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my mom got me this! seriously, she is the BEST.
you never, EVER have to burn out. you could be like 500 years old and if you’re still in love with what you do, you never have to act old, you never have to compromise, you never have to be mediocre, you never have to slow [...]

i really can’t describe how great i feel today, it’s like the fog of the past eight years been lifted. this election was not only a rejection of the failed policies and leadership of george bush and the divisive tactics of karl rove. it was also the sound of millions of previously unheard voices: minorities [...]

i’m going to be honest. the phillies organization has burned me so many times over the past fifteen years that i can’t tell if my less than unbridled enthusiasm towards the phils’ world series berth is due to it not yet sinking in or if i’m still harboring resentment towards an ownership that has very [...]

My band Apple of Discord has a really cool show coming up Saturday 10/18 at the Auction House. We’ll be playing an old school set with former drummer Nelson Ciron, playing songs from all of our previous albums. Also playing are our good friends and labelmates The Silence Kit (who have a fantastic new album [...]

- where i’ve been: monica & i moved at the beginning of june. we started out looking for something older and with character but guess what, character takes a lot of freaking work! we ended up opting for a 9 year old house in the heart of suburbia. honestly, i would be just as happy [...]

the new paul westerberg album, 49:00 is available as a single download for 49¢:
And we have lift-off: Download 49:00 from Amazon MP3
It’s one MP3 file, with a whole mess of songs, so even though it’s only one download, you’re getting plenty of songs. Some things to note: In order to get the album for $0.49 [...]

you can’t mess with griffin. taken by kristin k. 10/07/07
Mark Griffin, 35 years old of West Hartford CT, died Monday June 2 surrounded by family and friends. He grew up in Sayreville, NJ.
He attended Sayreville HS (1991) and the Joe Kubert School (1997). Working as an illustrator, he also created his own comics: [...]

this would be my third show at JB’s in as many weeks, following the constantines show below and having to leave early during buried beds/american music club. i’d kind of been run down from packing all day and thought about staying in but i’ve been a big fan of EPDM for a while now and [...]

“constantines make music for people who like rock. everyone else can go listen to vampire weekend.” - peter botham, the news journal
i woke up on my couch early sunday evening in a complete panic, thinking that i had slept through that night’s constantines show. i threw on a shirt, jumped into my car and arrived [...]