November 2008
32 posts
tour.
it’s been a rainy sad sunday over here in phil’s world. these kinds of sundays are perfect for listening to magnolia electric co. i think if jason molina (magnolia electric co, songs:ohia) and mark kozelek (sun kil moon, red house painters) had a sad-off competition, where they both played the same show and played the saddest songs and tried to outsad each other, it would destroy the...
snoop dogg is making mashed potatoes with martha...
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thank you creative people
months ago when i was going through my “what am i doing with my life now” panic attack following my departure from olympia, i did a lot of thinking about what i wanted out of my life and the city that i lived in and the people i spent my time with. one of the most important things was wanting to give myself opportunities to be creative and surround myself with like-minded people who...
10 years.
so ten years ago i graduated from high school. class of 1998. i sang in the high school madrigal choir, was the lead in our production of “oklahoma”, had an infatuation with just about every girl that gave me the time of day. not to mention, i looked like this: awesome. so tonight is our 10-year high school reunion. i don’t think too many people will show due to the holidays,...
give thanks.
it’s thanksgiving and i’m home sweet home. i’m sitting in my den right now, enjoying the shocking technological advancement going on in my childhood home. for the very first time, we are wi-fi capable. while my parents are watching E.R., i get to hang out and type up a blog. love it. today was a really nice day. the family all gathered in fredericksburg today at my...
ghost town.
richmond’s a ghost town. everyone’s traveling home for the holiday. my family is meeting an hour away from here, so i have nowhere to be until tomorrow morning. which is nice because … let’s be honest, most of the folks who ARE traveling are stuck in traffic. hooray for not straying too far from home. the few of us stragglers left in town are going out tonight to ipanema....
G.P.O.Y.W.
this week’s G.P.O.Y. comes courtesy of karen and old milwaukee.
my friend randy.
i’m just blogging up a storm tonight. sorry. i have this friend randy that i met years and years ago in birmingham, alabama. he has started posting really intense videos on his blog. this one is my favorite:
freddie mercury.
17 years ago today freddie mercury passed away and we lost the greatest rock vocalist of all time. RESPECT:
living in the dorms.
so i was going through old word documents trying to find some old information and stumbled upon a letter i wrote to an RA in my dorm hall freshman year. if i recall correctly, it was late at night and i had a nerf gun and was shooting it across the hall into the room across from ours. the RA on duty walked by and yelled at me for shooting nerf darts across the hall and took my nerf dart. i wrote...
safety first, richmond!
from the fine folks at rvanews.com..
The Richmond Police Department announced today that Richmond has improved its ranking of the least safe cities in the country, moving from #20 to #49 since 2006. 385 of the largest cities in America were part of the survey. Crime overall in 2008 is down from previous years… * Murder down 33 percent * Rape down 11 percent * Commercial robbery down...
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bjork. why are you so amazing?
monday.
you know, it’s monday. but on the other hand, i’ve got a delicious diet pepsi and i’m listening to morrissey loudly in my headphones and it’s only a three day work week. SO IT CAN’T BE THAT BAD. i have so many calls today it makes my head spin, but soon i will be at home with my family whom i miss very much, eating thanksgiving food, hanging out with the cat, seeing...
2008.
kenny and i were talking on the drive back from DC this morning and kenny said “2008 has easily been the worst year of my life”. and the statement got me thinking and i think i agree. 2008 has been quite the shitty year when you put it all down on paper. 2008 saw the death of my grandmother and an old high school friend, a week in the hospital, a long recovery from a pretty...
hahaha
i can’t say with any certainty that this is true, but i’d like to believe it:
gmail and the rest of my life
so i get it. i buy into the hype. gmail is supposed to revolutionize my entire life. i’ve been quietly beta-testing gmail for months now. i’ve had an account for years for all the business type things like.. sending resumes and whatnot. and the band e-mail account was the one i always used for the day-to-day e-mail. well, brand new disaster e-mail came and went when that band...
