Date: 2009-02-27 11:03 Subject: FAIL Security: Public I'm feeling: Scatterbrained I'm listening to: Daft Punk - Aerodynamic

Ok, so I've not been around for a while... sorry, my real life just completely exploded, so I've not had much free time that wasn't about doing writeups/going to concerts/networking/taking photos/editing photos/researching sxsw artists/etccccc.

Aaaand, I really only dropped by to *sadface* about the fact that I got an invite to an open-bar event at Angels & Kings (PWentz's place in NYC, for those who have no idea)on my birthday, and I can't go because, well, I'm in Texas, and not sufficiently sucessful to hop on a plane for a party. Sigh.

But SXSW is coming up, and that's gonna be sweet! Got a band from the UK crashing with me, and hopefully I'll score some awesome interviews.

I'll try to poke my head in here more often after South-by is over.
♥
Mary

Date: 2008-11-10 11:34 Subject: blergh........ Security: Public I'm feeling: groggy I'm listening to: Kings of Leon - On Call

At times I feel like in social interactions I'm about 15, but this weekend I was totally 27 or so, what with the heavy drinking and afterparties. Fun Fun Fun Fest was this weekend, and it was totally awesome. I had a media wristband, which = free alcohol AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.

I think that with any- and everyone in and around the music industry, drinking is totally a competitive endurance sport. I got to the park at 1pm, was drinking 'til 1:30am, and I know people who were much more hardcore than me. That's all I have to say about that.

So, yeah. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the National, Deerhoof, Z-Trip, Islands, St Vincent, Minus the Bear, Octopus Project, the Annuals, Frightened Rabbit, Til We're Blue or Destroy, and many many more. It was definitely fun times at least three, if not more, and I got some killer photos.

But right now, I feel I may die.

Date: 2008-11-06 09:11 Subject: blergh Security: Public I'm feeling: exhausted I'm listening to: Ray LaMontagne - Jolene

I'm at a point in my life where I'm sorta worried about my liver. In the past 30 days, I've gone out at least 22 of them, maybe more. You have no idea how many events/shows/parties I've attended with open bars. There's another tonight.

I've seen some great bands, had some really fun times, and made connections that'll hopefully end up getting me a kickass job. I'm about to start writing for a music blog that gets over 20,000 hits a month.

But guys, I'm really fucking tired. Waking up at 7 for work at 8 after getting to bed anywhere from 1-3 is just not sustainable forever.

Ok, enough bitching already, I know. Here, have some artistic and strange insect porn. It is a series of shorts from the Sundance Channel, and is just hilarious.

Date: 2008-10-21 14:08 Subject: Feeling 13 again... Security: Public I'm feeling: embarrassed I'm listening to: not telling!

There is pretty much universal agreement that having a crush on someone totally out of your league (whether by fame, talent, looks, whatever) is generally a miserable state, right?

So, if you actually get a chance to talk with this shining example of your inadequacy and they turn out to to be a deep, thoughtful, genuinely sweet person, does that make it better or worse? Vindication that you'd never have a chance and you should attempt to move on, or feeding the obsession with proof that they really are worthy of the crush?

In other words, dude I am so pitiful omg.
But he's preeeeeeetty! And jesusfuck, his voice! *whimpers*

I want him to come back from tour so I can run into him again and discover he's actually an asshole. It'd make me feel better.

Date: 2008-09-07 15:21 Subject: Photoshop Security: Public I'm feeling: cranky I'm listening to: Shearwater - Rooks

Does anyone know where I could get my hands on a Photoshop DL? I had it, and then it expired and the serial number generator thing I had didn't help... *sadface*

I don't do torrents, though, so I'd need to find someone hosting it somewhere.
Plz?

Also, randomly! I don't know how guys deal with short hair, because I got mine cut yesterday, and the hair barely poking the back of my neck when I tilt my head back is DRIVING ME MAD.

Date: 2008-08-26 02:18 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public I'm feeling: sick I'm listening to: Lemurs - Waiting Outside

Guys, I love Austin. Where else can you go to a venue for an awesome awesome Monday night show and run into Britt Daniels of Spoon? And say "Hey, didn't I see you on Thursday at that one show? And I totally ran into you during SXSW!" and hang out and chat about local music for a while.

<3

In other news, am sick and shouldn't have gone out, but I've been looking forward to this show for a while and wasn't about to let a little old hacking-up-a-lung cough stop me from enjoying some kickass music. And I ran into so many people I knew, damn. Big names in the Austin music scene, and just great musicians. Was a great night, though I'll be regretting it in the morning.

Tell me about your life! How have you been, ppl on my flist? I've been reading, and occasionally commenting, but perpetual lack of sleep has made me generally incoherent, so I haven't been posting much of anything.

Date: 2008-08-13 09:04 Subject: musicmusicmusic Security: Public I'm feeling: tired I'm listening to: Titus Andronicus - My Time Outside the Womb

GODDAMMIT. I bought tix for a local show recently, b/c it is the band's album release party and you got a free album with ticket purchase. And I get an email today forwarded from my boss from the band offering us guestlist spots and a free copy of the album b/c of the whole radio station thing.

