summer loving hello

its been a little quiet on this blog lately. this is literally the shortest summer of my life. i've written some new words to become poems, but found them all kind of spiteful and drastically un-summerlike. i've written some new songs, which have fallen into my musical recycling bin to hibernate for a little while. i've mostly been working my three part-time jobs and scaring myself shitless about the fact i graduate to 'adult' in a little over a month.

old things are wearing out:

three overhead lights in my room blew out, and my amp's snap crackle popping again.

in preparation for college, I've gotten new posters, towels, pencilcases, and a kat klock (see right).

at the same time, my mom sewed my favorite jeans' holes back together. i'm bringing those with me, too.

before I lock into barista training (my art history degree), there's a few things left to do with the latter half of summer vacation. next week, me and isen are heading up in will anderson's car to play a set with our friends in stringhead at their very first root beer fest.  i'd like to lay on a few more picnic blankets and visit the met again. dusty ray gifted me a yellow fountain pen that has to meld to my writing before my seminars begin. i just finished up engineer work with some friends on a really intriguing new rock record, which i now have to mix. autumn rhythm's farewell(ish) show will be early next month. maybe some of those neglected new songs will bubble up to the surface before move-in.

i hope to fall into whatever my college's music scene is. i'm writing down new band names for groups to start with vassar kids (are they into that??) and ideas for a potential radio show. autumn rhythm will fire up again, too, as long as some heads there are remotely interested in my music. i just watched the elephant 6 doc and am looking for a few people who'll cover a dorm in tinfoil with me and record strange songs.

i'll leave you with what i've been listening to since high school ended:

bait & switch - emily's sassy lime

she's leaving you - mj lenderman

arlington sunset - calm

moon sequel - mount eerie

light command - unrest

tidal wave - the apples

wink - horse jumper of love

hurting me - braniac

l.a - elliott smith

victim of your own desires - slant 6

we're an american band - ylt