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July 5th, 2006
04:04 pm - out east, and still alive
sitting at my father's cousin's house in princeton junction, nj - just got in from philly, where i spent the 4th with their daughter having far too much magic hat #9 & sloe gin.
arrived in camden this past friday to find myself stranded and unable to get ahold of anybody i was planning on touring with. decided it wasn't worth coming out east to not see a single show, so hitched it to a hotel. met with some kind folks there (if you ever happen to read this, thanks again corey, shannon, & jeremy) who listened to my story with open ears, and hooked me up with rides to the first two nights. the camden show was amazing - somehow phil lesh seems to have learned to sing (well, at least better than before) - and trey played w/ the friends for the entire second set, including a wickedly long terrapin. met some randomly beautiful girl, who proceeded to drag me up to the second row. somehow, jumping seats and turnstiles, we made it up there - and spent the show close enough to see the sweat dripping off of phil's wristband.
Set 1: Jam > China Cat Sunflower > The Golden Road, Bird Song, Bartering Lines, All Along The Watchtower*
Set 2: Jam > Terrapin Station * > St. Stephen * > The Eleven * > Rosemary * > Desire * > Rosemary * > Fire On The Mountain * > I Know You Rider*, E: Box Of Rain
Lineup: Phil Lesh (bass & vocals), John Molo (drums), Rob Baracco (keyboards & vocals), Barry Sless (pedal steel), Larry Campbell (guitar), Joan Osborne (vocals), Greg Osby (saxaphone), * Trey Anastasio (guitar & vocals)
trey & mike w/ the duo were alright - although mostly they played new songs, that sounded far too much like trey's solo stuff for my liking. a whole lot of no phish pissed me right off, although there was a little coil tease.
Set 1: Play Pause Stop, Host Across the Potomac, Suskind Hotel, Goodbye Head > Something for Rockets, Drifting, Dragonfly, Spin > Hap-nappy* > Mr. Completely, Tuesday, Seasons, Mud City
Comment: *first time played
Lineup: Trey Anastasio (guitar & vocals), Mike Gordon (bass & vocals), Marco Benevento (keyboards), Joe Russo (drums)
headed back to the days inn with these kids after the show, and crashed out after sharing in their herbs and drinks, and being told to hit them up in the morning if i needed a ride to holmdel.
which i did.
drove across jersey, and ended up in a fucking deluxe beach house in ocean beach. dropped off everything, drained a few quick beers, and headed north for the show. trey, mike, and the duo headlined this night, which was - quite honestly put - pretty fucking lame. they played pretty much the same exact set, and trey's overly-sustained guitar drowned out pretty much everything else. however, phil put on another phenomenal set, and i spent the set breaks nicely dosed, talking to a girl from north jersey who just recently returned from living in southern india. if only these chance meetings would never end.. but i guess that would ruin the novelty of them.
Trey, Mike, & the Duo:
Set 1: Plasma, Drifting, Mud City, Trouble, Goodbye Head > Sleep Again, Get Back, Shine, Suskind Hotel, Coming Up Roses, Host Across The Potomac > Mr. Completely > Dragonfly, Communication Breakdown, E: Tuesday
Phil:
Set 1: Truckin' * > Cumberland Blues^, Big River^, Staggerlee* > Sugaree
Set 2: Playing in the Band* > Eyes of the World*, Magnolia Mountain, Lovelight*, Help on the Way* > Slipnot* > Franklin's Tower#, E: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad*#
Comment: John Molo (drums), Barry Sless (pedal steel guitar), Joan Osbourne (vocals), Rob Barraco (keyboards & vocals), Phil Lesh (bass & vocals), Larry Campbell (guitars & vocals), *Greg Osby (saxaphone), ^ Mike Gordon (banjo), # Trey Anatasio (guitar & vocals)
Spent all sunday on the beach, drinking more magic hat and swimming in the (really fucking cold) ocean. the kids i was riding with were going to spend another night at their friend's beach-house, and it had already gotten late enough in the day for me to realize i would never make it to Saratoga for sunday's show, so headed up to NYC to visit a friend for the night. had a most relaxing evening watching the yankees/mets game, drinking pbr, and smoking chillums on the rooftop, looking out across the lower-east-side.
