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And by destiny, I mean Dillinger Escape Plan, and by date, i mean concert.I'd been waiting a couple of months for this show, and while nothing was set on fire, and no one's face got stepped on, it was freaking awesome. After a delicious meal of chicken wings and fried pickles at Reggie's and a wonderful moment where I was completely oblivious to Greg Puciato sitting right next to Sid and me. They

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So last week (two weeks ago? i don't remember) I went to Chicago Ladies Rock Camp with C. and I had a goal this year. I wanted to sing. I wanted to learn to sing and play bass at the same time, and be comfortable with it and be good at it. That was a tall order for me, since I only sing in front of (close) friends or in karaoke situations. But I wanted to do it, to aggressively push the edges of

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I had big plans for my final go-round with Uncle Trent, since this appears to be the last tour before settling into a life of domestic bliss and/or working in IT. I thought I'd see at least 2-3 dates on this tour. I thought for sure it would be a vacation, kind of like the Seattle and Minnesota treks I did last year. At the very least, I thought it would be a beautiful summer beer-soaked evening

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If you are around Twitter, you know that I saw Queensryche in concert twice and I won't shut up about it. I've seen them before, but I was especially excited this time because I had a chance to hear one of my favorite, underrated albums, almost in full: Rage for Order. This album came out in the mid-80's and I discovered it just a little later because I was only a kiddo when it was released, but

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So news of your impending nuptials took the NIN fandom off guard, but I can't help but send my good wishes. Remembering you miserable, bloated and tumbling drunk off of a stage in Tokyo during the Fragility 2.0 tour - and having heard Leaving Hope I am glad that you are even alive, and that you that seem finally,truly happy.That being said:WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH YOU AND YOUR MEG RYAN MOVIES?

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I've been finding it difficult to do the kind of long form personal blog writing I used to do here all the time. Thanks, fucking Twitter. My written thoughts all seem to come out in 140 characters or less. Great. Not that I can't write anymore. I can write about other topics, like for articles and what not just not about myself. Which makes my job tonight, writing a bio of myself, extremely

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So I just got back from Boston earlier in the week, after doing a conference. It was a good conference, but it reminded me why I haven't gone back to graduate school, even though I keep threatening to.There is definitely something about the scholarly lifestyle that really starts to grate if you're a practically-minded person. Sometimes I felt like a bit of a bone head among all of the Marxist

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I must say, despite everything that's going on with my stupid eye, there is a bright spot: May is going to be fucking awesome. I can already feel my brain cells deteriorating from the mindless action movies I plan to see next month.Terminator: SalvationG.I. Joe:Rise of COBRAX-Men Origins: WolverineFUCKING STAR TREKAnd then there's the assloads of concerts: Converge, ISIS, Queensryche, NIN!And

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One of the things I've noticed from not having the internets at home for several weeks is just how much I am tethered to the internet. So much of my professional/personal life is attached to the Internet that not having it readily available has actually slowed down my productivity and general quality of life. No, I am not kidding. There'a lot of freelance work that was very difficult for me to

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Was on the radio twiceGot a new (ish) ampDid a career defining/saving presentation @ my jobAte 6 tons of meatConvinced my job to do TwitterCelebrated my birthday about five times (!)Thought I had brain cancer/was going blindHeard Trent Reznor sing CeCe Peniston (yes that was a highlight)Probably had the fluDidn't work on an article that's due in a week in a halfMissed the InternetIt's been a

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I'd do my usual 5 things about Gossip Girl, but I don't really care much these days. Shockingly, I am finding myself more interested in reading 90210 spoilers about whether Silver has bipolar disorder and if Adrianna and Navid are going to be their own MTV reality show (hint: think One Tree Hill's Nathan and Haley)This is kinda sad. A couple of months ago there was NO WAY you could convince me

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So, while my job has been taking up a good chunk of my day, and I have been doing a lot of professionally beneficial activities, I feel like my work/life balance has been a little skewed toward work lately. I missed a couple of Protopunk classes because of SXSW, and I am about to miss another because I am just too tired. And me a couple of musician coworkers have been meaning to get together to

