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| Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | | 12:12 pm |
well if both tma and jamie did it, it can't be wrong! right?
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? graduated college, recorded my first original EP (almost singlehandedly), released a proper record (w/ The Bk What), became a frontman (i dunno if i've really fully achieved that one yet, lol) 2. Did you keep your New Years resolutions, and will you make more for next year? i cant for the life of me remember 3. Did anyone close to you give birth? no 4. Did anyone close to you die? no 5. What countries did you visit? brooklystonia 6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? health, a job, a somewhat active love life 7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory and why? The first Quiet 1s show, graduation/senior week, moving out of Ithaca, yelena and tamara's IC visit 8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? miraculously graduating in four years, forming/writing tons of material with the Quiet 1s 9. What was your biggest failure? SEEING BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IN CONCERT (THAT WAS JUST FOR JAMIE!), um seriously... probably letting my ever spiraling health get the best of me at times, not wrangling a job 10. Did you suffer illness or injury? live journal ain't big enough for this list, lol 11. What was the best thing you bought? i didn't buy it, but my graduation gift, of a macbook pro from my folks (especially since the week before my desktop completely shat the bed) 12. Whose behavior merited celebration? the american people's on election day (especially BK, BX, Queens) 13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Mayor Bloomberg, the MTA, 14. Where did most of your money go? the MTA, holiday gifts 15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? graduating, the quiet 1s 16. What song will always remind you of 2008? Evil Urges by My Morning Jacket, Lost Coastlines by Okkervil River, anything off Kensington Heights by The Constantines 17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder? sadder (sry, this was a rough year) ii. thinner or fatter? i haven't weighed myself in about a year iii. richer or poorer? a whole lot poorer 18. What do you wish you'd done more of? going on job interviews 19. What do you wish you'd done less of? laying in bed, feeling shitty and feeling sorry for myself 20. How will you be spending Christmas? Went to see my grandma in the hospital, went to Long Island to see my nana and aunts, went back to the hospital to see grandma 22. Did you fall in love in 2008? no 23. How many one night stands? 0 24. What was your favorite TV program(s)? The Wire, Entourage, It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia 25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? i dont think so 26. What was the best book you read? "Drown" by Junot Diaz, "The Souls of Black Folk" by WEB DuBois 27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Okkervil River, American Analog Set, Ambulance LTD, Beluga 28. What did you want and got? a degree, a solo EP 29. What did you want and not get? health 30. What was your favorite film of this year? Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 31. What did you do on your birthday? Ate at Mustard in the commons, Saw Talib Kweli in Geneva with Luke, Mandy, Greg, Matt, Colleen, and Brianne 32. What one thing would have made your year more satisfying? a few days between family catastrophes this holiday season 33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008? keep cool, stay warm (aka respective seasonal utilitarianship) 34. What kept you sane? my friends for always being so understanding, caring, and compassionate. 35. Which celebrity did you fancy the most? Q-Tip (if we mean fancy in the admiration sense), Zooey Deschanel (if we mean in the easy on the eyes way) except for the whole getting married to Ben Gibbard thing (don't worry that shit won't last) 36. What political issue stirred you the most? the election 37. Who did you miss? all my ithaca friends who i havent seen since graduation/have only seen a lil bit 38. Who was the best new person you met? dunno 39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008. you just gotta get through all the shit, in hopes of that pretty soon things will turn around? 40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. "you do what you can do with what you got" -the Cons | | Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | | 9:38 pm |
