this is still here?

wow.

hello.

i still have one of these!

jon and i are going to a party. it's at two houses and they remind me of the house i lived in on latexo and my friend's house next door. people were in the backyard of the hosue that reminded me of my friend's and not really anyone at the one that was like my old house. but jon and i were at that one and he didn't want me to go next door. (a person) was at the party next door and i could see them from far away. at some point i did go over to the backyard and nearly ran into (a person) a few times. i couldn't talk to them or have a conversation with them no matter how hard i tried.

i actually woke up and when i went back to sleep the dream continued in much the same way. jon keeping me from going to the party and telling me i couldn't.


weird dream.

come to my goddamned show.

this was my horoscope:

This might prove to be a very fortunate day, april. A letter or phone call that comes your way, perhaps from a romantic partner could leave you feeling very happy. Social events prove gratifying. There may be someone interesting whom you've wanted to meet for a while, and now you have a chance to chat with him or her. Great news regarding material successes, particularly involving writing or speaking, are also in the offing.


Jonny called me to ask if my band wanted to play the show tonight since the other two bands cancelled. Now we're playing at Rudyard's TONIGHT (come to the show) and I am very happy. And we'll see if there's any material successes from our writing or speaking (or singing). And who will I meet of interest?

Copy this list. Leave in the bands you've seen perform live. Delete the ones you haven't and add new ones that you have seen until you reach 25. An asterisk means the previous person had it on their list. Two asterisks means the last two people who did this before you had that band on their list. Edit just to be confusing I added another asterisks for the bands I've seen also :)

1. L7*
2. Wilco
3. RTX
4. Xiu Xiu
5. nine inch nails**
6. Braid
7. Akron/Family
8. Guided By Voices
9. Sonic Youth
10. Big Black
11. Pleasure Forever
12. Guns 'n' Roses
13. Hot Snakes
14. Rocket From the Crypt
15. The Dictators
16. The Thermals
17. Murder City Devils
18. Sleater-Kinney
19. Discount
20. Descendents
21. Sarge
22. Marilyn Manson*
23. The Dwarves
24. Servotron
25. Depeche Mode

ok, so that other band didn't work out, but it was for the best b/c now i'm in the best band ever.

add it.

http://www.myspace.com/alarmatheband

I love to read books about punk rock. It's history, it's legacies, anything.

The problem is that all of these accounts of punk are so anglo it hurts!

Now, the great exception I see is Please Kill Me, but that really only talks about the very beginning of punk. And in most other cases NYC punk is glossed over and most of the time is spent on 1976 in the UK. And that's fine. I've read one book that concentrated a lot on the SF and LA scenes, but for the most part it was just a fraction of the time spent on the Sex Pistols alone. And then by most accounts punk completely disappeared until Sonic Youth took Nirvana on tour with them.

You and I know that this is simply not true.

I've always wanted to write a book but I never knew what I wanted it to be about.

Now I think I have an idea.

I think I'd like to write a history of punk rock, post-punk and indie rock from an American's perspective. Now, of course I will focus on music from all over the world but I'd like to fill in those details that we're left out of American underground music from the 80's to early 90's. In fact I'd like to go beyond that up to the present.

This is not something that will happen overnight. This is something that will probably take a few years to do in free time. So, if anyone thinks this is interesting and would like to contribute in any way, let me know. I'd appreciate the help.

weird.

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