strictly roots.
Today I learned about insurance and retirement plans and grown-up stuff like that. And practiced. Tomorrow I start the new job in earnest, and play a show (with Kylesa, at Roboto). Thursday night, more practice. Friday/Saturday/Sunday are the trinity of Andyfest shows, so I’ll basically be freakin’ out a lot. I need to figure out [...]
Yesterday, last Pirate’s Cove show. Scene stalwarts and p0sers like myself who had never been there (we TRIED to get a show there on tour, it just didn’t happen! And we know people there! Come on GET OFF MY BACK!) converged upon the little House By the Wawa to give it one last shower of [...]
So. Word hit the street earlier this week that the old rag Punk Planet is among a number of independent publications whose not-for-profit distributor is having financial woes. It was suggested that those who are concerned should purchase or renew a subscription, or take any number of other steps to help out and keep PP [...]
I picked up The Dan’s Countdown to Ecstasy yesterday, finally, and it’s an amazing album. I’m working slowly at establishing my collection. It’s always kind of difficult to do with older bands who aren’t really releasing anything anymore, because the collection is all there, and I don’t know where to start. Especially with Steely Dan, [...]
So, in the exciting-new-things category, I have a job now. Starting Monday I will no longer be sitting around the house all day, feeling like I should get something done but not doing so. I will be playing with books all day. And dealing with academics. And deciding how to deal with wanting to tell [...]
There’s this particular phenomenon that occurs only in the cold weather time. It happens when you’ve been outside, waiting for the bus, or hoofin’ it because you aren’t expecting it to come anytime soon, and then the bus comes, and you hop on. And you’ve got your headphones on, so you can’t hear what’s going [...]
Before tonight’s show, I spent a long time being cold and bored at Roboto waiting for the meter reader, then spent a lot of time on buses getting home, and had a quick crisis regarding my planned mixtape contribution, which I then scrapped in favor of a quickly and shoddily cobbled together 60-minute tape of [...]
The Mountain Goats show at the Warhol is tomorrow night. If you don’t have a ticket already, you’re screwed. If you do have a ticket, make a goll-dern mixtape for the mixtape swap! The construction of mine has been interesting. I still haven’t come up with packaging, though. And time is running out. And I [...]
From today’s Post-Gazette (boldface mine):
What’s with all this street cleaning?
Outrageous and embarrassing are two words that come to mind when I think about Pittsburgh’s street-cleaning obsession.
I have lived abroad, as well as in Atlanta, Denver, Washington, D.C., Toronto and Calgary, Canada. In none of these places do they clean the streets so often. Two to [...]