dan on buying girls gifts

dan: see what i do
dan: is get a personalized gift
me: oh yeah
dan: and wrap it in like, something interesting
dan: last time i gave a girl a gift
dan: i got her a personalized smock from neighborhoodies
dan: with her sign on it
dan: and the color was the color of her birthstone
dan: and i wrapped it in a buncha qwantz and pbf comics that i printed out on topics we talked about
dan: and i made the card too
dan: at most, it cost me like 25 bucks

dan: wow dude
dan: i just had a real shameful moment
me: go on
dan: a moment i thought would never come
dan: a crossroads in my pseudo-neo-malthusianism
dan: i went on google
dan: and i got real psyched about the fact that you could customize your theme

extrapolation on returning

3 months and 5 days ago i stopped updating this blog. not because of a conscious choice i made to stop, this site isn't serious enough or widely read enough to even be able to call it "choosing to stop". enough to keep me entertained enough to not even worry about maintaining this site. plus i got twitter which i can use on my phone.

list of the things that i've been occupying myself with, talking about for the past few months

1. the phillies won the world fucking series
2. i voted for the black dude and he won
3. i got a promotion and an office at work
4. RIP david foster wallace
5. rowboat
6. www.youtube.com/mrchicity3

onward and upward

-sf

dusk at cubist castle

this blog is back from the dead

download the rowboat demo
rowboat - science/fiction demo [mediafire]

trains of thought

so i found out yesterday that my little sister keeps a 70 year old picture of my grandfather and great uncle sitting on a stone fence in her journal. i had never met my paternal grandfather, he died when my father was a young boy, and yesterday marked the first time i had ever seen a picture of him

maybe i think too much
i have a lot to think about

we are overdue for a change of seasons, crisp weather this week reminded me of autumn and created an even bigger longing for september, sweet september

god bless this man and his family

never once in my life have i had to deal with the serious injury or illness to someone i've been close too until this week

its a strange feeling

get better soon buddy

god bless america

in other news, my blackberry works again, expect mega-photoblog updates very soon

"the joy of baseball is that the season stretches out over a long period of time, and they play every night. That's what separates the game from other games. Shit's poetic, holmes. Baseball is poetic. It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone."

oh hey

"The world is about to end in 2012… ’cause the Mayans made calendars, and they stop at 2012. I got encyclopedias on the bus. The world is about to end as we know it. You can see it already. A planet doesn't exist - there's no more Pluto. Planes are flying into buildings - and not just the Twin Towers. Mosquitos bite you and you die. And a black man and a woman are running for president."

- lil wayne

so i'm forced to put my photoblog on hiatus for a month or two as the camera on my cellphone started acting wonky the other day and won't take any pictures, i hope i get to pick it back up again soon i really liked maintaining it. i have a few pictures on there now that i will attempt to upload soon

one of my top favorite things in life, as in one of the things that truly warms my heart is when friends think of me in context of my interests and hobbies enough to take pictures of/clip/record/notate things for me.

human beings came and went

finished infinite jest again this weekend, i usually like to avoid saying things like "such and such changed my life" but in a way i think this book sort of did.

dan: like gang thugs
dan: like thugs in gangs and shit all huddled around a cat and its lookin up at them all purrin
dan: and they're posin all tough
dan: and it's just chillin
dan: also the economist's special report for this week is so sweet you'd be real into it

officially my favorite baseball moment of the year so far [mascots]

link from deadspin

-sf

we dum

applebee's drink coaster napkins + blue crayon + hangman + space
in order

the honeydrips

currently opening up for jens lekman. i'd rather be blogging...

rowboat demo

hey, rowboat has an official recording, sorta

rowboat - the anniversary present demo is two poorly recorded covers that i recorded and am giving to my girlfriend on our 7 year anniversary. totally cheesy but i'm digging it.

