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more fries bro

this is my last blog post on this dumb blogger blog. I've always hated the format and how you can only post tiny pictures. fuck it, man. also, I always said that if I moved from columbia, I'd start a new blog about my new young professional life where I actually plan on leaving the house once in a while.

moving into lawrence DADPAD on monday!!!

waiting for drew and erik to get here so we can go play a show in murphreesbro, tennessee. and get more fries. barely slept last night thinking about tour and moving and finding a new job and my friends and my more than friend.

smoky mountains here we come


also, erik made out with abe vigoda. the band.

fingers crossed

the guy at walmart today forgot to ring up my $10 white canvas shoes. sweet! been frustrated with my style lately. nothing I wear goes with the weird moustache/no sideburns head I'm currently sporting. fall style to be centered around suspenders and lee brand jeans. logos and plaid only when necessary.



closer to moving than ever before. spent a good deal of july in lawrence looking for apartments, networking, dancing, romancing, schmoozing, boozing, playing shows, playing unplanned shows, etc. erik and I both quit our jobs so we're kinda banking on the the house we planned on moving into actually having room for us in the near future.

this weekend promises more of the same lawrence shenanigans. burger kingdom has one more show to play on friday in columbia before I can start forgetting about all the people I want to.

I have

a tattoo.

1 follower

I want

thank you god

for inventing lawrence, kansas

the deuce

after I got home drunk and washed the sand out of my butt from playing volleyball tonight, I found this video and was amazed by it. and how closely it resembles alanis morissette's "ironic" video. but maybe it doesn't really.





no it totally does.

still need roommate

I was thinking the other day that one of my earliest memories is when I learned my parents had actual names. That I was the only one who called them Mom and Dad.

Team Joosed

I'm the only one awake in Madison. Played a fairly cool show last night at a "house" above an appliance store. We were definitely the least high people there. When Sonmi played, I found out why. They have a visual artist in the band now that was using 3 different projectors from inside a teepee and doing stuff that would blow Jim Morrison's third eye open.

Headed to Chicago as soon as we all get some greasy food in us. I'll go on record as saying I expect at least 2 people to come to the show. There, now hopefully I won't be dissappointed.

I responded to a few chicago craigslist apartment listings. There was one actual apartment, a former bar, a former ballroom, and a former storefront. I think the storefront was the one that responded. I'm actually gonna be shown an apartment today! Its the closest I've come to moving since I graduated whenever that was.

this is the shit

soda cop

best weekend of the summer by faar.

chomp womp = Iroquois for face paint

taco johns is cool cause its like mexican food but everything has tater tots in it.



some radio stations in other states play stones songs that aren't fucking brown sugar.



somehow erik has never seen wes borland before. here you go!









brian may played guitar in queen. not the queen that me and erik and jimmy are in but the one freddie mercury was in. someone said he made his guitar out of a piece of an old castle. I looked it up on the internet and its true!

"Most of the wood came from an 18th century English fireplace mantel that a friend of the family was about to throw away. According to May, there are two wormholes in the neck of the guitar."

he started building it with his dad when he was 16.


instead of using guitar picks, he uses sixpence coins

and "in October 2007 he completed his Ph.D. thesis in astrophysics, entitled A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud."

fuck, man

stocking up

for soda fest


I found out that t-pain was born 2 weeks after me. and he has 3 kids. and he's muslim. damn.

ouch

my head still hurts. when I opened my computer, the last phrase searched on youtube was "yodelzz".



