| fiery furnaces .. |
[Apr. 29th, 2005|01:26 am] |
| [ | music |
| | my ears are ringing from the show | ] |
were SO amazing. hot damn.
Imagine Blueberry Boat. Now imagine it cut up into parts, melodies, and slightly altered, then woven together, then seamlessly integrated, then ROCKED THE FUCK OUT of for 45 non-stop, non-silence minutes. Although nothing will top the Arcade Fire's show in the same place, I can't remember any other continuous 45 minutes of music that were that breathtaking.
In other news, does having a paper due at 4 pm mean it's okay to start it at noon?
In final news, in the next month or so, 2ME9 is playing:
- FroSoCo Unplugged
- A show in San Francisco (golden gate park)
- A show at a random bar in Palo Alto
- Wednesday's at EBF
- Durand
- Senior Formal (AT SBC PARK!!)
- Suites
- Exotic Erotic (!!!!!!)
it's going to be an amazing quarter. Followed of course by what Albanese has dubbed the biggest let-down of my time at Stanford . . sophomore year! I guess I'll have to try and form a band on my own . . but ah well. No use thinking about that now. In summary: a) life is good b) fiery furnaces = amazing, c) so screwed on essay d) don't care about c) and e) looking forward to a bunch of shows that will hopefully rock.
oh, and of Montreal is playing here. during finals week. will i be there? see d). |
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[Dec. 10th, 2004|11:17 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  ecstatic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The New Pornographers - Mass Romanitc | ] |
Yeah! Woo! Done with Fall IHUM! Take that, Machiavelli! I have my travel documents! Am mostly awake! Woo!
This morning was awesome, me P-funk and Slappy went around the dorm waking up all with an 8:30 exam to the sound to Ride of the Valkyries, Eye of the Tiger, and the incomparable Thunderstruck. Yay, portable amp!
SO looking forward to seeing people back home! |
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| ah, exams |
[Dec. 8th, 2004|10:16 am] |
Mike 1 v Psych 1 1 (Though I'm pretty sure I scored the 40% I needed to get Credit in the course . . )
Mike 1 v Ling 1 0 (I love you, Linguistics professors, for writing a reasonably challenging yet totally doable final.
Mike ? v Citizenship ?
In other news, I've had a pretty awesome couple of days - finally caught up on sleep debt two nights ago (and proceeded to incur it again last night . .) and IM GOING HOME IN 3 DAYS! WOOOOOO!! SUMMER!!!
current favorite site
current favorite short
Tarkio's "Your Own Kind" > current favorite song
current most-listened to band
Have an awesome day, everyone.
ps - Who wants to buy my Psych book? Anyone? Anyone? |
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| para acabar com esse negocio de voce viver sem mim |
[Dec. 5th, 2004|02:52 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | hopeful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Eric Satie - Gymnopedie #1 | ] |
Crazy couple of days! Next January is Dance Marathon, a 24-hour event to raise money for children with AIDS, and though I'm not participating in the dancing, I helped out this week by delivering sing-a-grams across campus - basically, people would buy them for their friends and we would go sing the requested song to whoever the person chose. Our repertoire by the end of last night was:
- Dancing Queen (actually sounded really cool)
- I'll Make Love to You (Boyz II Men song I've never actually heard, so my rendition was a ...very loose adaptation of it
- A Long December (Counting Crows song, sounded pretty good)
- Jingle Bell Rock
- Random Weezer stuff
- Unwell by Matchbox 20
and random stuff like that. I still have to deliver one for Dave out in FloMo, which means learning a Ben Harper song sometime over the next few hours. Also, I'm pretty sure that we (2 Mikes f/ Jersey) are playing for a bit at Dance Marathon, so that should be crazy too.
I have three exams, perfectly spread out a day apart, and one is Psych, where I can pretty much not take the exam and still get credit for the course. Yay for stupidly switching to Credit/No Credit and then getting an A in the class .. . Ling and IHUM I actually care about, the former way more than the latter.
Secret Snowflake ended on kind of a down note - for the last night i was supposed to get into a wedding dress and do Dammit Janet but by then I think my own enthusiasm and everyone else's had just fizzled out so instead me and five other guys performed Yatta! in our underwear plus colored paper leaves. That was actually absurdly fun. Then we had Karaoke night - me and Tianu did 'Something' by the Beatles (sung to mystery member of audience), and Tianu did the best Karaoke performance of anything ever ("All Shook Up" by Elvis) I kid you not Elvis Lives and he's a Romanian college student . . and then I did "More than This", little Lost in Translation tribute there. . it was alright, it was fun at any rate.
I have absolutely run out of money for the quarter, so I basically have to go through the next week without spending any money at all . . it's really interesting actually, but not so much of a problem since means + housing are already paid for. It just means I can't splurge on a Subway sandwitch or such. I also wanted to order this as a X-mas present to myself but it can wait for next year.
