I have heard about this thing twice already this morning on two completely different local media outlets. I guess it started in London and New York has one and now its here in Boston. The idea is that you secretly or not so secretly take picture of people you think are fine on the train and upload it to this site and then people judge you. A mix of Hot or Not and Missed Connections maybe? I dont know but I hate it! Like is this the world we live in now? Just constantly being judged by other people with nothing else to do? I am jsut going to become a complete shut in. And no not because I am so full of myself that I think someone is going to take my picture whenever I’m on the train but because if that is not the case… what is wrong with me!? I’m not good looking enough to be judged??  There is no way to win. The terrorist have won.

8:37 am  •  31 January 2012

So last night I started reading this book on Columbine called Columbine and so far it’s a pretty good read. It takes out all the sensationalism that has become that event and boils it down to the real people that were there and not just some arch type characters. It goes into detail of what the killers lives also the lives of some of the students and teachers that were murdered. So I find myself reading this thing, the disturbing facts of what these two kids did the day of as they were getting ready for their attack and at one small paragraph I felt my face grimace at the words on the page. It described how they got up at 6 and went to the store to buy some last of their supplies. At 6 am. They started at 6 and then ran around doing this stuff scratching off things on their scheduled  that included ” chill” time. CHILL time. They wrote “chill”. Then the final note of this morning that again started at 6am! What?? During their “chill” time before committing horrible murders they had something to eat. One ate potato skins. It was like 10 am and this kid was eating potato skins?? That was the thing that really made my face wrench in disgust. Potato skins at 10 am. Ugh my lip just curled when writing it.

And now that I think about it I dont know why it’s so off putting to me. I mean hash browns and home fries also potatoes and fine at 10 am.If they were stuff skins then maybe had bacon and cheese also common at breakfast. I dont know it’s stil just wrong. Potato skins should be eaten in the evening. But I dont know I guess thats just what was wrong with these kids, they didnt care. I havent finished the book yet but I’m sure thats’s how it ends.

5:31 pm  •  30 January 2012  •  1 note

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7:56 pm  •  29 January 2012  •  4,312 notes

I liked it. It was what I expected it to be but that was for the better. Since what I knew of D’Angelo was him being shirtless I assumed it would be very sexual in maybe a gross way. More along the lines of more recent R&B singers like a J.Holiday or Trey Songz but maybe slower with more wah wah guitar. But it wasn’t like that. It sounded to me more like maybe a minimalistic Al Green or something. It was good thank you for the suggestion. It was what made to think to listen to Lauryn Hill this week.

7:18 pm  •  29 January 2012

Week 4 Jan. 22 - Jan. 28

Sun/ Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger

Mon/ Arab Strap - Monday At The Hug & Pint

Tues/ Mogwai - Come On Die Young

Wed/ Mathew Sweet - Girlfriend

Thurs/ Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Fri/ Real Estate - Days

Sat/ The dBs - Stands For Decibels

Notes:

The first month of this challenge to myself is complete. I’m still in the honeymoon phase of this thing where I have liked everything I have listened to and I have listened to almost all of the records more than once. I havent really let myself go off and listen to some daring things that I might be apprehensive about and might not like at all. I’ve been playing it safe. THis week is a good example of how I have been going about picking records. There are things like “Stands For Decibels” which I’ve wanted to listen to before but could never find or just forgot about and slipped through the cracks. There are the newer releases that have had some buzz like Real Estate. And then there are the more known records that have a history and maybe when I was first introduced to them they were for me so I never listened but now I am taking the chance to look back and see what that was all about like with ” The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”. And with records like that I have liked so far and now understand why they are loved by some. So maybe soon I will try throwing myself some curve balls and try listening to things I might not walk away from feeling so positive about. but I will try to!

6:54 pm  •  29 January 2012  •  3 notes

uh Merry Christmas, hunny?

2:00 am  •  29 January 2012

The dBs — “Black and White.”

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5:24 pm  •  28 January 2012  •  46 notes

andrewtsks:

standingbyyoursisterfair:

clintisiceman:

thedailywhat:

Photo of the Day: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart (then Jon Leibowitz) as a young College of William & Mary student moshing at a Dead Kennedys show at Casablanca in Richmond, VA, c. 1982.

Photo by Irish Willis Peele.

[gawker.]

Yeah, basically my favorite photo.

brings a smile to my face.

Having done a LOT of research on this era of Richmond hardcore (here’s why) I can tell you that the person being identified as Jon Stewart here is almost certainly Alford Faulkner of Red Cross/The Prevaricators (thanks to a bunch of RVA punks who’ve been around longer than me for helping me figure this out). Of the three guys in front of him with their arms around each other’s shoulders, the one in the center is Cliff Farrar and the one on the right is Pen Rollings of Honor Role/Breadwinner/Butterglove.

For my Richmond peeps, Casablanca was at the corner of Broad and Laurel, and occupied the space now occupied by Empire and the empty storefront next to Empire.

EDIT: Further evidence here.

reblogging for the debunking

2:07 pm  •  28 January 2012  •  7,058 notes

Earlier today I finished reading A Game Of Thrones and now I just started the first episode of the tv show and I’m starting to think this was a bad idea. To watch the show with the book still so fresh in my mind. But its not my fault they fucked up the prologue. I understand some things have to be changed but I dont understand when things are needlessly changed. They made the prologue more complicated and blew their wad right up front. The mystery and dread of in the book is pretty simply and it leaves you guessing what happened till more than half way in. But they just showed it all up front! ugh do I have to do everything?

3:57 am  •  28 January 2012

I just watch Charlie’s Angels for whatever reason. I enjoy watching things I know I’m going to hate! Its that Simon Cowell factor that made us all become American idols. Anyways I live tweeted it HERE but I dont think i said anything worth reading. Mostly I was just trying to remember Sam Rockwell’s name. ANYWAYS I saw this review and I just liked it. i like how its 5 stars. There is nothing not to like about this movie!  I don’t know maybe its just me? I have maybe rated.. less than a handful of things 5 stars. But some people just give Charlie’s Angels 5 stars. And maybe they really feel that it’s a 5 star movie and who am I to judge their tastes in something they enjoy? Some asshole? YES.  Personally to me, I’d rate Charlie’s Angels 2 stars. But I have been to the mountain tops and I have been in the slums. Ive seen the best and worst film has to offer. so perhaps thats why I dont see Charlie’s Angels as 5 Stars but maybe if Charlies Angels is the only movie you have ever seen then to you it is worthy of 5 Stars. But you are then ignorant and should keep your mouth shut and leave the star ratings to more noble folk.

3:18 am  •  26 January 2012

okay I’ll be going to kill myself now as there is nothing else worth seeing in life.

(Source: finalellipsis, via cakecrumbs)

10:13 pm  •  24 January 2012  •  17,769 notes

I don’t think I am ever more filled with bitterness and jealousy than when I see other people receive packages.

I know it’s not for me, I know I didn’t order anything. There is no reason I should expect the package to be for me but I always do. Then I read the name and it’s not my own and sink to the bottom of the coldest ocean to devise a scheme where I order something online so when the next package comes I have a reason to suspect its for me.

2:13 pm  •  24 January 2012  •  2 notes

If you listened to a book a tape do you classify that book as “read”?

9:31 pm  •  23 January 2012  •  1 note