while listening to a basically acoustic set by ben gibbard i'm reading about him and about death cab for cutie releasing a new record, codes and keys, and i'm so excited. i'd drifted away for a little while and hadn't realised they were planning on doing so - or maybe i simply forgot. i did really like the darkness of narrow stairs, but i'm curious ( Read more... )

last night i dreamt i went to our local record store, where i noticed a cd on display. it was a something corporate EP, titled 'jäger'. 'jäger'! i incorporated andrew-knowledge into my dream, in a ridiculous way. obviously no such thing exists (or does it?), but it makes me laugh now. i really wanted it, too, i looked for it for ages, but i couldn' ( Read more... )

you know when you're really in the mood to listen to a certain band or artist, and then you listen to them and it's like your whole body enjoys it? and you almost wonder why you don't listen to them all the time but then you realise that they don't always make you feel this way. and you want to sing loudly and dance widely or just sit and play them ( Read more... )

tonight i have to swim for my life. if i don't, i will drown.

with my heavy, thoroughly confused heart, i took a moment (or more) to read mr. mcmahon's old blog. then i read this, and it really made me laugh.

PS There is a bit of unfortunate news regarding release dates that I'm hopeful will be met with understanding by everyone. I know we had originally promised a July 12th release. While we had been holding ( Read more... )

i dreamt about war and my brother last night.
last night i listened to mr andrew mcmahon, and that's a thing for i have no ipod anymore (jesusgod hailee please work again) and. yeah, but there was youtube and after writing down swim-lyrics on the beach in letters bigger than me, i craved it.
it was so good.

i also had mac and cheese with aurelie, ( Read more... )

So.
I am now going to write about the day I saw Jack’s Mannequin in a tinytinyy venue, and then some time before, and probably some time after. Apologies in advance for an abundance of unneeded and/or unintersting information and details.

( Here we go, March 8th in Hamburg, Germany. )