It’s 42°. Wool coat again today! It is January 17. Fifteen years ago tonight, I attended my first ever real punk rock show. Two bands from Portland, two from Olympia. Heavens to Betsy played first, I think we missed part of their set. Singing about having their periods, which to me, was revolutionary. Riot Grrrl […]
Posts Tagged ‘music’
feels like 37 degrees
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music, olympia on January 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
parklife
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music on December 30, 2006 | 3 Comments »
So I just read that BLUR are re-uniting with Graham Coxon and will record together next year. HELL YESPLEASE Tomorrow I don’t have much on my list, just buying cat food, reading, maybe making apple crisp, and of course, trying to finish this chapter I started. Only one of the most important ones in the […]
bankruptcy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music on November 17, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Brian and I went out to dinner at one of our favorite spots after work. Afterward, we wandered over to Tower Records on Market. The windows are covered with posters announcing that they will soon be out of business, and that everything is at least 40% off. You know it’s over when even the fixtures […]
october all over
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music on October 31, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I am listening to really really old Green Day. I stopped buying their music after “Dookie.” Even though I know it probably got better, but I will always remember them as stupid kids who did NOT wear eyeliner, so there ya go. Used up some more free eMusic downloads to get Unwound’s “A Single History,” […]
archivision
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music, olympia on August 20, 2006 | Comments Off on archivision
I am only three pages into Joshua’s flyer fanzine and already I am laughing my ass off. I swear he is one of the funniest writers I know. He also has the most airtight memory of anyone I have ever met. It’s a fucking gift. The zine is one of three he gave me when […]
blue box
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music, olympia on August 15, 2006 | Comments Off on blue box
Last night I unearthed a stack of typed pages that I wrote when I was twenty. They appeared to be, for the most part, journals I kept between May and August of 1993. I read through them and was astonished at how detailed I was in my recollections of almost every day. It was around […]
item
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music on August 12, 2006 | Comments Off on item
I think that the best mix tape anyone ever made for me was the one Iain Salazar sent me in 1996. Every song was perfect and almost every song introduced me to a band that I still love. Thanks Iain! You’ll never know how much you meant to me. The other day I downloaded a […]
artifacts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music, spoon on August 11, 2006 | Comments Off on artifacts
I was going through a shoebox last night, looking at old postcards I’ve received, plane and train tickets, copies of my fanzine, and other artifacts. I came upon a ticket stub for the last show I attended at the Greek Theatre. Bizarrely, it was four years to the day from yesterday: August 10 2002. That […]
randoms
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book, music, san francisco, spoon on August 10, 2006 | 4 Comments »
+ Boy am I glad our trip was last week and not this week. Looks like flying is about to get 1000 times shittier. Oh but I forgot, panicking is great for the economy! Especially when the waves of fear generated by the news broadcast are broken up every seven minutes by soothing, cheerful, glorious […]
115 photos
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music, olympia, photos on July 10, 2006 | 3 Comments »
1992 – 1997 Come with me, won’t you? It will be so delightful!