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In 1:14 I will have the new Radiohead album that I downloaded legally from them for free. I hope it's good so I can send them money if I ever have it again.

Also Brand New > Taking Back Sunday any day of the week.

I still love Mineral & everything that Chris Simpson does.

So there's this uber long commercial for Proactiv & I swear the music in the background is The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby & The Range.


Made popular as Changes by Tupac.

I have Never Gonna Give You Up stuck in my head. Does this mean I'm rickrolling myself?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sK3AqFYAWQ&mode=related&search=

Hmm, I always thought it was Billy Ocean that sang that.

Either way, you get rickrolled if you click that.

I really enjoyed Cobra Starship - minus the fact that William Beckett can't sing harmony at all. ( Listen here )

Paul Wall sucked.

The Academy Is...not very good in concert. They have a good stage presence, BUT, once again, William Beckett's flat notes just kills it for them. I know I'm not the best singer, but I can usually stay in key through more than one song. The end.

+44 was great minus Craig Fairbaugh. Once again, has no business with a microphone. There's a reason he was in Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards.

Fall Out Boy put on a great show with lots of showmanship. And, they did what I wanted, hardly played any songs from their old albums. Just the bigger ones like Dance, Dance and Sugar, We're Going Down.


That's all. Bedtime, girls.

For those of you that didn't know this already -


40th anniversary of Pet Sounds > 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Zomg, Sigur Ros is putting out an EP this August with Salka on it.

That makes me super excited.

Every Rosie Thomas album gets better & better...

Thanks Sufjan, David, Damien & Denison.

I hope everyone is having a good time in Nashville. And I hope everyone is okay...

OH MY YOUR OUR GODS

Lollapalooza lineup.

Not cut because it's too freaking amazing.



Pearl Jam, Daft Punk, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Muse, Iggy & the Stooges, Modest Mouse, Interpol, My Morning Jacket, Satellite Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Snow Patrol, the Roots, Patti Smith, Kings of Leon, the Black Keys, Regina Spektor, Spoon, Lupe Fiasco, TV on the Radio, Pete Yorn, G. Love & Special Sauce, Paolo Nutini, Amy Winehouse, LCD Soundsystem, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Silverchair, Femi Kuti, Yo La Tengo, the Hold Steady, Jack's Mannequin, Stephen Marley, Sound Tribe Sector 9, M.I.A., Slightly Stoopid, Blonde Redhead, Sparklehorse, Sean Lennon, !!!, Blue October, Son Volt, Motion City Soundtrack, Polyphonic Spree, Peter Bjorn & John, Silversun Pickups, CSS, the Rapture, the Wailers, Roky Erickson, Tapes n Tapes, Heartless Bastards, the View, the Cribs, the Fratellis, Ghostland Observatory, Tokyo Police Club, Rhymefest, Soulive, Cold War Kids, Annuals, Fields, Electric Six, Jim Noir, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Sam Roberts Band, Black Angels, Charlie Musselwhite, Aqueduct, Juliette & the Licks, Dios, Viva Voce, David Vandervelde, Los Campesinos!, Chin Up Chin Up, Ryan Shaw, Colour Revolt, Satin Peaches, Illinois, Arckid, Mickey Avalon, The 1900s, Bang Bang Bang, Bound Stems, High Class Elite, Carey Ott, Matt Roan

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42290-lolla-gets-daft-punk-modest-mouse-lcd-stooges

I've fallen in love with a Finnish band called Rubik. It's like having another Mew to listen to.

Listen to this song and say you're not in love with it. I dare you. Yeah, I went there.

Rubik - A Hard Try

Bright Eyes's Cassadaga was leaked last night. Having only listened to about half the album so far, I must say that If The Brakeman Turns My Way is my favorite track so far. It has a very Dylan feel to it & kinda reminds me of a Ryan Adams song.

Tonight is The Future/AutoVaughn show at Birdy's which should be a killer time even though we've just been informed that Drew is leaving the bassist position in AV. :( Sadness in my heart x30. I guess a bunch of people from Slime are coming tonight, too. So that should be fun to meet new people.

