this is their busted future...

jet_to_brazil @ 2005-03-18T01:41:00

2005-03-18T06:39:54Z

so vampire cat / wind-up bird / one am radio / xiu xiu was tonight at university of DE

i have to say. it was pretty fucking amazing. i missed vampire cat, but from what i hear i didn't miss much. the wind-up bird was mostly laptop based. he had a speaker set up in each corner of the room and sat down in the middle with his computer and mixing boxes and everyone sat in a circle around him while he sung into the 20 minute long drone thing he was doing. it was pretty awesome for a laptop performance. the sound was just swelling and sweeping all around the room and kept getting more and more chaotic as it went on.

one am radio came on next and were also really good. everyone sat down for the set. i didn't really want to, but i didn't want to be a dousche bag standing up in front while everyone else couldn't see. they didn't play "what you gave away" though, and that might be one of my favorite songs.

xiu xiu wasn't quite as intense as i had expected. i thought Jamie would be insane, but he's generally a pretty normal guy. a little crazy, but not even half as insane as he sounds on recordings. he had a girl playing with him, and freddy rupert doing his merch. freddy rupert is the kid that does This Song Is A Mess, But So Am I and is pretty much an awesome kid. apparently it was his 17th birthday and everyone sung to him. sadly, Xiu Xiu didn't play "apistat commander" or "i love the valley, OH!" the stuff from the upcomming album sounds really good though. not as abstract as everything else he's done. there were these two guys standing next to me that i wanted to strangle. Jamie pulled out an auto-harp while he was setting up and then for the next 15 minutes, i swear, their conversation went something like: "autoharp? autoharp! AUTOHARP!! autoharp? he had better play that autoharp. autoharp." no, jackass, he brings autoharps on tour so dumbass kids can freak out about it.

the burning question: where was sarah?

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-12-20T23:42:00

2004-12-21T04:42:27Z

back to friends only for a while.

sorry.

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-12-16T21:58:00

2004-12-17T02:58:05Z

so i just started my christmas shopping today. i did decent.

the realiter called at 2:00, waking me up, telling me i was accepted for my apartment. she gave some details, i scribbled some down, then laid back down until 2:45 or so. when i was finally motivated to get up, i went to the living room and found dad had given me and my sister money to go christmas shopping. i figured it was time to get off my ass and do something.

first i went to depford's best buy to get a couple things. i got all i came to get except for one cd. so i went to the mall to go to sam goody and the line was wrapped around the store, blocking most of the cds, so i couldn't even get to the section that i was looking for. i said screw it and left, stopping at the candy store for my first meal of the day - reese's cups, oompas, and bottle caps.

then, i went to barnes and noble, just because i didn't really feel like going home yet. i started looking for these two graphic novels, but i didn't know exactly what they were called. (Blankets by Craig Thompson, and Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware)

so i left B&N and went home to look up those books. i left and went to Borders in DE to look for that cd and the books. the cd wasn't there, so i browsed the books. i couldn't find the Jimmy Corrigan one, but i found Blankets right away. I almost didn't get it, because it was $30. I picked it up, grabbed a latte, and read some of it. suddenly, i was on page 50 and was like "wow, i guess i'm going to go buy it" so i did, came home and then read the rest of it. it is 582 pages long. it doesn't take that long to read though, since it's like a big comic book. easily one of the greatest things i have ever read. i'm probably going to read it again before i go to bed, and then probably again saturday at the punk rock flea market if i get bored

i think that's about all the information i care to divulge at this time, but suffice it to say it has not been the best week.

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-12-07T16:15:00

2004-12-07T21:15:47Z

http://www.eugenemirman.com

this is the funniest website ever. click on "new by eugene" and watch the videos. or here's links to the best ones

the pot video
the art video

dude's hilarious. there's an mp3 for his stand-up in the news section

anyway, i'm working on getting my apartment paperwork filled out. as long as i'm approved to rent it and all, i'll be on like, 13th and locust or something around there on the first week of jan.

