My newest freelance client is Jew-ish.com, the young, hip, online brand of the Jewish Transcript - er, I mean JTNews. I'm doing a monthly column about Jewish music, and my first column went live this week!

www.jew-ish.com

Direct link: http://jew-ish.com/index.php?/stories

I've been toying with the idea of making this blog a little more directed. It has always been (for the last nine years I've had it, sweet clattering mackerels) a mixture of "this is what I did today," and "here's something amusing to read." I will probably still use it for the "so today work sucked but then I ate a sandwich it was pretty good" ( Read more... )

I just got back from finally hanging out with the mysterious neighbors, Ryan and Gibson. I went out with the Muffins tonight for Erin's birthday, and had just come home, tired and slightly tipsy, when Gibson came and knocked on my door. They had a couple friends over, so we all hung out and talked and listening to music for a few hours before I had ( Read more... )

There are some times when, for no reason I can discern, I need to hear The Mountain Goats' "Lovecraft in Brooklyn." I put on my "Favorite Goats" playlist, and Lovecraft finely tunes the intensity of my soul ( Read more... )

I want to marry this band ( Read more... )

I am still in the midst of my "holiday weekend," which actually began on Wednesday. I have cut the potentially boring family Thanksgiving chatter and Black Friday work recount for your convenience.

( Thanksgiving shenanigans )

I have been making lists lately.
Why? That is a good question.
Instead of answering it, I am giving you lists.

None of these are in any order, because I am bad at ranking.

Top 10 Local Bands (Current)
The Lathe Symphonic
Steel Tigers of Death
God Made Me the Raven
Man Plus
Black Houses
Android Hero
The Them
The Maldives
The Senate
Poorsport

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Tonight I decided to pretend as if I really do want to play the mandolin. I decided I was going to try and learn either Screeching Weasel's "Hey Suburbia" or OneLineDrawing's "Got My List ( Read more... )

Man, what a kickass day I had. I started it off with a bang by getting my hairs cut: I now have bangs for the first time since I was about eight years old! I think it's pretty damn cute. It needs time to settle, so no pictures yet. Don't worry, they'll come ( Read more... )

No, seriously. Who's going to sample some of the amazing string* of shows the Tractor has lined up in the coming weeks ( Read more... )