While I'm Running My Mouth...

I have a show tonight in Brooklyn, The Meltdowns are playing at the Charleston! Free pizza with yer drinks! woooo. The show tonight starts at 10pm and is free (you can get their earlier and pay to see two other bands that may or may not be awesome - it is unknown!)

And we've another show Saturday night in en ee double you jerz where many murders occurs: we're playing with SixToEightMathematics and Mazeffect at a place called Buddie's Tavern in Parlin, NJ, not too far from New Brunswick, actually. Hint, hint. xD That show starts at 9:30 (we're on 11:30).

leap year day reflections

[ edited x-post from LJ... took the dirt out, for public decency ]

Unlike the New Year's holiday, the leap year day actually does make me stop and pause to consider where things are at. Which makes sense, since four years is quite a bit longer. I have to actually think about it a little harder.
So, what happened, then? What's changed?

Well, I didn't live on my own back then. I lived in a huge, cold apartment in Gloomfield, NJ, I was in a relationship that was beginning to shake and break. My band played with drum machines, we were okay but people weren't really into it. I was working at the University, riding my bike a lot. Taking care of someone who couldn't take care of herself. Ugh. I really didn't like my cushy university job, either. I felt pretty much like I was living in nowhere north-jersey and going nowhere fast. It was one of those times where I just couldn't see anything for myself, no future, nothing. I was 23 and bored, unhappy and spinning my wheels.

So, then:

I no longer live in NJ.
I actually love where I live.
I've learned to play capoeira, I've learned to go rock climbing, and to surf.
I'm not in any shitty relationship(s).
I have my own apartment.
My band rocks, actually has fans.
I have a job I actually like, with the possibility of a long career.
I have goals and stuff! (I want to run my own onsen someday - a japanese-style bath house on a hot spring)

Yeah, this totally rules! Alright then, just checking. How about everyone else?

Strange Country

Curated by my friend Hiroshi Kumagai, and featuring my friend Colleen Gutwein, Strange Country in Jersey City opens next week.

dday on "how do we defeat tim russert?"

Over here:

The country wants change. They want Washington to stop all the partisan bickering and they want a different tone. They want their government to be serious and deal with real problems.

Can someone please explain to me how that can possibly happen until something is done about the reprehensible political press? From tax returns to Farrakhan to footage shown by "mistake" to the endless, trivial, gotcha bullshit, this debate spectacle tonight was a classic demonstration of what people really hate about politics. It isn't actually the candidates who can at least on occasion be substantive and serious. The problem is Tim Russert and all his petty, shallow acolytes who spend all their time reading Drudge and breathlessly reporting every tabloid tidbit and sexy rumor and seeking out minor inconsistencies from years past in lieu of doing any real work.

Judging by their silly questions tonight, Russert and Williams obviously know nothing about health care policy, Iraq, Islamic terrorism, economics, global trade or any other subject that requires more than five minutes study to come up with some gotcha question or a stupid Jack Bauer fantasy. It's embarrassing.

These people guide the way citizens perceive politics even if the citizens don't know it. It's hard for me to see how anything can truly change until this is dealt with.

I can safely say

I don't get it:

The Smashing Pumpkins - Superchrist

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I spent the whole time watching this kinda waiting for something to happen, expecting the music or the video to go somewhere... I don't know. I don't get it. I guess there's nothing to get, I'm just not that into it.

Apparently they also eat their own:

If it's going to be one of these weeks, then fucking AWESOME:

In other words, not being able to beat Siegelman at the polls, Woods believes that his own party corruptly used the criminal justice process to take out an adversary. This is an extraordinary, heavy accusation. Not something that a senior Republican would raise easily about his own party. And the facts back the accusation up, beginning to end.

Somebody Fine Me This Please

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