240 minutes
karen took some promo photos of us for 240 minutes. they turned out great. then kenny used his magic to make it look like an old rock’n’roll press photo. love it.
an open letter to the cool kids
dear cool kids, i couldn’t help but notice that myspace has been dead the last few months. no one’s leaving comments or posting bulletins. the thrill is gone. so i go to facebook, and all i can find are old friends from jr. high who are now married with kids. where did you guys go? why didn’t you take me with you? please get back to me on this. i’m concerned. lost on the...
dj weekend!
so as most of you know, i have been an amateur wedding DJ for a few years now. it’s basically just me, a laptop, a bunch of mp3s, and a pretty good feel for what songs to pick to help a) start a dance party and b) keep it going. i love a good dance party and i’ve always been interested in doing some ACTUAL DJing.. but never really took the initiative. fortunately, living with kenny...
jimmy eat world continued..
i feel like i’ve been binging on clarity by jimmy eat world lately. blogging about it, talking to people about it, listening to it. if i keep doing this, i am going to be sick of this record just in time for the show. i’m officially putting a moratorium on jimmy eat world here on the blog until the actual show in february. as a formal send-off to jimmy eat world, i am posting the...
working from home = not working
today i am working from home. i usually do not like working from home.. i can’t focus here and i like being at my actual desk in my actual office. i know that might sound weird. a lot of people who work office jobs would kill for the chance to work at home. i guess i like having the OPTION to work at home, but given the choice, i usually prefer to be in my office - collaborating with...
legitimate.
today is kicking ass so far. i’m entirely prepared for the day to take a sharp nosedive, but in the meantime i am way stoked. first awesome thing of the day: i managed to score tickets to the jimmy eat world show despite some technical difficulties. i was so worried about it selling out, i set an alarm for the pre-sale and everything. at 10:01, i was the proud owner of four tickets. so...
clarity.
let’s talk for a moment about something i am super excited about: early next year, jimmy eat world will be commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the release of “clarity” by playing 15 shows across the country where they will play the album in order in its entirety. HO-LEE-SHIT. did i mention there’s a DC date? did i mention tickets go on sale tomorrow? let’s...
spiders.
paramore.
things that are embarrassing to admit: 1) you are listening to paramore loudly in your room. 2) you are listening to paramore B-SIDES loudly in your room. 3) you have paramore b-sides. ridiculous.
music. vinyl. awesome.
today’s been one of those days where i listen exclusively to music i enjoyed from 2000-2001, a formative time in my musical life. prior to that point, my musical tastes were… well, shitty. i don’t know, the whole thing makes me reflective about the past and different times. it’s a good feeling. i’ve had some mixed feelings about new music lately. my three most...
post-election hangover
man oh man. what a week. i’ve been avoiding any extensive blogging since tuesday because there’s just too much to say and too much to talk about. the events of tuesday night will be something i will remember for the rest of my life. watching the results come in, seeing VA go blue for the first time in my life, witnessing obama’s historic acceptance speech. not to mention the...
history in the making
i have so much to say about tonight, but i’ll save that for later. for now, just know that this is what is going on right out in front of my apartment as we speak:
one can only hope.
sitting down to watch the election coverage and order some pizzas with my dudes. C’MON OBAMA!
OBAMA PIZZA PARTY!
what’s that?! you voted for OBAMA?! oh man, you’re totally invited to an OBAMA PIZZA PARTY! look how many pizzas obama bought you.. DELICIOUS! SAVE SOME FOR OBAMA, THAT DUDE IS ABOUT TO BE YOUR PRESIDENT! NOM NOM NOM NOM thanks kelsey for the obama pizza photos!
democracy in action!
i got up bright and early at 6:30 this morning. (well, six technically but i rolled around in bed for a while) i made it to the polling place shortly after 7:00 to find a nice long line. bummertown. i had secret hopes of getting in and out quickly and then walking over to perly’s for a delicious post-voting breakfast, but it wasn’t in the cards. i stood in line for about an hour and...
three stages of jagerbombs
first stage: denial are we really about to do jagerbombs? second stage: acceptance yes, i suppose we are doing jagerbombs. third stage: immediate regret i will never be doing a jagerbomb again. repeat months later. edit: for some reason blogger isn’t properly sizing photos lately. probably a bug. hopefully it will be back to normal shortly. in the meantime, sorry!