I feel very scatter brained right now. I put on some music which is not helping because it was referenced in Questionable Content, which was just referred to me by Mr Keesan.

I enjoyed seeing the Fiery Furnaces live, but was not satisfied by the recording on first listen. I'm taking to it more this time.

I recorded myself for the first time in over a month today. It was fun. I have to get back into doing more things like that. I've been working on my new album with Dashan, and we're nearly done. It will be called Slivers and Bits. Maybe I've said that here already. Recording should be done in less than a week.

I think nearing the completion of recording and finishing school (for real) has been too much closure for me too soon. There are more things to do, but I feel like I'm done with it all.

My colloquium went very very well, it was a real pleasure. Met up with Dan and Matt and had lunch, and then spent the rest of the day with Yoko. Recorded with Dashan today.

Recorded that tiny bit here (at home), and then I saw a little friend. Apparently, our mice have finally ventured to my room, after a year of hanging out in the kitchen. I don't keep food in here, so I don't know why it was here. Satisfying it's wanderlust perhaps. I haven't written a song about a mouse in a while, I think it's a sign.

While I think it shouldn't be here, I'd like to think we could get along.

song for download - song for friends

On Thursday my undergraduate education will conclude. I am excited to talk about law, music , and computers with three people who I find particularly interesting. I'm taking the week off from work to study up, relax and play some shows.

Last Friday I started working on a new album with Dashan. It is going very well in my opinion. We've worked a lot, I'm very happy about it all.

I am going to start recording a new album with Dashan this weekend. I have some new songs which I will re-record, and others I haven't recorded.

For months, I recorded hours of myself making stuff up, and today I decided to go through it to maybe get an unremembered gem. The first tape I'm listening to (the last recorded) has a few notables:

• an early recording of a song
• a live recording of the lobster song from october
• a recording of yoko, phoebe, jim flynn and i in jim's apartment, talking and playing songs

I'm not done with the first tape. Rolling up. I think these are my old photographs.

Friday Dashan and I headed into Philadelphia to see The Michael Nace Family Band. Dashan and I haven't talked much since our trips to other countries at the start of the year, it was good to do that. They sounded great, and it was really good to see Sara and Kevin in a not-CheeseOnBread situation: it's a rare thing.

Lou Barlow played after them, he was pretty good, but he played too long. After that Dashan and I walked to Matt's house - maybe 45 minute walk - and slept. In the morning we had some eggs, and chili. Tami hung out with us for a bit, and we had some coffee and listened to Matt's record of Hail to the Thief, which I think is not a very good album, but it is listenable on vinyl. I find the CD very harsh. Oh! to be snobby about recorded music.

Then Dashan and I parted ways, and I headed into New Jersey to see my family. Everyone is doing pretty well. My sister performed in the high school production of "Anything Goes", which was very satisfying. I liked the Cole Porter tunes.

Sunday was spent doing various things with family. I looked at pictures with my Father and Grandmother again, they are really amazing. From her parents in the early 20's, and her as a kid. I can't tell if everything looks amazing because the photographs, nostalgia for a time I'll never know, or things actually were more amazing then.

Back in New York Sunday night. My head is spinning from being in so many places in so few days.

Tuesday I wrote a huge long amount of text describing the weekend with Cheese on Bread and The Bloodsugars but I closed the window by accident, destroying all evidence that I had written anything.

But, regardless we had a great show at the Colonel Mustard in Washington DC - we played for about 150 people, the six of us wearing basketball clothes. Red gym shorts, tanktops, and warm up jackets. I like when the band wears matching colors.

On the way back, Matt and I were in the car with a voice-less Dan. Matt and I practiced our Jeff Lewis acapella covers: IF you SHOOT the HEAD you KILL the GHOUL shoot the head kill the ghoul if YOU shoot THE head YOU kill THE ghoul SHOOT THE HEAD KILL THE GHOUL. One day, we'll do a whole album.

Our Philly show was pretty exciting: since Dan couldn't sing the rest of the band took singing duties. It was pretty sloppy and rawkus. I sang "Samurai" and "Biological Romance". I was amazing. I also played electric guitar, which is something Kevin has been pushing for - I'm not sure how it sounded.

Either way, I think I need an amplifier. I hurt my wrist Saturday night. I will look into an acoustic amplifier.

The weekend was long: I didn't fully recover until this morning. I've been sleeping a lot.