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Fellows:

Aijung
Alyssa
Angela
Bobby
Carla
Dave
Ester
Jesse
Jonah
Josie
Kate
Lillie
Nori
Rabi
Rebecca

Mincetapes

e-mince

Photos!

Nice

Archives:

Stuck in my Head
"Kiss Me Harder" by Bertine Zetlitz
"Hot" by Avril
"Brain Problem Situation" by They Might Be Giants


Now Reading
Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro

Recently Finished
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Mad Tony and Me by Carl Hoffman
Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guaralnick
This Must Be The Place: Adventures of Talking Heads in the 20th Century by David Bowman
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Movies Lately
Sicko
4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days
Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour
2 Days in Paris
United 93
The Savages
The Bourne Ultimatum
Sweeney Todd
The Departed
Juno
Enchanted
What Would Jesus Buy?
Ghost World
Superbad
I'm Not There
She's The Man
Superbad
Lars and the Real Girl
Romance and Cigarettes
No Country for Old Men
Into the Wild
Gattaca
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
Across the Universe

Shows Lately
Damo Suzuki/Stinking Lizaveta @ Mill Creek
Death and the Maiden @ Curio
Devon Sproule/Carsie Blanton/Devin Greenwood/John Francis @ Tin Angel
Assassins @ The Arden
Oakley Hall and the Teeth @ Johnny Brendas
Isabella and Flamingo/Winnebago and Map Me and Gatz and Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Sonic Dances and Strawberry Farm and The Emperor Jones and No Dice and Hearts of Man and Principles of Uncertainty and Isabella and BATCH and Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's 20th Century and Car and Sports Trilogy and Explanatorium and Wandering Alice and Must Don't Whip Um and Festival of Lies and A Room of Ones Own and Recitatif @ the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe
Martha Graham Cracker and Eliot Levin and Kilo etc. @ the Fringe Cabaret
Lullatone and Teletextile @ Boulder Coffee [Rochester]
TV Sound @ the M Room
Aretha Franklin @ East Dell, Fairmount Pk.
Romeo + Juliet in Clark Park
Daft Punk @ Red Rocks
Spoon @ Rockefeller Park
Ponytail at Pony Pants' House
Mirah/Benjy Ferree @ the 1UC
Tortoise @ World Cafe Live
Hall & Oates...ish
"Nuclear Dreams" - Mascher Dance Group, x2
The Four of Us @ 1812
Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines by Rainpan whatever
Mascher Dance Group/Nathaniel Bartlett
Cornelius @ TLA
Sloan @ World Cafe
In Fluxxxx
Slavic Soul Party!/Red Heart the Ticker @ I-House
the Fantasticks @ Mum
Peter Bjork + Jorn/Fujiya + Miyagi @ fkaTLA
John Vanderslice @ Johnny Brendas
The Books & Todd Reynolds @ 1UC
Into the Woods @ LPAC
The Fishbowl @ the Frear
Caroline, or, Change @ the Arden
Low & Loney, Dear. @ 1UC




Monday, October 29

I feel like some elements of my life are crashing around me, as I devote an entire weekend to just one activity. Good thing it was an activity that I really love, and I've forgotten how true that is. At least I can come here, to this journal, for a sense of order, unless I haven't updated in a while. This is pathetic. I keep hearing about people reading this site in a long time, and yet there have been no comments on my last two entries. They were good, juicy entries too. C'mon, if this is no longer going to be my own little exclusive sanctuary, at least I need some gratification from my audience.

Like a doof I walked all the way to Olde Club this morning with my keyboard and stickbag, thinking that Jeff was twenty minutes late to pick me up. Of course, it was a Daylight Savings mistake, and I was back there again forty minutes later. We (TKM) played until two-thirty or so, making progress on all four of the tunes. Then I came home to read some of "Modern Love." Rebecca fed me tea and cookies, and we went downstairs to 2N for Rachel's surprise 20th. While waiting we
(Jessie, Elena, Rebecca, the residents, etc. – nb "Jessie" is in bold so that she can find the referenes to her more efficiently) discussed band names and airplane covers, after the guest of honor arrived we discussed Libertarianism. Inflight went to Olde Club for some last-minute rehearsing, during which Joel broke his second cello of the weekend, and Matt and I failed at harmonizing. From there to Genuardi's with Allen in tow and fifty dollars of SAC food funds, plus a shopping list of crushed tomatoes and dried yellow split peas (couldn't find them, sorry.) Most of the food ended up being eaten, except for an entire chocolate cheesecake which I ended up giving to Ranmal at the end of the night.

By this time it was after seven, so we made a brief barnstop grocerydrop costumeswap and got back to the venue in time to catch the Warriors' soundchecking "Teen Spirit." A few people showed up on time (8), but by the time David L. K. Murphy's extensive set of originals and Jeff Buckley covers was done, there was a sizable crowd, much of it probably drummed up by my various bandmates.

i can't do it all justice right now, i'm going to sleep. the right shift key on this board doesn't work.

what can i say? it was wrong that you disappeared