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Friday, December 12th, 2008
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This survey helps me to remember the basic accomplishments/disappointments of a given year.
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? toured the east coast playing music, bought a winnebago, got an apartment, learned how to record music, got some poetry published, hooked up with an Asian girl, wrote a Christmas song, received a phone call from a best friend reporting that he has cancer, went kayaking, developed tinnitus and lockjaw, was interested in politics. To name a few.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? had none last year. Maybe I'll quit smoking this year. Or wearing contacts. Who knows.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Michaela + Jesse=Joey
4. Did anyone close to you die? no.
5. What countries did you visit? none.
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? FOLLOW-UP ALBUM/NATIONAL TOUR
7. What date(s) from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory? October 6-8: Davis Park trip, Election Day.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? continuing a life of freedom and doing what pleases me.
9. What was your biggest failure? not seeing Jennifer (same as 2007).
10. Did you suffer any illness or injury? Tinnitus. Lockjaw (TMJ). Acute insomnia. Busted knuckles, back pains.
11. What was the best thing you bought? 33-foot motorhome
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? I don't think anyone pumped me up enough this year.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? CMJ Submissions committee.
14. Where did most of your money go? blaze, the bus, coffee
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Traveling.
16. What song(s) will always remind you of 2008? Anything from 'Sunflower' or '20/20' by The Beach Boys.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? happier.
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner.
iii. richer or poorer? richer!
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? touring.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? watching television.
20. How will you be spending Christmas? with family and friends.
22. Did you fall in love in 2008? no.
23. How many one-night stands? just one.
24. What was your favorite TV program? Dexter.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? No.
26. What was the best book you read? "Breakfast of Champions"~Kurt Vonnegut
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? the second Os Mutantes album.
28. What did you want and get? my own place.
29. What did you want and not get? Jen, sleep.
30. What was your favorite film of this year? Son of Rambow
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? 23. Went out for a few beers.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? more vocal chords
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008? the "I haven't bought new clothes in two years" look.
34. What kept you sane? rain, sleep, weed.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Obama
36. What political issue stirred you the most? Obama
37. Who did you miss? Adam, Jen, Maggie, Courtney
38. Who was the best new person you met? Brianna, Sam from CT, the guys in Jukebox and Psycho Rainbow
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008: Sleep is important. But so is everything.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: "Little tiny baby squirrels."
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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-played in CT in this concrete jungle room.
-played in Purchase to the cute stool girl and others
-playing in CT again and house-partied with local kids
-I've got a new girl
-going to Albany Friday to play a show and sleep over at some random stranger's house.
-gonna be on TV soon and I own a motorhome.
-broke.
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
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It's been one year since I quit school and moved home.
Damn, I've led a bunch of lives.
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
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1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before? started a band, recorded and put out an album, played live shows, took mushrooms and climbed the Rockies, stopped going to school forever, grew a mustache, went to Nebraska, Iowa, and Colorado, took antibiotics, watched a show on Sci-Fi. To name a few.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? nah.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Giselle.
4. Did anyone close to you die? no.
5. What countries did you visit? none.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007? Studio time.
7. What date(s) from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory? January 3rd-first show; April 15-17-Rhode Island visit. June 23rd-July 3rd: Colorado/road trip; October 21st-shroom forest.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? not being in college and getting a band together; writing, recording, and producing a full-length album.
9. What was your biggest failure? not seeing Jennifer.
10. Did you suffer any illness or injury? Have had a finger infection since the beginning of September.
11. What was the best thing you bought? digital piano.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Ryan Foster
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Ryan Foster, haha.
14. Where did most of your money go? Rhodes, 7-11.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? opening up the first box of finished albums.
16. What song(s) will always remind you of 2007? Anything off the new Sloan album.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? happier.
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner.
iii. richer or poorer? way poorer.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? traveling.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? nothing.
20. How will you be spending Christmas? around Patchogue, I believe.
22. Did you fall in love in 2007? no.
23. How many one-night stands? none.
24. What was your favorite TV program? 30 Rock
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? No.
26. What was the best book you read? Jitterbug Perfume/Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Spoon "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"
28. What did you want and get? a cigarette holder.
29. What did you want and not get? to see Jen. Tried three times.
30. What was your favorite film of this year? I have no idea.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? 22. Drank coffee, had a band practice, smoked a bit, ate Chinese food, went to bed. No biggie.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Having enough money to get my own place.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007? 1870 meets 1960.
34. What kept you sane? treez.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Zooey Deschanel.
36. What political issue stirred you the most? I dunno, some tazing.
37. Who did you miss? Kayla, Taylor, Jen, Felice
38. Who was the best new person you met? Craig Hecht.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007: You really can do whatever the fuck you want. And if you like something enough, nothing else matters. At all.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: "Let's get juxtaposed!"
