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 are [...]
Tag: ramblings
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
day 4: capital hijinks
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 thing, [...]
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 to enjoy [...]
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 talking about [...]
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 Cal Various
this is my rough itinerary… there may be [...]
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 the [...]
Tags: emo, odd, project, ramblings, ruminations
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
the odd-yssey
soundtrack to this blogpost will be steve earle, more specifically my new favourite song, johnny come lately, as well as everything else in the now classic copperhead road album. add in tennessee blues, a coupla beers and you’ll have yourself a mighty fine night. steve earle has that classic americana sound that speaks to me [...]
Tags: jits, journey, manhood, project, ramblings, ruminations
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
banh mi and bars: sounds like something vinh’d write about huh?
soundtrack to this post will be camera obscura. it’s hella twee, but it always makes me happy to listen to them and belle and sebastian… sometimes crazy cheery, sweet music is exactly what you need. maybe, i just need to be soothed. god, i’m burned out… oh and they got a show at webster hall [...]
Tags: emo, food and drink, poetry, ramblings
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
the 80’s in all their long haired glory
i’m emo, so the soundtrack will be appropriate. someone wise said that creative writing is always inherently self-indulgent. i guess i’m being so today… with john waite, one of those power ballad type singers from the ’80s. all the cheesiness and self-serious and the hair, goddamn the hair. he’s one of those dudes who sorta [...]
Monday, April 6th, 2009
sisyphean swagger on a sunny sunday
the soundtrack to this post will be nyc hipster hop icon and darling of the alt-hip hop scene, mickey factz. he embodies what i see to be the cutting edge of the iGeneration sensibility, swagger and style that is a globalized amalgamation of many different traditions coming together in a seamless, semi-ironic but still self-serious [...]