Okay, i read the comments. Pitchfork (for whatever its worth) is saying that the two nights at the APW festival will be the only Radiohead shows in NYC. Does this mean anything to you one way or another? | | 1:01 am |
So I realize I haven't posted on here for quite a while, but i need to ask Who's interested in going to Coachella East (Liberty State Park, NJ)? If so, which of the 2 days? (yes, i know there are three days, but i will only go to one of the two nights that radiohead are headlining. cmon no one wants to see jack johnson) http://www.apwfestival.com/event/lineup90 bucks a day... but i mean, its radiohead Right now I was thinking day 1, cause the only other decent bands the second day are the roots (who ive seen a million times) and metric and the kings of leon (who are notoriously touch and go) Day 1 has the Go Team, who i've always wanted to see live, and all the stuff ive heard and seen from their live show is awesome. i've also seen CSS who were a danceable good time, and Girl Talk (which was possibly one of the most fun shows I've ever been to). Mates of State are usually good as is Andrew Bird, and I've heard really good things about Little Brother. But still, who knows if I'll even be in NY come August... jeez thats a weird thought They should really add some bigger heavyweights to the bills (supposedly they will, but i bet theyll be shitty bands.) Wouldn't it be great if the extra bands they added were Sonic Youth, Nas, Dinosaur Jr, Broken Social Scene, Saul Williams, The Constantines, A Tribe Called Quest, and Ghostface! haha, in my dreams | | Monday, November 5th, 2007 | | 9:55 pm |
fun time
Here's my practice for the big year end lists that will be here in a couple of weeks, haha Top 5 Sonic Youth Songs 5- Do You Believe In Rapture?/100% (sorry i couldn't choose) 4- Kool Thing 3- Youth Against Facism 2- Teenage Riot 1- Unmade Bed Hit reply, it's your turn. | | Saturday, July 21st, 2007 | | 10:26 am |
won't you shut the fuck up, im just trying to watch the band
The Brooklyn What cut our first real EP (maybe turning into a full length?) last thursday. I'm listening to the rough unmastered tracks right now, and they sound damn good, even without us mixing it yet. I can only imagine how good it will sound once its done. If you hadn't heard, we're getting booked all over the place. We're playing The Delancy this monday @ 9. If you're 21, u best be there. At the moment we're also gonna play 3 shows in a span of 5 days in August, the newest addition being The Knitting Factory on August 13th, which should be really fun. After that I will have played both the NYC Knitting Factory and the LA one (from my LA days with The Tape Deck Disaster.) Exciting stuff Current Music: The Brooklyn What- Summer Song | | Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 | | 10:25 am |
In short...
The shows were amazing... They played 2 and 1/2 of the songs on my never heard wishlist ("I'm Always in Love" + "Pot Kettle Black") They also did a version somewhere in between "Kamera" and "Camera", hence the 1/2. They also did "Outtasight (Outta Mind)" which would have been on the list had i remembered it. Maybe the best show I've ever seen- I'll let the review do the rest of the talking... http://www.filter-mag.com/index.php?id=14824&c=11And as always, I'm working at the most inopportune hours, so outside of these shows (when i would simply bite the bullet and go into work with 2 hours of sleep), I've been on the usual opposite schedule, which at this point I've sort of accepted, and am just trying to adapt to. Tomorrow's July 4th, that should be nice Current Music: whatever is on 106.7 in the background | | Sunday, June 24th, 2007 | | 10:49 am |
Me being a big music obsessive- this post will only intrest you if you like wilco... alot, haha
So I'm super excited that I'm seeing Wilco TWICE this week (tomorrow at Hammerstein, and tuesday at Warsaw.) SoI've decided to make a list of all the songs that I really love but have never seen them play live before. - Let's Not Get Carried Away (Sky Blue Sky Bside) - The Thanks I Get (Sky Blue Sky Bside) - ELT (Summerteeth) - I'm Always In Love (Summerteeth) - Nothing'severgonnastandinmywayagain (Summerteeth) - Box Full of Letters (AM) - I Must Be High (AM) - Monday (Being There) - I Got You At The End Of The Century (Being There) - Kicking Television (Ghost Is Born Bside) - Magazine Called Sunset (More Like The Moon EP) - Camera (More Like The Moon EP) - Radio Cure (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) - Pot Kettle Black (Tankee Hotel Foxtrot) Can't wait to see how many of them they actually play | | Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | | 9:51 pm |