Good Lord this Bright Eyes album is fantastic. Onto other things.

I remember once, a long, long time ago, I went over to Bobby's house when I still lived on Romine at like 4 in the morning and he came out and we talked about stuff. He had told me how he wrote an "amazing song" that he actually took the G string off of his guitar because it was annoyance. I'm pretty sure that song later became Caesaria as the picking part in that song is annoying when there's a G string on the guitar. We talked about music, as we always did. He mentioned a girl and then brought up The Starting LIne song Leaving, then he brought up a song that has remained one of my favorite songs to listen to whenever I feel nostalgic, A Goodnight's Sleep. That song has nothing to do with any of the feelings I have now, but, for whatever reason, it makes me look back on 2002 as a great year even though I did go through some very rough times. That was a year when I started discovering music for myself and wasn't just spoon fed to me from the radio and what little they showed on mtv and vh1. I'd have to go to Chris's house to watch Muchmusic. Emily also helped me out by showing me new bands.

Basically, by thinking about this, it's led me to think about the past year and how I haven't really been a good friend to the people I once called close friends. Michelle, Kyle, Connor & I'm sure there are numerous other people that should go on this list, but those are the ones that come to mind first. I guess I'm kind of hoping that if these bridges are burned (wtf Buster? Thank you for making me use that line) I hope I can repair it.

I've been reading over Star's old blogs on myspace. (They really need a better way to manage their old entries. Take a lesson from Facebook, Tom.) And it's helped me learn more about her. All good, obviously.

In December I had this wanting inside of me to leave everything I knew behind and go to Arizona and stay with Andy, Gwaltney & Beth. I was on the verge of leaving then something inside of me decided not to follow through with it. I don't know if deep down I knew what was going to happen two months later or if I just figured it wouldn't be feasible to do. Looking back I'm really glad I didn't leave that Saturday like I planned. I was so down that week it was insane. That was most likely due to the fact that Christmas was near and I had thoughts of my mom running through my head. I would do the things I normally did for a month and a half like going out with friends but kind of be the fifth wheel. I remember helping Star the night she had a little too much to drink. I had such a crush on her but knew I couldn't follow through with that. I just had to be patient. I just have to be patient.

I have to learn to be patient.

One thing, though. I get scared easily & I've lately become protective of my heart. It's weird because I let her have all of my heart at first to do whatever she wished with it. And I know I should take it from the first weeks when she told me it was safe, but I can't help but feel I'm trying to put some kind of protective substance around it now. I know she's scared & so am I. It's something I need to work on in my own time.

( Random lyric. )

I know I just have to put my trust in this situation and I know that it will work out the way I want. I guess it could be a comparison to Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Star. I know it won't be difficult to do for myself, it's just something I'm not used to. I also need to show her that I'm here for her whenever she needs any kind of solace.

I also know that I love her dearly. I know that my love for her has grown ten fold since the last entry about her. She hasn't given up on her fairytale ending. I forsee a the happiest ending to come in the future.

http://www.antimusic.com/news/07/feb/1608.shtml


THANK GOD!

Funeral from The Arcade Fire got a 9.7 from pitchfork; 4 & 1/2 stars from Rolling Stone; 4 & 1/2 stars on Amazon.com; 90 out of 100 on metacritic....whoever that is.

Their new album will surpass that. I've listened to it once and love it at least three times as much. And you get to hear No Cars Go recorded well, finally. If you're not familiar with this band, I suggest you hit yourself on the fucking head and go pick up Funeral some place and then get ready to throw it out next month when Neon Bible comes out.

Bill Parcells is retiring! Who cares?! On to the real point of this post...


I downloaded the new Fall Out Boy album, Infinity On High, for my friend Star since it doesn't come out until February. I gave the first track a listen a few days ago and was confused by the intro by Jay-Z. I decided today that I'd give the rest of the album a listen. I usually can't get through the first three tracks on a Fall Out Boy album minus the one's that were made fun of.

See here & here.

