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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




Tuesday, April 30

This has been a lazy day (I haven't left the house once) but not an entirely unproductive one. I retroactively felt slightly less guilty about having slept through classes this morning, not because I figured out that the snooze must have been stuck down for days now, like it was that one time, but because I decided I'm pretty sick. So I've just been taking it easy here today, staying in bed for a while - I went back to sleep between 2 and 3:30 - and eating and drinking gingerly. I've had three or four mugs of lemon-ginger tea, which combined with time i guess have helped to make my throat much less painful than it was this morning. And a bowl of Annie's white cheddar macaroni, and cereal, and just now for dinner a tasty pumpernickel-mango-spinach-cheddar-mustard-feta sandwich and an ear of corn. I haven't done much to clean my room, or anything resembling schoolwork, or written record reviews or even laundry until a few hours ago, when I had to go to the basement to change a fuse. And I still haven't practiced; I really need to do that, and will as soon as I finish writing this.

But I did do a fair amount of catch-up here, as the astute among you may notice (although I still need to write about Saturday, the day of the concert), and I wrote scores of e-mails about Worthstock (this debate back and forth with Marié and Corey that's been going on for like a week now; Jenny Yim sent out a reserved-mail, though she took off the part about Crunkadelia for some reason) and other things, and I finished calculating EC album times (it will take me 15 hours to play all 18 albums - who's with me?), and I did the Times Mag's "Puns and Anagrams" Crossword, and listened to some stuff. Mighty Like a Rose is terrific, and The Charm of the Highway Strip is pretty good too. Tomorrow, I guess, I'll be up and active. Hopefully I'll feel better. This sickness is so almost perfunctory. I don't know what brought it on, although I fear it may have to do with the three pieces of greasy pizza I ate at SAC last night.

Alyssa writes: "we are all delinquent, and we will all survive."

practicing now…

hell on 18 wells
at 100 per
we went crashing through
the jersey barrier