disclaimer: this is not meant to be ironic- you really don't have to read this if you don't want to
i just wrote an entire entry about finishing "High Fidelity" and a run-in i had today on the street, and all sorts of shit like that, and i erased it, realizing that its not the kind of thing anyone would read and care about. I don't mean that to sound like a jerk or anything. If we had a conversation about it, it would be interesting, i think, but not like this really. One part, I think, about why i'm feeling so shitty right now is that my life doesn't run anything like anyone else's clock. Fuck, it doesn't even run with any consistency day to day. I went in to work at Noon today, and i'm about to go to sleep now, so i can get up at 4:45AM. I try to figure out plans with friends and yet i still have barely seen anyone much lately, because I work at the exact wrong times all the time. I need to fall in love... or at least find someone worth developing an interest in. In LA, i had infatuation, that was definitely something. Now I don't even have anything worth stupidly obssessing over. I think playing our show at Freddy's will be great though (july 8th for those who don't know), and so will seeing Wilco, twice next week. These are things I need to look forward to. ugh i hate when i use live journal like its supposed to be used. | | 9:55 am |
my review of the brakesbrakesbrakes show at Mercury Lounge. Amazingly awesome time. Check it out if you so choose- despite that in my delirium of the last 2 days, it does have a handful of grammatical errors, that my editors neglected to correct, oh well... http://www.filter-mag.com/index.php?id=14714&c=11 | | Monday, June 11th, 2007 | | 7:55 pm |
I had my first day of work. It was nice, i'm sure ill tell more about it later, once it kicks into full gear. Right now though I'm in a very weird position. I came home from my first day at work, my legs are tired. We had a nice dinner, but now I'm stuck in my parent's room (cause currently their computer is the only one with internet) while my parents and our neighbor yell at each other about our other neighbors or something. This is way uncomfortable. These walls are paper thin and everyone hears every little sound. | | Sunday, June 10th, 2007 | | 9:28 pm |
The Donald and Ivana were not there (even though every other Trump family member seemed to be), that was a dissapointment. Except other strange and interesting celebs on the guestlist included Joan Rivers (who gave a explitive filled speech at the rehersal dinner), the lady who played wonder woman, and 2 other TV personalities whose names i don't remember. When I see them on TV in the coming weeks I'll alert you. Regardless, it was a nice weekend with lots of extravagent free food (clams, lobster, salmon... gotta love New England.) The music was palatable, and I like dancing so I'm not hard to please. Met some nice girls but one in particular was a "stage 5 clinger" for those who are Wedding Crashers fans. My friend Annemarie was there with her family too so it was really nice that we had each other to hang out with all weekend. She writes for the "L" magazine if any of you pick that up next to the box on your corner where you pick up the Village Voice. Its a really good magazine and she's "The Downtown Chef"- the cooking column. She has her own sandwich business so if you're near "Chelsea Market" anytime soon, pick up one of her sandwiches. She's a great person and I give her mad props for waking up everymorning a 6 to make sandwiches. I can't wait til my friends start getting married cause it will the extravagence of a multiple day party, and it will be filled with people I care about. What could be better? | | Thursday, June 7th, 2007 | | 6:12 pm |
I was dreaming in the driver's seat when the right words just came to me
I've been sick on and off a lot lately. I've spent the last few days being sickly and going to my doctor and taking the prescription he gave me in hopes of being cured for this wedding. My parent's friends daughter is getting married to Trump's nephew. Well, I'm off to Newport. I'll make sure to be healthier when I return, so we can have good times. I'll say hi to The Donald for you. Fingers crossed that I can mack it to Ivana. PS- The new Spoon record is hott (with two t's) Current Music: Finer Feelings- Spoon | | Saturday, May 26th, 2007 | | 2:48 pm |
| | Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 | | 1:58 pm |
Siren fest initial lineup = not too impressed
NY Dolls are playing Siren and that should be kind of interesting. We Are Scientists are playing and thankfully Luke and Rachel will be around to enjoy them with me since no one else likes them. Noisettes I had wanted to check out at Coachella but didn't have a chance, and supposedly Matt and Kim are pretty fun. I dunno, I'm hoping they bust out a bunch of other awesome acts, which im sure they will, since this will most likely be the last year (cause of all the Coney Island destruction)... NY Dolls We Are Scientists Matt and Kim Dr. Dog Noisettes Lavender Diamond The Detroit Cobras Elvis Perkins The Twilight Sad Anyone heard the new interpol single yet? It's called "The Heinrich Maneuver" and i like it simply because the refrain is (in that very funny Paul Banks accent) "How are things on the west coast?" Current Music: new live Spoon stuff on hype machine | | Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 | | 5:33 pm |
first few days home (not a very inventive title)
I can't get off my LA sleep cycle (going to sleep on average between 2:30 and 3:30) so now i'm going to sleep between 5:30 and 6:30, im starting to feel like Ed Norton in Fight Club, except I'm opting for Fresh Prince and The Cosby Show instead of infomercials. This lack of sleep mixed with my dad getting a cold has rendered me both sick and tired, but not sick-and-tired in the cliche phrase sense. Been helping Dayton get his situation under control at his Dad's new awesome house, and doing all kinds of fun stuff. Last night Jamie and Yelena and Neil and Neil's friend and I all went to the bar @ Sound Fix in Williamsburg. But John I thought you didn't want to go to Williamsburg? There are the occasional exceptions. Plus having a friend with a car makes it even more palitable. Got a lot of free rock and roll stuff, there was an open bar, and the general consensus was that the place and the night was so nice that we didn't even feel like we were in Williamsburg. The night ended wonderfully with listening to records at Jamie's apartment. I'm so happy to be back in Brooklyn even though California couldn't have been more fun. Whereas some people are scared of change, i'm the exact opposite: I embrace it and become very excited by it. I love the fact that through the coarse of 2007 (if all goes as scheduled) I will spend no more than 4 months in the same place. Back to the point though. I was lying in bed last night, unable to sleep as the sun came up, and while sometimes that kind of thing might frustrate me, I was so content. I just kept thinking how full of possibility I feel like my life has become lately , especially when in Brooklyn, with a month before I start work. Current Music: The Pretenders- The Wait | | Saturday, April 28th, 2007 | | 2:01 pm |
Coachella... Scarlett Johanson included
So i went to opening night of Coachella and words do not do it justice. My friend Brianne noted that it is like a carnival for adults. I feel like they asked every music fan what they're perfect festival would be and then they did it. -5 stages and a dance "globe" -Big scientific/art exibits -Bycicle powered carnival type rides -Air conditioned cool down tent with free computers/internet, free phone chargers, and seats, with video feeds of the concerts going on outside. -Every kind of food you can imagine from lil mom and pop vendors- mexican, italian, greek, japanese, chinese, thai, vegetarian, middle eastern, carribean, central american. -Large bottles of water for 2 dollars, and if u recycle 10 of them they give you a free bottle. -The ability to hear any stage's music crystal clear from any distance (ie- we took a "break" during The arctic monkeys where we laid in the grass, and still heard "View from the Afternoon" as clearly as being front row. -The beauty of the fucking desert -Free, relatively close parking -Close campsites (which we didn't take advantage of, but probably will in the future, where you can still hear the concert perfectly from -Everything really really fast and efficient. Nice young people working everything who were a lot of fun to talk to. But onto the music -Got there round 2:30, saw TOKYO POLICE CLUB, who were MUCH better than when they were opening for Art Brut last year. -Went over to the main stage to see PERRY FARREL's