puttering around while taking time off from grad school, which, to be more particular, entails: riding my bike a lot, seeing my brother, eating good produce and baking lots of bread, brewing beer, reading comics and attacking the fat stack of books i've been accumulating, listening to old records, trying to let the fact that i have no income convince me to not buy any new records, failing, listening to lots of mountain goats albums, thinking maybe i am a bit tired of the music i listen to (except the mountain goats), trying to figure out what i want to do next year, failing, listening to some good podcasts, wishing there were more, etc, etc, etc.

leaving in a few days for a two week trip to northern california, wherin i will endure a hellish 20 hour bus ride down, see family, go on a week-long backpacking trip with bro and dad, see owen and christin, and hopefully finally go to the sf amoeba. not taking the laptop though, so chances of updates are slim. welcome to the summer blog lull!

thursday: saw belle & sebastian play with the LA philharmonic in the hollywood bowl. drank beer. thai food at 1:30 am. saw paris hilton posing for paparazzi in front of some club on the sunset strip.

friday: christin fractured a rib with the raw power of a single, forceful cough (following thousands of coughs during a weeklong bout with bronchitis). rode in an ambulence. got addicted to arrested development.

more music posts coming? yes.