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Mixtape #2
On Wednesday I finished my response mixtape to my friend Travis. The mix was a two parter, as I felt like I needed to give him one mix of “hardcore” stuff and a second of non-aggressive/heavy/screamy music so to more fully show my tastes. The first mix proved a bit difficult. I [...]
Posted: August 9th, 2009 under 15 mins, Community, Music.
Tags: botch, Breather Resist, cave in, converge, curl up and die, deftones, dillinger escape plan, frodus, hardcore, intronaut, itunes, mewithoutyou, mix, mixtape, modern life is war, old man gloom, refused, scarlet, spitfire, trap them, travis bursik, Young Widows
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Mixtape
Much thanks to new found friend Travis Bursik for so sweetly making me a mixtape last week. It contains these tracks, or “blams” as T-Rav would say:
1.) I’m In A Bad Way by Satisfact
2.) Put All Your Eggs In One Basket by Marnie Stern
3.) Grass by Animal Collective
4.) Atlas by [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2009 under Community, Music.
Tags: animal collective, battles, black eyes, ex models, faraquet, liars, lungfish, marnie stern, mixtape, satisfact, shellac, simonnewcomb, slint, travis bursik, us maple
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My Nashville Peeps
Just got back home from Nashville. Caitlin and I (plus the wonderful Steph Plant) spent an extended weekend down there with several of our great friends. Let me just say that it was so good for us to see you all: Katie, Kate, JB, Matt, Kristin, Ian, Mandy, Anna, Jon, the E-Bergers, Seth [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2009 under Community.
Tags: caitlin, friends, nashville
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25 things
A few of my friends posted a very serious list of 25 things about themselves on Facebook last week. After seeing the thoughtfulness they put into their own, I decided to replicate:
1. While I have a few good ideas, I am very much without a clue as to what I’m going to do [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2009 under 15 mins, Community.
Tags: activator, agent dale cooper, caitlin, chiropractor, christmas, dante, deliberative, Empathy, Grand, hampton, hardcore, justin chesnut, life, lolcatz, m&ms, Music, personal, quality time, script frenzy, tim allen
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15 minutes
My New Years was pretty great. I had the chance to see all of my old college friends for 2-4 days and it was wonderful. I love those people. They are my second family. We spent our time in Norway, IL, about an hour and a half outside of Chicago. Norway, believe it or not, [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2009 under 15 mins, Community, Writing.
Tags: aurora, bekah kitterman, chicago, david milch, Illinois, john brit, new years, norway, the idea of the writer
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Letter to Mark Chesnut
Mark!
Thanks for your email. Justin has been on my mind almost every day in the past few months. I am so grateful to have known him and the rest of you, Chesnuts. I have two things to share. The first is an article I wrote for the Papyrus that was printed a week after Chester [...]
Posted: December 10th, 2008 under Community, Jesus, Stories.
Tags: chester, Death, friends, Greenville, ian kitterman, justin chesnut
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Found this post while reposting xangs
This is too funny. There’s a couple pretty sweet lines, but it’s mostly ridiculous. The sweet ones are bolded. This is a piece I wrote for the Papyrus on April Fools’ Day, April 5th, 2006:
These pretzels are making me thirsty… You wouldn’t believe just how much I’ve eaten in the past two hours, just take [...]
Posted: November 21st, 2008 under Community, Poetry, Writing.
Tags: nonsense, nostalgia, papyrus, past, revival, ridiculous
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Lars and the Real Girl
The film Lars and the Real Girl is one of the strongest proponents of the need for community I have seen in quite a while. For those who have yet to see it, Lars suffers from the delusion that his mail order, custom assembled, plastic doll is his girlfriend whom he’s in love with. [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2008 under Community, Film.
Tags: Community, Lars and the Real Girl
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Recording Steph
Today I spent some time with Steph Plant recording. We put down 14 demos of her songs plus three covers (Joanna Newsom, a song from the Lion King musical, and a Bjork cover) in about 3 hours. We did very good on time and made some decent demos (except for a clock [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2008 under Community, Music, Nerd, Recording.
Tags: bjork, clocks, cs3, dreamweaver, johanna newsom, kelly latimore, myspace, Recording, steph plant, Stephanie Plant, the lion king, twitter
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happy new year
Happy New Year everybody.
Especially those of you who are in Chicago celebrating without me (and laughed about that fact.)
I’ll be in Greenville on Monday, probably in the evening (but with how things go who knows if that’ll be true.) I’m excited either way.
Posted: December 31st, 2007 under Community.
Tags: chicago, Greenville, new years
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