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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, April 28

did i tell you my life is essentially perfect? listen, i wasn't joking. it's not time right now for me to tell you about my fabulous weekend, or even about today. okay, fine, today: the most beautiful one yet? i tell you, worth courtyard is at least five times prettier today than yesterday. the trees flower quite suddenly. new venues: french moved to the amphitheatre for us to shout hastily memorized chausettes lines ("du liquide pancreatique!" "frottez-moi le dos!"), and bio convened in the spankin' new lecture hall, which is just too nice a space (if you ask me) to be wasted on science lectures. well, i'm sure they'll show films there too. lunch/w'stock interview with elena was great, radio was good too, with special guest and many happy returns. i got, among others, a new first cd (aa before ac) for the first time since the acid mothers temple superseded ryan adams last fall. i got a voicemail from yale evelev, which is doubly exciting. i helped becca assemble an absolutely great picnic dinner co-op featuring cold salads i like(d) and beer in a wine jug. tap class is always great, as is practicing. and terpsichore made me want to get right up on the stage and dance some more. i inched closer to completion of the trio (i'm at viiº/V7, poised for a cadence) and finished writing four snappy reviews, which will go up here shortly.

just about the only thing that isn't making me happy right now is a pestersome sniffle and drip plaguing my face. i blame it on the aftereffects of a day in deadface (which i'll write about soon), not on some abstract springy allergy. (you'd think i've been alive long enough to identify what gives me these occasional allergies, not that i could avoid it. but no. some particles in the air, i presume.)

it's been a full day, and i've been willfully not writing (not neglecting, not avoiding, just not doing) the 7-10 page semantics squib that's due tomorrow. i don't know how much, but certainly the fact that it's not even called a paper is helping me to not take it too seriously. no, i'm happy about the prospect of now writing it too, staying up maybe even all night to get that looby overexposed allnighterhangover which i like but don't do often at all ("night is fluid into morning," i once wrote it.) if not for the sickish, i'd been even more happy about it.

i'm going down to the crum for another bonfire now. then i'll come back and write it. don't worry.

the famous person wears the same size waterskis as me
she's got three cars as many years i've lived in this city
her hair is blond and mine is browne they both start with a "b"
but whenthephone insideherib cageringsitsnot for me