Avoca Dos

If you're looking for a new band to listen to, check out my friend's band:
Avoca Dos

Avoca Dos Myspace

They're from Madison and pretty amazing.

Moveable Feast

I actually feel like I'm getting better as a writer.
It's because I read "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway.
Even for a partially non-fiction book, it was pretty great.
Anytime I can hear/read more stories about Ezra Pound I'm happy.

But I learned some things about writing from the book that are really useful.
1) Always stop when there's still something left in the well. That way it fills up in between the times when you sit down to write. It also gives you a starting point, and everyone knows the hardest part of writing is getting started.

2) It's ok to write about yourself. A lot of people say you shouldn't write about yourself because nobody ever finds you as interesting as you do, but Hemingway proves this is bullshit. Sometimes the best stuff comes from personal experience, and a character who you connect with will always have that little extra emotional push because you connect with them.

3) It's funny when you call people bitches. Hemingway was a total dick to most people and it's hilarious to read.

4) Write a lot. This is pretty obvious but it's something I wasn't doing. After upping the amount of time I set aside just for writing I've gotten so much done and so many great ideas.

This is what I've learned from Hemingway the past couple of days. What a guy.
Pretty nice beard too.

Name Ten Things

Saturday again.
It really doesn't feel like the weekend when you have to wake up at 3 a.m. to go to work. But it's time for this weeks Name Ten Things.

Ten things I hate about Thom Yorke:
1) He wrote a song for the fucking New Moon soundtrack. What the fuck man?
2) He's a douche.
3) His face bothers me.
4) His teeth bother me.
5) That weird head shaking thing he does when he sings is annoying.
6) Every time I read pitchfork news I have to sift through at least 10 stories about him..
7) Radiohead is good.
8) He's ugly as fuck.
9) He knows that people will make a big deal over everything he does and is obviously super into himself.
10) Even though he's somehow become this big deal, he still acts like everything sucks. You can't walk around hating the world if you have a million fucking dollars.

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Wishen I was at comic con.

Bright Eyes

Conor Oberst is only going to do one more album under the name Bright Eyes.
His label says he's going to record it the first half of next year.

I'm starting to lose faith in him a little after 'Outer South.'
There was only like, 2 good songs on that album.
And after hearing the first Monsters Of Folk song,
"Say Please"
I'm even less impressed.

Is Conor Oberst growing up, or am I?

Quitter

A couple months back I decided to quit drinking.
I overloaded on it for too long and being drunk just stopped being fun.
Now I'm going to extend that.

I'm not going to do any kind of drugs from now on.
I'm going to stop smoking pot,
for the same reasons I stopped drinking.

Those things are are ok to experiment with,
but at a certain point it just sucks.
I didn't even smoke very often and I still felt terrible whenever it was in my system.

Being a space cadet is cool when you're in high school.
Being a space cadet when you're 20 years old is almost lame.

Goodnight, Goodbye

Finally got "Goodnight, Goodbye" by Ivory.
It's as good as you would think.
Kind of proves that Appleton isn't a shit-hole and good things can actually come out of here.
IVORY
Go buy that shit on iTunes, yo.