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exclamations

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About Me

sometimes i'm in bands, most of the time i stay at home and read and some of the time i go out and see bands perform, i make my own food a lot. devotional food for the urban monk. i make shitty prints sometimes that i carve in my garage. i made weird recordings in my basement that no one will ever hear.

My Interests

living

I'd like to meet:

people in the city i live in that have common interests that i don't already know

Music:

moss icon, shellac, the astronauts, king crimson, killing joke, john coltrane, pissed jeans

Movies:

the bad movie that i have a bit part in.

Television:

i watch pbs sometimes. i suppose it's passe to show contempt for television just like it's not cool to show contempt for anything really.

Books:

currently: interpretation of cultures, punk productions: unfinished business, deathwatch
the usual suspects: debord, jameson, ballard, houellebecq, henry miller, william gibson, p.k. dick, etc

My Blog

the subject of recent music related experiences

Starting with October 7th in Allentown the last month of being in bands and just physically and mentally existing in this world has been intense.  Some high and low points:Shit Mayor w/ Wolf Eyes...
Posted by exclamations on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:03:00 PST

booooredom, booooredom-e-yum. Boredom.

I've been getting the feeling that I'm totally boring lately.  It's a weird thing to feel as though you're somewhat boring.  I am a cliche.  Repeat. It's somewhat disconcerting when you...
Posted by exclamations on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:16:00 PST

slugs

So does anyone else have a huge amount of slugs in their backyard?  Every year spring-fall I have tons of these fascinating creatures crawling around my backyard.  Totally amazing.  Th...
Posted by exclamations on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:55:00 PST

"I do not speak to drunks."

So, someone actually said this, or, well, typed this in reference to my friends and I.  Some things make me laugh because they're true.  This makes me laugh because it's, well, incorrect to ...
Posted by exclamations on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:39:00 PST

Home again

After three weeks of being stuck a mini-van with 4 of my friends (and almost killing them and probably infuriating them daily) I'm back in Pittsburgh for better or for worse.  Most like it will b...
Posted by exclamations on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:01:00 PST

San Francisco

We spent five days in California and three of them were in San Francisco where we played three shows in one day. Warm Water Cove - A mass of drunken teenagers hanging out in a forgotten city park tha...
Posted by exclamations on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:27:00 PST

On Making a Mockery of Mike Thorne's Home

After doing some record shopping in San Rafael and Berkeley, we stopped by Mike Thorne's home.  I'd never met this guy before but apparently he did some cool stuff at some point in his life or wa...
Posted by exclamations on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:40:00 PST

Reno, NV

Woke up in Portland, ate donuts.  Beautiful Mountains and forests led us to the alien state, the nuclear desert full of mystery...but we only went as far as Reno and played first at some show at ...
Posted by exclamations on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:36:00 PST

Portland, OR

We drove down to Portland from Seattle after eating a whole mess of food at the Wayward Cafe.  Most of the day was spent driving around to different record stores to sell copies of our records a...
Posted by exclamations on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:15:00 PST

Seattle

We rolled into Seattle around 4pm after leaving Rapid City, SD at 11pm or so the night before.  Jensen fed us some pretty great fancy-pants burritos from his place of work and then we went to pla...
Posted by exclamations on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:07:00 PST