I wore my pedometer to the mosh-pit at tonight's Polysics show. I thought it would be interesting to know, y'know? At some point it fell off, and I was feeling pretty sad that I had lost it. I mean, what are the odds that such a tiny little plastic thing would survive a mosh-pit? Somehow it did survive, and someone handed it to Angelo after the ( Read more... )

I did one just like this a few years ago, but it's fun enough for a second go.
( Music Player List Game )

Lately, when I look at my last.fm Top Artist - Overall chart, I have a desire to narrate it as though it were a sporting event ( Read more... )

I think The Books are an amazing and wonderful band. They are an aleatoric band (I am glad I spelled that right on the first try). I have been really enjoying aleatory lately ( Read more... )

If you see one music video this year...
Please, won't you make it this one?

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So during 2005 I made a whopping 12 LJ entries. Two of those were 43things cross-posts, so really I only made 10. Here's hoping for a little more blog-action this year.
Someone actually added himself as a fan of mine on my Audiostreet music site. I am always both neurotically insecure and gleefully happy whenever anybody gives any positive feedback ( Read more... )

Well, I'm coming up on the end of my first semester at The College of Santa Fe. Yeah, okay, it's been fine. I'm only occasionally hit by the irritating bug telling me that I should've done this years ago. Uh-huh, yeah. Or maybe I shouldn't have done this at all. I guess this is still a hell of a lot better then the alternative of working for no ( Read more... )

So apparently, by default, I am the new Speech and Debate coach at the Tutorial school. This is kind of a problem since I don't know anything about debate. Not a thing. I know a bit about public speaking (Persuasive Vs. Informative and such,) although that is pretty fuzzy too. Part of this is that I have to get up at early on Saturday morning to ( Read more... )

Japanese Neo-New Wave band Polysics is coming to Santa Fe on the 13th. I am very excited. I don't think I have been this excited about a show... ever, really. coconutradio, who is promoting the show, informs me that their manager is strange, and they do not eat American food, only Japanese food. I will spend a lot of money on albums and T-shirts, of that I can ( Read more... )

The death of Elliott Smith makes me very sad ( Read more... )