wound up strummin’ on my old guitar

25Feb09

Day 24. I wouldn’t have thought Saturday night would have been able to be out-done. I left The Basement that night thinking that the sum total of my life’s happiness had just expired. Apparently, I was wrong. Now my life’s happiness has expired. It’s easy to forget just how hilly and winding this country’s interstates […]

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Tags: Atlanta, Dave Bielanko, gigs, Marah, Smith's Olde Bar

last night i closed my eyes

22Feb09

(I have no idea how to even approach this post, considering that I am 1. completely at a loss for words, 2. pretty sure that I am still relatively tipsy, or 3. if number two is wrong, than I am most definitely high on life.) I sort of knew, but didn’t actually realize until I […]

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Tags: Dave Bielanko, die happy, gigs, Marah, OMG, Round Eye Blues, The Basement

hold your breath boys, hold your breath

19Feb09

LOTS of shake-ups in the publishing world of late. Simon & Schuster reporting a 3% decline in last year’s profits, HarperCollins closing Collins and handing out lay-offs left and right, the senior VP of merchandising at Baker and Taylor killed in Continental’s ill-fated Newark-Buffalo flight, and a little closer to home, Source Interlink has “taken […]

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Tags: books, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, literary crushes, Lost, Marah, memes, music, publishing, Sloane Crosley

certain songs they get scratched into our souls

01Feb09

One of my goals for 2009 is to get the Internet at my apartment. I am sick of having to go to Starbucks whenever I get the urge to blog. This weekend with my sister was full of awesome! We had a blast, and I did much better at skiing than I expected–even accounting for […]

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Tags: Chuck Klosterman, God Lives in St. Petersburg, Sex Drugs & Cocoa Puffs, Tom Bissell