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-12-05T01:38:00

2004-12-05T06:38:12Z

this thing is so neglected, i'm not even going to try to start where i left off.

friday i worked and then went to the F.O.P. show. turns out past having doubt had already played and left except josh, so i gave him a couple copies of the comp cd. Veda Skyes had also already played, so i gave them some copies, too. i looked around, found out Dismember the Body had also played, looked around again, then left. i probably played final fantasy online the rest of the night

My Mogwai - Young Team LP and An Albatross/XBXRX split 7" came in. Both are awesome. it's also probably my favorite mogwai release. if not, it's because rock action is so damn good.

i got my table reserved for the punk rock flea market, so i've been busy getting stuff ready for that. i'm getting a buttload of new stuff with the money i got from selling magic cards. i don't feel like listing it, it's all up on gladiatorialenterprise.com. i cut a stencil for spraypainting patches tomorrow. i can't think of anything in recent memory that has been that much of a pain in the ass.

kids have been giving me crazy good feedback for the couple things i recorded. http://www.purevolume.com/onethousandbrokendreams

eh, i'm done.

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-11-23T15:05:00

2004-11-23T20:05:34Z

Art Institute of Philly has the smallest acceptance letter.

Bohner!

i got in.

p.s. i had to mail some crap to some woman named Karen Bohner. i have the sense of humor of a freshman

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-11-18T22:03:00

2004-11-19T03:03:35Z

ciarra's birthday was last weekend. i took her out and we watched the polar express. it was good, but i never read the book.

i finally listened to the rest of the Saddest Landscape album. I had a single mp3 for months. I don't know why kids talk shit on this band. very quality. true, their name is kind of lame, and the guy sounds pretty pathetic sometimes, but it's good regardless.

i got my application for art institute in the other night. reeaaallly hoping i get in.

i recorded some song the other day. the audio levels are kind of messed up, but whatever. http://www.purevolume.com/onethousandbrokendreams

i started recording something else today, but i bounced the tracks and it got all fucked and i just said screw it. i'll do it tomorrow.

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-11-08T01:51:00

2004-11-08T06:51:17Z

someone hook me up with:

milkbag - hotdog in the hallway.mp3

i know SOMEBODY has to have this on their computer

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-11-07T19:34:00

2004-11-08T00:34:57Z

halloween - me and ciarra handed out candy and watched halloween and kubrick's The Shining. barely any kids were out and the ones that were, wore these half-assed costumes that they must have made up 5 min before leaving. lame.

i just got this thing off of ebay called a Theremin. it's the coolest thing in the world. it's this sound box that transfers light into a pulse tone that sounds like this:
http://www.xlpctheremin.com/sound/thersound.wav

i'm going to take it and send it through phase, reverb, and distortion and it'll be awesome.

i also got a m-audio midi controller the other day i've been playing with. as soon as i get an amp and a real drum machine, i'll do some serious recording and play some shows. my mom came in a few minutes ago because i was shaking the walls with some low synth. hott.

does anyone want to go the black dice/animal collective/growing show on the 20th? it's at the same place as the wolf eyes show. more info's at www.r5productions.com/shows.html

i went to the art institute the other day to talk to admissions and i took a tour of the place. i loved it, so i'm hopefully going to go there next semester. they have a kick-ass audio editing program with labs full of G5s and soundboards. mmmmm

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-10-30T13:19:00

2004-10-30T17:19:15Z

i did some searching and found pictures of Rubber O Cement. pure insanity

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-10-30T00:48:00

2004-10-30T04:48:14Z

so i just got back from the wolf eyes show. it was posibly the greatest show ever. but it was a long journy getting there.

we start off with me assuming that it is at the first unitarian church, like any normal r5 show. i get there, look around, and there's street punks everywhere. I had never heard buck-65 and thought "maybe they're a street punk band" because i'm a fucking retard. so i call ciarra, who turned down going to this show with me, and asked if she was anywhere near a computer, to see if i had the right day. she wasn't, but she was with cindy who told me i was at an Unseen/some other punk band show. She told me it was in cherry hill. so i was like "what?" so i asked where they were and they were eating or something. so i was like "i guess i'm just going to turn around and go home then" and she said "okay"

so i'm walking back to my car and i'm like "why don't i go to spaceboy and ask one of the dudes working there for directions. so i drive from north philly to south philly, park, the whole ordeal takes me like, 30-40 minutes. dude told me where to go, and i get there - it's like 3 blocks from the troc. which is a lot further north than south street. by this time i'm like "fuck parking" and park at the garage near the troc. i'm wandering around trying to find this place and these scene girls ride by on their bike. so i'm like "they have to be going to the show". so i stalk them and sure enough, they were. it was in the 4th floor of this building and it was awesome. kind of like where the dudes in S.L.C. punk lived. a big empty run down area. artsy fartsy. i get there halfway through the fisrt band's set. they were decent, they finished, and some noise band came on. they were awesome, but i don't know who they were.

