May 2009
62 posts
The little white tree flowers i associate with “elementary school’s out” have bloomed.
“stand by me” and darren hayman’s “greedy ugly people” end chant remarkably compatible… Start -love on -darling
Great saturday moment: Joe’s Hut triple decker house club eaten outside while listening to 3 guys noodling on ukulele.
Bill Tapia talking about running away to the mainland and shenanigans with Louie Armstrong. #nyukefest
“all it takes is heat to boil water…” #nyukefest
Baruch basement horrible cell reception dead pit. That was last two hours of twee
Hard not to yell youtube style, “can you post tabs?” after another crazy small world project solo… #nyukefest
And then small world project incinerated the corpse, compacted the ashes and keyed all our cars with the diamond. #nyukefest
Dixon slaying it utterly. #nyukefest
The fragmentation of the space here is unintentionally very appropriately island-like. #nyukefest
Beginner uke class success. The softness of the language throws me every time. I want to hear a hawaiian catfight.
Lunch at formerly-push… It’s now a pizza-pub… Playing depeche and oasis…
google trends: ukulele vs mandolin: http://is.gd/IVje … aside from the neat symmetry, i enjoy the unsurprising spikes each christmas
the world *wants* me to inflict my ukulele playing on you: http://www.nyukefest.com is this weekend!
Close second place in scrabble. Let my guard down after early success.
itunes library: 99979 songs, 306.2 days, 585.83 GB … to be fair, some dupes/dead tracks
i am sorry, i cannot take the phrase “concert sized ukulele” seriously
continuing the string fever theme, this guy just won the internet for the day http://is.gd/D08Y (mario theme on balalaika, and how!)
strong itch to learn to play the banjo. it must be summer
thinking about group polarization, and how our interest in it manifests in quizzes
Camping at bottle beach. Ticks are ticking people off.
dear black diamond, the soldering job in your headlamps is subpar for a thing i am to strap to my head to see by in pitch black wilderness
Bought pierogies and sour cream, ate a freegan pear while wheeling bike home through the summer night. Very old country street urchin
dreamed someone stole my wheel and kurt carried my bike around with us while i moped and raged. good to have good friends even in bad dreams
my thoughts are always 150 characters long
uesadillas
The grocery gods, the deli dieties,and the supermarket saints and martyrs have finally aligned to allow me to have there green chile, ch …
My little dog has two tiny little blisters on her little front paw from our huge adventure yesterday. So much piteous cuteness.
Girl at dog park has said “that dog is as big as ME” four times now.
Opal: what have dogs ever done for me? Humans tho, are friends!
taking opal to the west side to play with her little brethren
Me: what did twitter ever do to you? Jose: it got me real excited and then it left. Me: that’s what SHE said!
goto and, seriously, stop.
massive-hands feeling especially great when putting hand to face (which feels unchanged) … i am both kong and ann.
great sensory hallucination: hands are huge, ponderous, heavy things, very far away on tenuous limbs. typing like hitting a whale with oars.
libraries. they just have it so right.
Surprise Rocky steps. Never actually seen them. Cool.
Brian kinda rocks. Hang time + ride home + beer + gin + tonic + limes + battlestar galactica.
Off to sunny Philly to see cloudy Cohen
i wake up at 5:15 am to my cat needing a little love, put on a pot of coffee and aoxomoxoa, and wonder when the gym opens
Kurt: the white rose is for my man friend!
At harefield, then fanny, then maybe pete’s, maybe matchless
not sure I see the best case scenario in the minds of the creators of the firstname-lastinitial-birthyear spam twitter accounts
wow wow wow wow wow wow http://is.gd/xyHi ouch! just…. ouch.
Fortune cookie: front: “Don’t stop now!” back: “Learn Chinese - To see a doctor, 看病, kàn bìng” — TERRIFYING! (Lucky: 19,44, 4, 7, 9, 30)
If you ever get a chance to see zefnoise.com and adammatta.com together, you should not miss it.
At klub europa, drying off, waiting for artimus, listening to frippy funerary violin just joined by a beatbox dude
light yardening. pulled the dead things, replanted some in better spots. need more plants. need to keep more plants alive.
the interstitial “5 sec then goto story” ad pages are great/weird with add-art. just stared at an abstract thing for 5 sec, mid news-scan
The chaotic attractor he is exploring is too loose for my tastes, but Naval Cassidy might be one of my fav stage presences.