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I've haven't updated this blog in awhile. Not due to lack of interesting subject matter. Two weekends ago, C. and I had our join birthday karaoke party. Smaller than originally planned, but with enough obnoxious fun for a crowd twice the size. I apologize for anyone that I scared with my performance of "Revolution Calling."I got more, but will wait for a change when I have more free internet time

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Nothing says "buzzkill" like going to work right after the tech/movie/music geek orgy that is SXSW. (It was not a literal orgy, at least not for me.)I spammed everyone I know with my twitter and TLF posts, and I still have a general wrap up to do, but I just want to say that IF YOU ARE A GEEK YOU NEED TO COME NEXT YEAR. more later.

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So I'm at South By Southwest Interactive right now. It's got two more days to go, but it's winding down. A lot of the big panels are done, some of the start-up kids are going home. I've been blogging about the panels and discussion at my other blog, but i thought I'd do some real talk here:This is my first (but definitely not my last) SXSWi and I do love it. Anyone who is doing web/social

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Not having wifi access at home has been both liberating and absolutely terrifying. I didn't realize how much I depended on it until I found myself staring at Facebook on my phone for 45 minutes.I am online ALL FREAKING DAY, so having time away from computers and the Internet and Facebook is probably good for me. I can do household chores or practice bass or listen to NPR without getting

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Being temporarily without internet access at home means that my Blackberry is now my lifeline to the Interwebs. I checked my Blackberry obsessively over the weekend and I shudder to think about what my T-Mobile bill will look like. So anyway, I was checking on Sat before the TAAS show and saw the news about the upcoming Faith No More reunion and freaked the hell out. Faith No More is one of those

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So I saw These Arms are Snakes for the first time at Subterranean this past weekend. I am glad I did, as I was stuck in the house all Sunday and nearly lost my mind. Like literally, I started to do robot dancing, did arm weights, tried to learn the bass line to "Blackened" and looked at My Pokemon Ranch for like an hour. Anyway back to the show. Tail Swallower and Dove was one of my favorite

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Yesterday I got a press release in my e-mail inbox:"Mike Patton to score feature film! "I eagerly opened it, only to read:"Mike Patton to score Crank 2: High Voltage!"That really put a damper on my enthusiasm. The first Crank, as hopefully you all well know, is one of the worst movies ever made. And I like really dumb movies.A few minutes later, I got an email from a writer friend of mine:"You

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Forget the Oscars, for media folks in Chicago last Sunday's big event was Ken Davis' (former public radio dude) Chicago Journalism Town Hall meeting.There was an air of exclusivity around this event at the start, even though the word is it was due to space issues (the room at the Hotel Allegro was pretty small) rather than wanting to keep certain people out of the dialogue. Apparently if you

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OK, so you've got the Jane's Addiction/NIN "retirement tour" which, yes, I'm very excited about. Then you've got the rumors circulating about Depeche Mode headlining Lollapalooza this year, which, while I like DM, is not really getting me excited like say, last year. What I have noticed is that this is probably going to be the year of 80's - 90's Gen-X nostalgia tour, and it's a little strange.

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I dunno if I am stressed, sick, dying or just becoming an old person, but all I wanted to do this weekend was nothing. My mom laid a serious guilt trip on me last weekend, so I came by and we did one of our enjoyable cable-watching marathon.I realized that I really miss TV a lot. I don't watch it much, but man, when I do, and I enjoy it, man it's the shit. I really do need more TV in my life. Now

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I woke up Monday morning and thought "Man, Jay-Z is going to beat the shit out of Chris Brown" Just a thought.

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Honestly, I don't know why I bothered to watch the Grammys this year, they invariably piss me off, by parading out the stars and then handing the big prizes over to musicians I thought were dead. This year, I thought I would be burning my own house down with Coldplay getting Album of The Year over Radiohead. Why should I care, you ask? Thom Yorke doesn't care, he's swaggering around in a leather

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