i am sick as heo. it’s been a great time in DC and was ‘sposed to culminate in the 4th… but eh. well, this post is mostly to say that i’m alive, if not completely well. yesterday, the 3rd, and my 5th on the road on the real part of my odd-yssey. it was a [...]
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
day 4: capital hijinks
day 4: capital hijinks it’s becoming inevitable that these things will become more and more similar as time passes. there’s only so many times i can remark about the beautiful things i see and the wonderful people i meet. it really is crazy, the more i see of the country, the more i realize there [...]
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Day 3: I got crabs
This will be a hella short post and will not be formatted as it usually is for the simple fact that I’ll be writing on a borrowed computer. Yesterday, as pretty much all the days hanging out with jb have been down here, was hella fun. We went to get a murland traditional feast meal [...]
Tags: food and drink, project, ramblings, salt
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
day 2. cats and kali
before anything, i wanted yall to know that i was featured by bostonprogress radio in their emerging api artists feature. check it out here. furthermore, if’n you want to see the photos of the odd-yssey so far, visit my facebook. i realized that i am hella hella horribly allergic to cats. furthermore, that it’s hard [...]
Tags: food and drink, ramblings
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
day 1: upchucks and oxyclean… the start
the journey is started. i’m on the road, at my first real destination. so after braving the vagaries and wilds of the chinatown bus, i was picked up by my friend JB. i’ve been kicking it in the annapolis, baltimore area ever since. but before i go into the trip… there’s hella i should be [...]
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
preludes and prehayqua
*nota bene* this was written on the night of the 26th. soundtrack to this blogpost is the constant hum of a saint marks inn air conditioner, the murmuring of organizers going about their diabolical plotting and the incessant chatter of fingers on keyboards. yes… i am once again in “the event room,” that magical space [...]
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
the prelude
there is an anxiety in new beginnings and in new endings. that’s appropriate ‘cuz often enough, they’re the same thing. hence, the soundtrack to this blogpost will be the dropkick murphys, the local boys who made good and then some. one of my favourite bands of all of time and goddamn, it’s too late for [...]
Friday, June 19th, 2009
rough itinerary
6-29, 6-30, 7-1: Baltimore 7-2, 7-3, 7-4: Washington DC 7-6, 7-7: Nashville Tennessee 7-8, 7-9, 7-10, Atlanta 7-12, 7-13: Pensacola 7-14, 7-15: New Orleans 7-16, 7-17, 7-18: Dallas 7-19, 7-20: Austin 7-21, 7-22: Getting to and touring Grand Canyon 7-23, 7-24, 7-25, 7-26, 7-27, 7-28: So Cal Various 7-29, 7-30, 7-31, 8-1, 8-2, 8-3: Nor [...]
Tags: ramblings
Friday, June 12th, 2009
sleepless night, dreams are made of these
the soundtrack to this blogpost will be the postal service. yes, they’re defunct, but come on now, they just had such a great indie technopop sound that always makes me happy. and i want some cheering up for whatever reason. there’s a coupla things i wanted to discuss, ‘specially since i’m suffering from insomnia. it’s [...]
Tags: emo, odd, project, ramblings, ruminations
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
small comforts
soundtrack to this blogpost will be the decemberists. because they are dope. because colin meloy is a lyrical god. because legionnaire’s lament is pretty much one of my favoritest songs ever. and finally because any band that has the balls to put together a prog rock opera based on british folk tales is fucking gangster. [...]