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chris

About Me

usually i respond to my surroundings
&
sometimes i think about things and then write about them
the rest of the time i'm somewhere in between

My Blog

the cure

the cure were amazing, then pretty subpar, then very good last night (respectively, during the course of the evening). the setlist:plainsongprayers for rainalt.enda night like thisthe end of the world...
Posted by on Tue, 13 May 2008 05:35:00 GMT

status

(i'm listening to REM, my music editor didn't show up for some reason)what a week.i've been training for apple in california, as many of you have heard.i've got to say, apple is an amazing company for...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:12:00 GMT

radiohead: in rainbows

radiohead have always been good in the clutch. they followed up the pressure of releasing the best rock record of the 90s ("ok computer") by releasing the best anti-rock record of the aughts ("kid a")...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:24:00 GMT

the white stripes leak...

apparently, yesterday a dj in chicago played the new white stripes record in its entirety. the record has NOT yet been authorized for any sort of public playback. about an hour after the record finish...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:26:00 GMT

on downloading music...

Currently, the RIAA is lobbying support for a bill that will dramatically increase the royalty rates to be paid by streaming audio services such as Pandora. The idea, in theory, is that it will help r...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:19:00 GMT

the noise doesn't hate us?!

who knew?8MM FUZZCollective Digital ApocalypseYoungest Children EP6-song CDGranted, it's been a lot of years since I listened to Echo & the Bunnymen, The Smiths, or The Cure, but various songs by ...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:04:00 GMT

ok...

we all know that awards for art are bullshit. any award at any level is utterly meaningless as it is recognition by an irrelevant group of people who probably do not even understand what they are reco...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:48:00 GMT

roger waters

so i finally saw roger waters live last night. great show, despite being the typical older band with ten members sort of thing. he did it better than the pink floyd fraud did it in 94-95.most impressi...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:22:00 GMT

munich

...was fucking incredible.i am so torn inside and it is a as a direct result of this movie.i am so impressed that spielberg conveyed that neither side was necessarily right. it would have been so easy...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:38:00 GMT

right now

i am the sole owner of a hard copy of the final version of the youngest children ep.i kind of don't want to give it up or copy it. it's definitely more mine than it is yours. unless you're steve, vick...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:38:00 GMT