In awesome news, I'll be home in less than a week . . Of course I love it here but I really can't wait to be back in Sampa. |
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| Tonight's Assignment. . . |
[Nov. 30th, 2004|07:27 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | The Decemberists - Nighttime (Big Star cover) | ] |
For your next task,
-with your portable music device play "Time Warp" and
sing along.
-because we are using the theme of time warp, you are
to be a 70s porn star (time and place will be given
later) and wear nothing but tight shiny underwear and
the socks provided.
-Since you are now a porn star, during the song you
must get in at least 10 sexual positions with 10
different people.
-Finally, porn stars are in fact hairless and in the
given place you must find a female to shave the
entirety of your chest with lots of shaving cream!!
Hah!
This should be great. |
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[Nov. 29th, 2004|09:00 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | nick drake - northern sky | ] |
Garden State.
I know i'm like 2 months late on watching it, but it's so damn good. The music! The Shins scene was cute, although between this and the gratuitious death cab plugs on The OC, I don't know how my indieness will ever cope.
Joking, of course - I'm not sure how much I changed over the last year, but one thing that definitely has changed is the way I look at music. Though I still absolutely love it and basically can't function without music of some sort around me, I don't wear my favorite bands like marks of how 'underground' I can go; I'm totally okay with death cab signing to Atlantic, and The Shins being plugged in a film, and such. Basically, if a band is great in the first place, and gets a lot of exposure, there's no reason why they can't still make great music, but now with a bigger audience (and more money. Bands need to eat, too!) If it means getting concert tickets is that much harder, oh well. Plus, this is a great way to encourage us, while still loving the now-famous band, to look for other lesser-known bands to throw our fawning attention on.
This week is Secret Snowflake . . basically, you choose a number from 1 - 5 (nottoocrazy to insanecrazyalmostgetnaked) and get randomly assigned another person of the same craziness number, and you have to give them a task every day of the week until Friday of this week (dead week). Julia, you're going to love this - whoever got me is a total Rocky Horror fan and has given me a first task of getting up on a chair in my boxers, blasting 'touch-a touch-a touch'a touch me" and singing along and pretending to touch myself during the chorus.
pictures forthcoming if someone takes them.
This is frightening. Two posts in less than a week! |
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| so disregard my clumsy attempts to keep you smiling |
[Nov. 26th, 2004|09:44 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Tarkio - Your Own Kind | ] |
Well I was looking back on my first quarter here, and how quickly it's
flown by, so I decided to start keeping this somewhat up to date again
with random events and thoughts, so it doesn't all go by in a blur. So,
to catch up, if anyone's interested, here goes:
( Long linked list of awesome things since arriving
here )
Hope everyone is doing great; I miss you all and will hopefully see some of you in the next couple of months. |
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| well. . |
[May. 18th, 2003|10:45 pm] |
reports of my death/gradual disappearance have been mostly exaggerated. . i noticed quite a few have added me to their friends list and i feel like i'm just taking up room there if i don't post. but then i realize that if i try to recount everything since last time i posted, it will be a hopeless exercise, and if i just talk about my last days, i'll bore everyone to death. so the blinking cursor hovers there, kind of mocking me, and write a few sentences and delete them, lather rinse repeat.
news? prom next week. have a date. just a friend. zombie zoo (music show) last friday. went well, played guitar and piano (i hate the keyboard they keep around, it sounds like a music box played underwater). listening to Built to Spill , Postal Service, Starlight Mints, saw Silverchair live last thursday (good show), listening to The Bens (kweller lee and folds in one band? no way!), new Long Winters. . and generally just trying to get through the end of this year without all my grades falling apart. . which is working, mostly.
almost done with my extended essay . . saki's satire in the context of the roman satirists Juvenal and Horace . . it's a working title, i'm not sure i'd want to read a paper with that title. actually i know i wouldn't. but if anyone does . . just ask.
so i changed my plans, i rented a camera and a van, and i called you.
yuck, huge spider crawled into my floppy disk drive. crawled out.
just discovered a new use for Paul Johnson's Modern Times.
will post again, someday =) |
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| And you're hanging with the wrong crowd |
[Aug. 16th, 2002|09:16 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  contemplative | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Rufus Wainwright - California | ] |
To say it's been a while since I last updated this would be a bit of an understatement; it must be at least 3 months now. I think last time I promised myself I'd start updating a little more frequently... I won't make any promises this time, but I'll certainly try. Hey, I've got new icons, too.
