Living in Philadelphia

omigod this is so good. i feel better than zeus when he first invented steve forbert

also i am listening to joanna newsom and i finally hear her as the joni that she was marketed as. what a fool was i

http://open.spotify.com/local/Sanford+Townsend+Band/Billboard+Top+100+Hits+of+1977/Smoke+from+a+Distant+Fire/211

if that doesn't work let me know, i don't know how spotify works

http://open.spotify.com/user/1232998518/playlist/5lRA8hXepog9qecjTN4mTJ

ok.

sanford-townsend band is late-seventies van morrison wearing a training bra?

God was totally right. Through the magic of Spotify the most compelling cultural artifact produced by humans to date has oozed out of me, almost spontaneously. God bless the children.

margate!

Adobe quizzo: sucks :(

this place is a piece of shit summum bonum. if you validate this place in the whole wide world of places available for evaluation, then you are severely misguided. Fuck it forever. Fuck all these disgusting people who are the alleged children of mafisoso codes, fuck you forever. Get a taste of your own medicine. Where else would be the perfect kingdom of present-day capitialism fucking itself forever? What happens to you and america at large when you get yourself out of your guy fieri/mitt romney ass whenever you have finally exhausted the physical bodies of the peeps you are bleeding. Fuck you forever, western capitalism in its present form and all, naturally inclusive of sympathizers thereof without exception. you will die on the same frayed rope that you created out of narcissism's sake.

everyone appealing to me whom i meet here turns out to live/originate from somewhere else

i am so sick of hearing "oh we are real here" which basically ime = "we are racist, join the club!"

fuck this place forever, i am so sick of hearing the same rhetoric

fuck these people forever

but it's okay b/c tattoos and punk rock, i.e., the very definition of reactionary

fuck you forever.

idgi. i was born in philly tho so maybe i'm part of the problem. lol.

oh it's not so bad

if i don't get a job IN the city soon, though, i'm gonna kill myself. this commute-to-the-suburbs-for-low-paying-bullshit is pushing me to the edge.

i also think all of our problems it's really not right to blame us for guy fieri and mitt romney two guys who are definitely not from philly

of all our problems*? i'm not sure what syntax i was going for there

yeah i mean if yr gonna call philly out for lingering insular racist attitudes at least cite like i dunno frank rizzo or something

knew someone over the summer from norristown complaining about how minorities were taking all of her opportunities

was that person longtime philadelphia meteorological personality cecily tynan

cecily tynan delong

if i don't get a job IN the city soon, though, i'm gonna kill myself. this commute-to-the-suburbs-for-low-paying-bullshit is pushing me to the edge.

qft

had such a crush on cecily tynan. i even had a crush on monica malpass. i have a thing for news anchors. its like one of my only things! i know, too much information. in an alternate universe i totally live alone and devote all my time to my obsessive anchorwoman fansite.

i used to wait on monica when i worked at saladalley at the bourse and i always got a little nervous putting her french onion soup down on the table. was afraid my love for her would make me shakey and drop it in her lap. plus, i was always hungover so i was always a little naturally shakey.

shakey mo malpassier

everyone appealing to me whom i meet here turns out to live/originate from somewhere else

I feel this. I'm glad to be able to live comfortably in a nice neighborhood surrounded by friends but... the bar seems to be set sooooooo low here. I feel like all of the creative and ambitious people have left. I feel bored in a way I didn't know existed until I moved here. But I can't undervalue not having to worry about money and being able to live almost anywhere in the city that I want.

One of my jobs has a really stellar set of coworkers, though. Some of them are from Philly and the suburbs and I like them. But I get what you're saying. This place seems like it's still in the 1970s.

I guess I always thought a time machine would be cool

what's weird to me is that almost every time i'm in philly, i only hang out with people who also grew up in philly, or are friends with people whom i grew up with in philly.

also, not all of the creative and ambitious people have left. evidenced by many friends who are doing quite well working in art and so on. eh.

some of it depends on where interests lie, you know? philly is great to me because a lot of friends who live there are into communal living, punk rock, and/or weird art. it kind of reminds me of oakland writ small, plus its cheaper.

I need to meet your friends, dude!

http://blog.philadelphiarealestate.com/ya-cant-polish-a-turd-doobies-is-a-dive/

unfuckingbelievable

holy shit

Anybody at Union Transfer for Ariel Pink tonight?

Guess not. Anyone at First Unitarian for Purity Ring ok no that is fine

thanks for making me feel bad about not going to cool shows

Sorry, not my intent :(

It's fun, but it sucks going to and coming back from these things alone.

i want to go to shows! tell me when something is coming up and if i'm free i'll try to get a ticket

http://www.r5productions.com/

Guys, MOON DUO AT KFN!!! It is going to rule and y'all should come with

When?

Early oct, maybe the 6? It's a sat

I'll be there- I've wanted to see them (or Wooden Shjips, I'm not picky) for ages...

YES!!

Grimes/Elite Gymnastics y/n

So who's on borad for Moon Duo on sat? Also FYI Matthew Dear and Light Asylum are doing a Making Time in the next few months!

I'll be there! Also on the calendar in the next few weeks:
10/13- Swans at Union Transfer
10/18- Holy Other at Johnny Brenda's
10/24- Bear in Heaven & Pink Skull at Johnny Brenda's
11/5- Maserati at KFN
11/12- Earth at Johnny Brenda's

http://geekadelphia.com/2012/10/04/the-bizarre-bazaar-lives-up-to-its-name/

Yeah! That's a block from my work; I stopped in a few weeks ago and it's really really cool.