Teacher Drinks

God I have to wake up at 7am to teach 12 year olds and I;m half druk. Ad my girlfrieds N key is super ot working so wathever. decode the shit.

Life can be fun at times, but right ow its just ok. i wish things were better ad I kow they will be, but it's just time trials dudes.

CMJ was rad. NY is so big, ad even though all the cool shows were in the lower east side, or brookyln (where I stayed) it was hard to get around, ad tiring. I did well though. Also, my cronies at KVRX stayed in super-lame Flat Bush, which is south of Williamsburg where I stayed, ad it was very hard to connect with them b/c of it. Both go to the city easy, but not in the same place. Add to the fact my Williamsburg folks did't have badges, and you poor author doesn't feel the desire to roam for free indie rock in NYC at 2:30 am aloe. DUH.

I t was a good time thogh.

Time to teach bra.

New York I Love You (But You're Expensive)

I'm off to New York tomorrow. Before I get to that everyone watch this right now:



As for New York, I am going to CMJ all expenses paid by UT with my good friends Tim and Cody. We are representing KVRX 91.7fm, UT's radio station that I work for. We leave tomorrow at 2:30 and have to fly out of Dallas, which sucks. WTF Austin "Intl."? Anyways, I have friends who live up there who are graciously letting me stay with them in Brooklyn in the ole' Williamsburg, a place which I have been told by many non-Williamsburg New Yorkers to not in fact be the center of the world.

CMJ as I have come to learn through word of mouth is a lot like SXSW: bands, panels, films, drinking. Only thing is you can get much drunker because you don't have to drive anywhere ever. Also the weather doesn't make one want to change ones shirt every 3 hours. That said, it's all pretty silly when you really think about what we are actually being sent to do though --- talk to distributors. We talk to them on the phone all the time. What's a little face time going to change? Plus, we already know full-well what each distro. offers: Pirate kinda sucks; Terrorbird (perfectly named after a Mae Shi record) has a never ending supply of awesome, glitchy, poppy stuff; AAM specializes in big name and fringe big name bands such as, hmm, Weezer; Syndicate is pretty good most of the time; Planetary is kind of faceless. So a little hand shaking and chit chatting and free boozing (although appreciated) won't really change the way we do things. Am I really going to more readily tear open a certain package because of a week long jaunt in NY? I guess that's what "business" is all about however ---- throwing money at things. Yet who am I to complain ---- it really is all going to be pretty amazing. I already have a neat little list of parties to go to, bands to see. Some of the best include: Crystal Castles, Crystal Stilts (sadly I am not sure if Crystal Antlers will be attending), Jay Reatard, A Place to Bury Strangers; plus a George Clinton AND also a RZA Panel. Insane.

I am not sure what's better: getting most drunk during the DAY or at night. I'll let you know what I find out.

My Senior Seminar Professor Rules

Professor Nehring rules. Thumbs up indeed.

Stop Sampling the Clash!!!!!

Dammit, I am sick of people sampling the Clash. It is SOOOO annoying. First M.I.A's "Paper Planes," and now today as I was walking through the First Colony Mall with my Mom (I know, I'm really cool) I heard some stupid techno song that used THE ENTIRE MUSICAL PART of "The Magnificent Seven." It wasn't just part of it; it wasn't even a modern reinterpretation. They TOOK of Joe Strummer's singing and PUT ON TOP OF IT lame techno crap.

Stop it! Joe Strummer is dead! You're not helping his music!

Also, while I am at it, UPS really needs a new song. "Such Great Heights" is soooo I am at UTSA it's Fall 2004/ultra-depression/wanna die.

Rogues and Vagabonds

Proof that back then sucked just as bad "back now."

Sounds kind of like Austin right? This is from the mid 16th c. The Elizabethan definition of "rogues and vagabonds." Apparently back then, wool became a hot commodity, and so land became enclosed and the poor had no where to go but the city. Where they festered. So the government sent them to America! Where they died! A lot of them! Anyways, rogues and vagabonds:

". . . All persons calling themselves Schollers going about begging, all seafaring men pretending losses to their Shippes or goods on the sea going about the country begging, all idle persons going about in any Country either begging or using any subtile crafte or unlawful Games . . . comon Players of Interludes and Minstrells wandering abroade . . . all wanderingpersons and comon Labourers being persons able in bodye using loytering and refusing to work for such reasonable wages as is taxed or commonly given . . . ."

This guy to the right's totally a rogue

1992

I just couldn't resist this one. Looks like the cover of an early 80s punk EP.

Pallin' Downs

She believes in The Rapture.
In other news the new Fucked Up is pretty good. It will melt you face off.

Frat Sucker

I'm pretty nervous. There is so much going on! Nothing I am not used to. But I have so much I want to do and so little time to do it. Plight of the middle class.

I need to buy a bike. Parties tonight. Big paper due Monday. French test Monday. Teaching my first observed lesson Monday.

Trying to start a band. People aren't really into it right now/we're all busy. But we're trying.

I'm going to New York October 21th-24th. It's for CMJ (College Music Journal) Festival. It's a collection of indie rock distributors and college radio station music directors. I fall into the latter category. I am going with my fellow MD Tim and our manager Cody. I'm really happy to be going, really lucky. We pick up our tickets at Judson Memorial Church, right next to NYU. And I realized ---- hey I've been there. When I visited my sister in NY in 2003, I remember meeting some friends from TX there late at night, in Washington Square Park. It was really dark and fizzy with rain.

Oh, the days of being 17.

I have strange feelings about Fall. Good, but strange.

Let's Go to the Beach!!!

I guarantee this will get stuck in your head all day long.