Vacation break was amazing; went to Berlin, and it instantly ranked as among one of my favorite cities, even with me only having spent 20-odd days there. Maybe living here in São Paulo, I started to take some things for granted, but not in the typical way. I started taking, for example, pollution, lack of decent public transport (other than the very effective Subway, which however only runs in limited areas), lack of places you can walk through safely, the impossibility of walking at night, and other things like that. Walking at night has to be among the best things you can do, especially when you're with someone who's enjoying the walk just as much as you are.
I bought a few albums while I was there:
Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters: Some moments on this album remind me of Rufus Wainwright, but its overall more upbeat. I've been listening to it pretty frequently, it's a good album.
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio city: I've been looking for this album for ages, and I finally got it. I'd heard most of it, but it's great having the album. Big Star are so overlooked...
The Notwist - Neon Golden - German band, mix kind of lo-fi indie with electronic, nice to just put on and sit back.
Badly Drawn Boy - About a boy soundtrack: Hmmm. This is okay, but Bewilderbeast was much better. His voice sounds too "clean" on several songs, or too heavily "treated" on others. On the other hand, the vocals on Bewilderbeast sounded great, even through the home-recording noise. The songs are okay but nothing exceptional.
I also got a couple of vinyls in a store where they were selling old vinyls for 1 Euro. Good fun...
Anyway, I better stop here, or I'll run out of the things to say for the next 3 months. More updates soon. Really. |
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| Explanation - "somar" means "to add" in portuguese |
[Apr. 11th, 2002|09:57 pm] |
Bruno: hah, my math teacher wants me to bring the strokes cd tomorrow
Mike: did she get confused and think "Soma" was about Addition in Brazil?
rather than Addiction in New York? |
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| The Firewire Sound |
[Apr. 11th, 2002|08:45 pm] |
Alright, quick random message about The Firewire Sound.
I think no other computer sound makes me quite as happy as the little tone that XP gives off when it detects the USB/Firewire Thin Hard Drive plugged in to my computer. It took me ages to get it working on my computer, and I'd given up hope totally, until Fabio had it working on his computer so I decided to try it again, and it worked. I can do all my digital video editing at home, and I edit *really* quickly at home.
On a similar note, did the last part of filming for the Mafia segment today...got to use Shack's camera. Sweet! The color on that thing is just amazing, plus the fact that you can manually control just about everything - aperture, shutter speed, etc...plus it has *very good* exposure settings, with three different things you can alter. All in all, it was pretty awesome. Well, now back to editing... |
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| even a gyroscope can't spin forever |
[Apr. 10th, 2002|09:13 pm] |
What a crazy month this has been so far. Zombie Zoo was really good, one of the best I've seen here at Graded, and I thought my performances went really well too. Being caught up in the whole Joseph play that's sucking away my time is a real downer, though, and I can't wait for next Saturday when I can finally say "I'm done!" GTV needs a LOT of work before its Monday showing date, and Shack seems to be biting off more than he can chew (Joseph, helping out with Fashion Show, i heard maybe MUN..., and also these short art clips.
I've been listening to so much Dismemberment Plan...I want to get some people together and try to play some of these songs. The time signatures get really crazy on a couple of songs, and the whole band is really really good. I think I like the stuff off Emergency & I better than the stuff off Change, but maybe if I hear some more stuff from Change it'll....er.....change my mind. No pun intended, for once! |
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| Last night I dreamt that I was you (I was dressed all in black with dark glasses and attitude) |
[Apr. 2nd, 2002|07:47 pm] |
Its April, and the promised cold weather hasn't materialized materialized for a couple of days and then left me again to sweat in the lousy weather this city throws at me.
Re-read Kafka's Metamorphosis out of pure boredom. Liked it better this time (better translation). Also leafed through the thoroughly thorough "Critical Essays" tacked onto the last 150(out of 200) pages. Latest scholar theory about book = it's all about sex. Surprise.
Good news...
Patched things up with her (I love you).
And...
Hope she feels better.
I find myself increasingly more frustrated with the constrictions of the GTV format. Five minute max episodes/Have to cater to audience/Have to make sense upon first viewing/Have to pass the impossible test from him/Has to be funny or people "don't like it"/Constant pressure to get it done from people hanging over your shoulder.
I guess its just the artsy pretentious side of me clashing with the geeky side. Ah well. Just a few more episodes left.
Unfortunately I must cut this short. But, more updates soon! I promise. Really. |
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| 2P, you take my control |
[Mar. 3rd, 2002|03:55 pm] |
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Well, it's been forever and a half since I updated and since so many of <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/mikeweezer/friends>you </a>have repeatedly insisted that I do.
Its just begun to rain out here. I can't see it because the blinds are drawn but I just heard the first thunderclap followed by the first raindrops. I love it when it rains in the summer here - it finally cools down a little and some nice wind comes along with it.
