| cinco de mayo, blowout, denial |
[May. 4th, 2007|11:51 am] |
kaufman
metropolitan
apple of discord
nine volt
the khyber
56 s. second st.
philadelphia
doors at 9:00, $8, 21+ |
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| record release show this saturday |
[Mar. 9th, 2007|09:17 am] |
apple of discord (that's us)
bamboo shoots (south asian disco rock)
the prestige (ep release show! gradwell math pop)
shekeepsbees (ex-singer of the english system, dark country by way of brooklyn)
saturday march 10
9:00pm / 21+ / $8
north star bar
27th & poplar
philadelphia pa 19130
(215) 787-0488
northstarrocks.com |
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| in regulated measure, fear is on our side |
[Mar. 27th, 2006|08:47 am] |
i know it's a school night but i'm just putting it out there. our good friends the silence kit are playing at the khyber tomorrow (tuesday) night with i love you but i've chosen darkness. see you there! |
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| imagine what you're missing! |
[Jan. 1st, 2006|09:01 pm] |
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yep, this is pretty much friends-only since 2004. add me to be added back, blah blah blah. |
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| friday night |
[Dec. 29th, 2005|11:09 pm] |
friday december 30
club 218
218 south st
philadelphia pa
10:00/ $7 / 21+
apple of discord
graze - reunion/last show!
gloryfront
alight
it's our first 21+ show in a while and our last show of any kind until we can finish our record. we'd love to see you there! |
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| just found out |
[Dec. 6th, 2005|06:45 pm] |
the silence kit is playing live on wkdu 91.7 tonight at 7:00 - you can also listen on the internets! |
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| apple of discord show tonight! |
[Aug. 19th, 2005|08:05 am] |
FRI 8/19
tunes cds & music (884 greentree square rt 73 north, marlton nj)
7:30PM, FREE! all ages!
the lovely and talented brian mietz aka it's a king thing is opening with a set of acoustic songs. it should make for a fun-filled evening. see you there! |
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| how many of you people feel like human beings? |
[Apr. 1st, 2005|12:56 pm] |
"i was walking by a drycleaner at three am. and there was a sign that said 'sorry, we're closed.' you don't have to be sorry! it's three am and you're a drycleaner. it would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. i'm not gonna come by at ten and say, 'hey i was here at three am and you guys were closed. someone owes me an apology!'"
rest in peace, mitch all together. |
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| that's why they call me mr. plow |
[Jan. 24th, 2005|08:09 am] |
if you look closely you can see me beginning to utter the words, "OHHHHH THIS SUCKS"
edit: no school today. i <3 snow! |
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| philly pwns atlanta |
[Jan. 23rd, 2005|07:09 pm] |
as a long-suffering eagles fan, i'm pretty ecstatic! i hope school's closed tomorrow. they do such an abysmal job plowing the roads in my development that i have zero idea what the roads are actually like. go birds! |
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| people you love will turn their backs on you |
[Dec. 28th, 2004|05:26 am] |
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apple of discord cds came in last week. in all the excitement i lost all sense of shame and put us up on myspace. i wonder if we could ever approach those spiraling-like numbers. wow, those guys are everywhere. |
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[Dec. 27th, 2004|08:39 am] |
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i know this page is usually a laugh a minute but if i could be serious for a moment (and i'll keep it editorial-free), please keep the thousands of victims of yesterday's earthquake and subsequent tidal waves in south asia in your thoughts. as of this writing, the death toll is up to just under 21,900 with hundreds of thousands injured and displaced, there could be one million new homeless. |
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| i've been so lucky (not so lucky) |
[Dec. 24th, 2004|06:14 am] |
monica got two new rats
(including me, that makes four in the house)
no work until jan 03, 2005
(i left my aim and email on at the office)
hung out with good friends tonight
(fell asleep on the couch, awake but listless and burning out my eyes on the pc now)
going to see my family & nelson in va next week
have a safe and happy holiday, everyone. hope you get everything you wished for. |
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[Dec. 22nd, 2004|09:24 am] |
congratulations to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) 5000 and fairelady on their engagement! remember guys, if i'd never played that solo show at gradwell you never would have (re)met (i went into greater detail on the aod blog) ! well, at least not until the next show you both happened to be at.
last thursday apple of discord mark iv had its first rehearsal. aside from the fact that at 6'4 brian had to practically crawl his way into the basement, it went really well. we worked on a couple of new ideas. i hope this doesn't end up sounding like cursive. i was worried that it would take everyone a while to get comfortable but it came together pretty quickly. good thing my songwriting is so predictable.