A. oh la la (the small faces)
B. stockholm syndrome (yo la tengo)


only problem is i have no 4 minute each side tapes to record the demo on to (wonk wonk) so as soon as i order them i am going to put one in the box, as well as record 12-15 others for anyone that wants them, your packaging will all vary slightly from one another and you get to check out the horrible noises i make in my room when i'm alone



or you could check them out online



http://rowboat.muxtape.com

feel free to comment

sf

dan: youre dumb
steph: your edumb
steph: and youre ugly
dan: really?
steph: no
dan: ^_^
dan: CHIPS CHIPS CHIPS CHIPS

dan: shaddap
dan: hottest lesbian scene ever
dan: the first mulholland drive lesbian scene
dan: if you dont have a boner youre fuckin gay
dan: did you ever watch carnivale
me: no
dan: you should
dan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiiHkuVH9OI
me: u gay

check out these songs

http://ufosrreal.muxtape.com

then go to http://www.muxtape.com and make yr own

interstellar overdrive

and



trying to make their own version of



and



this is going to be awesome

this guy rules

"that band is like, dudes kissing dudes... with guitars"

weird things my roomates do (UPDATE)

ok for anyone who didn't believe me about my roomate's medieval sparring or his helmet or whatever i present some compelling visual evidence

all of this stuff he made by himself

here is the helmet



some of the other pieces (neck guard, wrist guards, leg guards, etc.)



the helmet and vest



me wearing vest, neck guard, holding helmet




sf

the only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible




RIP

mix madness

the urge to make some mix cds struck me today so i made two complete with pencil artwork, etc.

recipients to be determined later

mix 1



1- the high water marks - galaxy galaxy galaxy
2- kevin ayers - elanor's cake (that ate her)
3- bon iver - for emma
4- nick drake - hazey jane II
5 - the stone roses - this is the one
6- sonic youth - kissability
7- lambchop - paperback bible
8- ides of space - computer world
9/10- boris - you put up your umbrella parts 1 and 2

mix 2





1- of montreal - eagle shaped mirror
2- lemuria - trivial greek mythology
3- ladybug transistor - the wheel
4- brian jonestown massacre - telegram
5- black mountain - bicycle man
6- oasis - up in the sky
7- the beatles - i want you (she's so heavy)
8/9- the music tapes - a warning!/fanfare for speeding bullet
10- built to spill - terrible/perfect
11- the lapse - basillico basillica
12- pavement - conduit for sale
13- sebadoh - got it
14 - hum - the scientists
15- yo la tengo - my little corner of the world

sf

weird things my roomates do (part one of many)

- i wanted to make grilled cheese so i went downstairs and on my way down he's standing at the side of the bottom of the stairs like he's waiting for me to come down and as soon as i'm in eye contact range with him he throws his hands up and is like "i'm back! phew that was a while" then proceeds to talk to me about his life for the entire time i'm making grilled cheese, because he is in there making pasta. so while we're both making food out of nowhere he goes "brb" and runs out the door, a few minutes later the doorbell rings, so i open up the door and he's there, with one arm full of rubbermaid containers and the other arm he's holding a metal helmet with like chain mail attached to it and a face plate. he runs the rubbermaid stuff into the living room and then puts the helmet ON THE KITCHEN TABLE while we're both preparing food. i ask him what the helmet is for and he proceeds to tell me its for his super intensive medieval sparring classes, and how he needs as much metal around his head as he can get when he's fighting 6'4" dudes carrying 9' poles. meanwihle the smoke from all the cooking sets the smoke detector off so the dude starts systematically opening all the windows and doors and starts opening and closing the door over and over again and yelling at the smoke to move out of the house.

- i'm sitting here playing guitar and my amp started making this awful distortion noise out of nowhere, so while i'm trying to fix it i hear a knock on the door, i get the amp to stop, put my guitar down, go to the door, and its him, and he knocked on the door exclusively to tell me "dude, you're supposed to plug a guitar into that, not a blender"

i could not make this stuff up

roflcats

http://www.watchme.tv/e/nyanko2/

ok a few questions i'd like to pose about this video
1. whats with the logo of the movie being a robotic cat alarm clock?
2. what is this movie supposed to be about?
3. are the cats on the same level of intelligence as people in this movie, like the hold jobs and interact in society and stuff?
4. is this a real movie that people made?
5. can i buy this and play it on my dvd player in america?
6. how cute is this little guy?!?



wikipedia didn't even come CLOSE to answering any of these questions and the first two search results are sailor moon related

in the meantime while you're waiting for this mystery to get solved, enjoy this other fine multimedia endeavor involving cats



as well as scope out wikipedia's list of fictional cats, which is so long and detailed its almost impossible to read through, my personal favorite is this


sf

qtf

i snapped this picture of the car in front of mine's buffy the vampire slayer window decal. that person clearly wants to say to the world "hey! check it out! i LOVE buffy the vampire slayer." there are somethings i guess i'll never understand.