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
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-Get Our Own Place
-Something Good
-Showtune/To The Southside
-The Paradox
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(lyrics to the new song I wrote about how I'm pissed that I can't get my stuff back because this girl won't call me or let me know what the hell's up.)
You still have my camera
Got my favorite novel, too
I can't take new pictures
wanna read the ending soon
what more can I do?
You don't call
I wrote you letters, guess we're through and that is all!
Still I make you nervous
stummy full of butterflies
wearing some disguise
Close your eyes
write the zip code, kiss that envelope goodbye!
If you won't call
I'll remain the bigger person, you the small
At least we've got a little bit of common ground
The Paradox is sitting in the lost and found!
Underneath the willow
smoking cigarettes in threes
who else could it be?
You don't call
I've been passing judgment, staring at the wall!
Close my eyes
pour your heart out, kiss that confidence goodbye!
At least we've got a little bit of common ground
The Paradox is sitting in the lost and found!
The Paradox is sitting in the lost and found!
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
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Wow, months go by fast. 10-point update.
1. East coast tour being planned for the month of February, Montreal to D.C.
2. Getting my mom a kitten for her birthday next week.
3. Turning 22 in 2 weeks.
4. constantly promoting the band both nationally and internationally; we acquired a distribution deal in the U.K.
5. had a very drunk Thanksgiving.
6. still fighting a dreaded skin infection on my finger. the war has lasted three months now.
7. increasingly enjoying sweet potatoes.
8. increasingly disliking the over-abundance of taxis in Patchogue.
9. definitely/hopefully getting one more Rhode Island visit before their semester ends.
10. writing and recording new songs.
good morning.
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
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I'm cool for now.
Don't have a girlfriend, do have a bunch of new songs.
Oh, You comes out on Halloween.
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
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All my dreams these days are song-dreams. Songs my subconscious is writing.
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
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I spent the past weekend in Rhode Island with my friends from college. It was uninspiring, to say the least. I suppose my expectations towards going back for a visit were too high (somewhere in the back of my mind, I wanted to believe that I should honestly move back, though not necessarily resume schooling).
I felt almost nothing the whole weekend. I saw Turenne, Jesse, Dan, Katie, Debbie, Courtney, Stevens, and Ashley. I hugged them all, drank with them all, talked to them all, but was numb to each individual experience. They're not to blame at all for my lack of enthusiasm, because they haven't changed a bit. I, on the other hand, am almost a different person from who I was in college. I have a calmer disposition. I can't stand dull conversation or loud people. And also, I'm not a student, so I just can't relate to anyone.
I did get to spend a few hours with Kayla yesterday at the Eire house. Having not seen her in a year and a half did not change a thing between us. She's as beautiful and vibrant as ever, without being anywhere near normal, or rather, what passes for the behavior of a twenty-year old college girl.
Matt was also quite pleasant to be around, and I know I'll somehow never stop having contact with him.
And Felice is my best friend, hands down. This will never change.
I didn't drink much, I didn't sleep much, and, as per Rhode Island usual, I didn't eat much.
So, I think I'm completely over the Rhode Island experience. What I've done there is done, and the people who I still do love (i.e., anyone mentioned above) are wonderful people to know. The only problem is, I'm not an easy person to know. That's all.
Notice how I didn't mention Jennifer. I couldn't bring myself to see her, I don't know why.
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
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I'm really tired all the time, and I never catch up on sleep. I just keep going.
-Playing shows
-Being broke
-Quit smoking cigarettes
-hanging with Jaime
-still coming home from the city quite frequently at 6am
Knitting Factory tomorrow.
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
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It's funny. Tonight I went on a date for the first time in a long time, and after several months of never receiving phone calls, Jen gives me a ring while I'm trying to do my schmoozing. It felt strange.
I don't really hate the city. I just hate driving home and not getting to sleep until after it's blatantly daytime. Sorry to complain.
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ugghhhh, the fucking city. just got home again. hate.
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
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Bic makes lighters and pens. That's so cool.
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The second half of the trip went as follows:
-relaxed all day Tuesday and made demos; picked up Brandon from the airport and went to a strip club for some beers.
-relaxed all day Wednesday and went with Taylor and Brandon to Boulder to drink beer and smoke bowls at the ampitheatre, an outdoor circular theatre overlooking the cliffs of the Flatirons.
-relaxed Thursday morning and then tripped on mushrooms a few hours before sunset with Andy, George, Brandon and Andrew. We went up to Red Rocks, climbing several hundred-foot-high rock formations without any cares, but plenty of giggles.
-got a new tattoo on my chest on Friday, featuring an Andy-designed phonograph. At night, got on a bus with Taylor to go to Boulder for a BBQ at Mickey and Paige's new place. Killer kosher hot dogs, jasmine hookah, New Belgium Skinny Dip Ales, and Taylor smoing pot for the first time with his two best friends.
