Archive for October, 2006



after an awesome and cheap dinner at wong wong, anthony & i checked out the velvet teen / minus the bear at the troc last friday. when’s the last time i was at the troc?!? the velvet teen blew me away, minus the bear was kind of boring. the velvet teen’s new album, cum laude! [...]

her jazz on WQHS

recently, my tennis buddy maria has taken her jazz over to upenn’s WQHS. check it out today and every wednesday from 10:00AM - 12:00PM:

I’m pleased to announce that my weekly radio show, HER JAZZ, is moving to WQHS, the internet-only student radio station at the University of Pennsylvania this fall. I’m psyched to continue DJing [...]

attack of the B-movies

two movies that aren’t good in the strictest sense of the word but i wholeheartedly recommend them:
the protector - i’ve a huge tony jaa fan since the release of ong bak: muay thai warrior and this followup, while not a sequel, ups the ante like crazy. the story is completely ridiculous. jaa plays a boy [...]

the camden county library is having their fall book sale at the vogelson regional branch in voorhees this week from october 12-14. i’ll most likely go tomorrow after work.
update: picked up into thin air by john krakower, the plague by albert camus, dostoyevsky’s the brothers karamazov (which i’ve never read), a biography of oscar wilde, [...]

sink to the beat

monica and i made it out to the starlight ballroom a few weeks ago for the cursive show, it was quite excellent.
opening were the thermals. i liked them when they sounded like GBV, but i was bored by their live performance; their politics consists of exactly the type of heavy-handed rhetoric and sloganeering that i’d [...]