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i didn't realize how hard this would be.. especially for the fact that i'm trying to simutaneously add this to my livejournal. but, it's making me more and more excited for october. hopefully enough DJs have signed up so we can get our College Radio discount. if not.. all of this is a waste. boo.

Bailiff- Chicago, IL; blues/roots; i thought this was going to be really lame and cheesy at first. but then i started listening. these guys are pretty great. the recording sounds great. the drums are hard hitting and everything has a great sound. it kind of reminds me of a mix of soundgarden and dinosaur jr. which is kind of strange but i like it. Evan Sult from Harvey Danger is completely in love with them. he found them at the place he practices and wrote the bio on their myspace. seems like a really interesting band. www.myspace.com/bailiffmusic WILL TOTALLY SEE.

Beach House- Baltimore, MD; there's been a lot of hype behind Beach House for a while now. They just played a show in Greensboro hosted by WUAG.. which means hopefully/probably we have an in-studio with them. Their sound is pretty ambient and soothing. I kind of like it. It gets stuck in your head. They're from my family's hometown, so i've got to support. www.myspace.com/beachhousemusic WILL TOTALLY SEE

Benji Cossa-

Black Hollies-

Black Taxi-

BM Linx-

Bonne Aparte-

Broken Social Scene-

Brighton, MA-

Canasta-

Canon Logic-

Caroline Weeks-

Catcall-

Charles Burst-

Coathangers-

Cool Kids-

Cotton Jones-

Crystal Castles-

Cut Off Your Hands-

So, from October 21 to 25, I will be in NYC to attend the annual CMJ Fest. Yesterday, they posted some of the bands that will be playing at the festival. Right now, there are about 50+ bands posted on the website, with many more to come. Up until I leave for the festival, I will be listening to all these bands and posting about them. So, here it is- the first installation of bands at CMJ:

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3OH!3- Boulder, CO; electronica/hip-hop; my first impression is that they're total douche-bags. they look like white-boy hipsters trying to be hardcore rappers. plus they played warped tour for two years, which immediately puts them on my bad list. the acutal music is interesting. i liked it up until they started "rapping". then it sucked. no wonder they're becoming so "popular". this is exactly what the bros will like, and this will be all over MTV soon. because mixing electronic synth and hip hop is so cutting edge. kill me now. fuck this. www.myspace.com/3oh3 WILL NOT SEE

A Place To Bury Strangers- Brooklyn, NY; shoegaze/space-rock; known as one of new york's "loudest bands". apparently their guitarist started the company Death By Audio which produces custom effects equipment , which is pretty sweet. they're music is definetly the whole wall of sound type. it seems a little cheesy though. but i really love shoegaze. so i'm torn. i guess i'll keep listening, and decide on this. www.myspace.com/aplacetoburystrangers WILL SEE.. MAYBE

Aa- Brooklyn, NY; also known as BIG A little a. which instantly makes me like them... if it's a throwback to the crass song. i couldn't really find too much information about them. they have a website, and seem like typical hipsters. but they're music? LOVE it. reminds me of Man Man, !!!, maybe a little bit of animal collective. great stuff. Tons of screaming. from the pictures i've seen, i think 3 out of the 4 guys in the band play on a drum set. then there's a synth. this shit is fucking great. www.myspace.com/alittlea WILL TOTALLY SEE

Adept- there are two bands listed on myspace that this could  be. either it is Adept, a screamo band from Norway.. or The Adept, a heavy metal band from New Jersey. either way, I WILL NOT SEE 

Aggrolites- LA, CA; reggae; another band that is on warped tour right now. also, i'm not really a big fan or reggae. especially when it's white boys trying to do it. and even then, it's not really reggae. it's got the guitar sound down, but the singer makes me want to shoot myself. www.myspace.com/theaggrolites WILL NOT SEE

AIDS Wolf- Montreal; experimental; i've heard a lot of good things about AIDS Wolf, but never really listened to them for myself. lots of noise and dissonance.. which is totally my bad. there's incoherent girl screaming over everything and lots of atonal shit. i'm really excited about seeing this band. www.myspace.com/aidswolf WILL TOTALLY SEE

Albertans- Vancouver; typical indie with a million members. there are 7 people in this band. it's pretty cute stuff. reminds me of polyphonic spree, i'm from barcelona, and the decemberists. the singer reminds me of the guy from the decemberists, even though their voices don't sound the same at all. the lyrics are pretty cheesy though, and this totally isn't something i'd be able to handle for an entire set. but overall, it's cute. www.myspace.com/thealbertans WILL SEE.. MAYBE  

