Art.

Jose Tejas.

“I will not back down from making sure an oil company can contain the kind of oil spill we saw in the Gulf two years ago. I will not back down from protecting our kids from mercury poisoning, or making sure that our food is safe and our water is clean. I will not go back to the days when health insurance companies had unchecked power to cancel your policy, deny your coverage, or charge women differently than men. and I will not go back to the days when Wall Street played by its own set of rules.”

- President Obama

Currently listening to Cloud Nothings - S/T.

Currently listening to: Sharks - ‘The Joy of Living, 2008-2010’

Craig Finn is featured in today’s New York Times, talking about, lyrics, The Hold Steady and his new solo record, ‘Clear Heart, Full Eyes’.

If my last relationship taught me anything it’s to never settle and never try to make someone something they’re not.

Just because I do not date anymore doesn’t mean I can’t reflect.

Oh, and we’re playing a free show in Bayonne next Saturday!

I get to play through this thing really loud for the first time!

And yes, I did put myself on the flyer.

“I know you didn’t do this just to win an election and I know you didn’t do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime – two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they’ll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor’s bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America – I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you – we as a people will get there.”

- President Elect Barack Obama, November 4th, 2008

Google’s protest of the SIPA and PIPA laws currently in Congress.

“New Rule: From now on all of Liam Neeson’s movies must be titled ‘I’m Going To Hunt You Down And Kill You’”. - Bill Maher

My heart longs for:

• Boston’s Back Bay (I miss Berklee. I need the Commonwealth Avenue Mall)
• Lakeshore Drive in Chicago (even though I bet it’s cold)
• Brooklyn Bridge Park (but only if I was with AKS)
• Asbury’s 4th Avenue beach (only if it was really hot and I was off)
• that one coffee shop in downtown Charlotte I used to frequent
• Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood (at night, windows down and music perfect)
• a Stumptown coffee (PDX <3. The Oregon sign at night)
• Boston harbor (on a hot summer day away from tourists, feet stretched over water)
• Las Vegas Boulevard (with my best friends, nothing else matters, and if that isn’t remarkable I don’t know what is)
• the National Mall (when it’s cold, listening to the Postal Service)

jhnmyr:

Officially back on track as of today. Doc says all clear. Ends an 8-month period of extreme patience and a real head trip… Back to it… See you soon.

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