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I have what I call a bus friend -- a regular rider of my bus who I have also regularly seen out at shows, who I often chat with in the mornings, but who I rarely see outside the bus or dirty concert venues -- who I shall henceforth nickname Trees, based on his real name ( Read more... )

1. I need Folie a Deux to leak so that I can finish my top 10/top 25 albums of the year list. That's the only album I'm waiting on hearing before I post my list, so if Peter could just leak that shit already, that would be A++.
   
   
2. I went to a show last night that was a great performance (Hayes Carll) marred by a seriously creepster crowd (sketchy guys ( Read more... )

I honestly don't have much to say lately -- that is, much that any of you care about. That said:

• Now is the time of year when the BCS gets hairy and I get obsessed with midgety graduate student quarterbacks in Texas and with non-BCS conference undefeateds, and also basketball season has started which means a) I have to devote a lot of energy that ( Read more... )

So our plan for a low-key Halloween resulted in half-naked bartenders, an metric buttload of beer, and a cheerfully tipsy three mile hike home two hours later than we'd meant to be home, and then six hours later we got up, made coffee, and slithered back into town for the Merge Records Last-Chance-To-Early-Vote Local-Rockers-And-Billy-Bragg Obama ( Read more... )

you don't need a professional grade camera to take good concert shots. for the record. these were all shot with my nikon coolpix L3, no flash. (you just need to know how to use your camera, and the next time someone with a pro-grade dSLR asks me to set their ISO for them, i'm gonna take their camera.)

( ten photos of steel train, dear and the headlights, forgive durden and holy ghost tent revival @ greene street, g'boro, nc, 10.21.08 )

... and I hope I stay this way, it is an A+ good feeling.

1. Can anyone recommend a good, readable history of the American punk scene to me? I am enjoying reading history of popular music lately, and punk is one place where my knowledge is pretty much zero. Well-written and enjoyable and not too srs bsns history are my biggest criteria in books.
   
   
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I LOVE ALL WILL SHEFFS.

i also love all beds, which is where my rocked-off ass is heading right ... now.

there are musicians i've loved longer, and musicians who have occupied more of my time this year, but in the end, when it comes down to it, i love mason jennings best, forever and ever amen. ten years, and he still sounds like my heart set to music.

( mason jennings @ the cat's cradle, 09.30.08 )

hushies set list: intro/love you much better/we intertwined/molasses/medicine man/don't wake me up/sweet tangerine/lions roar/hurricane/as you cry/back in the ussr/not your concern/wine red/i want you back/we believe/crawling towards the sun/honey ( Read more... )