Anthony

built to quit

2009-11-14T15:43:18Z

I haven't listened to the new Built To Spill yet, despite several people informing me that it is awesome. Normally I'd be first in line to pick it up, but since it is becoming gift-giving season I want to save my money for such things. However, we are going to go see them next week so I should probably start downloading some MP3s, even though "it's not the same, mannnn." I will purchase it eventually, for certain.

I will not purchase this.

manicpop @ 2009-10-30T06:52:00

2009-10-30T13:52:47Z

I have been having incredibly weird dreams the past few nights. Normally I have a dream I remember once a week or so, but I've had weird dreams the past three nights.

Last night/this morning, I had a dream that I was going to see The Mars Volta at some club, and I went in and for some reason I went back outside. Later I went back inside and I showed the guy at the door my bar stamp on my wrist, but he said it was worn off and didn't look like the bar stamp, so he wouldn't let me in. Then I showed him my ticket stub and took it and ripped it up, so I yelled at him.

The night before, I had a dream that I went to Missoula on a Summer vacation, which I used to do often, except in my dream I took an airplane there. While I was there, I went to a pay laundromat. Later I flew back home and realized I left my clothes at the laundromat in Missoula, and I tried to think of a way to get my clothes back.

The night before that, I had a dream I was a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and it was time for me to go up for my sketch, but I wasn't in my costume yet, but I went up there anyway and tried to improvise why I was wearing regular clothes.

A couple weeks ago I had a dream I was at work, and I decided to take a break. I went to the cold drink aisle and looked around, and grabbed a Coors Light (which I NEVER drink!). I went and paid for it, and started walking back to the breakroom. As I was walking I cracked open the can and took a few sips. Then I realized... I can't drink beer at work! What the hell am I doing? I'm going to get fired! The rest of the dream was me trying to sneak around the store and hide my beercan so no one would see what I did. I went to the bathroom and kept waiting for the people inside to leave so I could dump out the can and throw it away without anyone noticing.

SUBSCR~1

2009-10-26T20:05:23Z

I'm LOLing my ass off at http://www.xkcd.com/ today.

Apparently an homage to GeoCities, which is shutting down today.

"720p television sets"

2009-10-13T14:46:56Z

Argh... I found an article about HDTVs on msnbc.com with inaccurate information, and I wanted to post a comment about how dumb they are... but I can't do that unless I register with newsvine.com! So I tried to do that, and it won't work! I can't register on their dumb site... every time I try it tells me that the link I followed expired. I even tried enabling cookies for newsvine.com and that didn't work either! So now I want to write about stupid their website is (it probably requires a bunch of third-party cookies to be set, and I'm not going to let it do that) but I can't get on there to do it!

Have websites that work without a bunch of stupid bullshiz in them! Write well-researched, factual articles!!!

unreal

2009-09-19T07:23:05Z

Getting to see Sunny Day Real Estate twice the past two nights was incredible. Getting to see them bust out "Spade and Parade" was unbelievable. And, of course, it was with the most wonderful company ever.

Being so excited to see SDRE that I left my lights on and was stuck in Tacoma for an hour and half after the show was not so great... but it was part of the experience.

For those who don't follow manicpoporg (almost all of you), check out http://www.manicpop.org/article.php/20090918224624978

And here's another great picture if you haven't seen it yet.

manicpop @ 2009-09-16T15:45:00

2009-09-16T22:46:00Z

Crossing my fingers....

emo

2009-09-14T01:33:57Z

We were getting ready for the SDRE show on Thursday and listening to some tunes, and Lauren just cried while listening to "Sometimes." She's officially ready for the show now.

manicpop @ 2009-08-18T22:18:00

2009-08-19T05:18:19Z

For those of you who live in Seattle and supported the 20-cent bag tax, I know things look bad now.

Seattle
Referendum 1 - Bag Tax

Aug 18, 2009 - 20:27:03
49% of vote counted

Approve
26,866 votes

Reject
37,362 votes

I know "Reject" is the winner... but don't lose hope! Remember this is a primary election, and this is a top-two primary system now. "Reject" and "Approve" BOTH won and advance to the fall election... beating out such challengers as:

Hmm... I guess
9,869 votes

Dunno
3,141 votes

Wait... I don't get it
1,772 votes

Sounds good, except, you know, sometimes I forget my cloth bag, so maybe have it so if I forget I don't have to pay anything, as long as I promise to remember next time
295 votes

Of course THE MEDIA doesn't want you to know about that, so they don't report it.

manicpop @ 2009-08-16T22:50:00

2009-08-17T05:54:50Z

I'm freaking out!

