this ain’t rock’n roll, this is genocide!

Things that have been keeping me busy:

• Getting ready to play tomorrow night at Garfield Artworks with the epic Japanese hardcore(?) band Envy (on Temp Res), and a band called Sleeping People (I have to like a band with a name like that) and Knotfeeder (I guess ex-Don Cab, and featuring Andy from Southpaw as well). This is our next-to-last show, forget S*nic Y*uth and come see us and a band from Japan that kids shit their pants over instead!
• Work is busy as all get-out, what with having a lot of requesting being done, and training new student workers, and having my name rhymed with “candy” in a sing-songy manner by whomever is manning the information/candy desk when I walk by, and being asked by multiple professors if I’m not an undergrad.
• Speaking of undergrads, in the class I’m taking (I’m taking two, but one is web-based and therefore I don’t see undergrads when attending), I was struck today by the youth and, er, exuberant naivete of my classmates. That’s code for me saying some are kind of annoying. But hey, not all of them. It should be interesting.
• I wrote over the weekend, stuff I’m happy with, for the first time in ages. Not blog writing (obviously). Poetry type stuff. It all started flowing out Saturday evening, enabled perhaps by delving into nature at Cook Forest with my mom earlier that day, or by seeing awesome experimental films at Jefferson Presents that evening, or alcohol, or all of these things and more. Regardless, I’m happier with myself than I have been in quite a while on account of this.
• I fully intend to present you with an essay on the importance of the holy trinity of Ben Folds Five albums (S/T, “Whatever and Ever Amen,” “The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner”) in my life, at some point in the near future. (Ed.: Apparently I already mentioned this, in a post I vaguely remember writing a few days ago. Deal with it. I’m not taking it back.)
• What’s new with you?