I SHOULD'VE WAITED A FEW WEEKS BEFORE GETTING TIX, DAMMIT. *crankyface*

In other news, life continues to contain a mix of boredom, insane multitasking, and not enough sleep.

Oh, and. This guy I know and am friends with will not get the hint that I don't want to go out with him. It sucks because he's also a business contact, so I have to be veeery careful not to burn bridges.

Sigh.

For a random music rec, check out Titus Andronicus. Post-punk rockers with some shoegaze elements and a singer's voice that reminds you of an angry Conor Oberst, these guys absolutely kill live (if you've seen HEALTH live, these guys are better than HEALTH). Their album, The Airing of Grievances, is pretty much aces, and I hope they start getting the buzz they deserve soon.

Date: 2008-07-30 08:53 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public I'm feeling: blah I'm listening to: Tilly and the Wall - Pot Kettle Black

*checks email*
*checks Facebook*
*checks MySpace*
*reads flist*
*notices she hasn't posted to LJ in weeks-n-weeks*
*clicks Post, and is suddenly without things to say*

So... how's life?

My concert lineup for August/September so far (which means that at least 8-10 more shows will inevitably pop up): Earlimart, Thao With the Get Down Stay Down, Nellie McKay, A Place to Bury Strangers, Bitter:Sweet, Xiu Xiu, Reggie and the Full Effect (with Leathermouth), Pompeii, Oxford Collapse, Haunting Oboe Music, Black and White Years, Lymbic System, Shearwater, White Ghost Shivers, Lemurs, Mogwai, Ratatat, Silver Jews, Stereolab, ACL, ACL, ACL, Federico Aubele.

In other stuff, I'm all melancholy. Sigh. But I've got a kickass new henna design on right now, so yaye for that!

Date: 2008-07-07 19:06 Subject: Memeage Security: Public I'm feeling: amused I'm listening to: Beck - Volcano

I've been crazy busy, so likely y'all don't really know all the insanity I've been up to. Here's a bit. Feel free to ask me any random questions you get the urge to, if you're bored or something.

You know how sometimes people on your friend's list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you *should* already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

( MEME )

PS That new Beck album is really fucking awesome.

Date: 2008-06-23 12:53 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public I'm feeling: frustrated I'm listening to: Black Moth Super Rainbow - Sun Lips

RAR!

OMG, so much stress guys. Why does life always get crazy the day after I totally didn't get enough sleep? This always seems to happen... get in from a show downtown at 3am, head into work at 7:45am, and watch life explode.

*grumpy*

In other news, BBB is done, and, um. I don't really have much to read, b/c I was devouring the fic as it rolled in. I guess I'll have to check out the other fandom Big Bangs that are also dropping stories right now... darn the luck. *g*

Date: 2008-06-06 11:19 Subject: I can sleep when I'm old! Security: Public I'm feeling: tired I'm listening to: Shearwater - Century Eyes

Do you ever get the feeling that life is going too well, that something has to be hovering intangibly just over the horizon to fuck it all up? Yeah, that's me right now... I keep getting these vague forboding feelings.

Though perhaps it's the lack of sleep. I did get in after 4am this morning, and had to be at work at 8. But hey, I hung out with the guys from the French Kicks for 3ish hours after their show.

I'm so tired, omg.

Date: 2008-05-23 16:39 Subject: Spam! Security: Public I'm listening to: Weezer, of course!

Sry, guys, but the new Weezer video for 'Pork and Beans' fills my heart with glee, and I must share. Featuring a ton of YouTube "celebrities".

Date: 2008-05-22 15:23 Subject: Every joke I think of for this, when typed, actually makes me sound horrible. lol Security: Public I'm feeling: amused I'm listening to: The Decemberists - For My Own True Love (Lost at Sea)

So, is it wrong of me that when I went to the Yahoo home page to check my email, and saw the headline 'Woman Comes Back to Life,' I pretty much immediately flailed and went "Zombie, homg!"

XD

PS There should totally be a reverse of Godwin's Law, but for zombies. Like, the mention of zombies anywhere in your arguement increases the amount of awesome exponentially.

Date: 2008-05-21 13:41 Subject: Still around Security: Public I'm feeling: amused I'm listening to: Bitter:Sweet - Neurosis (ahaha appropriate no?)

Ok, so, it may seem as though I've abandoned y'all, but that is not the case! I still read, and occasionally comment, but I've just been so insanely busy.

In the weeks since my last update, I've seen, by weeks:
-Colin Meloy; Silent Land Time Machine; the Lemurs with Brazos and the Steps; ill Prospekt; the Octopus Project

-Health with Daniel Francis Doyle and YellowFever; Feist

-VHS or Beta with Tigercity and the Black and White Years; Ainjel Emme; Belaire with the Black and White Years, YellowFever, and Loxsly

-Caribou with Dalek; My Chemical Romance; Mum with Tacks, the Boy Disaster; Man Man with Yeasayer; MIA with Holy Fuck; the Lemurs with Those Peabodys; some people whose name I can't recall (six days in a roooooooow!)

-Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin with Port O'Brien and Loxsly; T-Bird and the Breaks doing a Stax Records tribute

-What Made Milwaukee Famous with the Whigs and the Dead Trees (while I was on vacation in Vegas, no less!); Phunk and Associates (literally only hours after flying back into Austin)

This week I already saw Pink Martini. Tonight is the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players with Belaire, tomorrow is maybe Alpha Rev, Friday is T-Bird and Much Love, Saturday is the Black and White Years.

WHAT IS FREE TIME. I LAUGH AT THE CONCEPT.
But hey, I'm hearing some awesome music. Speaking of, when the new Bitter:Sweet album drops (June 3rd, I think), you should totally pick it up. It is some good stuff.

Date: 2008-04-15 09:34 Subject: EEEEE! Security: Public I'm feeling: giddy

ACL ACL ACL OMG. *flails about*
The lineup was released, and omg. These are the ones I'm really really excited about, and are less than a quarter of the entire lineup.

Foo Fighters, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Beck, Ingrid Michaelson, Stars, David Byrne, The Raconteurs, CSS, The Mars Volta, Gnarls Barkley, Man Man, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, MGMT, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Jenny Lewis, M. Ward, Tegan and Sara, Iron and Wine, Neko Case, Band of Horses, Gogol Bordello, Yeasayer, Gillian Welch, Octopus Project, The Black Keys, The Kills, Against Me!, White Denim, Louis XIV, Okkervil River, Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears, Vampire Weekend, Flyleaf

( Entire lineup of awesome underneath )

Date: 2008-04-11 10:31 Subject: I promise I'm still around... Security: Public I'm feeling: drained I'm listening to: Arcade Fire - Black Mirror

Ok, so I'm running on next-to-no sleep and lots of caffeine, but I'm here. I've been keeping up with the flist and occasionally commenting, but RL has consumed me.

My radio station gig has taken almost every moment of free time, between concerts and write-ups, so I've not really had the time or concentration to ramble on here about whatever. But if you go to my blogspot, I have a lot of new artist and concert reviews.

In the past few weeks, I've been to: Zykos/The Hold Steady, YellowFever/Voxtrot, Dalek/RJD2, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down/Xiu Xiu, Laura Gibson/Colin Meloy, Silent Land Time Machine, and Brazos/the Lemurs. I have a show tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. This pattern continues all month. I have possibly gone insane from no sleep.

But yes, I am still here! Thanks for sticking around for the babble, and I promise to be more interesting soon...

Date: 2008-02-28 08:54 Subject: music post Security: Public I'm feeling: tired I'm listening to: Ghostland Observatory - Sad Sad City

Music post over at the music/miscellaneous-awesomeness blog!

Contains Shout Out Louds and Zykos.

Date: 2008-02-19 13:21 Subject: Ahahahahahaha omg. Security: Public I'm feeling: happy I'm listening to: The Lemurs - My Definition

Ok, I know I've been all crazy about music recently, but.

I just bought tickets presale for My Chemical Romance. They are playing Stubbs, a venue with maybe a 2500 capacity.

For April, I have already bought tickets for Colin Meloy @ La Zona Rosa (capacity 1200), and Feist, Panic at the Disco (with The Hush Sound, Motion City Soundtrack and Phantom Planet), and MCR @ Stubbs.

In March, SXSW is going to drain all the life out of me. Wristbands for Austin metro people are up for grabs on Friday for $139, and I'm probably going to attempt to get one.

The Lemurs, an Austin band that is probably going to get pretty damn big, are going to be playing tonight, and I'm going to be there. Last night, I was at an interview with The Octopus Project, whose SXSW set I am really looking forward to catching. I'm possibly going to be helping manage a band from San Antonio that I met via MySpace.

I will probably be insane by the summer, but it'll be fun getting there.

Date: 2008-02-15 14:56 Subject: SXSW recs mark II Security: Public I'm feeling: amused I'm listening to: Digitalism - I Want I Want Tags: music

I'm going to attempt posting twice a week with music recs for SXSW, and just of music in general, since I'm totally going to need the practice... *g*

Here's my newest post, containing music from The Violent Femmes, Interpol, Digitalism, Bedroom Walls, Film School, and Tokyo Police Club.

Comment if you take and like, plz? I'd love feedback on my rambling recs.

Date: 2008-02-11 13:28 Subject: SXSW Security: Public I'm feeling: amused I'm listening to: Secular End - Radio Tags: music

So, the lineup has been posted for South By Southwest, a gigantic music and film conference that goes on every spring in my hometown of Austin, and this, of course, means that I am going to be spamming everyone with music recs.

Here is installment 1 of god-knows-how-many, because there are a lot of really great names playing this year. Only 4 songs, but that is because I cannot post music without attempting to describe it for everyone.

Recc'd are The Black Angels, The Black Keys, The Octopus Project with Black Moth Super Rainbow, and Secular End.