last night, annakovsky and i saw death cab for cutie. important notes ( Read more... )

when i told extasis that i was seeing N*E*R*D this past weekend, i said something like, "i hope that being in close proximity to pharrell's tinfoil transmission will re-set me as a person and i'll know what's what again." when i left the show last night, i definitely remembered why i liked pop music better when pharrell was running things and why i love ( Read more... )

awesome weekend or AWESOMEST WEEKEND?

friday: stars concert! if you like this band at all, please see their live show, they are wooooooonderful torquil campbell looked more continuously delighted to be performing music for a living than anyone i've seen in a long time (and weirdly reminded me of alton brown, or how alton brown would act if he ( Read more... )

this is another one of those posts where i'm like "aaaaah so much has happened since last we spoke!" except that it's mostly just "baseball. beer. baseball. concerts. cross-country flight. baseball. football. BASEBALL." let's go to the tape ( Read more... )

okay, i want to talk about television and concerts and tell this story about my brother and how he's moving to vietnam, but, you guys, the red sox are division champions! and that took up a lot of my time this weekend.

i have lived with starkeymonster for about a month now, and mostly what happens is this:

throughadoor: [emerges from bedroom with crazy eyes, declares ( Read more... )

1. boston best beloveds, do any of you like patrick wolf? he's playing at the paradise on october 4, and i like him enough to go alone, but i thought i'd check. if you're not sure if you like patrick wolf, i put up his most recent album and attempted to explain his gay circus music ways here2. i thought i wasn't dating anyone, but then i realized i ( Read more... )

( re: rome )

some good things:

[a] praise allah and ABBA, the ark have put out a new single: absolutely no decorumit is, of course, gay and swedish and glam and AWESOME. springfield and i spend a lot of time talking about the ark (um ... obviously) and how their music is all of those aforementioned things, but how we also find a lot of their songs to be, ( Read more... )

i was gonna say ( Read more... )

last night springfield and i had tickets to see the ark (much-discussed in this space, swedish gay glam gay rock gay band gay, you may recall that we saw them in june and it changed my life) and we were very excited until the show was cancelled. i had actually been worried that the show would be cancelled because of non-existent ticket sales (we ( Read more... )