February 2012
“If you’re going through Hell, keep going.”
– Mapquest
Tumblr won't let me post another song yet...
So, go listen to “Old Familiar Steam” by Old 97’s and give me credit for it.
You ever just wake up in the morning feeling...
Cause I’d like to have that happen. At least once. Before I die.
Let me know if you have any tips or tricks.
I've spent most of the evening listening to angry...
and having a conversation with someone who wants me to feel shitty for not only living in reality, but for feeling like I don’t want to wait around for an indefinite period of time to see if a bunch of maybes and what ifs happen to “come together at the last minute.”
Let’s keep in mind that I laid out in plain English how I felt about the situation before it started, so it...
“You’re Crazy”—Guns...
There will always be people who will seek to bring...
And some would say it was me.
“Bad Reputation”—Joan Jett and...
Here's a piece of advice...
When someone tries to talk you into something you know is a bad idea, just listen to your head and say no.
For example, when someone wants to do a long-distance relationship, and you say, “No. I can’t do it. It’s too stressful and too painful and the prospects of it working out are pretty much non-existent.” and they just keep on and on and give you “best case...
Ida Sessions: Are you alone?
Jake Gittes: Isn't everybody?
Evelyn Mulwray: Hollis seems to think you're an innocent man.
Jake Gittes: Well, I've been accused of a lot of things before, Mrs. Mulwray, but never that.
Do you or someone you know know someone who makes...
I have scripts.
I just spent the last couple of hours revising a script I wrote with my best friend. It’s good. It’s funny, sweet and marketable.
Now I just need to figure out where to send it.
“For all the things I’m losing, I might as well resign myself to try and...”
– Counting Crows
When You Put Yourself On The Menu
Suffice it to say, I’m hungry. Literally and spiritually. So damn hungry. I started with my self-esteem and finished with my soul. It’s self-destructive gluttony.
Suffice it to say, I’m hollow. Like a pagan rabbit on a Christian holiday. Break me in pieces to find the gaping absence inside. Feed on that absence.
Suffice it to say, I’m a liar. When truth is too painful or...
“Two States”—Pavement
In regards to my Old 97's comments
Their first 3 albums are the best: Hitchhike to Rome, Wreck Your Life and Too Far To Care.
Paste's Best 90 Albums of the 90s. →
I’d like to bitch about this list, but they got most of it right, which rarely ever happens.
And by most of it, I mean, they put a fucking Moby album on there. You can’t tell me anything Moby recorded is better than Recovering the Satellites. I know it’s not “cool” but I’d put Gin Blossoms’ New Miserable Experience on there instead. That’s a great...
Hey Tumblr, Thanks for being a fuckass and posting...
Follow the link to Coby Brown's Pedge Music... →
The other day, I posted a song by Coby Brown called “Hospital.” Here’s the deal, he’s doing kind of a reverse Kickstarter. The album is wrapping up, but he still needs help with the funding. The cool thing is, part of the money will also go to cancer advocates for young adults. (Coby is a cancer survivor.)
I think his album is going to be awesome. You can listen to...
Jigsaw Man
In a moment of quiet desperation, I decided I was never strong enough to be a man, so I cut off my penis. But I was still unhappy, and there was a burning in my belly, so I cut out my stomach. And still, there was anxiety everywhere I went, so I cut off my feet, right at the ankles. And still, I couldn’t stand the words I was hearing and I couldn’t see any hope, so I cut off my ears...
“Closing time. Time for things to close when they’re closing at closing...”
– That song, what’s it called, “Closing Time”?
I don't mind if Tumblr prohibits self-harm blogs,...
Fuck Yeah Counting Crows: Couting Crows Announce... →
slyke25:
The Counting Crows have announced the release of a new album, Underwater Sunshine. The album of cover songs will be released April 10th. They have announced several tour dates, including a stop at the House of Blues April 25th. You can purchase presale tickets now here….
Not only will I be at that Austin show on 3/16, but Tender Mercies and Diamond Rugs (the new John McCauley...
I've got some things I want to say, that I need to...
but not now and not here.