Amazing Baby- Brooklyn, NY; self described as "emotronic" on their myspace. it's pretty good.. kind of floaty, ambient. i don't know really. it could go either way. one thing that kind of tuns me off is that MGMT is in their top 16. i know, that's pretty douchy and elitist of me.. but we all have to accept what we are. this just seems a little to oasis-like for me. too commercial i guess. www.myspace.com/theamazingbaby WILL SEE.. MAYBE 

Ambulance LTD- Brooklyn, NY; i really attempted to like this. but i just can't. it just reminds me of the 80s and fleetwood mac. lots of guitar with delay. harmonized female vocals. the lyrics "happy to be in the universe and free". i feel like if this song was in a movie, this would be during the acid trip. ugh.www.myspace.com/ambulanceltd WILL NOT SEE 

An Albatross- Wilkes-Barre, PA; hardcore/experimental; holy shit. something that is finally my jam. their myspace is kind of cheesy.. kind of like The Darkness but American. BUT! that's totally not what they are. tons of synth, screaming, and heavy drums. i'm really interested. plus they all look they'd be cool as shit to hang out with. plus they're touring with Yip Yip. lucky bastards. www.myspace.com/analbatross23 WILL TOTALLY SEE

Ane Brun- Stockholm; acoustic; no. no no no. i'm all about some girl power, but girl singers seem to just be so popular right now. plus her style really isn't what i like. too ethereal. whatever. she's good, but not enough that i want to see her. she'll probably be the "breakout star" of CMJ just for that reason. www.myspace.com/anebrun WILL NOT SEE

Anna Ternheim- Stockholm; acoustic; pretty much the same thing as Ane Brun. they're even on eachothers "top 8". which.. eh whatever. her music is making me sleepy. the piano is pretty and she has a nice voice. just not something i would look forward to. and the fact that in her bio it says how she likes to write in solitude. she says "blah blah blah i'm a social person but i like to be by myself. in solitude. when i write blah blah" which makes me just not stand her at all. woooo you're a misunderstood musician who can't be bothered. barf. www.myspace.com/annaternheim WILL NOT SEE

Annuals- Raleigh, NC; "indie"/epic; okay. so i am already biased against this band. they're actually from my hometown (fyi. they're from cary. not raleigh. but i understand where they're coming from avoiding the cary reference) and i saw them play at the local battle of the bands 5 or 6 years ago. pretty much everyone from my town either loves them (if you have no taste or don't know about music) or you hate them (if you're one of my friends, in a band, and played with them or knew the guys). the stories i've heard about them are ridiculous. they've turned into big ole dicks who have these huge houses. but seriously? i kiiiiiind of like their music. it's a lot like The Arcade Fire or Blonde Redhead or another one of those 7+ member bands. i'm so ashamed. don't tell my friends. www.myspace.com/annuals WILL SEE.. MAYBE 

Anthony Green- this whole thing is starting to exhaust me. so to save my fingers, and everyone in general.. i'll keep this one short. lame as shit. lame lame lame. no. never. look them up on your own time if you're still interested. WILL NOT SEE.

Arbouretum- Baltimore, MD; "grunge"; it was just slow with really really heavy distorted bass and really stupid singing. like he was trying to sound like jim morrison. i did not like it. if you didn't notice. www.myspace.com/arbouretum WILL NOT SEE  

Ariel Pink and Geneva Jacuzzi- LA, CA; dance/electronica; so let me tell you a story about myself. several months ago, i worked for a record label about 20 minutes outside of Greensboro. actually.. i didn't work for them. i interned with not college credit. so i was essentially their bitch. all i did was keep social networking sites updated for some of their bands, and added friends. they had a partnership with Elijah Wood's record label, who had just signed this girl Heloise & the Savoir Faire. She was essentially the poor mans version of Peaches. which is pretty dirt-ass poor since Peaches is already slutty. Ariel Pink and Geneva Jacuzzi is like the retarded bastard child of Heloise. it's strangely slow dance music with really weird additions of nasty synth shit added through it. wow... i've gotten mean. www.myspace.com/zombieshark WOULD NEVER EVER SEE.

*PHEW!* got through the As. i'll get started on the next batch of them probably in the next hour. this is kind of great. i'm getting more and more excited about CMJ. by the time October comes around, i'm going to be set. 

i got bored/sick of looking at entries from high school. so i made a new livejournal:

http://oakandelmingme.livejournal.com/

add me, fwiends.

