January 27, 2010

The beer list at my new job is seriously phenomenal. 20 drafts, 15 from Southern California craft breweries. Four of the others are from
Belgium and one from PA.

Kind of exciting.

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January 23, 2010

And it will be more like a song,
And less like it’s math,
If you pull on my hair, and bite me like that.

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January 19, 2010

Whoa.

Local Natives in the background of this weird MTV show about Liz.

Lola Gaspar’s was playing the My Pet Saddle album on Thursday night as well.

Strange days.

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January 6, 2010

Applied for a day job.

Realized I think this is the last time I will have to answer questions such as, “Whats the difference between a bearnaise and hollandaise?” and “Pair a ribeye and salmon.”

I don’t think I want to be in this industry anymore. And the fact that most of the other people in the cattle-call interview sighed and left when they got to the food questions let’s me know that I am probably very good in this field even though I hate it.

I walk in May. The money is good for now. But I need to get out, not deeper in.

(And btdubs- my answers for the above were: vinegar, Zinfandel, chardonnay.)

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January 4, 2010

When I was 7 I got my head stuck in the bleachers at a Harlem Globetrotters game. They had to have the fire department come with the jaws of life to get me out.

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January 3, 2010

Los Campesinos!- The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future

I listened to this song for the first time in a while on my way to work today. Even after repeated listens, the results are the same: I shiver, my breath gets short, my stomach aches. In a good way.

It worries me that I can’t fathom feeling like this in regards to anything (anyone) anytime in the future. 

This was the best song of last year. And the album is going to be the best of this. 

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January 2, 2010
Also, Bob Nanna continues to school me in Scrabble. And I am stuck under a pile of Ts.

Also, Bob Nanna continues to school me in Scrabble.

And I am stuck under a pile of Ts.

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I’m doing that thing I do periodically where I throw away everything I own(and take loads to goodwill).

In doing so I found a stack of old papers I wrote in community college. On a paper I wrote for human sexuality I received a B and a comment which read, “Please see Student Mental Health Services and report back to me.”

In re-reading it I still can’t figure out why.

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December 30, 2009
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

skeetonmischa:

31 Songs From The 2000s

#2 “The Shame” by the Blood Brothers

A girl nicknamed Metal Sarah with the HIM Heartagram drawn on her shoes gave me a copy of “Burn, Piano Island, Burn” one night. At the time, I would use the Blood Brothers as a punchline around my more musical friends because all I knew about the Blood Brothers were the following: people on sites like Make Out Club and Mad Rad Hair were big fans and the Blood Brother screamed a lot and did not wear shirts. However, I took the CD assuming that it was going to be awful and apparently, Metal Sarah made a lot of copies to give to people. Then, I actually listened and by the time, “The Shame” came on, I got it. I dug it. I loved it. I wasn’t going to take my shirt off anytime, but I understood why people would. Metal Sarah quickly gave me copies of the other Blood Brothers albums: “March On Electric Children” and “This Adultery Is Ripe” and I was hooked. The best way to describe the Blood Brothers, is, like, well, it’s rather cliched. You know how they say if you don’t like the weather in such and such city, just wait five minutes? That’s the Blood Brothers. If you don’t like the way the song is going, just wait a couple of seconds and it’ll go in a completely different direction.

I’m not exactly sure how many times I saw Blood Brothers live. It felt like a lot of times. The Echo, Chain Reaction, Glasshouse, and I’m probably forgetting a place or two. I had three of their shirts and often, my friend, Laura and I would unknowingly wear our Blood Brothers shirts on the same day to History of Rock N Roll class. I want to say that I was able to form friendships through a mutual love and appreciation of this band. I loved this band. I loved the dual vocalists. I loved the sass at live shows. I loved screaming “Do The Shame” at every show and the moment when we, the audience were stunned that they actually did “The Shame.” It was pretty fucking amazing when they did “The Shame”. I loved the live shows and all of the kids standing outside, smoking cigarette after cigarette with their fancy belts and wacky haircuts.

I think the first time I ever hung out with Doug (after reading his livejournal) was when I picked him up in my Jetta and drove him to a Blood Brothers show. 

One of my all-time favorite show moments was at their show at the Echo, when some girl brought a bouquet of flowers to pass to them on stage. During this song they received them, and promptly threw them back over the audience. There were flowers raining down everywhere. Then being thrown everywhere. Then just petals. 

I’ve been waiting for the Blood Brothers on this list. What a relief.

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December 29, 2009

The future is amazing:

I am currently getting ready for work, while playing scrabble on my iPhone with one of my all-time favorite musicians. 

Seriously, dude is one of my top five favorite songwriters of all time. He can turn a phrase like no one’s business. His bands were the soundtrack to my high school years.

He just played the word, “Pea.”

And I’m beating him.

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