the thing that gets me about vienna teng’s music is its imperfection. she has a glorious voice but that’s not the first thing you think of it. it doesn’t sound particularly special, she doesn’t engage in vocal pyrotechnics, it’s not something you’d describe as “lush” or “colorful” or something but that’s just it, the beauty… Continue reading insanity
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and the words, they’re everything and nothing. i want to search for her in the offhand remarks: who are you, taking coffee, no sugar? who are you, echoing street signs? who are you, stranger in the shell of a lover? dark curtains drawn by the passage of time. oh words, like rain, how sweet the… Continue reading Untitled
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just now, i felt something on my arm, so i shook it. something solid landed on the desk. it was a spider. i cleaned up the newspapers and shit on my front porch the other day and foolishly put them in my paper-recycling brown bag in my room for a few days. i must have… Continue reading Untitled
if this post isn’t trying to be pretentious, my beard is made of green spinach. sorry.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html Virtuoso plays for rush hour in experiment, complete with video illustrating the incredulous text around it. There are rambling thoughts on philosophers and beauty and modernity and lotto tickets and you can see the writer blinking in confusion, scrambling to explain what happened in the presence of this man whose name would be accompanied… Continue reading if this post isn’t trying to be pretentious, my beard is made of green spinach. sorry.
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two-guitar acoustic time is running out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x23nA1WQcao one of the better covers out there. added to the long, long list of videos to study haloid: http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=57998 the level to which i was amused by this was unexpected
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Article here at the new york times on Beijing city officials trying to clean up the city in preparation for the Olympics. There’s a brigade to fix signage like: And there are ceremonies that only make sense to the Chinese, such as: Last week, the city commemorated “Queuing Day,” an event held on the 11th… Continue reading Sexually Inexperienced Chicken
MUSE: san francisco, april 9, 2007
I don’t know where to start. I’m an extrovert, a word which here means “one who only finds validation through other people who can understand her emotions,” so I’ve exploded all over forums and communities about the concert, but not in my own livejournal yet. You can play “Where’s Judy?” with this picture from club… Continue reading MUSE: san francisco, april 9, 2007
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i forgot to unplug my camera from my computer last night after i uploaded the pictures, so my battery is empty. crap! and i was going to leave like… a few hours ago…
live 105 interviews that happened during the day yesterday
part 1. djing and lack of talent for; immigrant; mcr and muse’s effect on its fans, insane matt laugh; middle america; how to pronounce problemaTEEK: http://youtube.com/watch?v=mQ78Fhgq8YM part 2. on map of; on songs to dance to; on being a band for 12 years and growing up; whether they get sick of each other and poker,… Continue reading live 105 interviews that happened during the day yesterday
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I got home from club 6ix at about 3am. Immigrant played a set of about 5 songs. After a long break, Dom got on stage with equipped with a black ipod nano, Tom, and a big smile, and proceeded to play some songs for us. The front speakers cut out for a while, and Dom… Continue reading Untitled