride] leave it there until you crash this part of the song is called the second verse sounds just like the first but with different words it only has three chords and they are A and E and D they are A and E and D then it goes to D minor, D, uh, A, E, D love is just a joyride drink a lot of beer and climb inside lay your foot down on the gas leave it there until you crash love is just a joyride [love] drink a lot of beer and climb inside [is just a] lay your foot down on the gas [joy ride] leave it there until you crash love is just a joyride drink a lot of beer and climb inside lay your foot down on the gas leave it there until you crash love is just a joyride [love] drink a lot of beer and climb inside [is just a] lay your foot down on the gas [joy ride] leave it there until you crash love is just a joyride love is just a joyride love is just a joyride joyride |
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| Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 |
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I can't believe it'll be almost a whole other month before Blonde Redhead's "23" (two-three) comes out! Kills me. Well, it hits April 11th. At least Patrick Wolf's new album, "The Magic Position" is already here. I picked up The Make-Up's 3rd album, "Sound Verite" (circa 1997) at Exclusive the other day. Damn good. God Bless Calvin Johnson and his magical music mastery factory that is Dub-NarcoticStudio. I've also recently discovered that The Rain Parade are great. I got their LP "Emergency Third Rail Power Trip" and Elliot Smith's Double-LP "From a Basement on a Hill" together for $15 the other day. I've been taking hoards of pictures and getting a lot of film developed. I got a roll back yesterday that was almost entirely of the Singapore Zoo, which, by the end of the month will be about two fucking full years ago- but it just shows me how amazing my 35mm Nikon is. I've got 3 rolls of 120 that I had developed floating around in various hands at the moment. Need to get those. I'm pretty excited (with limited expectations) because I found a lab in town that had my B&W 120 done in about 2 days. Two rolls I shot on my mom's Mamiya s645 m1000 (Medium Format SLR that weighs a ton). Amazing camera- hope they turned out! And I've got a roll from my Dad's Mamiyaflex twin Lens at Mike Crivello's that's finally back after two weeks. Nearing the end of my first roll on my Holga. My first color 120 experience. I took a lot of shots with the flash, but indoors at night on 100 speed film (I'm biting my nails on that one). Still trying to become more acquainted with my Nikon D50. I long for a nicer lens. I found a F1.8 50mm for $100 but I'm so broke. I also found a fish-eye adapter for it that I hope I can get. My pal Adam and I recorded a 5-song-EP last week (over a 12 hour period) and in the midst of searching for music equipment I unearthed my 28mm Lens for my 35mm Nikon after having not seen in for at least a year, possibly more. I've become so camera-obsessed lately it's kind of nuts. |
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| Friday, March 2nd, 2007 |
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So yes, records are amazing. Hectic weeks, I guess. Despite my lack of employment, I tend to keep myself really busy. Band practice. Meetings. Running around taking pictures. Friends. Helping Friends Move (well, a friend). Getting pictures developed- I finally got back my first roll of 120 film I've shot! With my Diana plastic Camera. Only a few pictures actually turned out. I think there's mold inside the lens or something- or a number of other factors. Buying lots of music. Had a two hour long dental appointment yesterday (ouch?). I am planning a trip eastward in the next month or so- provided I actually make some substantial amount of money, which isn't completely out of the question. I might be able to make it to a possible semester intensive reunion at the end of the month, and then perhaps a trip to NYC. I miss the feeling I get when I'm there. Anyhoo, here's some pictures/records: |
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| Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 |
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“There’s a bit of typical German romanticism here,” said Henryk M. Broder, a writer for Der Spiegel. “These people were not after money. They were not after power. They were not after high office. They were perverted or misguided idealists, and this Germans tend to idolize.” (article here) |
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| Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 |