new band SATELLITE PARTY, who were suprisingly fun. They did a really good cover of "Stop" by JANE'S ADDICTION, which should mean a lot coming from a huge Jane's Addiction fan. He's still such a good frontman. -Saw OF MONTREAL at the Outdoor stage who were really the only dissapointment of the day. They were preoccupied with their sound troubles, and only played one song I knew, which isn't even a particularly good one. I feel like theyd be a lot of fun at a small venue, but they just didn't know how to work with a crowd that large i think. -Saw AMY WINEHOUSE, who we were taking bets on if she would actually show up. First off, she should not have been playing one of the small tents, because everyone was spilling out; way more ppl showed up to see her than expected. She did, rather sober in fact. and she blew the roof off. I'm so glad their is this ressurgance of great soul music, with her and Corrinne Bailey Rae primarily. She has fuckin incredible pipes, and she just wails, i feel like its similar to hearing Aretha Franklin for the first time and just being amazed. Her band is top notch, a lot like The Roots- just really funky and fun with a great brass section. Matt and I are currently fighting over who will get to marry her... we are in 7th grade. -Saw a lil of the Arctic Monkeys set. Nothin too incredible but they played the songs well. They closed with "A Certain Romance" which is my favorite by them, and it was good. -The real point of seeing the 2nd half of the Arctic Monkey's set was to get a good spot for JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, which we did. As soon as all the young-ins who didn't give a fuck about JMC left, we swooped in. Managed to get about 30 yards from the baracades, which is incredible for a mainstage at a festival that big. Long story short (since im pretty sure the only people who like JMC reading this are Jamie and Neil) they were absolutely awesome. They were so loud and so nois, and haven't lost a bit since the 80s. Jim Reid is so sad all the time, but he was probably the happiest he could have been last night, he even made a couple of jokes, in his own sort of depressed way. They played a ton of songs and played them all reallllllly well, including a new song, that was as good as any of the classics. New album maybe? Its almost the end of the set and Jim Reid says "So I guess we're gonna do this." SCARLETT JOHANSON walks out on stage and sings back up on "Just Like Honey" which was cute. -Saw most of INTERPOL'S set, which was WAYYYY better than when I saw them last year. I guess they've been able to play at a lot of bigger venues since that Jones Beach show, and they've drastically improved. They played a bunch of new songs, which the VP of radio @ Capitol has been playing a lot lately, and they sound good live too. -Went to the Outdoor stage and saw SONIC YOUTH tear it up. Never seen em before, it was everything I hoped for. Thurston and Kim may have been the most energetic musicians i saw all day. They did an aweinspiring rendition of "100%" and played all my favorites from the new record "Incinerate", "Reena", "What A Waste", and a beautiful version of "Do You Believe in Rapture?" A lesson in real rock n roll, for sure. -Closed out the night with Bjork, which was a total mind fuck as expected. She did "All Is Full of Love" and it was really relaxing. She had a 15 woman brass section/chorus. Just as I thought she was playing too many new slow numbers she did "Army of Me" and everyone was reenergized. We walked back to the car as she played "Hyperballad" what a good day. there will be pictures on facebook soon, i'm gonna go relax at the pool. -John Nap oh yeah, i feel bad cause this has totally overshadowed my thursday night concert going experince which was seeing MC Lars @ The Knitting Factory. Go see him, if he plays near you. Even if you've never heard him b4 (which most ppl at the show hadn't) you will have the BEST time. Its like, part hip hop show, part comedy act, part rock concert, part visual art experiment. | | Friday, April 20th, 2007 | | 8:11 pm |
Perfect
As I looked up to see Josh's alarm clock slowly changing its glow from 11:59 to 12:00, as the days went from April 17th to 18th, James Murphy's multilayer computer-altered voice dripped out of the speakers... "Sound of silver talk to me makes you want to feel like a teenager then you remember the feelings of a real live emotional teenager then you think again." Here's to being an adult (huh?) | | Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 | | 8:08 pm |
