check out the first leg of dates here.

please please please please please please please play by me morrissey!!!!!!!!! 

i know, i know...it's been awhile.  sorry 'bout that.

ive decided that i will not be listening to any more leaked NIN tracks...i dont want the whole album to be ruined for me before it even gets released - i want the experience of listening to it start to finish

that being said, im always for seeing trent....check out the survivalism video...totally reminds me of the lost viewing station

beside you in time - my only complaint is there should be a trent cam available as an alternate angle....all trent all the time...i could give a crap about keyboard player dude...oh, and if you havent, check out the stills in the xtras...some great shots in there

rem will be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame tonight.  i guess they're showing it live on vh1 classic.  unfortunately i dont have vh1 classic, so hopefully itll be re-run on a channel i do have. i love rem. i hope their next album doesn't suck.

this made me smile a big stupid smile this morning.  michael stipe's fashion over the years.   and check out this big ol online tribute to the guys.

its going to be like 70ish here today, and 80 tomorrow and wednesday.  love it!

ive been having issues with my itunes for the last couple months and chris figured out a fix and got everything back in working order for me on sunday.  but...in the process my main hard drive suffered some freak damage, and im basically having to start over computer-wise from scratch. major frustration. hes going to try to recover as much as possible from the old hard drive, but im predicting weeks of swearing, banging my head against the wall, and wanting to throw the thing out the window before things get back to normal.  i had no idea i was so reliant upon my bookmarks and saved passwords. i cant believe im such an ass and dont have any of my important stuff backed up.

anyhow, as much as i hate technology right now, i love it too, because of this taste of NIN live from pink is the new blog.  he's in barcelona, where they played last night...head over for video clips from the show and the entire live performance of survivalism. 

oh, and how good was last weeks episode of lost.  SO GOOD! 

"Uh, that would range from Debussy to D'Angelo -- Voodoo, in particular. Perhaps Erykah Badu, Sigur Ros or Brian Eno's latest album, Another Day on Earth. They all come in handy."

this is really really REALLY funny...i can't believe i didnt come across this article sooner:

Detroit is cool – or at least that’s what the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau would have you believe.

The convention group uneiled a new brand marketing campaign “The City Where Cool Comes From” this afternoon to about 400 tourism, hospitality and civic leaders at it’s annual meeting at the Detroit Opera House.

The marketing strategy will focus on the five major areas that make metro Detroit cool – cars, culture, gaming, music and sports. The group said a region can’t be all things to everyone, so it’s targeting 21- to 34-year-olds with its new branding message because they’re not swayed by negative perceptions of Detroit, they know what cool is and they will be around to pass the message on to future generations.

ha! could nothing be more appropriate? morrissey already has his gravesite picked out

"So after the band stopped in 2000, it was very much a 'Gee, I'm glad that's over' kind of thing. I think we all needed a rest. We'd say that we 'parked' the band, and I always thought that was a good way of saying it, because we'll probably revisit the band sometime in the future. God knows when, but it'd be too much fun not to." check out 2 good rob dickinson interviews: here and here 

07.07.07

as if we needed another reason to loathe the prez 

zspennycandy.com has gotten a bit of a facelift

for many of my friends 2007 is a big year - 10 year class reunion time.  i know the ball is already rolling on the planning of ours.  im a little freaked about it.  im been thinking a lot about how much more i need to hit the gym to be in super tip-top condition for said event.  you know thats the reason that 90 percent of people go to these things, to see whos gotten fat, so they can feel better about themselves. and if something goes horribly wrong in my life and i pack on the pounds in the next 6 months(oh dear god please dont let that happen), i will most definitely not be attending. 

i know, i know, im a horrible shallow vein human being.  

at least i wont have turned out like the valedictorian on the show 'in case of emergency'.  oh wait, im pretty sure nobody watches that show.  she works at a massage parlor.  the kind that gives happy endings.  but at least she's super hot.