"When We Met It Wasn't Pretty At All" or "I Meant Every Word I Said."

1) The Faint - How Could I Forget

2) Against Me! - New Wave

We can control the medium. We can control the context of presentation. We can be the bands we want to hear. We Can Define Our Own Generation. We can eclipse all that came before us.
3) Bear Vs Shark - CaliforniaHotseat
You never see yourself as you're passing through my eyes.
4) Dropkick Murphys - Famous For Nothing
Yeah, thank God it's Saturday and half my problems go away. Sure, the big ones on the way, but I know how to handle them.
5) Modest Mouse - Invisible
6) Bear Vs Shark - June 7th
If you don't listen to Bear Vs Shark and have open ears, listen to them now. They are one of the most important bands to come out of whatever scene you want to ascribe them to.
7) Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
It was good to be alive.
8) Pinback - From Nothing to Nowhere
9) Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Noise Brigade
A dime for a dozen if that's what you're after. A moment of silence, a lifetime of laughter. On the brighter side and on a happier note the noise, well it's just love that gets caught in my throat. The end of the line's not the end of a rope, just a salesman selling a bucket of hope.
10) Less Than Jake - Nervous In The Alley
With all I've got to say, I wonder what I'd fight for.
11) Piebald - American Hearts
12) You Me & Everyone We Know - Do It Again (You're Not Making Me Want to Touch You)
I've excepted that we're just chemicals.
13) Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Rascal King
14) Mike Doughty - Looking at the World From the Bottom of a Well
15) The Ghost - The Exhibition
We've got good minds in bad health
I think you know that
All our friends like us more than we like ourselves.
Drinking in style like the laughing stock
We sing in the key to this door but we still knock
Set the clocks back and set my thoughts ahead
We could rewrite this old book
Stepping through these chapters half dead
Someone said it before and I'll say it again
It's not how play it's how you're listening
A head in the ground/Feet in the sky
You fell when no one watched as you learned how to fly
It's the simple things that have all gone wrong
When you stop to catch your breath you'll be moving on
Graffiti like the calender/July ice now it's melting there
16) Chin Up Chin Up - Virginia, Don't Drown
Chicago flavored punk-indie rock...
17) Pinback - Walters
18) Modest Mouse - Parting of the Sensory
There's no work in walking and it fueled the talk.
19) Broken Social scene Presents Kevin Drew - Lucky Ones
20) Mike Doughty - Madeline and Nine
21) imadethismistake - College or a Broken Nose
'Cause you mean a lot to me. BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!
Yeah, you mean a lot to me. WE BOTH GO DOWN TOGETHER!
22) Defiance, Ohio - Lullabies
Just as quick as you can fall asleep

"This is so obnoxious," muttered the writer under his breath.
"One day though," whispered an omnipresent voice, "you'll have nothing to say at all."

And so
The writer wrote

Until one day his pen ran dry and his fingers ached to a degree beyond ignoring.

"Finally," he thought to himself, "I can close my eyes."

And a moment passed. The same sun was rising. He opened his eyes and there were no words. Only images. Images he had imagined when his eyes closed.

Each story becoming his life.

And so
He followed the pattern
Of justification

Each night, when his pen ran dry, he had nothing left to do. But wait. Wait for his eyes to close and his pen to rest. Wait for his dream to rise and fall with each breath. It was and still is a constant battle of waiting for the story to become the life.

And so
The writer waits
Just like the rest of us

Leisure Suite

Minus The Bear - Burying Luck
Ted Leo/Phamacists - Biomusicology
Pinback - Good To Sea
Andrew Bird - Skin Is, My
Kaki King - Magazine
Andy McKee - A Sphere
Leot Kottke & Mike Gordon - Car Carrier Blues
Andy Mckee - All Laid Back and Stuff
Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew - Safety Bricks
Dntel - To A Fault (Ft Grizzly Bear)
The Go Find - Sky Window
The Notwist - This Room
Stars - This Charming Man
Ted Leo/Phamacists - Me and Mia
St Vincent - Now Now
Pinback - Kylie
Ris Paul Ric - The Sleeparound
Kaki King - Doing The Wrong Thing
Califone - Burned by the Christians
Stars - Personal
Feist - Leisure Suite
Dntel - Rock My Boat (Ft Mia Doi Todd)
The Prize Fighter Inferno - Accidents
Broken Social Scene - Pacific Theme
Dismemberment Plan - Spider in the Snow
Modest Mouse - You're the Good Things
Irradio - Relapse
The Go Find - Over The Edge
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Thievery Corporation - Universal Highness
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

HWJD?

Someone put a button on me without my knowledge. It said "Vote Pro-Choice". A woman came up to me in a bar and asked why I was pro-choice. I thought this was a random drunk woman with a random question for a random person, and I had no intention of getting into a political discussion at this time of the evening, especially after having a couple drinks. So I responded, "because I like loose bitches." She walked away and didn't look happy. So I thought of a new button I need to make: "I vote pro-choice because I like loose women." It may miss the point, but Momma alwaysa said honesty is the best policy.


I also thought of a wristband I should market. Remember those "WWJD" bracelets, What Would Jesus Do? I want to make a bracelet with the letters "HWJD." How Would Jesus Dance?

September 8th

Broken Social Scene - KC Accidental
Stars - Soft Revolution
Feist - Past in Present
Band of Horses - The Great Salt Lake
Dismemberment Plan - A Life of Possibilities
Soulive - Don't Tell Me
Travis Morrison Hellfighters - I Do
Modest Mouse - We've Got Everything
Minus The Bear - Knights
Pinback - Syracuse
Travis Morrison Hellfighters - Saturday Night
Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
Califone - Black Metal Valentine
Stars - Sleep Tonight
Rob Crow - Bam Bam
Spoon - The Underdog
Pinback - 3x0
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - So Damn Lucky
Feist - Intuition ( Live on KCRW w/ Broken Social Scene)
Umphrey's McGee - The Weight Around
Maritime - Yound Alumni (Chris R. Remix)
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Lie in Our Graves
Piebald - Fear and Loathing on Cape Cod
Dave Matthews & Time Reynolds - Oh
Defiance, Ohio - I'm Just Going to Leave
You Me & Everyone We Know - Carolina Heat
Motion City Soundtrack - The Red Dress
Less Than Jake - Nervous in the Alley
Minus The Bear - Houston, We Have Uh Oh
Piebald - Location is Everything

When a tree falls in the forest, is there a hippie around to complain?

I tried writing between two trees
Once
To see if I would be better heard
But
The creaking of each tree distracted my thought
So
I couldn’t focus on the problem at hand



Now
When I look back from my desk’s lamp
I
Find that most thoughts I have
Lose
Themselves between those two trees
Unheard
In a forest that cannot see
Through
The leaves that cover its eyes

Windows Framed in Stale Oak

You knocked on my door and I answered with a smile.

I invited you in but you said,
“No…Thank you.”

Now the rocks you throw echo off my windows

Desperately expecting my attention

But this book I’m reading

This chair I’m sitting in

It’s too comfortable

To be rearranged to fit your needs

Now we sit on my front porch and watch the stale fireworks reflect through the pale

moon as the rain starts to fall

We’ll jump in every puddle that forms to forget everything we could have had would

have been nothing at all

And it will never end