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March 31, 2005

   


   


March 30, 2005

 

i like american music

Shellac - Sat April 16 (at NOON) - Chicago, IL - Martyr's Fiery Furnaces - Wed April 20 - Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck The Apes - Thurs April 21 - KC, MO - The Brick Iron & Wine - Sat April 23 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Rilo Kiley - Wed May 11 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Brendan Benson - Sun May 15 - KC, MO - Uptown Theatre Sasquatch -...
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March 29, 2005

 

"Rommel, stop it"

I don't know if it's a hard and fast rule, but it may be safe to say you can judge a piano teacher by the house in which they teach. My first teacher's house was spare, but in a homey fashion, with plenty of knick-knacks spread about, bookshelves that held stuff I've actually read and some lived-in clutter. My new teacher, my comparison, looks like she just moved into her apartment, and...
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March 25, 2005

 

day one (take two): confession time

So, uh, back in August/September, somewhere between LA and San Francisco, I kinda started smoking again. What followed was 6 months of sliding on a slippery slope. a pack, pack and a half a day's worth of backsliding and blown resolve. I am very sorry, Internet(s). I have now resumed being quit and am now rounding the base of my first 24 hours without a smoke since sometime in October. Maybe. I've...
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March 24, 2005

 

from Robert Sullivan's 'Rats'

Biologists refer to rats as thigmophilic, which means touch loving. Consequently, rats prefer to touch things as they travel. Their runways are often parallel to walls, tracks, and curbs; in infested basements, grease slicks parallel ceiling beams and the run of sewer pipes. Rats are thought to feel especially safe at comers, when they are simultaneously touching a wall and free to escape. As they travel again and again for food, as...
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because it's 40 different shades of black

here are 40 photos....
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March 21, 2005

 

richard hell goes off

As a poet now, Richard Hell is perhaps not as good as he could have been had he not spent upwards of twenty years playing music. Fuck you. If you want to say something like that, say it to my face. You don't hear me making claims about how "good" my poetry is, but who the fuck do you think you are? All this writing of yours is presented as if you're...
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it's perfect madness

"Monk said 'There is no wrong note, it has to do with how you resolve it'. He almost sounded like a kid taking piano lessons. I could relate to that when I first started playing the piano, because he was decomposing the music while he was playing it. It was like demystifying the sound, because there is a certain veneer to jazz and to any music, after a while it gets traffic...
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March 18, 2005

 

prayerfully

"The family is prayerfully excited about their daughter going before the United States Congress for the whole world to see how alive she is." What the fuck? Prayerfully? Did he just say prayerfully? What the fuck is prayerfully? Can someone be described as prayerfully bored or prayerfully aroused? Is this what's gonna happen now that the jesus freaks control the white house? New words, new additions to the crazy goddamn born-again lexicon...
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March 17, 2005

 

the pumpkin and the peach: two bros

Jeff, drunk, basks in the sunset of Loleta, CA, backdropped by the Silver Shamrock factory "Welcome to Watch the Magic Pumpkin! We're happier than a werewolf in a girls dormitory here at WTMP, and we can't wait to finish what Teen People Magazine calls "The most exciting new Halloween III themed site on the whole Internet!" Check out the periodicals section as all entries have been hyperlinked to the actual articles....
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March 12, 2005

 

love story

Oh, it's been a long hard day. I'm listening to something on the automotive hi-fi as I pull into the lot, parking right by the stairs, right under the giant floodlight. I grab my bag, the faceplate, a stack of mail, a cup of coffee and my CD wallet, trying to keep all of it in my hands as I lock and slam the door. Only now do I realize there's a...
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sasquatch 2005

has been announced. Tickets are on sale. Memorial Day Weekend. Here's the line-up: Mainstage : Pixies : Modest Mouse : Kanye West : Wilco : The Arcade Fire : Ray Lamontagne : Jem : Bloc Party : U.S.E. Plaza Stage : Matisyahu : The Frames : Joanna Newsom : Bobby Bare Jr. : Be Good Tanyas : Benevento Russo Duo : A.C. Newman Third Stage : Visqueen : Blue Scholars : Smoosh...
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March 11, 2005

 

the death of WNIB

"The Cat I am holding is named Abigail" via 2001, before the axe fell: For nearly half a century, lovers of classical music in the Chicago area have been turning to WNIB-FM (97.1) for eclectic and sometimes obscure programming. They hear live broadcasts of the Cleveland and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, interviews with contemporary composers and even, on April Fools' Day, broadcasts of a work by John Cage that consists...
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March 10, 2005

   


March 09, 2005

 

sleptwalked

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March 07, 2005

 

dear crackhead

Please stop breaking into my car. I don't leave my stereo in there any longer and you've been through my CDs twice now, not even bothering to take my bitchin' 2-disc Otis Redding anthology. Also, you may want to consider sobering up before smashing a window, since it seems your first attempt with the rock (good find, by the way, nice and pointy on one side, smooth and rounded on the other)...
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