I've been rereading Stuff White People Like and the entry on Portland, Oregon struck me as relevant this morning.

"Portland, Oregon, is essentially a Lord of the Flies scenario with white people in the Pacific Northwest instead of children in the South Pacific. In both cases, we have a situation whereby a homogeneous group of people is left alone ( Read more... )

One of my fondest daydreams right now is Fast Times at Barrington High doing really well and The Academy Is... going on tour with Taking Back Sunday. I feel the combined force of Adam Lazzara and William Beckett's complete failure at life could only lead to magic. Sadly I think they've reached the maximum number of shotgun weddings allowed by most ( Read more... )

You know, Max would have been 14 when Danielle and Tom started dating. I can't imagine how weird that must have been. Poor little Max goes to answer the door and Tom is standing there all covered in dirt trying to get the fleas out of his hair. And Tom smiles and tries to look sweet and goes, "Um, hi. Is Danielle home?" And Max realizes, "Oh, you' ( Read more... )

The Hush Sound's next album may end up being a self-produced affair. Some material and ideas were left out of the band's most recent CD, "Goodbye Blues," Morris said, adding that he really wants to make an album that better reflects the band's live vibe.

Words cannot express my glee over this article.

I like this new trend of people I'm actually interested in getting blogs. William Beckett has one here that is sure to make you more invested in him as he spirals further downward. If you don't want to be depressed, Greta Salpeter has one here. that has lots of lovely pictures of her and Bob ( Read more... )

I went to Warped Tour in Charlotte on Monday with my friend Cattlin, who has helpfully posted pictures from it. Yay her. Anyway ( concerts are fun, sun is bad, crowds are assholes. )

Summer is dragging on for me and I've been failing to update. Ooops. But I haven't seen a lot of Hush Sound articles linked around livejournal, which makes me sad. I read pretty much all of them I can find so I think I should share.

An interview with Greta Salpeter of The Hush Sound, during the Honda Civic Tour. Best quote:

How did you and Bob ( Read more... )

Sean Van Vleet was totally one of those kids who ran out of age appropriate books to read and started to steal his mother's romance novels and murder mysteries. His teacher ended up taking him into the principal office after he wrote the eighth sex and killing filled story for class and they had a nice long chat with him about saying no and that it ( Read more... )

True or false: Sean Van Vleet's first crush was on LeVar Burton. The answer here is clear, if we consider the fact Mr. Burton received a very nice letter from a young Sean that said, "Hello Mr. Burton, I enjoy your program it teaches me a lot about books and also you are a charming man. When I grow up I would either like to be you or marry you is ( Read more... )

1. Interview with Greta from Artist Direct.

It's an interesting interview, and it has not only Alex Greenwald continuing to be FBR's newest little black dress like so:

Well, Alex from Phantom Planet and I went to this music shop one day, and I bought a violin, and he bought a mandolin. Now, he's been playing his mandolin everyday.But it also ( Read more... )