longblackbangs

Ooohhh manard! Yet another exciting week filled with more chemistry class, anti inflammitories, and anxiety about finding a place in SF. I had a pretty enjoyable weekend I guess. I gave my friend a mixtape I have been working on for sometime. It was one of those in which every song on there had to fit and nothing was just thrown on there as filler. It was really a labor of love...really, I'm serious. Complete with atmospheric interludes made with a Talkboy (you know that thing from "Home Alone") and record manipulation.

Track list: (sans all the artsy sounds in between tracks)
A)
the Beatles - A day in the life
the Walkmen - Thats the punchline
Bright Eyes - Black Comedy
the Clash - Lost in the supermarket
Bright Eyes - Spring cleaning
Morrissey - The world is full of crashing bores
Radio Berlin - How fast can you run
Moving Units - Between us and them
New Order - Leave me alone
Elliott Smith - No name #1

B)
Interpol - Interlude
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Radio Berlin - The hypen
New Order - Age of Consent
Modest Mouse - The View
the Walkmen - Wake Up
M.Ward - Water under the bridge
Iron and Wine - Each coming night
The Swans - God damn the sun
Elliott Smith - Fond Farewell

Yeah, I broke the mixtape rule of only one song per artist. So anyway

The Broken Spindles show on Saturday was really cool also. Since the album was basically the work of one guy, Joel Peterson of the Faint, it couldn't all be played live so some of it was pre-programmed while the rest was played by Peterson on keyboard and guitar, and there was a big projection screen with a video that went with the entire set to make up for the lack of action on stage. There are some people, both male and female, that just totally facinate me sometimes in the fact that they are so exccentric in a totally subtle way that I can't take my eyes off them. This Joel Peterson guy was one of those people. During the other bands sets he was working the merch table, which was along the wall next to the stage, and I kept glancing over there seeing him folding his shirts and setting out his albums in the most perfectionist/compulsive way. He moved like Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas, only moving and picking up things with his index fingers and thumbs. Plus he seemed really out of place, not talking to many people. I wondered how it must be to be on the road in a one man band... He caught me looking once or twice so I'm sure he thought I was "checking him out".

I don't know why I just relayed that story. I guess I could have just left it with "it was a good show".

Well, I'll be back up there again looking for a place this weekend. We are having trouble finding a place that will be cool with two people living in a one bedroom. It is the most I'll be able to afford while going to school and most of the places around SFSU are "inlaws" so it will be hard to hide the fact that there are two people living in a one bedroom when the landlord lives on the property with you . Our plan is to see if they are cool with "couples" in a one bedroom...it sounds better than "two college guys" moving in. And if I have to kiss my roommate in front of the landlord to seal the deal...so be it

p.s. Thank you for the kind words in response to my last entry. Things have been a little better so at least I'll have had a little positive break to carry me through before I crash again.