Sunny Day is announcing tour dates for 2010, playing a fricking festival in Australia. Which means this tour isn't a one-off thing.

Also...

Sub Pop records (who released Diary, LP2, and HIFTBSO, as well as Return of the Frog Queen) is among the first labels to sign on with Rock Band Network. According to Sub Pop Head of A&R Tony Kiewel, when asked by GameInformer about which artists were getting the Rock Band treatment first:

"We're releasing all the Sunny Day Real Estate records, and those are big guitar, bass, and drum songs for the most part that are pretty epic and I think would be fun to play."

I was freaking about being able to play "Seven" on GH5, now all three Sub Pop albums???

I'm seeing them in a month!!

manicpop @ 2009-08-05T07:30:00

2009-08-05T14:30:17Z

http://www.wearethemasses.com/videos/modest-mouse-king-rat

manicpop @ 2009-08-01T17:36:00

2009-08-02T00:37:47Z

I was going to post about the heat, but I think Lucky says it best:

No more, please.

wow

2009-07-29T02:17:07Z

We cooked today even though it's death hot.

I think Lauren doesn't want us to cook tomorrow. She found this for me:

http://www.littlecaesars.com/pizza/vegetarian_pizza.asp

How nice of them.

manicpop @ 2009-07-18T05:50:00

2009-07-18T12:50:09Z

Okay, I picked up tickets for Sunny Day Real Estate in BC. Now I'll be able to see the first show and last show of the tour... this makes me happy.

Does anyone know the specifics for getting across the border now? It's either passport or "enhanced" driver's license, right? Lauren and I have neither, so if anyone has any advice on what's the easiest route, let me know.

So is this the suckiest-assest Bumbershoot ever? Maybe I'm bitter about no Sunny Day after all the rumors, but still. How I long for the Bumbershoot of the 1990s when all my favorite bands would be packed into four days and the only thing that "sucked" was when two awesome bands played at the same time. Now... ugh. I'm looking forward to going out and having fun and enjoying good food and wonderful company and all that, but outside of Modest Mouse, Long Winters, and Akimbo, I can't really say I'm super-pumped for any of the music this year. Maybe I'll try to catch some comedy even though it's usually hard to get into those shows.

Picking up Pearl Jam tickets in a few hours... thank you, Lauren! We're having to get a little creative with the money to hit up these shows, but it's well worth it.

manicpop @ 2009-07-18T00:24:00

2009-07-18T07:24:46Z

nooooooooooooooo

Full Bumbershoot schedule posted, and I don't see Sunny Day Real Estate on there. Nice going, people who spread rumors!

Hm. BC tickets still available. If they're still available next Friday, I may have to get them. I really hoped I'd be able to see the first and last performances of this tour. It just sucks that they wouldn't open and close the tour in Seattle. Unless there's a super-secret show I don't know about....

rifftrax live in theaters

2009-07-16T00:18:40Z

http://www.manicpop.org/article.php/20090715163722758

Who will be attending this with Lauren and me at Kent Station? bobbymcr? Others?

manicpop.org

2009-07-14T05:46:44Z

Okay, I've finally stopped screwing around and I've actually got something up and running on ManicPop.org.

http://www.manicpop.org/

I've been meaning to "do something" with my webhost for a while. As you may know, I used to have thechalkoutline.com but after that band disintegrated I re-registered it as manicpop.org, migrated my e-mail and stuff there, but for the most part sat on the domain.

I can't really think of anything better to do with it, so I'm just going to write random stuff there, kind of like I [used to] do here. I will of course continue to write in the LiveJournal when I'm specfically writing about myself, or writing to you, my friends.

If you can't be bothered to visit my site, you can add manicpoporg to your followed feeds on LiveJournal, or add http://www.manicpop.org/backend/feed.rss to your favorite news reader.

If you do visit my site, please register a username and feel free to comment.

Now... logo competiton!

The logo on the front page of my site was basically a placeholder. Can you design a good logo for me? We've already had one entry by bobbymcr:

Can you do better? Yes. So please, submit something. Make it around the same dimensions, PNG, and use transparency if it has a solid background.

manicpop @ 2009-07-10T19:22:00

2009-07-11T02:22:40Z

So, Brian, Lauren and I were to attend the Mariners game with Brooke, Rachel, and others yesterday, but I was unable to reach either of them via text or voice phone methods. We went to the game anyway hoping to find them but did not, so we left. I assumed it was a misunderstanding or abrupt change of plans, but I still haven't heard anything and now I'm slightly worried.