I was gonna get my camera from the car and put up pictures of brock but word is I hurled the keys into the yard after shotgunning.

weekend of

laundry mat dance party, tanning bed session, birthday smooch, teleportation, skate park, horse trailor, 10 minute disco show, last sparks, ranch shooters, and whatever happens today.

no roommates this week except for the baby birds.

kitty purry

my roomate sold those wretched dogs today. maybe now I'll never have to move.

tomorrow I show up to the pizza place I work at at 5 a.m. for the third day in a row. they're filming a movie right now and I'm an extra. pizza guy #2 or something. today one of the scenes involved the girl telling her roommate to "suck a fuck".

also someone paid me to work for them and I used the ten spot they gave me to buy a double goose and red bull so now there are lots of things that sound like good ideas but aren't. I'll never forget, it cost $9.11.

cheeze steake

Nationally, Pennsylvania ranks number one in hardwood production and forest-based recreation in Pennsylvania is a large component of tourism, the state's second-largest industry.

Species importance values (IV) are calculated using a formula that takes into account the relative leaf area and relative abundance. The most important species in Philadelphia's urban forest, according to calculated IVs, are black cherry, tulip tree, and red maple.

Philadelphia ranks only behind Atlanta, New York, and Baltimore in total city tree population.

hood rat shit

its raining and pouring. the dog is pretending to like me because he's afraid of thunder. still full of graduation food from saturday. I set up a house show on sunday for new and old friends. like this guy...

it was pretty rad. its not the quantity of the crowd but the quality, right? somehow ashley's computer fell out of the car and I ran it over with my car we think woops.

I call eric burch
"hey do you see a black bag with a computer in it anywhere?"

"oh yeah, its in the middle of the street. do you want me to get it for you?"

"yeah. yeah."

we all spent the next day eating ice cream, watching julia roberts movies, and figuring out how to get files off a run over laptop. I started to wonder if they were ever gonna leave and then they did.

erik is in madison. probably drinking an energy beer right now. lucky.

negablog

feel like I just gave myself a really dumb haircut. we'll see what it looks like with some bedhead. it might be time for a summer buzz.

I told erik and jimmy that they've been living in the ghetto to long. their argument last night over grandma's cornbread almost came to blows.

the girl dog is in heat again. oliver keeps getting his dick stuck in there and whining in a really creepy way. if my dick kept getting stuck in a bitch, I would quit jamming in in there, you know!?

3 down and only one more ceremony to go to until my sister graduates high school. considering the fact that we live together and she has probably said five words to me in the last few months, I probably won't see her again after this summer. well, except for christmas of course.

going down town in a while to support "the scene" and try to get my chicagbros show confirmed for sunday. expect not/hope so. better get to drinking my mistakenly bought uncaffeinated sparks!

120 chicken massacre

catching a ride to hooters with the girl who was almost your first girlfriend back when weezer was popular while listening to weezer. is weird. and the "ote" was burned out of the sign so it just said "HORS". get it?

friends in low places

I blogged a song

mowing the yard

aka chopping up the dog poo

I started a summer mustache today

fat redheads

dan deacon makes me feel bad for the show is the rainbow.

wild wild wild eyes

if you read this blog thing and were wondering, the surgery went well. i have some stitches. i feel better.



drove to lawrence last night with jimmy and carrie for the sole purpose of getting my picture taken with the vivian girls. i was gonna see if the three of them would hold me up sideways for it. you know that pose, right? but i got to wastey and forgot to ask. carrie even came along just to photo blog the whole show. shit. at least i got a setlist. that band was actually really badazz.

etcetera.

didn't want to leave. but we had to. it was 6 a.m.

definitely the first night of summer.

represent

I made this movie about last weekend. We also went to a house party with a cover band that played "cheap sunglasses" by zz top and met a girl who didn't like animal collective and who kept calling me a vampire which I can only blame her half for. And where a girl was wearing a pirate costume. And where I made someone cry.


