quo vadis [31 Mar 2007|02:33pm] things to get in order: school application living arrangements stay at the tower? move to somewhere in cambridge with jori? move in with maureen or aunt kate? summer classes ... this thing can't bullet properly. now, applying for school in the fall is nerve-wracking to me; i don't think i'll get back in. maybe after one more year of taking classes part-time (successfully)? but not right now. another (small) factor is that, despite my current job's lameness, i could do really well at it and "move on up" if i applied myself in the slightest. i think the only reason that appeals to me is because it's easy. i just keep doing what i'm doing, with a little less wasting time while at work. the fact that i might spend my life supporting windows programs and dealing with people in the entertainment industry is extremely depressing. meanwhile, if i can ever start writing about politics/science/history/philosophy, maybe i can even get to the point of 'publishing' something i'm proud of and start producing something lasting while i'm alive. the hope is to help convince humanity to ditch the bloodthirsty powermongers and save themselves and the rest of the biosphere from catastrophe. if it's not too late. if it's even possible. post comment

this is why i love baseball [01 May 2006|07:32pm] a left-handed batter hits the ball to left field. this is called hitting to the opposite field. 1 comment|post comment

bahaha [04 Oct 2005|10:32am] [ mood | giggly ] [ music | sloan - take the bench ] digby: I am so relieved that the Republicans restored honor and integrity to Washington. There hasn't been even one blow job in that town since they took power. 1 comment|post comment

things are looking up, up, up [31 Aug 2005|08:16pm] [ mood | ecstatic ] [ music | broken social scene - ibi dreams of pavement (a better half) ] new position at ticketmaster. more money, better hours, and BENEFITS. yay. plus i get to go to phoenix for a few days at the end of the month! there's nothing i like better than sprawl. also, new broken social scene. v. impressed. i see sufjan in a week, and would like to see: sigur ros (they have a new album, right? uh...), the bad plus, the black keys, the go! team. probably lots of others but hey money don't grow on trees kids. now that i'll have weekends free i'd also like to go to new york all the time. i wish amtrak didn't cost so much; buses suck. 1 comment|post comment

you're not the one who's upside-down [11 Jul 2005|08:30pm] [ mood | thirsty ] [ music | ghosts and vodka - hot dot above, tan man below ] last thursday i saw do make say think at the middle east. they rocked HARD CORE. wednesday will be düngen, whom i expect will throw me into another decade. if i drink enough, that is. last week i went to a friend's fascism day party on a beacon hill roof. the fireworks and food were loverly; the company was rather cliquey. 3 comments|post comment

[16 May 2005|06:23pm] [ mood | refreshed ] [ music | sufjan stevens - jacksonville ] new sufjan. soooooooo good. also, read this (it's short) and then let's talk about it. i feel like i've gained a whole new understanding of ...well, everything. read the amazon reviews for a taste...but the entire book isn't more than 20 pages. i move to somerville next month, close to porter squaw. gonna go all-transit (ciao, my beloved highways!). gonna be working more. gonna be reading more books and less blogs...well, probably more blogs too. can't ever seem to get enough politics. 1 comment|post comment

seano <3 groophug [12 Jan 2005|06:04pm] [ mood | thirsty ] best ten albums of 2004. 1. dj zeph - sunset scavenger 2. menomena - i am the fun blame monster 3. danger mouse - the grey album 4. the black keys - rubber factory 5. the fiery furnaces - blueberry boat 6. rjd2 - since we last spoke 7. the secret machines - now here is nowhere 8. devendra banhart - rejoicing in the hands 9. william shatner - has been 10. air - talkie walkie + (up to 10 honorable mentions in no order for tie breakers.) franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand interpol - antics mirah - c'mon miracle mf doom - mm food elliott smith - from a basement on the hill the polyphonic spree - together we're heavy sufjan stevens - seven swans best five concerts of 2004. 1. broken social scene / the stars, the middle east downstairs, cambridge ma, 3/27 2. interpol / the secret machines, avalon ballroom, boston ma, 10/11 3. the pixies / mission of burma, mullins ctr, amherst ma, 11/31 4. the dresden dolls, paradise rock club, boston ma, 7/9 5. the brian jonestown massacre / the dears, the middle east upstairs, cambridge ma, 10/28 2 comments|post comment