TICKETS! to see Bon Iver and Wilco this Friday. i'm pretty excited.

and just found out M83 is coming to DC in November. which i'll be going to.

and i'm taking a roadtrip to LA very soon. or when i get a break from school.

seriously? 24 hours away from camp and i'm back to normal. my mental instability is back to normal

i love this piece:

Words move, music moves

Only in time; but that which is only living

Can only die. words, after speech, reach

Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,

Can words or music reach

The stillness, as a Chinese jar still

Moves perpetually in its stillness,

Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts,

Not that only, but the co-existence,

Or say that the end and the beginning were always there

Before the beginning and after the end,

And all is always now. Words strain,

Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,

Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,

Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,

Will not stay still. Shrieking voices

Scolding, mocking or merely chattering,

Always assail them. The Word in the desert

Is most attacked by voices of temptation,

The crying shadow in the funeral dance,

The loud lament of the disconsolate chimera.

The detail of the pattern is movement,

As in the figure of the ten stairs.

Desire itself is movement

Not in itself desirable;

Love is itself unmoving,

Only the cause and end of movement,

Timeless, and undesiring

Except in the aspect of time

Caught in the form of limitation

Between un-being and being.

Sudden in a shaft of sunlight

Even while the dust moves

There rises the hidden laughter

Of children in the foliage

Quick now, here, now, always-

Ridiculous the waste sad time

Stretching before and after.

it's the end of Burnt Norton from Four Quartets

and if i had three pictures to describe the past six weeks, these would be them:

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got to see Les Savy Fav at the Nasher museum. then drove 3 hours to Virginia Tech. needless to say, i was pretty loopy by the time i got there at 2 a.m. with my friend Tim. we had impromptu dance parties for the entire ride. yes he is wearing a webcam on his head. and no pants. it was kickass.

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on our way from Virginia Tech to George Mason, i took Lauren and Tim to the wonderful, ridiculous world of the Natural Bridge. this statue is in front of the building that leads to the bridge. the place was pure nonsense. it was $13 to go see this natural bridge (which was amazing.)... so in perfect Lindsay form, we snuck in.

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when leaving the natural bridge, i saw a giant sign for something called FOAMHENGE. u-turned in the middle of the highway, and found this. an exact replica of stonehenge. made. out. of. foam. a family picture was taken, with a creepy lady in the background.

Sometimes- rarely- I think I'm pretty. The End.

WOO! i finally figured out how to make a banner. it may be extremely pixilated, but i made it! it's a sweet ass picture i took of a condenser mic at my friends show.

yay!

What album has been most influential in your life?
Submitted by Soup.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

The most influential album on my life is probably is Minor Threat. Seven years ago, I picked up Minor Threat's Complete Discography, along with 13 Songs by Fugazi. Both of these albums have completely shaped my life, who I am, and all the future music I would listen to.

Back in middle school, all my friends started doing extacy and smoking pot. These things just didn't appeal to me, and I never wanted to experience anything like that. Listening to Minor Threat made me realize I wasn't alone, and actually there was an entire section of music geared towards my own views. Straight-edge was something I could relate to for 6 years of my life. Hardcore was something I could relate to.

I've never really been able to get away from my roots either. I've always had a soft spot for lo-fi music. Musicians who don't really use too many electronic manipulators. Also slow, long songs have just never been my style. So, they've influenced me all over.

The. End.

What's on your "To-Do" list today? What are you most looking forward to and what are you most dreading?

 Well, since it's 6 PM already, I'll say what I'm doing tomorrow:

• Go by Bond Park; rent a shelter for my "I'm never coming back to Cary ever again, BITCHES!" celebration
• Do absolutely every piece of laundry I have; make my room presentable for all the relatives coming this weekend (my little brother is graduating on Friday)
• Vacuum out my car. Get rid of any sign of my smoking habit before I leave for camp. (my parents are using my car while i'm gone for six weeks, which means they'll know)
• Call rental places. Make appointments to see houses. (I finally got some roommates, which I'm really excited about. I'll be living with a close friend/ex from high school and his girlfriend. We're planning on having a room just for music and recording. I'm very happy)
• Look for a job for August back in Greensboro

Probably more things. Maybe I'll try for an "A Day In My Life" tomorrow. Unless it's disgustingly hot out. It's been 100 degrees for the past few days.

time to play some guitar