“Once I juggled a chainsaw and a kitten. “
“That’s only two things, so it’s not juggling. “
“Well after the first pass-through it was three things.”
I'm going to sue ESPN
I just saw the article about the headline concerning Jeremy Lin and “A Chink in the Armor.”
I came up with the idea years ago to write a screenplay about an Asian-American college student who goes back to medieval England and becomes a night, and it was called A Chink In the Armor.
I feel that somehow, in addition to be racially insensitive to Jeremy Lin, ESPN has encroached on my...
“Go build your boat, Noah. I’m just going to listen to the rain.”
– Me
“She Doesn’t Get It”—The...
“No Aphrodisiac”—The Whitlams
...
“Stand in the dark long enough, something’s bound to shine.”
– Kasey Anderson
I was going to post the new version of Kasey...
but then I remember I’m not supposed to, so now I have to find something else that fits the mood.
Maybe something by Nelly.
Just because you believe something, doesn't make...
They always used to tell me, when I said that I might be crazy, that if I thought I was crazy, then I wasn’t, because crazy people don’t know that they’re crazy. In hindsight, I find this about as logical as that theory if you died in your dream you would die in real life. How the fuck would anyone ever know what a dead person was dreaming about?
But about this time travel...
“Sometimes I hate myself for trying to be so bold, but nothing ever seems to get...”
– Blake Mills
Since I got an iPhone...
I’ve decided the best thing to do whenever I say something rude or offensive is just blame it on autocorrect.
This is going to be tougher to pull off when I’m actually speaking to someone, but I’m willing to give it the old college try.
I wanted pizza...
So I went to More Home Slice on Congress. More Home Slice is next to Home Slice. It’s like Home Slice, but there’s just more of it.
It was delicious.
Then I stood outside in the sleet and got cupcakes at Hey Cupcake!
It was delicious.
You know, most of the time, I enjoy my swinging bachelor lifestyle, but it’s mornings like this when I kind of wish I had someone to hang out...
I just want a bit part in your life...
Last night, I went and saw the Lemonheads downtown at the Mohawk.
It was about 39 degrees when the first band went on.
Yes, it was an outside show. (The venue has both inside and outside sections.)
That didn’t matter so much, because they had heaters available, and by heaters, I mean shots of Jameson. I had a few.
But onto the show…
The first band was local, and bless them, they...
"Has Romney's Mitt-mentum returned?"
That’s an actual headline on Yahoo.
I want you to find the person who wrote that.
I want you to find them and bring them to me.
Yep, I'm a real live adult
Me (talking into my iPhone): Siri, do I have a nice cock?
Siri: Oooh!
“25”—Mobley
One of my favorites...
Hey, Really Nice Set
I realized last night I say that phrase a lot. I’m surprised someone hasn’t turned it into a drinking game.
But I digress…
Last night, I headed down to San Antonio for the Riff House Review show at Sam’s Burger Joint. Just some background info, Riff House Concerts is run by my good pal Tim Slusher and his lovely wife, Candyce. They host house shows and all the money goes...
I'm not the only man not allowed back in Yakima.
Throughout our history, we’ve been very selective about who we will label a genius, and who is simply a mad man. Who is a savior or a prophet, and who is a cult leader or a lunatic. The selectivity wouldn’t bother me so much if it all weren’t so fucking arbitrary or self-serving.
“The Ghost In You”—Psychedelic...
John died from the creeping death because John...
I don’t know if creeping death is even a real thing. For that matter, I don’t know if John is even a real thing or if real things are really even real things and so on. The point I’m trying to make though is about time travel, and the only two things you actually need to be successful, will and belief. No, not a wormhole or a spiffy Delorean. But what about science, you say? And...
It's 2am and I'm listening to hair bands
This never ends well. Even when I’m sober. It’s a topic I’ve visited on more than one occasion, the nostalgic anxiety, the feeling that you can never get it back, time or youth or what have you. I can still find myself present in certain moments. Is that deja vu? Is it mental time travel? Either way, I haven’t quite figured out how to slip back in time and change things,...