monday was hot as shit, made liveable by air-conditioning and vaporizer hits all morning long. finally got ahold of the friend i was planning to tour with, found that he had come down with bronchitis and so had missed the weekend's shows. he had just started on some medication, so we planned to meet up thursday morning, to head to the show in mass (there was a show on monday night in conn, but no ride and the thought of trey headlining again dissuaded me enough to head to princeton, nj instead). so started the break early (no shows on tuesday or wednesday nights, due to a 4th of july break, i guess) - headed down to nj to stay with my father's cousin and his wife. spent monday night here, then drove with them to philly yesterday afternoon to spend the 4th with their daughter in the city. awoke this morning a bit more than groggy, ate some great greasy spoon fare, and caught the train back up to jersey, where i sit now. will try to rest and clean up a bit here, and then heading back on tour tomorrow morning - with the tentative plan being mass>jones-beach(nyc)>ny>ny>pa>vt>oh>in>il. then it'll be the 17th, and i figure i'll be too broke and burned to keep going.
anyhow, time to grab another heineken and smoke a cigarette in the courtyard here.
hit me up if anybody is going to be at any of the midwest phil shows.
or can give me a ride back to kzoo from chicago (the show is the 16th) ^_^
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March 30th, 2006
02:02 pm - sweet!
just got a letter of admission from the university of chicago.
also in the past weeks had received similar letters from the other schools i applied to (bowdoin, colby, & middlebury) - but chicago was def my number one choice.
barring any severe problems with financial aid, that i don't think will arise, looks like i'll be going back to school in the fall, and living in hyde park!
Current Music: dj cheb i sabbah - ganga dev
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March 6th, 2006
09:21 pm - india
just got back, around 19:30 est this evening.
too tired from travelling, etc to write much, but here are some pictures until i'm more alert tomorrow or the next day.
the front gate at my grandparents' place in bangalore where we stayed most of the time
all the houses in the area have rooftops, many with beautiful gardens. i sat up here to smoke cigarettes and read short stories in the early morning sun.
my great-grandfather used to own this whole block of property, right across from the ramakrishna mission. it was mostly sold in the 50's, but my father's cousin still has a flat on the other side of the block.
my dad, outside the ramakrishna mission.
the city of mysore, from the top of chamundi hill
the temple at the top of the hill (unfortunately it wasn't open because of mahashivaratri, however there is an even older shiva temple behind it, that was open and having a shivaratri pooja while we were there)
some of the monkeys who live by the temples
the maharaja of mysore's palace
we stayed one night on the kabini river, next to nagarhole national park. me resting after the bumpy drive.
and some safari pictures
then back to banagalore
Cubbon Park (bangalore is filled with beautiful parks, it's known as "the garden city")
the parliment of karnataka
the outside of a large ganesha temple
the bull temple next to it
a lot of temples in karnataka are made entirely of carved stone
ok that's it for now. time for some food, and then sleep.
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February 21st, 2006
11:33 am - To the east, driver... to the east
In about an hour, I'm heading out to the airport with my father, on our way to India via Frankfurt. Will be there for two weeks, mostly in Bangalore but travelling a bit around as time allows. Borrowed a digi-cam from my sister, so will take a ton of pictures and upload them here as the trip progresses.
Otherwise, have a good couple of weeks!
Current Music: NPR
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December 3rd, 2005
01:22 pm - en masse spiritus, hos mig!
while i haven't been much involved in the planning (i never really am) i guess there is a cocktail party at my house tonight. dress is formal, so pull out your favourite suit and tie. 721 W Walnut for those who don't know.