Update: Just got a text, all is well.

manicpop @ 2009-07-05T21:03:00

2009-07-06T04:12:15Z

Dude, no more Harvey? I can't say it's a total surprise as they've been pretty sporadically "a band" of late, but I was hoping for another record.

Just got my tickets for the last show. Can't wait to take Lauren to the Crocodile for the first time.

manicpop @ 2009-06-30T20:53:00

2009-07-01T03:54:00Z

i used to write in this thing

2009-06-29T07:01:10Z

"i'm a totally different person... one who confronts his problems, instead of drowning them in sunny day real estate." -- me, playing off my heartbreak the last time SDRE broke up.

Well, I got my tickets for the Paramount show so off we go again! Of course, I'm very happy in love and life and relatively emotionally stable now, so maybe I'm finally that different person after all. However, I'm sure for at least one night this year I'm going to party like I'm 16 and insane.

This was the second weekend in a row when Lauren and I have headed up to Seattle to meet up with her parents and go to a parade with people in various states of undress. This time I was smart enough to remember sunscreen. Sunscreen has changed a lot since I was a boy, you know. Now it mostly comes in spray cans. Don't spray it around your face unless you want to choke to death. I guess next time I will spray it on my hands then rub it on my face.

Since our television is dying and 480i/480p/720p on it is virtually unwatchable, I hit up craigslist to look for TVs and instead found a 480i/1080i-accepting widescreen projector for $50. It is old, but works. Now I can finally play Wii again, this time projected onto my kitchen wall. Just earlier today I was finally playing Super Mario Galaxy again, and yelling "Fuck you, you little bitch" at the enemies and "What the hell are you doing, asshole?" at Mario again. It's been a while. For the moment 1080i is still okay looking on our television so the cable box will remain hooked up to that.

sunny day real estate tour 2009

2009-06-23T03:07:30Z

Full tour dates and press release at:

http://sunnydayrealestate.fm/

Details on re-issued Diary and LP2 with bonus tracks (that I've probably already heard, but hopefully better quality):

http://www.subpop.com/channel/blog/sunny_day_real_estate_reunion_tour_plus_sub_pop_reissues_of_diary_and_lp2

Okay, I'm doing this mainly to sort out all the crazy thoughts in my head, but if anyone else finds it helpful, excellent.

I am bouncing up and down all over my apartment just like I did 11 years ago when I found out they were getting back together last time. Even though I've seen them five times, I'm just as excited as I was then. I've never seen the original lineup. This is for real, kids.

So far, the dates are:

9/16: MusicFest NW 2009, Portland, OR
9/18: Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR
9/20: Murray Theater, Salt Lake City, UT (unconfirmed?)
9/21: Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO
10/3: Center Stage Theatre, Atlanta, GA
10/13: The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
10/16: The Paramount, Seattle, WA

I hope the Bumbershoot rumors are true, and that this tour starts in Seattle at Bumbershoot and ends in Seattle at the Paramount. No matter what happens I will be at any and all Seattle dates and hopefully the Portland dates too.

~~I WILL TRY TO KEEP THIS POST UPDATED WHEN NEW DATES LEAK OUT until there is an official announcement.~~

DAH

2009-06-22T20:13:32Z

Marco Collins just tweeted that The End just tweeted that Sunny Day Real Estate plays the Paramount on 10/16. Fdjjeionhvchjrekewodnvhdkjd!

sorry brooke

2009-06-20T16:56:25Z

Well, the response was overwhelmingly positive.

http://twitter.com/manicpop/

twitter tracker!!!111111

2009-06-19T19:15:05Z

http://www.hulu.com/watch/78632/the-tonight-show-with-conan-obrien-twitter-tracker-returns

After we watched this, Lauren was cuddled up on the couch with her iPhone, and she wouldn't let me know what she was doing. I eventually found out she was signing up for Twitter!!! Now I'm tempted to do it even though it looks stupid. I generally try to stay away from this "social networking" crap, and I especially don't like that Twitter encourages you to type like a moron with the 140 character limit. "OMG U USE TWITR 2?"

However, the fact that Twitter is being used by people in Iran to communicate details of the unrest in the country and stuff like that makes me think it could be a positive thing. And even though it's a proprietary service, at least some of the system is open-source.

I'm conflicted. Should I give up my principles and join Twitter because it might be slightly amusing, or stay strong?

View Poll: twitter

manicpop @ 2009-06-14T21:59:00

2009-06-15T04:59:30Z

#SuperDeluxe on irc.freenode.net is the place to be!