Aside from a couple mixing issues that I could hear in a track 2 and a couple others (too much guitar), the album is actually a nice mix of grown up pop-punk. They've actually matured quite a bit on this album & gotten a lot better with their harmonies.

I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but I really like the new Fall Out Boy album. There's choir elements in a couple tracks, better build ups, added a little bit of a dark undertone to a couple songs, a little bit of screaming & even a sample of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen which made me really happy. It seems that Patrick Stump was influenced a lot by Panic! At The Disco for this album as it seems a lot of tracks sound like them. Overall, I'd actually rate the album about 4 stars out of 5 as there are still some annoying parts of Patrick's voice but the songs get better in the middle. It's a decent listen for a non-Fall Out Boy fan. Just pretend that it's not them. Put it on as background music while you're playing WoW.


That's what I did.

Why is Jay-Z on the Fall Out Boy album?





....more importantly....


Why am I listening to it?

So lately I've been kind of a recluse when it comes to everything. I've tried to stay away from everything and everyone except for the one place I can feel I can escape which is WoW.

Yes, lame, I know. Whatever. Tis the season for me to not talk to anyone. Looking back, this is something I've done every year. Every new year I stop talking to people for a undetermined amount of time and stop doing everything I liked before. I've actually had an awesome opportunity to go to Arizona and stay with Andy, Gwaltney, & Beth which I've seriously been considering. I have this weird feeling that if I don't something in me is just going to keep building up inside and I'm gonna freak out and not talk to anyone ever. I've only talked to Drew about this and she's been really supportive of the choices that I've made. I'm about 89.33333% (repeating, of course) sure that I wanna go.

I hope someone gets that joke there.

I'm trying to save some kind of money so I can go out there. I'm sure that there's a lot of people that wouldn't like this if I did go, and I apologize for that. But I feel that I have to do what's best for myself more than anyone else.

A lot of how I'm feeling can be summed up with the song "Let's Get Out Of This Country" by Camera Obscura.

( lyrics, bitch! )

But yeah, that's all. I need to do something before I go insane.

3 days of (almost) non-stop music takes its toll on you. It was super fun though and I would totally do it again in a heartbeat. Especially when you get to see so many awesome bands that you haven't had the chance to see yet. Such as Iron & Wine, Death Cab For Cutie, Broken Social Scene, Wilco, The New Pornographers & The Shins. The crew for Lollapalooza was super awesome and it seemed that they actually cared about you staying hydrated so you wouldn't die. I didn't see very many people being carried out or fall over and not get up. Which is more than I can say for the first band at warped tour this year.

The best part?

I'm not sunburned.

Also, I've decided that I hate Chicago less each time I go there. I may actually start liking it eventually.

Top 3 Performances
1. Iron & Wine (Sam played my favorite song.)
2. Death Cab For Cutie
3. Broken Social Scene & Wilco (tie)

( 2 (huge) pictures )

The only thing I didn't like was the fact that there was so much construction going on in Chicago.


Happy anniversary, Chris & Bethany. And thank you so, so much for everything you did for Smitty & I.

I knew staying up this late would be worthwhile.


One - Listened to the new Ryan Adams. Which, in my opinion, is better than Cold Roses
Two - Just now finished downloading the RENT soundtrack. Megaupload can suck a big one for having a really slow connection. I know my DSL is slow, but Jesus...3 k a second? Am I on dialup?

Three - This is the big one. I brought in my broken iPod from my car the other day and it's been sitting on my desk. I downloaded the new iPod software from apple.com and, although nothing has changed for the 4g's, I restored it and it gave me my full twenty gigs which it wasn't doing before. I restored the music on it but noticed the hold button was always on even when I switched it to off. So I took a knife to the top and got the hold to come off. So, being very gentle, I plugged it into an audio jack. No sound.

Fuck.

Fuck a duck.

I found out you can actually open the iPod with a guitar pick. I have many of those, so I did that and cleaned out the inside of the iPod. Plugged in the jack while it was open.

IT WORKS!

Thank God my iPod works again. I was seriously going fucking insane listening to the radio in my car.

Time to listen to the RENT soundtrack now.