Lots been happenin as always lately. Capitol had extra tix so Josh and I got to go see Corinne Bailey Rae and John Legend which was awesome (more for Corinne, but Legend was fine too.) Corinne covered Zeppelin's "Since I Been Loving You", which was cool, and Legend and his band did an absolutely incredible version of the Beatles' "She's So Heavy." Corinne's Guitar/vocal/songwriting abilities floor me. At one point she attempted to lead the audience in clapping in a new song that was in alternating time signatures. What a cool ambitious and totally different sounding lady. Went to another Filter party where they screened the new movie from the Shaun of The Dead guys, "Hot Fuzz." Those two guys and the director were there and they seemed pretty cool. The movie's the funniest thing i've seen so far this year. The Tape Deck Disaster [me+jeff+amanda] played another show @ The Knitting Factory. People came out, everyone enjoyed. Here was the (short) set list... Sandwiches (dub version) Bad Dreams [new song] Hurricane (3/4 version) Turn On Let Down [new song] Stacey/Irreplaceable Yes... the beyonce song, sung by yours truly. Good times, I'll let you know when there are recordings available. Here's a new CD I've made... "50 songs in 80 minutes" no songs over 1:59 allowed 1. Dead Kennedys- Short Songs 2. Pixies- Broken Face 3. Death From Above 1979- Pull Out 4. Primal Scream- Velocity Girl 5. The Ramones- Do You Wanna Dance? 6. The Dandy Warhols- The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone 7. Guided By Voices- Game Of Pricks 8. The White Stripes- Passive Manipulation 9. Jesus and Mary Chain- Frequency 10. Mos Def- The Rape Over 11. NOFX- Getting High On The Down Low 12. BrakesBrakesBrakes- NY Pie 13. The Lovelife Fiasco- Roses are Red and You're a Tool 14. Spoon- Car Radio 15. Blur- Chinese Bombs 16. Brian Jonestown Massacre- Too Crazy To Care 17. Art Brut- 18,000 Lira 18. The White Stripes- Little Room 19. BrakesBrakesBrakes- The Most Fun 20. The Replacements- Beer For Breakfast 21. The Beatles- Why Don't we do it in The Road? 22. Tokyo Police Club- Cheer It On 23. M. Ward- One Life Away 24. Soundgarden- Kickstand 25. Built To Spill- Twin Falls 26. Shellac- Boche's Dick 27. The Heart Attacks- Travelin' Band 28. The Mountain Goats- Dance Music 29. The Slits- Shoplifting 30. Eagles Of Death Metal- I Want You So Hard (The Boy's Bad News) 31. Thunderbirds Are Now!- Top Secret Upskirt Camera 32. The Smiths- Please Let Me Get What I Want 33. Everclear- Nehalem 34. Arctic Monkeys- Stickin' To The Floor 35. Amy Milan- Headsfull 36. The Pixies- Isla De Encanta 37. Head Automatica- At The Speed Of A Yellow Bullet 38. Violent Femmes- 36-24-36 39. Wire- Outdoor Miner 40. Dirty Pretty Things- You Fucking Love It41. Nirvana- Very Ape 42. Johnny Cash- Cocaine Blues 43. Locksley- She Does 44. The Pixies- Tame 45. Mos Def- Brooklyn 46. The Constantines- Thank You For Sending Me An Angel 47. BrakesBrakesBrakes- Porcupine or Pineapple 48. Black Flag- Wasted 49. Pavement- I Love Perth 50. The Kooks- Eddie's Gun Whoo, alright thats enough typing for now, haha. Lemme know if you want a copy. Peace, John Nap Current Music: track 33 | | Thursday, March 29th, 2007 | | 2:18 am |
Hey, buy your ticket to rock the bells The presale is now until friday evening The password is Guerilla The ticket's 83 bucks b4 surcharges which is more than worth it, but sadly Nas and MF Doom are not listed in the lineup. Could this be a typo, or will they not be there? regardless it will still be worth it for Rage and The Roots alone. And Mos Def. And Public Enemy. And EPMD. oh yeah and Wu Tang's gonna be there. goddamn im so excited. I bought my ticket this morning. This summer's gonna kick so much ass, even tho i don't have a job yet, which is starting to worry me. BUT Luke's in the process of putting down money on a place on 113th & Broadway, and Rachel has a car so she can come and visit, and of course seeing everyone back in Brooklyn who I miss dearly, will all be amazing. This weekend my parents are coming to visit me for the first time out here on the west coast, and we're goin out to Laguna Beach. A weekend of much needed rest and relaxation awaits... but I may be getting sick, which would suck. Point is its almost 2:30 in the morning and I have to be at Filter in the morning. I should get some sleep. Goodnight, John Nap | | Monday, March 26th, 2007 | | 11:47 am |
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