after them, Rubber-O-Cement came on. This is where it gets good. this dude was dressed up like a fucking dragon or something, playing an instrument he had to have made. it looked like if you folded up a thing you paint on (i forget what it's called), put bass strings on it, and put some wierd thing with knobs below the strings. i don't know. so this dude in a dragon suit starts flailing around making his noise, and i seriously feared for my saftey. his instrument was a good 6 feet long and he was just swinging it randomly. the whole floor cleared out for him. eventually he tripped/kicked over this bench and shit broke so he slammed his instrument on the floor and plowed through the crowd, never to be seen again.

buck-65 was up next. good hip-hop. not much more to say.

wolf eyes came on, and the dudes were insane. i only stayed for the first 1/3 of their set though, because i had to get home. i don't even know what they were doing to make what they were making. i recognized like, two pieces of equipment, not including the gong, sheet of steel to bang on, sax, and a guitar.

so in the end, i learned that noise isn't for people who can't make real music. these guys know exactly what they're doing, and it changes my whole perspective on this genre of music.

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-10-28T00:55:00

2004-10-28T04:55:22Z

me and ciarra went to converge tonight. we missed the first two bands, including cave in, but it's no big deal. converge was freaking awesome. way better live then recorded, but i think whoever mastered jane doe did a half-assed job. i picked up the new album which is probably good. anyway. i picked up two less than jake 7"s and Isis - The Mosquito Control EP. both are awesome. i'm setting out to collect the entire less than jake discography. i know that's a joke because if you go to http://www.lessthanjake.com/discography/ you'll see it's fucking nuts.

the comp cd i was working on is out now. it's $4, or $5 through the mail, shipping included. www.gladiatorialenterprise.com has more info on that jazz. i'm giving away a copy to a random kid on the mailing list.

i don't even remember what else i've been doing.

i have crap on ebay. really, it's crap, but if you want to look at it, my username is "magnificentdesolation" by crap i mean i'm selling my daughters records, my hatebreed 7", game boy, etc.

An open letter to the members of Yo La Tengo

2004-10-13T15:29:40Z

Dear Yo La Tengo,

After attending your show last night in Philly, a few issues came up, making you the worst band i have ever seen live. The first issue is the $15 ticket. The show was in the sanctuary - it could be very easy to say it cost more to rent it out, but Mum played there a few months ago with three other bands and had to buy a plane ticket from Iceland and they only charged $12. Lame. The next is the fact that I payed $15 for one, and only one band. Lame. Oh yeah, you had a shitty ass comedian come on while you were taking a break from that intense music you were playing. Lame. Two guys in sequin robes playing trombone and flute? What? The ticket said 7:30 PM. We ended up standing in line at 8:30, and you didn't even go on until 9:30. Lame. At about 10:00, a half hour into your set i was going to leave and go to wawa to get a drink, since i have a cold and my throat was sore. No re-entry. Oh yeah, you're selling water and coffee. Way to go, capitalist. "Buy Yo La Tengo or go home." Politics - don't say voter volunteer information "just so happens to be sitting next to your cds." You put it there, say so. I'm pretty sure that sums up all of my issues involving your live performance.

Sincerely,
Ryan

P.S. While we were waiting for you to play, i went downstairs to the bathroom. I looked around and noticed a lot of people and a girl band on stage. I realized that Mirah was playing the same night, at the same venue, at the same time. So i went upstairs and told my girlfriend, Ciarra. She was upset that she was missing Mirah, also. When we were told we couldn't come back in after we left, we decided we would sneak down and see Mirah instead. We got down there just after she started playing, and it was awesome.

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-10-08T23:01:00

2004-10-09T03:01:54Z

is anyone else extremely excited for the new jimmy eat world album?

the single is so good.

jet_to_brazil @ 2004-09-03T19:33:00

2004-09-03T23:33:07Z

new aol screen name:

sartre X core

friends only

2003-12-15T05:25:52Z

i've made my journal friends only, since anyone can get a livejournal account without a code. just a way to filter. leave a message and i'll more than likely add you.