the sox [28 Oct 2004|03:25am] [ mood | drained ] wow. what else can i say? the red sox did it. $145m will sure buy you some great players. very surprised with lowe's dominance against two great lineups, i must say. the ease of the world series has made this all a little unreal--i don't think i'll realize what's actually taken place for a long time. i hereby dedicate the 2004 major league baseball world championship to fathers throughout new england. thanks, dad, for bringing me to fenway. for teaching me the game, the love of the game, the beauty of it. wish you could have seen this. 4 comments|post comment

[04 Oct 2004|09:25pm] [ mood | excited ] i ask you, is there nothing better than playoff baseball? 3 comments|post comment

monkeys [10 Sep 2004|07:52pm] [ mood | whimsical ] [ music | b'jerk - triumph of a heart ] haha "triumph of a heart" has some of the funniest noises i've ever heard 2 comments|post comment

[16 Jul 2004|12:41am] [ mood | refreshed ] [ music | baseball ] i fear that last year may really have been the year for the current incarnation of the red sox. this pains me greatly. going to new york city on saturday for the siren festival. you should come. it's free. watched a pbs show on the everglades tonight. they discussed the landmaking that went on after world war ii, turning the kissimmee river into a canal and the surrounding swamp and marsh area into irrigated farmland, and the subsequent destruction of local wildlife. i've been reading lots lately about the history of landmaking in boston (it never occurred to me that the back bay really used to be a bay), and the big dig as well. the immense scale and complexity of the latter just blows me away. ( Read more... )( geeky highway stuff ) 2 comments|post comment

[25 May 2004|01:48am] [ mood | hungry ] [ music | yann tiersen - soir de fëte ] all i ever do these days is waltz. post comment

polity [18 Apr 2004|10:51am] i dreamt i was on a train speeding through the streets of paris. what a beautiful city it is, in my head. post comment

[30 Mar 2004|12:56am] Irving Cummings, pastor of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Cambridge, said his church has been celebrating the relationships of same-sex couples for two decades. He said nothing in the Bible specifically condemns homosexuality, and questioned why many religious organizations are focused on gay marriage at the exclusion of other issues. "There are possibly five passages in the scripture that talk about something that we might call homosexuality," said Cummings, 52. "There are over 900 that talk about poverty and the relationship of wealth to poverty. Why aren't all these people out here protesting what's going on in terms of budget cuts to the poor?" post comment

brutality [24 Feb 2004|08:13pm] [ mood | optimistic ] [ music | pulp - someone like the moon ] hello hello. i'll start writing in this again. chances are it won't include much in the way of personal happenings. it's not that my life isn't uneventful; it's just i get quite bored talking about myself. i'm out of school and in need of a full-time job and an apartment; i'm not going out much because what little money i have i'd like to save so that i can get that apartment sooner rather than later. pete wants to get a place together, but i can't expect to be able to afford a place until i've had a full-time job for probably at least two months. besides, for the past two months i've been looking for a job and not found one. ugh. meanwhile the wicked stepmother is in control of $35,000 that is ostensibly mine but which i cannot touch. familial relationships are getting thinner and thinner, as i haven't been to hingham to see the kids in over a month and only see my mother and sister when i move my car for them each morning before going back to sleep. but i'm reading lots. spend tons of time reading blogs on foreign policy, economics, and other such stuff. which is probably what i'll turn this into--commentary on current events. my mind explodes with information, and with no one to talk to about it all. i'll do my best to keep it interesting. no promises, though. went to new york city a weekend ago. got a flat tire on I-95 near yonkers, that wasn't fun. had a cold all weekend too, that wasn't fun either. but got to see some fantastic pieces of art at the museum of modern art in queens, and some fantastic dinosaurs, aquatic creatures, and planets at the museum of natural history. and had some fantastic penne margherita at an italian restaurant in the upper east side on valentine's day. silly holiday. 1 comment|post comment