Current Music: svenska akadamien - täkkande människa
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October 30th, 2005
06:48 pm - forvirret...
i woke up today feeling confused as fuck. i don't really know why, nor about what. just this general, 'what is going on here' type of feeling. hopefully it'll pass by tomorrow. i dunno, though... there are many things that i'm just not quite certain about. maybe it is just the post-gin funk (thanks for the party by the way, dan, et al.), but it doesn't feel like that.
hmm.
on another note, my roomate mary gave me a tattoo the other day. it turned out very nice, i think... i'll have her touch it up in a few weeks once it is fully healed.
and on a final note, pavement fucking rocks.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/confused.gif) confused
Current Music: pavement - raft
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October 13th, 2005
10:04 pm - Portland...
I'm sitting in a hotel room in Portland, Maine - drinking The Shipyard IPA and watching tv with my dad.
We arrived here late last night. Today we drove to Brunswick, and visited Bowdoin College. It seems like a pretty nice place. If they offer me a bunch of scholarship money, I might end up there. Then we kept going north, to Colby College. Here I had an interview with some man, which went quite well, and then saw Horacio and Nikolai (if you don't know them, you should!) They are both doing well, and both seem to greatly enjoy school there. We went out to eat and had miscellaneous discussion from Lars von Triers film 'de fem benspænd' to travelling in Cambodia. Damn nice food, and damn nice company.
Tomorrow we'll drive to Vermont, to visit Middlebury College, where I've got another interview scheduled. Also, we'll grab some lunch with Sebas, Anton, Farhan, Beslan, et al... Will be great to see these people again, most of whom I haven't seen in at least 1.5 yrs.
I always get a bit giddy when I see these people I haven't seen in so long. But after 2 minutes, it's like no time has passed, and the talk is as jovial and pleasant as it was sitting outside smokers corner in Flekke.
Ok, another beer, another cigarette, and then some sleep.
See everybody in Kzoo on Saturday.
Everybody else.... come and visit me!
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August 16th, 2005
09:13 am - well that fucking sucks
so. short but bitter, here.
canada won't give me a visa because i have a DUI (drunk-driving) charge on my record. whoops.
now i have to contact university of british columbia and see if they will give me some of the money i already paid them back. or else i'm out 2 grand, not to mention having no place to go to school.
so, i guess i'll get a house in kalamazoo with phil (shields) and justin (hyman) in the upcoming weeks. stay here for a year, and figure out what the hell to do.
at least it's good news for my company?
...
Current Music: kraftwerk - tour de france
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August 5th, 2005
07:12 pm - back in the zoo
well, arrived earlier today. now i'm planning for a wild evening of eating my mother's wonderful food, smoking too many cigarettes, and probably passing out at around 20:30. whoo hoo! but, anyhow, tomorrow is a new day, and hopefully i'll be less worn out and not too badly jet-lagged. feel free to give me a call at home (629 7241) or on my father's mobile that i'm going to steal for the couple of weeks that i'm home (967 3882) if you want to hang out tomorrow!
Current Music: garcia and grisman
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July 31st, 2005
03:27 pm - i never update this!
sorry for being lazy.
anyhow, i'm all packed and soon to head to the train station. then to københavn, where i'll stay with matias and emil until early friday morning, when i fly back to michigan. then stay there until the end of august, and onwards to vancouver. anyhow, to anybody who is in kbh, see you hopefully this week. to anybody in kzoo, see you next week. and if juliet or derek reads this, see you in vancouver in a month or so!
Current Music: absolutely nothing!
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July 8th, 2005
03:34 pm - ...
well, got back from france yesterday. had a wonderful trip. as soon as chloé emails me some pictures, i'll post them here.
also, found out today that instead of going to københavns universitet, i'll be going to university of british columbia, vancouver, in the fall. long ass story that i don't want to get in to now, but basically chalk it up to beaurocracy and jackassedness.
so this means that i'll be back in michigan for a couple of weeks in august. have paid rent until august 1 here in århus, then will probably go to københavn for a few days to collect together all this shite that i've left there and see how expensive it'll be to ship back to the us. then i'll fly back, square some shit away, and then move to vancouver.
gah, life moves in strange and mysterious ways. but at least it moves, ja?