Alex DeGroot - Lost Boys from Stephen Howard on Vimeo.

juice dot com

I forgot to give erik his tiny gummy burger easter present.

or something

someone told me Jonathan taylor thomas is gay now. i don't believe but but i don't feel like googling it either.

leaving for easter lunch at my grandma's in a few minutes. looking foward to the awkward totally silent 2 hour ride with my sister. tomorrow is 420. and my dad's birthday. and i think we're recording a tape. alex degroot gets here wednesday to help mix the album. to help erik mix, i mean. i don't know anything about that stuff. i'm getting eye surgery thursday. i hope it works.

kamek

i've been overall bummed for the past three or four months because of a chronic eye infection. i've taken to wearing sunglasses every day. and every night. i tend to stay home because i have to choose between feeling like a real douche for going out in shades or feeling like a troll for my puffy eye.

on the plus side, i bought a new guitar, modeled here by adam. i got it for real cheap because there aren't a lot of people that want rhinestones super-glued to their les paul.



iowa friends played a real fun show with us last night. blood on the tambourine. the sleepy ones came beck to my house and the bong seekers went with jimmy and erik. i've brought the tanks home to three different houses now.

the weather was so nice today. the root-beer float shaq opened for the summer.



still no job. nowhere to move to. the band is going on a month long tour this summer that might end with me moving to philly. we'll see!

my roommate just got home so i better mow the lawn before i get bitched at.

you've got raveheart

I think one of the big things that binds columbia kids so strongly to lawrence kids is our universal love for crowd surfing.





and the cranberries.

similarly

i don't know why there are so many pictures of the backs of people's heads every time i develop a roll.





there's a secret fortuning show at erik and jimmy's house on sunday. and its the debut and possible only performance of our acapella side project, queenn.

uggghhgghgh

group transport

got a letter today from my dream job in Baltimore with some application type papers to fill out. hope something comes from it. also found out da gubment is gonna give me $600 for my taxes. mom could have had all that by claiming me as a dependent but she said she wants me to have money to "start my new life". specific instructions not to buy guitars.

played a St. Paddy's day show at a dive bar. fun sloppy set, climbing on the bar, old friend played tambourine, old friend broke $20 tambourine. got $20 for playing. i fell asleep on erik's couch while he finished an intense puzzle of some native americans spooning a baby wolf. got a text the next after noon: "burger kingdom is so rockin!".

BKdom's recording debut comes next tuesday with a local music compilation from The Bathysphere (link on da side). Erik joked that they should call it "Bathtime!" and they totally are!

so pumped to go to lawrence next week, see all the sick bands i've been meaning to, back to back nights, for like $3 each. take my sparks koozee. hopefully take our bikes. hang out with people who aren't barrett for a change. not that i don't love barrett. i love that man. we need to branch out from our party comfort zone sometimes.

if i don't have a sweet job by this summer, i'm either gonna live with danny in chicago or erik and neesa in lawrence. things look up right now.

i hope my potential employers don't think i'm THIS DUDE.

ok yeah

i don't have anything good to blog about, so i'm done blogging for a while.

if i ever move from this place or get a job or win the lottery or something, i'll start a new blog about my sweet new life. until then, just assume i'm either drinking lots of pbr's, sleeping through barking dogs, eating lots of pizza, playing guitar, hanging with erik and james, driving to lawrence, or sitting on my flowery couch.

peace bitchez

blogworthy

I wish all the most notable things I've done lately weren't so foolish.






this band invented spelling song titles all crazy. thanks, slade!

food fighters

last night i had a dream.

i was in a super walmart and i was really hungry but i didn't have any money. luckily, it was free sample day. a girl i once went home with was handing out radish slices. i ate one and it was really good but i moved on quickly because i didn't know what else to say to her. then chewbacca from starwars gave me some fried jalapenos. i was pretty full after that.

last weekend was the TRUE/FALSE documentary film festival. better known as the one weekend interesting enough for people from chicago to come visit and remind everyone how they should have just moved to chicago.

i'm still looking for a real job. good thing there aren't any pictures like this floating around facebook or anything.

pedal bored

i have jury duty tomorrow. my mom said you get snacks and coffee and you get to watch a movie about jury duty and i asked if it was the movie "Jury Duty" but its not.



channing comes home from oakland on thursday

rollin

friday.

rode to kc to surprise/creep out chomp womp.

at "the church".

faux urinal performance art.

slept with my shoes on.


saturday.

i was the oldest person at lauren's party.

except for a fat guy in raybans.

the cops didn't come.

teen rave pupils.






tomorrow terry's gonna help me build a pedal board.

videonanza

megabus didn't come so i stayed up way too late and found some golden clips.