[12 Oct 2003|04:39pm] get me away from here, i'm dying 1 comment|post comment

gumby and pokey [27 Sep 2003|07:24pm] [ mood | quixotic ] [ music | do make say think - classic noodlanding ] i got rid of my moustache the other day, but now the beard hair on my cheeks looks out of place; i feel like an amish farmer. is it odd that i have no idea how to groom my facial hair? perhaps i should just stick with shaving it all off every few days. on thursday i drove to philadelphia to visit the touchdown twins, erin and hannah. they were both quite hilarious and quite insane. erin and i smoked numerous times, and we drove to hannah's school to pick her up and bring her home. got lost at least three times. late in the night we went to their friend bree's house and drank some. bree and i watched as erin and hannah put plastic bags over their heads. mind you, these were not your average kitchen-size trash bags, but perhaps the size of a piece of paper, and certainly smaller than either erin's or hannah's head. but somehow they managed to squeeze into them, unable to open their eyes or (i imagine) breathe through their nose. i was in stitches. alas, i had to leave friday morning because arnie-the-one-man-party (apparently) was sick (again) and i had to cover for him. so the trip was altogether far too short. but i hope to return soon, perhaps in a month or so. it's a long drive, but that's something i enjoy, for the most part (eventually it just gets too uncomfortable); and the girls are just too much fun to hang out for only one night. 4 comments|post comment

[21 Sep 2003|07:02pm] attack on love post comment

every little gesture [03 Sep 2003|07:26pm] [ mood | hungry ] [ music | hefner - i stole a pretty bride ] let's see. radiohead was august 13. an excellent show, though not as stellar as previous shows. part of this may be because the new album and i don't jive (though, i like amnesiac even less, but that didn't stop them from blowing me away on that tour). there are a lot of songs i really like; a couple i'm not too fond of, and a couple that i genuinely don't like. these divisions more or less carried over to the live performance, with some notable differences. they turned down the volume on the lead guitar for "there there" and "go to sleep", turning both songs into something just above 'boring'. not to mention, the last half of "go to sleep" featured jonny fucking around on guitar, which would have been cool, except it wasn't. however, his solos (if you want to call them that) during "paranoid android" and "my iron lung" were fantastic. they did a reworked version of "kid a" that was excellent. both "backdrifts" and "a punchup at a wedding" left something to be desired. it's nice (i guess) to say i saw them play "creep", but honestly i could care less, and while i don't think it's a -crappy- song, i also don't think it's terribly good either. hm...nothing else of note. ben folds and tori amos were august 24. ben was fantastic, his playing really amazes me sometimes. he opened with "best imitation of myself" (!!!!!); other highlights included "zak and sara", "all you can eat (they give no fuck)" (he's getting on the bandwagon...), "philosophy", and "not the same". tori was ...well, she was good, surely; however, i failed to be captivated by her words or music. it's a problem i've always had with her--i really enjoy her songs, but they don't blow me away or touch me on a personal level. at the show she played a bunch of songs i had wanted to hear ("a sorta fairytale", "cornflake girl", "leather", "siren", "precious things", and "your cloud"), and her voice sounded great, and her piano sounded great, but it just wasn't...exciting or interesting or anything. le sigh. björk was august 31. superb! far better than the wang center show. near the end of the main set was a run of five or six songs that, methinks, is unparalleled in my entire concert-going experience: "you've been flirting again" (in icelandic!), "isobel", "bachelorette" (INCENDIARY. turned my head upside down.), "hyper-ballad", and some techno remix of "it's in our hands" that had her running all over the stage, sometimes dancing or jumping but mostly just shaking her hair at the people in the front row. loverly. post comment

requiescat in pace [29 Jul 2003|09:53am] they got a name for the winners in the world and, i want a name when i lose they call alabama the crimson tide ...call me deacon blues. post comment

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