Yesterday was fun - dinner at Outback and then fun times at Val's house, like playing Hide and Seek and things. I got the most interesting (not to mention cool) pre-birthday gifts *ever* from Julia and Irene, and.....yeah. Good times =) I also still don't fully understand the game of hide and seek but that's okay.
I'm listening to Ozma right now - I just finished the most complete and accurate Gameover tab <b> ever</b> and I'm going to send it to Josh in a second so he can put it up on his site. I think besides Daniel Brummel, I'm the person who's done the most ozma tabs. I also tabbed Weezer's Purification of Water this morning, and next up is another Ozma song.
I have to write a poem about the Odyssey. I can choose to either write it in Iambic Pentameter (as a sonnet) or Dactyllic Hexameter, or whatever metre that Homer wrote in. I think I'll choose that one just for kicks, but I'll probably end up giving up on it anyway.
I can't believe it's already Sunday.....and I have a ton of homework to do. Hopefully, I'll start updating this thing a little more frequently from now on. |
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| note to self |
[Jan. 3rd, 2002|08:41 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | thoughtful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Kings of Convenience - I Don't Know What I Can Save You From | ] |
next time, before running around crazily and pounding madly at the keyboard when the computer gives me 3 start up errors and 10 beeps...........check the connection at the back. |
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| Chords |
[Nov. 21st, 2001|10:08 pm] |
Hehehe...
Bruno, today, after being suggested that he play a B major instead of a minor...
"it DOES sound better! hey, awesome, heh. now I know why the song is called Me and The Major! not, erm, Me and The Minor.." |
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| I rearrange the furniture as you sleep |
[Nov. 16th, 2001|03:13 am] |
There?s a huge fly in my shower. I saw it just now when I went into my bathroom. I was re-reading some chapter or other of Catcher in the Rye for about the twentieth time when I stepped in there and was met by the indifferent backside of a large moth. I guess I?ll never really know why insects terrify me so much, but by now I?ve come to accept it as a fact of my day-to-day existence: me and mosquitoes just don?t get along too well. I?ll shut the door, naturally, quietly, and hope that it just goes away overnight, maybe flies out the window, because I just can?t face it right now. Or ever.
It?s a long weekend (4 days) and everybody?s gone and left me here in this miserable polluted city alone. Long weekends aren?t the kindest to me: I tend to "forget" to shave, my hair exists at different states of rebellion to the hairbrush, and nice shirts and pants are eschewed for shirts and boxers. Sleep becomes more of a way to pass time than an actual energy replenisher. It?s about 3 am right now and I don?t feel the slightest bit of sleep. Amazingly, I?ve had no caffeine today. We?re all out of Guaran? and Coca-Cola, so I might actually have to just drink water for a few days.
I lose weight at a frightening pace, when I set my mind to it. Ditto gaining it back. Some people gain a lot of weight when they have nothing to do all day but I?ve actually perfected an Idleness Diet. See, how it works is, I?ll wake up about noon or 1 pm, and since I?m never really that hungry after waking up, I?ll have "lunch", but not a heavy one. Then, I won?t be hungry till about 5 or 6, when I?ll eat something light, so I?ll still be hungry for dinner, a couple of hours later. I?m sure nutritionists and most people of the world with any good sense would laugh at me and my plan but, hey, it works.
I?ve got my second computer up and running again which is nice because I wouldn?t be writing this if I hadn?t. My stereo?s about two feet away to my left; my desk?s two feet away to my right. I?m right in the middle, with a nice, padded chair and a black keyboard that goes tap-tap-tap when I hit it. The computer?s too high up to be comfortable but I?m too comfortably sitting down to bother to change it. My bed?s about three feet behind me and I?m sure I?ll crash down on it later tonight. But not now.
Chairs. Maybe they should start making chairs that naturally slouch forward at the back for people like me with horrible, horrible posture. At least this chair doesn?t creak, like the one downstairs. Half the world comes down when you move a muscle in that chair. Most annoying.
I told myself I?d give learning C another try this weekend ("Learn C in 24 hours", my ass") so I guess I better get started. |
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| i stay in to defrost the fridge |
[Nov. 15th, 2001|10:09 pm] |
Today was pretty boring. I did, however, fixfixfix my second computer so now it is happy and although it is running Win95 it is happy because...well, because its not dead anymore really. Will get Linux on it ASAP. Maybe tonight. If it cooperates, that is.
I'm taking this class over the internet called Music Composition and Arranging. I get half an Art credit for it, which is nice because I need all the Art credits i can find. My teacher is this crazy guy called Ivan Stefanov who signs off all his discussion comments and emails with "Keep the fire burning!". That kinda scares me. He also has remarkably hilarious grammar:
"I need you to give some meatier in order to give you creadit for this discussion. Mr. S"
translation, sorta:
"You have to write more to get credit for your discussion post". |
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