today i made you a mixed tape, and i decorated it with lots of stars

so the newest facebook fad is the 25 albums thing. and much like everything music related, i'm putting a considerable amount of thought into it (call me rob fleming, or if you preferred the movie, rob gordon) i dug out my giant 400 cd holder to scan over some old stuff that i haven't listened to in a while but still wanted to include. this binder never made it to ny and i dunno if it even made it to al of my drexel apartments. so really, this is untouched stuff from about 4, 5, 6 years ago.

and of COURSE, i get sucked in...

i found a cd labeled "jen y100 11-12-05" i was really worried that it was going to be a disc of my airchecks (i hate listening to my own voice work, it makes me really self conscious) but it was a bunch of songs that i guess i wanted to play on my show that week. i am the avalance, the mescaleros, midtown... really my own playlists haven't changed at all in three years. i dunno if that's good or bad.

another cd labeled "some fun some serious" not in my handwriting. the shit on this cd ranged from vitamin c's the graduation song to a bunch of unidentified country to the blossum theme song. must have been my college roommates.

another was a cd labeled “feb 02” with a heart sticker on it which i almost passed over. thankfully i didnt because i found some fucking JEMS. the piano song by the starting line, a b side i have been looking for for literally years. a cover of just like heaven by the benjamins. the benjamins! does anyone even remember them besides me and bon??? they did one underrated album for drive thru around 2000/2001 and faded into obscurity. an old demo of i'm a loner dottie that i don't even remember... and a TON of sappy shit. it was valentines and i was in a high school relationship, soooo i think i get a pass. but, serious dashboard alert.

so really this little facebook note project has gotten me sucked into old stuff big time. i never even got to that facebook thing.  i have a ton of unlabeled burned cds to go thru. a nice little insomnia project i suppose. istay tuned.

we ain't got no place to go

it occurred to me today that i couldn't remember the last show i went to. i actually took time to sit and think about it. besides the occasional sketchy fishtown house show... i'm talking, went to a venue, and possibly even (horror) paid money for a ticket. finally i remembered that it was tom gabel... at the knit... which closed two months ago.

what the fuck? i remember when seeing two shows a week was considered slow. is it the end of winter slump? dec-march always sucks for shows. is it the economy? i was on south street last weekend and the marquee at the tla said the next show wasn't for a week and it had been a few days since the last one. or am i just that lame now? or... is the 'scene' really just over? maybe not even over, but so small now that it's naturally just months between shows? the only show i even have planned is a month away, and then another almost full month until new found.  

i'm in withdrawl. i miss sundays at the pontiac and what seemed like weekly trips to the troc.  what is the solution for this??

peace out

so i decided against new york this weekend. i just wasn't feeling it when i woke up today. add in another impending sinus attack (i can feel it coming) and no thanks. decided to take it easy tonight... staying in on a friday?? blasphemy! but this means i got to watch the last episode of conan

now i love conan and i am pretty bummed by his departure. as any good insomniac knows, conan is always there for you. there's nothing like him....i have been to the late show at least ten times. i got to see william fucking shatner do "in the year 2000" from within the audience, 2 rows from me. i got to meet sonic youth (!!!!). i got to hug john stamos. now i get to watch him... from the opposite coast. lame. 

oh AND, someone let me know when that video john mayer sent him tonight is online. that was amazing. 

much of the same

i've been a bit mia this week (speaking of which, how cute is mia's baby?).  applied to a few more jobs (hi!), ran a few errands, blah blah blah. i've been glued to conan every night as he breaks my heart. 2 shows left... killing me. heading to ny this weekend... bhl is playing saturday night. i'll be in brooklyn tomorrow so get at me. 

now it's time to watch conan go destroy some more of his set

tequila and i are DONE PROFESSIONALLY

apparently i learned nothing from the vinnie patron shot incident last month (exhibit a: ) when i supposedly swore off tequila forever. just a few short weeks later i find myself going to the cantina in south philly. it turned into one of those epic nights that you know you'll be quoting inside jokes from for years, overtaking the jukebox (i remember loudly singing say it ain't so, thunder road, and more than a few tracks off the essential clash, among others) and stealing a fork off the table at the end of the night for no apparent reason. i consumed at least 5 margaritas (salted on the rocks... the only way to go). needless to say i was feeling less than excellent today and woke up to find these gems on my camera:







but really, finished with tequila now. maybe all liquor, for a while...or until next weekend.

awww shit

look what came today:

amazing. probably worth the price for the photos on the back alone. they're too small for isight but classic shots from the film. if you've never seen, i highly recommend. i apologize in advance for courtney love but see it.. right now. really.

mid-afternoon blogging...

...due to severe frustration.

chrissy has been blackberry messaging me from work all day, as people from her office are being let go left and right. i received a post card today from my good friend ben who was just let go from major league baseball / elton john (he explained to me countless times how the two were connected, but i still don't really recall). i can't find work here, in ny, or on tour. it's endlessly frustrating. working in this industry is hard enough but add in the lovely economic times we are in and... well most of my friends seem to be out of work. 

i am thinking of starting a career as a reality show contestant/personality. all i have to do is get on one of those dating shows, cause a giant scene, and end up with a show of my own. or maybe create a new personality and make friends with celebrities a la JT LeRoy. or i could redo this blog into celebrity gossip and become the straight female perez hilton. these are just a few ideas. suggestions welcome, before it comes to this:

"hi. i'm a recovering crack head. this is my retarded sister that i take care of. i'd like some welfare, please."

disappearing blog

well i posted a blog last night but it seems to be gone now. i promise you didn't miss much, just something about being sick of girls complaining about valentine's day and seeing jimmy fallon at a gay bar. insomnia is still here...