-did alot of cleaning Saturday, packing, throwing out, storing, transporting, etc. Ate at Bocaza (fantastic Mexican burrito joint) twice. Left Denver at about 8pm. Drove four hours to Ogalalla, Nebraska, and squatted at a campsite near a really creepy lake. Smoked a blunt in the tent and read Bukowski. The best part was that we were able to sneak out in the morning before paying! Free night's stay!
-drove through Nebraska all day Sunday, bought fireworks from a tent on the highway, ate McDonalds a few times, played around nervously with Sirius satellite radio. Took a breather in Omaha, and went to a park with fountains and flowers on the Missouri River. Tried to play frisbee but the land was mushy. Omaha is a zombie-city. Continued all the way to the Iowa/Illinois border, and snuck again onto a campsite, this time right on the Mississippi. Smoked a blunt on the river banks.
-drove through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York City in one day. Stopped off in Chicago to swim in Lake Michigan and eat some deep dish pizza. I'd like to move there. We hit the Pennsylvania border by midnight and decided to just finish the trip by driving through the night. Left the Mississippi at 8am Monday and arrived in Patchogue at 11am Tuesday. Magic!
the trip was very special. It felt like two trips, the actual Denver vacation, and the road trip home, until this past day, when it transformed into three trips: the actual Denver vacation, the road trip home until the Mississippi, and this past day. I'm thankful for all the people I met whom I enjoy, and the crazy shit that I actually was able to live through. I'd like to get my own place now, and live somewhere else again.
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I'm travelling again. This time, I'm in Denver, Colorado. I flew out Saturday morning after staying up all night Friday drinking, working on an hour of sleep and a nasty hangover. George and I got a ride to JFK with Ali, and we smoked a blunt right before take off.
We arrived at JFK only a half hour before our flight. The place was a zoo, and we had no idea what was going on. Eventually, we found a huge security guard who took care of us and got us on the plane as it was getting ready to leave.
I didn't sleep on the plane, and we got to Denver at 9:30 in the morning (mountain time). As soon as we got outside and met up with Andy and started driving back to his apartment, the temperature shot up to 108 degrees. The air is dry and the elevation sure does mess with your head.
That first day was really a marathon of endurance. Fighting jetlag, sleep deprivation, the potency of west coast weed, a heat wave, and a radical change in elevation is no easy task.
We drove up to Boulder to meet up with Andrew, a friend of Taylor's and Andy's. Then we went swimming in a water hole, which sounds delightfully redneck but was actually really refreshing and fun, especially since the rapids are crazy. Afterwards we met up with Taylor (who I haven't seen in a year!) and had a BBQ at Andrew's, laying in hammocks, smoking spliffs, drinking beer, and burning our mouths on homemade jalapeno poppers. In a drunken haze, we also broke into the smoothie place Andrew works at and made smoothies for ourselves with a bottle of rum. How I was still awake is beyond me.
Due to my habits of early rising, the mornings in Denver consist of me waking up by eight or nine, and reading til about one, when Andy and George decide to wake up. In two days, I've read Cat's Cradle, and a book of short stories by George Saunders. Tomorrow I'll start work on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
My second day here, I collapsed from dehydration and being out in the sun. I was standing in a restaurant, waiting for the extremely slow girl behind the register to take my order, when I suddenly couldn't stand up, see, or hear anything. I was lucky enough to find my way over the table where George and Taylor were eating, and I didn't actually pass out. I sweat completely through my clothes and was shivering, however. I couldn't see shapes or hear sounds. As soon as I took a sip of water, I was fine. Weird.
That night, we got a chance to spend the night at La Boheme, the strip club that Andy and Taylor work at. The scene was interesting for about an hour, but then I just got bored. I really don't see anything interesting about girls dancing around naked, I guess. George seemed to love it, though. At around two in the morning, I walked home with Taylor, leaving George and Andy at the club. The walk through downtown Denver was really peaceful, and really drunk.
Boulder is great, too. I like it much more than Denver, but I've always loved the suburbs more than the urbs. Taylor, Ellen, George and I walked around the Pearl Street Mall, where all the girls are gorgeous, but for some reason, choose to go out in public holding hands with weird-looking guys. After a nice dinner, we drove up into the flatirons and climbed some rocks that overlooked the entire city of Boulder. The wind was strong, the heat lightning visible all across the horizon, the sheer altitude completely beautiful.
Not quite sure how I feel about being out here at the moment. It's different.
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This week, for as interesting as it's been, has seemed lacking something. Maybe I'm just lonely.
But, to recap:
-Thrown out of a bar
-Blacked out in Sayville
-Skipped Father's Day and didn't feel bad
-Countless hours of Wii golf and baseball
-an exciting gig for a packed bar
-soccer and nature at the Arboretum
-Countless hours of Wii golf and baseball
I'm glad I'm getting a vacation. Something is missing.
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I have the weirdest dreams.
Geographically speaking.
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