July 2010

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• music

  Dawn by Mount Eerie & other stuff

  07.29.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  + Mount Eerie – Dawn Download: Mount Eerie – Dawn This is one of those albums that I have to be in a particular mood to listen to.  Somber may be the right word.  Not particularly unhappy but just kind of meh.  This is an album that focuses on the overall mood of the record instead of [...]

• links

  War and Love

  07.23.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I came across a blog/zine called Linebreaker which “…examines the writers that shape punk and hardcore, and gives them a voice to explain the meanings behind the lyrics we sing along to.”  So here’s a couple interviews I found interesting. +  Defeater‘s lyricist/singer Derek Paul Archambault discusses war and the influence it had on his writing on [...]

• Tour

  Home

  07.22.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  It’s nice to be back home.  Yesterday was the last day of the Pianos tour.  I feel like we accomplished a lot this summer and I’m excited for what’s to come this year. I’m typing this while hanging out in my air conditioned apartment, laying in a bed with clean sheets and resting my head [...]

• music, Tour

  8 days left!

  07.14.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m in Oklahoma City right now hanging out at our friend Leon’s apartment who we met earlier at tonight’s show. Aside from a few minor van troubles, tour has been going well.  We only have 8 days left.  It’s weird looking back on some of the earlier shows of tour and realizing that they weren’t [...]