LUSH - SUPERBLAST
what we sounded like to the guy that recorded burger kingdom.



JIMMI FUCKING HENDRIX MAN - JOHNNY B GOODE
I don't think he looks at his guitar for this whole song. teeth solo.



THE CRAMPS - ?
I guess this was filmed in a mental hospital. lots of mongoloids.



THE UNDERTONES - MY PERFECT COUSIN
the singer looks like the guy from Trail of Dead. they're wearing some umbros in the middle.



THE LOVED ONES - THE LOVED ONE
I really like when bands name a song after their band. its like the titular line to a movie. the chorus could pass for ariel pink.



MADDER ROSE - CAR SONG
1994, duh. fisheye lenses are dope.



JOHNNY CASH - ELVIS IMPERSONATION
funniest thing i've seen on the internet for a while.

counterproductive

jack killed all the puppies again.

yes we did

i had to pull over half way to taco bell today because i thought i was gonna barf. jen and barrett and drew made columbia 10000000000000 times more fun than its been all winter. drew went home with a ziplock bag of pancakes. sorry for the mass texts i sent at 3 AM from crystal's closet. annie, you were missed.

here's a polaroid of a friend's dad and a polaroid from that night i drank slushies with ethnic babes till dawn.



wednesday is recording for realz this time. i guess i'm going to chicago next weekend to hang out with jenna and her russian boyfriend.

phlapjakxxx

sparks batter pancakes at lisa's house this saturday night at 9.



it's gonna be outta this world!

current mood: conflicted

I stared at the sun for a while. I know you're not supposed too, but I don't think it hurt me. that thing is so far away.


I got a letter from burger king and mom made me open it right away. she thought erik and I were being sued. not to worry. it was a free whopper coupon.

or not

sitting on my unmade bed, listening to the armory, waiting for my phone interview to start. justifiably nervous. just got a call from the studio instead. someone died so recording has to be rescheduled fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk. terry is upstairs remodeling both bathrooms at the same time so there's a bunch of hammering and no toilet and i really have to pee. weighing the options. pee in a sink. pee in a cup. pee in the back yard. pee in the front yard. drive to a burger king and pee. pee in my own mouth and make out with jenna. pee my pants. pee in brock's hat. pee in a hallway at that one girls house.

hey, the human resources lady just called and said the interview has to be rescheduled to tomorrow. i'm gonna go pee at the liquor store.

stereo tambourine

"I want the snare to keep going and then the rest of the drums come in over it and people are going to be listening to it and they're gonna be really high and they're gonna turn to the person next to them and be like dude this album is so good."

we're recording on wednesday

feel the beat

lawrence was good vibes as promised. I left my terminator glasses but brought home a hickey.

casualty of society

last night erik moore got high and threw a tub of imitation floam at my face cause I mashed the colors together so I knocked over his candle and got wax on his bose home stereo but he deserved it because now I have a big fat lip.

all abored

i feel like i havn't left my house in a week. its almost true. it might be nice to visit lawrence this weekend. i don't know when i'll get another chance.

when i was in high school, i burned a jesus and mary chain cd, not because i liked it, but because i kind of knew that someday i would. for a long time i was under the impression that psychocandy was their only good album and the only people who admitted to liking it were yuppy dads. what a FOOL WAS I!

rich mans rash

"its 45. is that ok?"

"minutes?"

"dollars."

"i guess."

why are they always so quiet?

what are they doing up there?

the blogs are back in town

who wants to read about a recent grad's angst, restlessness, and shame?

things to do in 2009
-a burger kingdom album
-keep learning
-find real job (if there are any left)
-get the fuck out of columbia
-respect females
-sit less
-drive well
-less barfing