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my drummer brian also plays with adam & dave’s bloodline (feat. adam & dave from marah), who have a great new record out called love. it’s a really varied and interesting album, with super fun straight up rock songs (”corner sloop”, “twist the knife”) and nods to everything from synth rock (”where you are”) to [...]

mike was so enthusiastic for us to see mono at the first unitarian last wednesday that he sprung for the tickets and drove. pat and i bought the earplugs and i’ve never more grateful to myself for thinking ahead of time. we got there just in time to catch world’s end girlfriend and it was [...]

came into work and our main server was in a loop of boot, finding network connections, “service or device driver failed to start”, BSOD w/ the following STOP error:

c000021a (Fatal System Error)
Windows Logon System Process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0×00000080 (0×00000000 0×00000000)
got into safe mode, nothing in the event viewer. rebooted and loaded [...]

kristin gave me this recipe and i heartily recommend it:
1/2 cup mirin
3 tbs tamari
2 tbs rice wine vinegar
1 tbs sesame oil
2 teaspoons asian chile sauce
1-inch chunk ginger, peeled and coarsley chopped
2 gloves garlic, smashed and/or chopped
1. combine all marinade ingredients in a shallow bowl.
2. after the tofu has been drained and pressed, cut it widthwise [...]

- our friends bamboo shoots were on conan freaking o’ brien monday night! they won an mtvU contest where the winner gets a recording deal from epic records. how insane is that? it was about three years ago that i met avir & karl through alan at a new brunswick basement show, and now i’m [...]

$20 is pretty much my cutoff amount for going to shows. i’ll make an exception if it’s a band i really like, it’s at an interesting venue or an artist that i’ll never see again. but other than that i try to save my $$$ (this also offsets monica’s ticket-spending habits; she once paid an [...]

spoon was sold out at the bowery last weekend and i had no desire to see them at the starlight, but when maria told me that they were playing the stone pony (!) on tuesday i figured why the heck not? i hadn’t been there in years. i recalled asbury park as being run down, [...]