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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: Spray Paint Middle west/East Coast September tour

« on: September 12, 2013, 06:31:45 PM »

"We don't charge seven bucks for fucking -- any whiskey there. Our most expensive whiskey is six dollars and it's Jameson." --direct quote from my Vegas-working roommate. WE'LL SEE YA THERE, USER: HUGEBOMBER!

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: July 28, 2013, 02:22:23 PM »

All Shakespeare's plays are going to be quick to read (because they're plays -- and the comedies are especially quick) and cheap (because Shakespeare's everywhere) so really, I think it's easiest and best to just start. Pretty much anywhere. I am teaching Romeo and Juliet in a class next week, so if you want to read along with some 14-year-olds in Texas, you can start with that.

In college I took a class called Shakespeare at the Opera with one of the world's preeminent Shakespeare scholars and basically all I learned was that I hate opera so I can't offer much there. But here's the book he'd just finished when I took that class, if you're interested.

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Music Shit / Re: 2013 and 1/2

« on: July 17, 2013, 05:43:07 PM »

People aren't into the Spray Paint LP? That's probably the only thing I've been crazy about this year that hasn't been mentioned so far.

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Music Shit / Re: Kesha rips off the residents?

« on: July 07, 2013, 01:39:11 PM »

not a feminist

How on earth is Ke$ha not a feminist?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Jobs

« on: June 21, 2013, 12:12:54 AM »

I teach SAT prep classes. Mostly the writing section, though sometimes I'll do math or critical reading. Basically I teach grammar to very wealthy Korean and Indian teens. It's pretty okay.

One time I was tutoring a kid and I said something about being at a party one time. He started cackling and then yelled to all the other kids in the room, "Did you guys hear that? Miranda likes to party!" and they all started laughing hysterically as if it were the funniest thing they'd ever heard.

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Music Shit / Re: 'My First Punk Shirt'

« on: June 21, 2013, 12:09:04 AM »

12 or 13, way too big Ramones shirt with C.J. lineup (i.e. NOT COOL) and "HEY HO LET'S GO" on the back. Wore it out until one day the other girls in my Spanish class told my teacher they were offended because of the "HO" terminology. My teacher yelled at them and not me, only cool thing she ever did. A year after graduation I saw one of them at Fleet Farm. She was a bagger, looking miserable and very pregnant. Honestly, one of the few times in my life I have felt nothing but pleasure at another's misfortune.

Also in junior high, my friend had a Sex Pistols shirt and the choir teacher made him turn it inside out because it said "sex" on it.

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Cities / Re: Austin round 2

« on: May 16, 2013, 07:49:57 AM »

No, but my best friend does, and I'm friends with a bunch of her coworkers too. Congratulations! Are you going to be working at the new one? Which department?

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Music Shit / Re: Time To Get Busy Termbo Bands

« on: May 11, 2013, 03:33:39 PM »

Oh, they put up a picture? I know that band. Would anyone like to hazard a guess as to how rockin' they are?

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: Are Os Mutantes worth seeing?

« on: May 05, 2013, 05:54:29 PM »

I saw them last week. I did not think it was worth seeing.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: When people stop being polite and start being stupid on Twitter

« on: May 04, 2013, 12:27:33 PM »

I know everyone on Termbo hates other humans and making connections with them, but I really don't get what's so bad about talking to somebody about their band T shirt. Sometimes I even talk to people about their baseball T shirts! If it is a dude I find attractive, I am even more likely to. Believe it or not, most people seem to respond pretty well to this!

Sometimes (usually) I am not even wearing a band T shirt and someone will say "Nice dress!" I like it! It is nice!

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Cities / Re: Austin round 2

« on: May 03, 2013, 01:18:26 PM »

Wheatsville's opening a second location this summer on S Lamar. Everyone I know who works at the original store (which is...a LOT of people) really loves it.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: April 27, 2013, 10:47:37 PM »

I was excited to find that someone had written a bio of Fred Exley (A Fan's Notes, etc),  so I hooked it from eBay after doing a little research.

Have you read Exley by Brock Clarke? It's a novel in which Exley plays a pretty major role -- the man and his books, obviously, but also the Yardley bio. A fictionalized form of Yardley himself makes an appearance. I'm not saying you'd necessarily like it (though I do very much), but it seems worth reading if you've already read both A Fan's Notes and the Yardley bio.

I did come across that one while checking around. Curious.

Well, if you do end up reading it, I hope you post your thoughts on here. I'd be interested to hear your take on it.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: How many reasons can there be?

« on: April 23, 2013, 04:24:50 PM »

It is a hygienic practice, un-cut dongs are much more susceptible to infection, especially in a guys childhood. 

Yep -- my brother had an infection and needed to get circumcised at age 6. Obviously I can't fully understand what this feels like, but it seems very unpleasant and best avoided.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: April 23, 2013, 04:22:30 PM »

I was excited to find that someone had written a bio of Fred Exley (A Fan's Notes, etc),  so I hooked it from eBay after doing a little research.

Have you read Exley by Brock Clarke? It's a novel in which Exley plays a pretty major role -- the man and his books, obviously, but also the Yardley bio. A fictionalized form of Yardley himself makes an appearance. I'm not saying you'd necessarily like it (though I do very much), but it seems worth reading if you've already read both A Fan's Notes and the Yardley bio.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: March 22, 2013, 08:03:22 AM »

If you guys want to read a Harlan Ellison story that takes place in the brothel my great-grandma ran, it's called "What I Did on My Vacation This Summer, By Little Bobby Hirschhorn, Age 27" and it's in Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled, which you can read here (giant PDF warning).