March 2010
1 post
Thoughts for today
I need to go to the gym more than twice a week if I want to maintain my current enthusiasm.
Where and why does a bad mood start? How does it persist with no discernible fuel?
I misjudged Patti Smith. Do I have the soul of an artist? Does that explain my constant restlessness? No, probably not.
This Andrew Bird song was so precious that it made me want to murder people. New music is bad, bad,...
August 2008
1 post
Paul Westerberg tuning his guitar →
Heavenly.
July 2008
1 post
I'm in a real K-Hole, daddy.
My dad died seven years ago today. I rarely get weepy over it - not because I didn’t love him to pieces, but because his absence has been part of my life for so long now that my time with him seems like a very distant memory. A third of the time I did have him around, he was ill or recovering from illness. My life changed immensely when he first became sick. I was 12 and at the onset of a...
May 2008
5 posts
More thinking
of the easy variety. The James Lipton quiz. I would exclaim ‘scrumtrulescent!’ here, but I’m not a douchebag, so I won’t. What is your favorite word? Favorite how? A word whose meaning makes me happy, a word I use a lot, a word I like the sound of? I’ll answer all those three - love, maybe, klaxon What is your least favorite word? Same format: unfortunately,...
Thinking Exercise
Brain: nnnnnggggggggeeeeuuuuuuuhhh I just ended a pretty grueling semester of school. Grueling in the grad school sense, as in, I was forced to devote up to 20 hours a week to school, and ONLY got three weeks off from class from the end of January until now. It’s a pace I simply can’t keep up with. The last three weeks, though, have been pretty strenuous - but only because I waited...
The triumphant return of the News-Star
The Chicago News-Star (covering Rogers Park, Ravenswood, Edgewater and Uptown), which was formerly owned by Lerner Newspapers, which was bought out by Pioneer Local, which was bought out by the Sun-Times News Group, which lost a bunch of money and stuff because of Conrad Black and because of the impending death of print journalism (noo!) and subsequently dumped a bunch of the neighborhood papers,...
Chicago Uptown Crime Blotter →
Dear True Crime, I’m a big fan of yours - big fan. I don’t think I’ll ever sit and listen to the police scanner and blog what I hear, but I’m glad someone will.
Pitchfork: Frank Black to Open for Stone Temple... →
OK, everyone knows that Stone Temple Pilots are majorly uncool, mad corny, and many other derogatory adverb/adjective combos, but jesus christ, Pitchfork writer Paul Thompson - pull the stick out of your ass and cut the attitude. By acting like this, you are only drawing more attention to the fact that you were, at some point, an unlovable loser - nothing wrong with that - and you might as well...
April 2008
6 posts
Scandale!
Closer, soberer investigation of my unplayed itunes playlist reveals a swathe (a WIDE swathe, at that) of songs that I have indeed listened to many times! The oldest ‘last played’ date out of songs with a play count is 4/27/07. Does that mean that I haven’t listened to any of these songs all the way through in at least 51 weeks? Does it matter? I don’t even care about this....
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I need to make a record of my favorite songs so I...
Or so I can look back in a year and be like, ugh, I’m so sick of these songs but wasn’t it cute that I liked them then? The Fall: Too many to list. Especially notable are Lay Of The Land, Put Away and Cab It Up (Peel Sessions [snort]), Clear Off!, I Feel Voxish, Room To Live (Live), Vixen, Paint Work, I Am Damo Suzuki, The Man Whose Head Expanded, Eat Y’Self Fitter, Rebellious...
““With all due respect, this is the same politician who spent six days posing for...”
– Chicago Tribune
hypocritic oath
I stumbled across a blog today (whose URL I won’t post to protect the innocent) that made me quite agitated. It’s by a Chicago transplant who’s into “urban exploration,” NPR, biking, etc. - all the touchstones that scream “LOOK HOW ALTERNATIVE I AM.” I penned off an angry e-mail about it to a friend (summary: UGH, BLOGGERS), then continued to read (you...