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Yesterday I had the most eventful day ever, seeing like 8 or 9 of people I consider actual friends. First Beth came over in the morning, and then I hung out with Alyssa, I stopped at my Aunt's house to drop off some tax forms and pick up my W-2 from working for my Dad, stopped by my mother's house and stole her tripod, went to fuel and ate something yummy, met up with Chloe, bumped into Michelle, bumped into Ralph on the way to the car, had tea at Rochambo, met up with John to celebrate his birthday by seeing Volver (which was amazing) and then eat at Noodles, after that I met up with Travis to pick up a cassette of some stuff he wants me to go over, after that played guitar with Carl for a few hours and then lastly met up with Mark for some soakage. It was almost too much. The drive home was messy and I found out the copy I had of Ambient 1 skips, and sadly the CD is long gone and it's just on my iPod, but it was really tranquil to drive home to. Snapped some pictures, had to stay up really late waiting for AAA to get back to me as to whether or not anyone could pull my car out of the ditch adjacent to my driveway, which they could not- sadly I found that out around 4:30am and just decided to give it another go myself, which I was successful at. Yeah, didn't get to sleep until sometime after that. Nothing terribly interesting. Lately I've been more into using my Flickr account (which you should really check out) and myspace, and applying for jobs... \ Which reminds me that I really need to get on applying to schools for the fall. Otherwise this place'll eat me alive! |
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| Monday, January 15th, 2007 |
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I really wish I had known Bob. Chances are I met him like once, when I was 13 and just stared at so many people with so much admiration and confusion. I'm living in some dual-realm of great strength and great weakness. Last night I had a child-like moment when I met with a few guys in Bay View to see if I was fit to play bass in their band. They've got their shit fairly together, and I was excited and anxious the whole time. I just had to ask Sri All for the strength to not like take it somewhere it wasn't. But I really want to play music, record and tour and whatnot. Saturday was crazy, we were at Ma Fischer's afterwards and the line for Rocky Horror stretched past our window booth. These young lads started tapping the glass and drawing me outside. I complied but I don't know if it was the wrong thing to do. Apparently this 17 year old queer boy fell in love with me when he saw me out to coffee recently and drunkenly confessed his adoration for me, all the while affectionately holding me at the tops of my scrawny hips. It was a nice interaction, but then he sent his Ziggy Stardust looking friend in to get me back out there. I took a few pictures of him. I also had my Diana 120 on me but I didn't bother to use that much. I had a freaky moment when we returned to my car and I saw the back right triangle window was smashed out and I immediately was processing it "oh man, someone broke into my car... oh dear!" and then it turned out it was just the same kind of car as mine parked directly in front of mine that had the smashed window. I was really grateful because once we had to replace one of those on my mom's and it was $165. But she probably got taken for a ride. But I cannot imagine those being all that easily replaced. |
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| Friday, January 12th, 2007 |
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This thing is weird. I think George is one of the only reasons I check out this place anymore. Tonight was stranger than anything. Cause enough for me to be up at this hour, unable to shake off the unimaginable amount of coffee I consumed today. I haven't been taking a lot of pictures, but at least a few a day. Job hunting, sort of. Isolated, but not. I have been learning a lot lately. So, so much. Certain areas of life are making more and more sense than they ever have, and that's glorious and all, I just wonder where it leaves me. There's so much more to be digested mentally/emotionally. Weird late-night super-vague lj-post. I really am a twentynothing. |
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| Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 |
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I spent Thanksgiving in Boston with grandma, and then took the dreadful Fung-Wah down to New York for my b-day. Bought a lot of records, lost one (sadly a Halo Bender's 7" I was really happy to find. Oh well. Non-attachment. Went to the Krsna Temple that Friday. Otherwise, things have been kind of slow. |
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| Thursday, November 16th, 2006 |
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I'm really longing for a warm lake right now. I miss swimming everyday. This summer I truly became the lake rat I once only claimed to be. Anyhow, spent the last weekend in NYC, this after driving to Pennsylvania and back the whole day + night before (with a long hospitality stop in there as well, that did not include any sleep sadly) to pick up my car. More or less okay. It still needs some work. Went to Montreal a few weeks ago after a halloween NA dance. I was decked out as Bowie circa Aladdin Sane, which wasn't to my benefit later when we got detained at the border for an hour at 6 am. Lots o fun. Went to a rave in Brooklyn 2 weekends ago (I didn't know they still existed!). Spending my birthday/thanksgiving in Boston and NYC. I'm back on coffee and almost out of smokes. Anyhoo, here's some |
