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About Me

2007
continuing work on a Masters in Library and Information Science and still hanging out with Meredith full-time. Will start looking for (part-time) library work soon.The record label is on hold until the schooling is complete.
2006:
started work on a Masters in Library and Information Science at Dominican University in August.
Meredith, born June 30th, 11:25PM
Cloth Monkey Records gets off the ground on May 9th:.....
Cloth Monkey Records released the 3rd album by Leels, entitled ":fingeescrossed:", on May 9, 2006. They had a successful tour of the east coast (NY, Philly, Baltimore, etc.) right around the same time. Some more tour dates to follow later this year, and we'll post info as we get it.
The Cloth Monkey Records website is now back up and running, in minimal fashion and we've got a new hosting service. It needs to be updated pretty badly, so as soon as Meredith masters Dreamweaver I'll have her fix it up. In the meantime you can order one here.
check out these pages:Leels on MySpace
and
Leels official sitefor more info on the band.
i'm still looking for that box of Bren't Lewiis Ensemble records...
but yeah, life is good....
recent itunes action:

My Interests

family, music, books, beer, film, sport, bbq, chicago's neighborhood bars, pubs, and taverns.

Music:

The Fall, American Music Club, The Dead C., Velvet Underground, My Dad Is Dead, Oneida, Wire, Television, The Byrds, Richard Buckner, Parson Sound, Joel RL Phelps, The Kinks, anticon, Jandek, Bunnybrains, Half Japanese, Antony Milton, Bailter Space, This Heat, Black Sabbath, Pumice, M. Ward, Sun City Girls, Glen Campbell singing Jimmy Webb's songs, The Oranges Band, Leels, Die Kreuzen, The Ex, Baby Robots, Double Leopards, Wilco, The Stooges, Love, The Clean, Mission of Burma, Tower Recordings, Yo La Tengo, Wooden Wand, Roxy Music, Peter Jefferies, Damien Jurado, Ghost, Ariel Pink, The Double, The Cannanes, Live Skull, Joy Division, P.G. Six, Felt, Sebadoh, Meringue, Dead Meadow, Frog Eyes, Scott Walker, Charalambides, Guided By Voices, Hood, Birchville Cat Motel, The Pastels, Clouddead, The Rolling Stones, The Zombies, Come, Skip Spence, Tall Dwarfs, Syd Barrett, Royal Trux, Matt Valentine & EE, Thrones, Void, Dirtbombs, Neil Young, Amps for Christ, Laura Cantrell, Pin Group, Armpit, Unrest, Queens of the Stone Age, Beat Happening, The Red Krayola, Terminals, Sonic Youth, Amps for Christ, Celesteville, Swell Maps, The Gordons, Fairport Convention, Big Dipper, The Scientists, Oakley Hall, Peter Jefferies, Royal Trux, Died Pretty, Boris, Thinking Fellers Local 282, Why? Silkworm, Pedro the Lion, Death of Samantha, Talk Talk, Blue Orchids, This Kind of Punishment, Jake Loewenstein, Cat Power, The Ponys, Sightings, David Kilgour, Glands of External Secretion, Pere Ubu, World of Pooh, Joost Visser, Eleventh Dream Day, The Bats, McClusky, The Wolfhounds, Volcano Suns, Lichens, The Birthday Party, Pelt, Alasdair Roberts, Crippled Pilgrims, Teardrop Explodes, The Bats, Straightjacket Fits, Jens Lekman, Karl Blau, Blithe Sons, These Immortal Souls, Scott Walker, The Embarrassment, Zelienople, Scott Tuma, Smog, The National, Matt De Gennaro, Lungfish, Travis, Home, Pink Mountaintops, Vashti Bunyan, Times New Viking, Great Plains, Verlaines, Souled American, Rambling Shadows, Shearwater, Oxford Collapse, Slovenly, Tim Hecker, Jesu, Vetiver, Ghost Club, Rosy Parlane, Boris, Love of Diagrams, Rhys Chatham, Blues Control, Pink Reason, Jesu, Panda Bear,

Movies:

Dead Man

Television:

ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN News, The Daily Show, The Weather Channel, etc.

Books:

Raymond Carver, J.D Salinger, Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, A.M. Homes, Philip Roth, Flannery O'conner, George Saunders, Jonathan Lethem, Philip Levine, Tom Perrota, Paul Auster, Denis Johnson, et.al.

My Blog

Oak Park Public Library

I am accepted a (very) part-time position in the Children's Department of the Oak Park Public Library yesterday. I should be starting in about two weeks. Its eems like a really great environment...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:55:00 PST

Blues Control - Puff LP

Managed to leave the house a couple Sundays ago and see Blues Control when they passed through town and played at the Empty Bottle. Thank goodness I did. And thank goodness it was an early show. I pro...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:47:00 PST

3 months, 2 weeks

Music doesn't seem to have the same immediate, mollifying, effect on Meredith as it did in those first few weeks when she cried so much that playing a CD would stop her in her (real or imagined) track...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:18:00 PST

Listening habits of a three-week-old girl

lately Meredith's been into: The Scientists - Blood Red River 1982-1984 (SFTRI) The National - Alligator (Beggars Banquet) This Heat - Deceit, Health and Efficiency from Cold Storage Box (ReR) Da...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:39:00 PST

Meredith Alice Carrel White

was born June 30th and weighed in at 7lbs 14oz. Safe at home, she's been eating and sleeping ever since. Things are good. Thanks to all who have offered kind words. I'll try to get some photos up soon...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:04:00 PST