Hot Chip

I saw Hot Chip at the Starlight Ballroom last week on Thursday. I've had a number of their remixes and songs of theirs that other people remixed, but I only picked up a CD of just their stuff a couple weeks ago. I dug it, so I had to get tickets. A numbr of my friends were going too, so that was a big incentive.

Lucky me, they all got tickets before the show sold out. So I was the only one in the group of 5 or 6 of us without tickets. Getting tickets was a FIASCO. The only 'logical' way of getting tickets I could think of by using Craigslist. SO, I probably sent out a dozen emails to people claiming to have tickets. I spent an entire week on craigslist seeing if I could get tickets. 90% of the emails I sent out were ignored by the receivers, I got two responses back. When I responded for second time to one of them, I was finally ignored yet again, but mah last boy hooked me up. One thing about buying stuff off of craigslist which is kind of weird, is that you have to go meet the person in order to make the trade. So I could have ended up buying a ticket off some starving marmot for all I knew. But, the dude was chill and I got in paying less than all my friends did. Of course I gave the dude a 20$ although online he said he only wanted 15$. I was just so greatfull someone actually got back to be, it was worth it.

So the show was awesome. Some group called Blood Something or other opened for them and nobody was feeling it too much. They were alright, but, eh. Ya know.

Hot Chip was ridonk. It was a really fun show and vibe was right where it needed to be. Nobody was really standing around looking like they didn't know what was going and everyone got reals into it.




My friend Lyndsay had her boyfriend come down for the weekend so he was there as well. He has basically the same taste in music as I and he's totally crazy. He wears hi-tops and bright blue pants and can dance all night. Mah type of d000d.

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I gotta say though, one of the highlights of the night was not seeing Hot Chip. It was getting to hang out with Spank Rock a bit at the end of the night. He's such a chill guy, he was just walking around getting pictures with people, drinking, and talking. I gave him a couple good hand shakes. What a bro.

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609 CLARION ST

Yo.

So, stuff has been happening, quite a bit actually. But every time I think about sitting down and writing one of these I feel like it'll take a million years and I decide to forget about it. Well, NO MORE.

First, a couple months ago I saw this dude:
His name is Will Vinton and he basically invented Claymation. It was awesome hearing him talk about the field and how he got started and all of the projects he has worked on. He's known most famously for the M&M Commericals, The PJs(TV show), Slacker Cats, and those old claymation raisin commercials if anyone remembers those. He was very interesting and showed a lot of his prior work. Cool stuffs.

So all that was cool but now for the BIG NEWS

609 CLARION STREET

JHEAHHYYH BOI. 609 Clarion St, Philadelphia, PA where it's at. GOT MAH HAUUUSSS.

I'm living with two friends next year. Ray, who is a film buff going into Writing For Film and Isaac who is going into Art Education. Both are totally chill bros. I'm really looking forward to living with them and having you all meet them. This past Tuesday we met with our Landlord and signed our lease! We officially move in May 1st (or may 15th, depending on when the people move out). We've paid our first, last, and safety rents and we're all set. It's so exciting. We are seated right on Broad and South street which is only 3-4 blocks from school which is a PERFECT location. South street is where the whole night life scene of Philadelphia takes place, so it's a cool location to be in. Here's a MAP.



The house is pretty perfect. It's this three floor deal + basement connected to another house on one side which is also full of uArts students. (We don't know them, but I'm sure we'll figure out who they are soon enough...) I'll try to map it out as best I can. So you walk into a decent sized living room area where we will probably throw a couch or two and a TV. You walk through this room hugging the left wall and you go through a little hall which on the right has a staircase up and straight ahead is the kitchen. There is a back door there that leads to our BACKYARD, which is not much of a yard at all but it'll still be real cool to for barbeque's or something. It's this little fenced off guy with gravel. BETTER THAN NOTHIN, EH? So if you were to go up the stairs you have a bedroom on the left (Isaac's), a bathroom to the front left, another staircase up to the front right and another bedroom to the right (Ray's). Up the staircase is my room. All the rooms are pretty similar sized. It's like the perfect size for three of us. I can't wait to move in. It's going to be SO nice having a place for ourselves. This is the first time I'll be living without the shadow of an RA or Parents over my head. It's a big step I guess, dealing with heating, electric, water, and rental bills, but I'm so excited. It's going to be great having a place to ourselves.

All of you are coming at some point over the summer to check it out and see the philadelph sites. It'll be crazy fun.

Happy Leap Year

I was gunna type up a big thing because it's a leap AN THIS SHIT ONLY HAPPENS ONCE EVERY FOUR YEARS YO but uh, I'm going to go to a party instead.

I leave you with this dude I saw giving a lecture. He was totes gnar.

Double D and Cup of J

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I kinda did. I ended up trying about 20 different settings and two lenses to try and get a picture to come out and this was still only the best I could get. The eclipse was pretty cool though, I guess. For those of you who missed it, YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL DECEMBER 21ST, 2010 UNTIL THE TIME THIS HAPPENS. Man...how do they calculate this stuff...I don't get it.

In other news, Amy was here this past weekend. She tried to write her name:



Besides that not a whole lot has been going on. I wish I could say more but school's been pretty much school as of late. Of course it's all been fun, but nothing remarkable has really happened.

Uh, the 'rents and the bro are in California skiing it up with the cousins this week. I completely forgot that we had a February break in High School. It's kind of weird thinking of them just doing their own thing and I'm off at school...I don't know how it would be any other way, but it is different thinking about it like that. Yaknow?

So, I just found out yesterday that one of better friends here (Geoff) is transferring next year. When he told me I was just kinda like "Ah, that sucks" but thinking more about it it really sucks. We were planning on living together next year and we had all of these HUGE plans for parties, DJing, and starting a break dance THANG and setting up stuff in our house/apartment. But, ugh, I guess not anymore. SUCKS.

Here's Geoff and his roommate. Geoff's suckin' on the bottle...


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EDIT: How do you steal a bridge?


That is it, no more news. Have a good weekend. MYCARISSTILLDEAD:( :( :( :( :( :(

CRV RIP

So, it's true. My brother got in a fairly bad accident earlier in the week. It wasn't his fault, he going the speed limit and even that was too fast for the poor icy conditions. He's fine and wasn't hurt at all, but the car kinda was.

I just got off the phone with my dad and it's too expensive to fix the car. So that's it, no more CRV. We won't ever see him again. :(

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CHARLIE IS MY HERO



Kanye West Ft. Daft Punk at the Grammy's. Check it if you missed it, it's gnar.

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