After a long, eventful day, it was time to return home. The first empty seat on BART happened to be by a cute girl, so I took it and began reading Feed.

We sat in silence until she said, "Oh, you're reading Feed!" Wait, what, how did she know about Feed? A friend of hers had read it and been raving about it. I pointed to the author and said, "She' ( Read more... )

The other night my friend Gina introduced me to Pomplamoose, and now I am addicted so I must share the love with you ( Read more... )

Back in The Day, as we like to call it, my friend Alanna introduced me to Rose Polenzani. I was not really into her at first, but then a couple years later, thanks to my friend Steph, I grew into my female singer-songwriter phase and became a huge fan and bought all her CDs and saw her when she came to Ann Arbor in 2004. I have since grown out of ( Read more... )

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You guys! Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E., by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen, is the GREATEST COMIC IN THE HISTORY OF EXISTENCE!

Nextwave is essentially a parody of superhero comics, specifically the Marvelverse, that is still a fun and entertaining superhero comic in its own right. Actual Marvel characters make what I can only assume are ( Read more... )

You have likely never heard of Shades of Ray since it was not released in theatres and instead is available exclusively on Amazon on DemandBut it stars Zachary Levi and Sarah Shahi and Fran Kranz and Bonnie Somerville and also features Rex Lee and Cristine Rose and Lucy Davis, so it is tailor-made for the audience of People Who Read My Journal ( Read more... )

This Saturday was BFD! It was my third year in a row going to Live105's big summer all-day concert, and my compatriots this time were holly96 and her friend Christina, who did not look burnt...or dead. We kept up my tradition of getting Jack in the Box for lunch, and I kept up my tradition of getting mozzarrella sticks and Coke for the drive back, but ( Read more... )

At the fondue party on Sunday, Janet invited us all to come see her brother's band, Hey Ocean!, on Friday and/or Saturday. I assumed they were an unknown local band I would have many chances to see, like Rachel's brother's band. But when I looked them up, I discovered they were A) from Canada and B) fairly big there! There was a lot of good press ( Read more... )

Does anyone remember my Oakland Art and Soul Festival report from last year? Or two years ago? It's a Labor Day tradition, people ( Read more... )

I'm going to let you guys in on a little secret, and the name of that secret is Dirt Poor Robins' The Cage, a great CD I just bought for full price. I'm a fucking cheapskate, people, but that's how much I wanted this CD.

I discovered Dirt Poor Robins when my Pandora station gave me "Masquerade," which intrigued me upon the first listen and got a ( Read more... )

After a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week, the weekend came to rescue me with LOTS AND LOTS OF MUSIC. Check it out.

( Signal Flow: Experimental music made from chess games, suitcases, tree branches, fans, light bulbs, and even, on occasion, real instruments )