i'm adamant about not playing out with this lineup. i could probably count the number of good shows apple of discord had in its last year of playing on one hand. in contrast, i'd need an excel spreadsheet to document the number of times we've been dicked over and had our good nature taken advantage of. i just want to write and record for the time being.
afterwards we (sans brian) went to the black horse diner for ostensibly the last time. to make a long story short, matt felt that his long time patronage was unappreciated. in the immortal words of big worm, 'it's the principality of the thing, smokey!' no big loss, i always thought that place was like the shop rite of diners - sticky floors, poor lighting, weird characters and odd smells. |
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| the most ridiculous thing you'll see this week |
[Dec. 15th, 2004|11:07 am] |
erich found this:
tommy seebach - apache (mpeg file, right-click to save, 40-something MB, safe for work) |
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| i still get upset when i read your old letters, 'cause no one needs you more than me |
[Dec. 14th, 2004|03:04 pm] |
friday night monica and i went up to aaron and beth's new place (tripod site, pop-ups galore) to celebrate our friend the atom's first release, a reissue of clark's 'chicken and cashews'. it was a good time. there's some great tracks on the cd like 'peppercorn', 'subsonic sifter' and 'chinese firedrill'. if i can free up the webspace i'll post mp3s soon.
i was a little dismayed when steve ericson played a lot of songs, because i planned on only playing three or four. i ended up doing 'i was so sure', 'blowing out the sun' and 'rosalind, your tired heart', followed by unrehearsed numbers of 'do you remember the eclipse', clark's 'strange attractors' and finally ending with an impromptu version of elliott smith's 'pitseleh'. i only forgot the line 'the first time i saw you i knew it would never last / i'm not half of what i wish i was' - one of the best parts. sorry. earlier in the evening steve was telling us about hanging out with robert quine a week after smith's death (steve kept putting off sending quine a truckee cd week after week until it was too late), which led to us talking about es and his untimely and grisly demise. regrettably i don't have any richard hell covers in my repetoire so the es cover seemed like a good thing to do. at the time, anyway.
phil played a really sad solo song after me. imagine big phil sweetly singing the words 'i've wasted so much time on us' into a microphone; it's enough to break your heart. he said it was about george bush but i wasn't buying it. the night ended with the debut of sworple, which consists of phil on bass, kevin on guitar, aaron on guitar/computer and eric turtle on drums. phil and kevin write the songs. they played for about thirty minutes and they were really good. very noisy and poppy - phil and aaron sound really good singing together. |
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[Dec. 8th, 2004|04:52 pm] |
while flipping through channels last night i stumbled across this part of a south park episode and ended up on the floor, nearly in tears from laughter:
http://www.asiarock.com/movies/cartman.mov (plenty safe for work)
maybe it helps if you're older. |
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| remind me what we're celebrating |
[Nov. 18th, 2004|10:22 am] |
monica, carryn & i saw a reunited american music club at the north star last tuesday. will johnson from centro-matic opened and was very good. i've been listening to american music club for over ten years and it's still some of the most beautiful, moving and honest music i've ever heard in my life. highlights included 'i've been a (fucking) mess (since you've been gone)', 'why won't you stay' and 'patriot's heart' from the new record. i wanted to write a whole thing about amc and what they've meant to me but i'll save it for a later entry.
monica brought her new oil painting home, which is finally done! the thing is huge, it barely fit in my truck lengthwise but we got it home and it looks fantastic. it's been a number of years since monica's been able to paint and i'm so happy that she finally got the time, energy and space to put a piece together. out of all her talents i think painting's her greatest gift. i look at her work and it's just beyond me how she does it.
a drummerless apple of discord got together at matt's house to fool around with some new song ideas. with any luck we can start rehearsals with brian by the end of the month. afterwards i wanted to check out matt's copy of halo 2 and he and nolan surprised me by giving me my OWN copy as an early birthday present. i have the best friends in the world. in other early gift entries, my cousin michelle sent me one of those atari joysticks that has 15 classic games built-in. i already have a 682 game atari emulator that plays on my $15 dreamcast but it's pretty cool using the old style joystick.
on monica's birthday we finally got around to seeing napoleon dynamite. god! |
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[Nov. 15th, 2004|07:55 am] |
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happy birthday to miss_monny, the love of my life. |
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