oh and
i saw this in the store today:



and thought of this:



that's all i got. thank you and goodnight!

standup guys

one of the guys from saving abel was arrested:

Lead guitarist Jason Null, 33, and guitar stringer Brandon J. Danger, 21, were arrested on felony charges of forced oral copulation and forced oral copulation on a minor after performing at the Oracle Arena on Tuesday night.
A 17-year-old girl from the Central Valley who attended the concert with her younger brother told police she was lured to the band's tour bus after Danger asked her if she wanted to be in a rock music video.
Once inside the bus, Null pushed her face down into Danger's exposed genitals, forcing her to perform oral sex, she told investigators. She was allowed to leave after saying she wanted to stop, police said.

state of shock did a one off show with them in illinois. i think their single was about blow jobs. but imagine my surprise when their merch guy turned out to be... my ex. because you always expect to run into an ex in nowhere, illinois. that was a fun show.

we'll blast the stereo and we'll drive to madagascar

the blink182 reunion had me digging thru the archives the past few days. blink was probably the first band that i followed on a serious basis. listening to each album back to buddha brings me back to specific times and places. i've dug up some goodies, here we have "Stalking Mark Hoppus Through the Ages":

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warped 99, my first. i won the tickets from y100 ( foreshadowing?). do i look dumbstruck due to the beginning of a life-long crush, or because i just had my face blown off after seeing h2o and the bouncing souls for the first time?? i had just turned 15, and it was all downhill from here.


fall 2003, dollar bill tour at the tla. you know that alley between imagine and the steak place where they line up kids before shows? yea i slept in that alley to get tickets for this show. i got THE LAST ticket too. so day of show we went back early to wait and mark came out and hung out with the kids for a while. tom was around but was kind of a dick, refused to sign anything or talk to anyone (more foreshadowing?) second to last blink show i ever saw.



fall 2006, +44 at the tla. total heartbreaker because i had to skip new found at the factory, but got to interview them for yrock with josh. this was when travis's wrist was all screwed up so he was out of his mind on, at least, painkillers,.... i was offered drugs from the BIGGEST BAG OF WEED I HAVE EVER SEEN by his assistant (who later died in the plane crash). After the show Mark came out and signed stuff for every kid in the place, and got some more promo stuff signed, "for the station".



i cannot wait for the new album/tour. i hope it follows the path they were laying with the self titled, and tom's craziness/ego/AvA influence is dialed down. hopefully they won't kill each other in the process. now all we need is a movielife and midtown reunion and 16 year old me will be truly satisfied

not without a fight

new found leaked over a month early!! i'm on my second listen and loving it so far. supposedly a return to form and i'd have to agree. kind of a mix between tip of the iceberg (which was already on it's way back) and the better parts of sticks and stones. production sounds pretty good too tho i don't think mark has a signature style yet. SPEAKING OF, blink reunion is all but confirmed. i'm actually excited to watch the grammys for once, between blink and mia possibly giving birth on stage, now somthing's goin on with green day? i'm predicting they'll be involved with paul mccartney.

also, another nail in the coffin of south street: guacamole is closed. i discovered this while drunkenly stumbling out of tattooed moms last night, i think there was some yelling. if it wasn't for moms and visiting lauren (i just like hanging out on top of condom kingdom), and lorenzos, there's really no reason to go there anymore. sad. i thought it was bad when they put a payless in the philadeli, but guacamole? seriously? now it's fucking t moblie and adidas.

oh and another thing

i got the original 1987 vinyl pressing of the straight to hell soundtrack on ebay today. i am SUPER PUMPED.


it was relatively cheap but more than i should be spending on anything right now... but oh well. it's supposedly in excellent condition... we will see.

still listening to 59 sound... for whatever reason it will not scrobble on last.fm; if it had you would know i've listened to it over 20 times in the past 10 or so days. still awesome. also loving the new loved ones still. trying to keep up with new music this year, as per my new years resolution. two tongues is OK. bemis is too happy for my liking, hope he doesn't get married and turn into skiba.

also trying not to get my hopes up too too much but blink are presenting at the grammys sun. the three of them in a room not killing each other is an improvement, who knows what will happen next. i could use a summer tour at the tweeter, i saw them every summer there for like 5 years, it was just expected, like warped. i wonder what the crowd would be like...

such a load

sucks for michael phelps.



at first a lot of his sponsors seemed to not give a shit. but now he's lost kellogs. and us swimming is suspending him for three months?? they give the reason that he is a role model. that is what gets me every time. dude dives into a pool and swims really fast. and that's just great for him. he never asked to be a role model. that is always the slippery slope i guess. people say once you're in the public eye you don't have a choice on how you're viewed, and that's true. but he never signed up to be a Role Model to all of america. plus it's not like he killed a box full of kittens. weed never hurt anyone. i also think it's really funny that his pr people tried to bribe news of the world to not run it by offering for him to be a columnist for three years. didn't they see snl?? dude can hardly read cue cards, i can't imagine his writing would be particularly captivating.

guess my box of michael phelps corn flakes is a collectors item now. i'll save some for next time i'm stoned, in his honor.








and just for old time's sake:









oh, and... i've def had no trouble sleeping the past few nights i got some perscrription promethazine-dm syrup AKA the stuff in purple drank. i'm gonna call lil wayne. party time.

get this now

i dunno if it's available to the general public yet but everyone needs to get the new loved ones ep, distractions.

the last song is a cover of the mescaleros' "coma girl". i'm pretty picky when it comes to clash/mescaleros covers, but this one is great. pretty mellow without being like a typical acoustic cover. amazing. i have listened to it 9 times today. if you need the download link, get at me. i hope they tour on this ep. i know dave's doin a show at the church soon-ish.