Drew Danburry has released his final album, Goodnight Dannii, which I think you can listen to for free here: http://drewdanburry.com. I just listened to it and will say that Will Oldham is my favorite song on there--it sounds kind of like Bonnie "Prince" Billy/Microphones. Also, Aubrey Debauchery appears on the track Aubrey Debauchery so, you know ( Read more... )

 
Ben is visiting for the week which will likely result in Ben being banned from Portland forever. Expect pictures of lego creations.

Went to a new PDX venue called The Woods which I really hope is a Sleater-Kinney reference. Like maybe one of them owns part of it. Clientele aside, the place had kind of a post-hipster feel--it is a converted funeral ( Read more... )

Went to a hipster show last weekend. Al's band was playing... now, uh, when I say "band," I'm talking about one guy who makes beats and sings while like twelve people play cardboard instruments to simulate the conventional band experience. So, really, it was more of a dance part with cardboard instruments and under-agers than a concert. It wasn't ( Read more... )

I wish I had a fairy godmother to poof me back to Minneapolis for the Dessa show tonight. I would also wish for the show to finish before midnight so I don't miss anything.

-gf

 
Rarely am I vindicated for choosing not to listen to a band but, tonight, my mom told me that she heard this great new band on the radio today called Vampire Weekend.

Bands as similes: one and two.

Neutral Milk Hotel killed himself junior year of college and everyone has a hugely inflated adoration of him that you think is sort of bullshit until ( Read more... )

Pretty sure I have a post like this about once a year but holy balls why is there more snow in Arizona than there is in Minnesota?? A few days ago, I was complaining to Mark about how I was missing the Doomtree Blowout and he was like "well at least it isn't snowing where you are. Shitty compromise but it's something." NOW I HAVE NOTHING!!


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I was going through my facebook albums to see how representative they are of my life and realized how much my friend group has changed (I am okay with this). If you're ever looking for a way to kill like 5 minutes, go through my facebook albums and see if you can guess who in them has unfriended me and why. Anyway, another thing I noticed was that ( Read more... )

I'm in Wichita. If I could remember the White Stripes lyric about that, I would make a joke but... eh. I drove ~10 hours today but it went fast. Pretty sure I listened to Rebel Yellow like six times through. I am going to know allll the words to all the songs on that by the time I get to Oregon. My goal for tomorrow is Albuquerque. It will be a ( Read more... )

In public
Girl: Sorry I'm sneezing everywhere.
Boy: You are the most beautiful girl in the world.
Girl: Even when I'm blowing my nose?
Boy: Especially when you're blowing your nose!!

I got Rebel Yellow today (I got it at Cheapo and then got angry that I got it there instead of Fifth Element because I probably overpaid... and it's not like ( Read more... )

   I kind of want to see Planet 51 in the same way I kind of want to get married and have a kid. I also have yet to make it to Where the Wild Things Are... someone was telling me that I should go see it because Arcade Fire does the music. I feel like there are better reasons to see it than that... and I would prefer, like, Johnny Greenwood doing ( Read more... )