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| Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 |
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I'm speechless, this doesn't make a lick of sense. Thankfully I got an absentee ballot and voted for the first time. On the bright side, even if the death penalty referendum passes, it would have to be approved by Doyle(!!) before coming into law, which I don't exactly see happening. "an eye for an eye makes us all blind." Also, Daniel Ortega won the presidential race in Nicaragua, which Reuters call's "a huge boost for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is trying to build a Latin American alliance of anti-U.S. leaders." |
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| Friday, October 27th, 2006 |
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the last month+ has been crazy, great, too. I went back to new york a few weekends ago, had my mom visit me out here- my grandma from boston, too, hiked up/camped on the tallest mountain in massachusetts, and have gone on lots of random adventures. This last weekend I went back to Wisconsin for a certain group's big statewide convention of the year, way in the northern part of the state, and got about 12 hours on each end where I wasn't moving at a rapid pace, sort of. Spent Wednesday night in milwaukee, left thursday, came back sunday night out to my dad's and flew out early monday. That's about it, I don't feel moved to elaborate- but here are some photo's. ( pictureeeeeeeeeees ) |
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| Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 |
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| oh, the mountain goats are so great. especially when you drive for an hour straight up a mountain to see them. time for class. | ||||||
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| Sunday, September 17th, 2006 |
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Oof. Friday afternoon I headed out for the city via car. Which was strange, I thought driving into the city was a suicide mission. After getting dropped off, I trotted down 14th in the rain, 7 or 8 avenues down to the dorms, kind of kicking myself for having not brought my raincoat as I looked at it for so long before I left. I had to pee so badly. The second I get up to K-tank's suite and into the bathroom, the fire alarm went off. I wouldn't let a fire or whatever possible disaster stop me from marking my divine connection to the toilet. For a solid two minutes I just stood there with screams of "hide the booze! hide the booze!" in the background behind door. Finished my piss and ran downstairs with katie and her drunken suitemates. When things calmed down, we walked around for a while once the rain let up, got some dinner, an amazing spinach pizza. Wound up finishing the night with some wheat pancakes later after much wandering. Saturday our adventure started out with seeing an Almodovar movie, "Live Flesh" at Lincoln Plaza. I loved it. Went down to Chelsea and had Thai food, had an amazing thai iced coffee. Saw ourselves in need of a nap so that took up a few hours and sometime around 12 we began our journey to Brooklyn, which took longer due some mistakes with the subway. Went to a couple parties, following these kids from LA, and around 4 started making our way back to manhattan. Finally got to bed around 6 this morning, Union square still going loud. It kills me how noisy new york is. Katie and I parted over some lunch and I hopped the L train down to 14th & 8th ave and met up with my ride. As overwhelming as it was to go there for the first time in years, I can't imagine how it would've been had I been messed up, sheesh. So much fun, though. Got back home a few hours ago and just stuffed my face with spinach pie, lentil loaf and black tea. Love, Chris |
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| Monday, August 28th, 2006 |
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landed safely, more or less. I guess I've just got amazing friends. Relocating feels so strange. This isn't news, but it is to me. I'm adjusting for the most part. Today I woke up at 6, did yoga for an hour and a half or so, ate, went to class taught by this guy who wrote a book we had to read, had a break, had more class, went to Northampton, bought 2 Versus CD's at Turn it up!, where I had bought a bunch of happy mondays, die kruezen, and p-5 cd's/lp's the 2nd to last time I was out here. Ate weird college town mexican food. Got back way too late. Toodoloo! |
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| Monday, August 21st, 2006 |
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4:15 eastern time swerved around a flipped semi, totalled the camry. stuck in some little town in western PA. Anyone know anyone out here? Loves and kisses, Chris |
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| Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 |
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So, this is what it feels like to have a recently-once-close-friend die. I just saw her in Philly, a little over two weeks ago. |
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hungry.
confused.
cheerful.
awake.
full.
tired.
strange.