32 posts tagged “music”

Haven't really been in much of a blogging mood lately... here's a cameraphone dump ranging back from late October.

And I guess a little bit of writing cause I feel bad for neglecting this thing lately:
Dan and his roommates got in a fight over rent today so he moved his stuff out a few days early, spent most of the day helping with that. Done with two classes now; cleaned out my stuff in the silkscreen lab. Dan's friend Jim came down and then lots of running around between school and the warehouse and Dan and me and Kristen's places. Coffee and cigarettes at Emmy's. Kind of a long day, went by in a blur, though.

Came home and Mitch told me that Rich, my favorite manager from back at the Bistro, had a heart attack and had died in his sleep today. One of the most genuinely nice people I've ever met. *sigh*

Sat down and thought of this song, I'd been listening to it at home over the break. Feeling weird, lots of things ending and nearing ends today.

There's still a month left in 2008, but I'm gonna go ahead and put down my favorite albums of the year now just cause I'm thinking about it. Chronological order.

• MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
• The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
• Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
• Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
• Man Man - Rabbit Habits
• The Sword - Gods of the Earth
• Torche - Meanderthal
• Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
• The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale
• Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
• Beck - Modern Guilt
• Ratatat - LP3
• Jaguar Love - Take Me to the Sea
• Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippers

Was shooting for ten, maybe I should have went for fifteen? I'm only short one. Oh well, off to eat cookies at Kristen's.

Where has Chris been? Short answer: school. Long answer: lots of school. Also, I just haven't felt like writing anything in a while, and nothing exciting's really happened anyway.

One nice thing today was a $100 shopping spree at the art store when my teacher let me go spend my lab fees for the two classes I have with her. In a lot of classes you never see those fees really spent on anything at all, and in the rest the teachers use them for communal supplies, so it was nice to spend my money on things for myself. I've done it once before, but it was only $25 then, so it was actually pretty daunting today, especially trying to spend the whole hundo at once. I got some brushes and some small odds and ends but I spent most of the money on silkscreen supplies and paper. Dan and I are planning on setting up a mini silkscreen lab at the warehouse, since Dan's already got a table and clamps in there, and the BFA director told us she'd try to get the school to pay for the materials to build an exposure unit. Probably going to check out some plans and go price that stuff sometime over the weekend.

Tomorrow's First Friday and Dan and I are planning on getting our hair cut at the warehouse as a faux-performance art piece. Mostly we're just in it for the free hair cuts our friend is giving us. Should be a little weird, a little funny.

Also, I'm going to try to lay off smoking for a week. It was nice at first when it was just a casual, social thing, but these last couple weeks of school have been way too stressful and lately I've been up to like 4 or 5 a day. Not too bad compared to some folks, but its enough to make me decide to take a little break.

And now, as I go off to sleep, the song I woke up with in my head:

What a busy week. Lots of schoolwork, lots of homework, and even some non-school related work. Didn't go to my job at all, though.

My BMSR album came in this week, the cover is scratch n sniff and it smells like tomato soup.

tired as fuck right now... didn't eat a lot today, went out on a field trip, sweaty, mosquito bites, stressing over money, boring homework blah blah blah... I really don't want to go to school tomorrow, but I have to go get shit sorted out with scholarship money and transcripts and gasoline and whatever etc etc god dammit

ahhhhhhhhh that was nice. Now I'm gonna take a shower and go to bed.

I've been up all night getting a powerpoint of my work together... god I hate doing this (letting people who are good at art see my art). Thankfully, I already got a load of sleep earlier today. Here's a cool thing:

So tired... spent almost all day at school, sorting out my schedule and crashing classes and stuff. Everything is all set to go now, at least. Some big classes this semester, gonna be lots of work. But right now I'm just going to go to sleep for a bit.

Also, /rs/ is my best friend right now. Damn, there is some obscure stuff on there (this and that Black Pus album I was looking for, for instance).

What the fuck, Hello Nasty is ten years old today? I remember when the Intergalactic video first came out back in middle school... dang.

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, I actually did make one recently, but it was really self-absorbed, boring, tl;dr stuff and I ended up making it private just so I wouldn't have to straight up delete it and have completely wasted my time. Basically, I was sick(ish) all last week, went to school and work a couple times, and sat around on my butt a lot, staying up so late most nights that the days started running together. Things have been kind of picking up again recently, though, so that's nice. Been drawing. Got a haircut. Yesterday I drew on a wall at school, and Dan and I helped Kristen and Hailey move into their new place and pushed an armoire up the stairs.

The other day I was giving Kristen a ride home from the warehouse and she was talking about music and then asked me if I'd heard anything new that I'd liked recently and I was like........... no... So now I'm kind of on a music binge to make up for lost time. A couple I've been meaning to get, a couple I'm just trying out.

Recent acquisitions:
Tettix - Maladies
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Talking Heads - 77
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Weezer - Pinkerton

Well, I've definitely stayed up too late tonight, so I'll cut this short here.