hey goober, qheres the beef?

thanks to this article i've learned that it's possible to use google's document program to publish information to a blog. so this is really just a test run of that, since blogger/blogspot is blocked by my company's firewall. really i don't and won't have the opportunity or even the want to blog from work, but its good to know that its possible.

just so this post doesn't completely lack substance, check out this fucking picture

francesco botticini - the assumption of the virgin

taken from this which i found via this

christian mytholgy is so fucking cool

-sf

the heath death of the universe

holy shit if this isn't the ultimate bummer
sort of odd that this is what i spent most of my day thinking about
fucking, megablack-holes

dan: this girl i know went to portland for spring break
dan: and i told her to tell sasquatch i said sup
dan: and apparently there's some store there with a giant sasquatch in front
dan: so she sent me a picture message of it saying "he said sup back"
dan: sasquatch said sup to me dude
dan: dan - 1, steve - 0
dan: at least until you get abducted and probed
me: jesus that story

maybe we can dance

i originally dismissed later era pavement almost flat out, always favoring the earlier, more lo-fi, rawer and more critically acclaimed slanted and enchanted and crooked rain, crooked rain. there's something to be said of the 18 song tour de force that rolling stone called scattered, sloppy and half-baked., and has been a very polarizing album for both fans of pavement and music critics alike. i'm taking the pro side on this one, as each song on this album varies from melodic and aurally captivating to a sort of endearing musical awkwardness and every one of them shows off the raw talent each member posesesses but also the muddy and smirk-laden wit that s. malkmus all but built a generation around. i know my opinion doesn't count on the matter as much as rolling stone's (although it should) but the recent release of the "sordid sentinels" edition of wowee zowee,has led to me sort of rediscovering this record, only to really discover it for the first time, this record not only matches its predecessors in sheer awesomeness, it at some points blows them away in terms of seminality and cultural relevance, and that if s. malkmus was an alien before making this record, somewhere before it came out he was involved in some kind of ufo accident and half his body was replaced by superior cyborg parts.

1. "We Dance" – 3:01
2. "Rattled by the Rush" – 4:16
3. "Black Out" – 2:10
4. "Brinx Job" – 1:31
5. "Grounded" – 4:14
6. "Serpentine Pad" – 1:16
7. "Motion Suggests" – 3:15
8. "Father to a Sister of Thought" – 3:30
9. "Extradition" – 2:12
10. "Best Friend's Arm" – 2:19
11. "Grave Architecture" – 4:16
12. "AT&T" – 3:32
13. "Flux=Rad" – 1:45
14. "Fight This Generation" – 4:22
15. "Kennel District" – 2:59 (Spiral Stairs)
16. "Pueblo" – 3:25
17. "Half a Canyon" – 6:10
18. "Western Homes" – 1:49

download here (ss edition) (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)

MOTHERFUCKER=REDEEMER

first of all, i know godspeed you black emperor "broke up" or "disbanded" or "ended their indefinite hiatus" or "questioned the meaning of expression and communication through art" or whatever a few months ago, but man, this band fucking rules and i want to talk about them. godspeed are to me, the meta-post-rock band, the one that so perfectly defines a perfectly named genre of music that using the principles of rock music, takes rock music apart piece by piece and reforms it as something completely different. godspeed takes this to the next level by pretty much making you forget conventional rock music has ever existed.





sf

nineties bar hop: how did you answer like that, how did you bring robots into this, you are the best person

the guitar solo in this song

should rocket you to the moon



sorry the video quality is so shitty, if you listen closely you can hear a dude behind me say "put down your camera and watch the show" ok buddy

information overload

dan brennan's blog got me listening to matt pond PA and also decided thanks to this post that i should at least note on some of my recent and all time favorite wikipedia articles, because lets face it, thats the best site (also someone want to tell me why firefox marks wikipedia as a spelling error, get with the times mozilla) but anyway here's a few from a particular theme, lets see if you can guess what it is

1
2
3
4

sf

sharmageddon

here are some guys who i am pretty into as dudes
they are on stage like WE are a BAND take a LOOK
yes it really was that loud

in the future

this is my first and possibly only attempt at live blogging or lilogging. i'm in a dunkin donuts. i don't know where i am but i know where i'm going but i don't know what will happen when i get there. a brilliant metaphor for my life

sf

thinking things are funny when they're really not that funny

this is me

this is the story of my life

this is a dog driving a car

qtf