- vijay
Current Music: the flaming lips - are you a hypnotist?
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June 21st, 2005
07:13 pm - a nice picture...
me and my friend jakob, a couple of months ago. found the picture while going through my emails. wow!
edit - image should work now!
Current Music: Phish - Llama - 26.04.1997
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June 17th, 2005
12:13 pm - mmm..
so, i'm sitting here, quarter past noon, with a nice pre-shower spliff, in my underwear. wonderful image, eh?
first, a bit of re-cap. after having moved to this flat in the center of århus, courtesy of my friend sara's friend trond, who has moved back to norway for the summer and needed somebody to rent his room - i've just been taking things relatively easy, working as much as possible, and enjoying summer in scandinavia. århus is a bit lame - well, that's not fair to say - there are many nice cafes, many nice parks, and many nice people. the only major gripe i have against the town is the concert-venue politics. there are a ton of small venues here - the majority of bars and cafes have acts coming every now and again. (for those from kzoo, i'd compare them to places along the lines of kraftbrau). but, when it comes to 'large' venues, or venues that draw big, international names - we're stuck to about three. and, all three are run by seemingly greedy bastards. as an example - Loop Troop (some of the best swedish hip-hop) and Slum Village were on a european tour together. the played in københavn, at ungdomshuset (a very hardcore punk venue in kbh, for those who don't know), for 60 dkk (10$). two days later, they played here in århus, at train (a very stupid venue that also operates as a discotek when they don't have shows), for 180dkk (30$). what the fuck is that? but, things manage to work out. as of late, the only shows i've seen are very unknown danish rock bands, and a sizeable amount of danish reggae (MafiJah, a band from århus; bli'glad, a band from århus, but whose drummer is from kbh (it's nikolai's friend cyron who plays drums in the band, if you happen to know him), etc). but, enjoyeable nonetheless.
the school i was studying at finished last friday, and so my friends anne and sofie stayed at my place here in århus until monday, when they went back to odense, where anne lives. (sofie was going to continue travelling a bit in denmark, i guess, before going home to københavn to work for the summer; anne will move to århus, but probably not until august. so it was a bit of a 'goodbye' weekend, although i'll see them both in the upcoming months). they left, and my room was a bit smashed. and now, as i take a look, i realize that i still need to clean this shit up. meh.
also, i received the results from the first half of the language exam i have to take for københavns universitet to accept me. it was two parts, one reading-comprehension, and one written. i still have a remaining spoken part on monday, but technically, with the average i received on the first half, i could not show up, and still have a passing average. so, it seems i'll go to school in københavn in the fall. sounds like a good choice for me, i have quite a few friends living there (and will be damn nice to live near emil again!), and i can continue to work for adam to fund whatever i get in to. and, there is no tuition from the school, so no debt for me!
my plan for the summer is as follows - stay here in århus until i find something in københavn. well, i'm already searching now - on monday i'll find out if emil's friend malene's roomate will be moving to greenland, and if so, i'll rent his room. but trond, whom i'm renting from now, has told me that he for sure won't be back in århus until august, so if malene's roomate does not move, i'll stay here in july and find someplace for august onwards. also, i'll go to france, to chloe's summer-house, to meet with a bunch of friends. leave on the 29th of june, and will be back in århus on the 6th. should be a very nice trip - i'll also try to meet with my uncle in france while i'm there, as he is on vacation with his wife. the only problem is money - i haven't been saving nearly as much as i should have been, and so i'll have to take my computer with me and work a bit while there. but, i figure it's a small price to pay for warm beaches, a closer proximity to maroccon hashish, and an overall nice trip.
well, all that being said, my spliff is finished. time to jump into the shower.
much love from here...
(and a seperate note to people from kalamazoo - why the hell don't any of you take trips to europe every once in a while? you're more than welcome to stay with me, and i can try to contact friends all over the continent for other places you could crash... i'm too broke to come home until christmas (although my dad recently said that that is bullshit and i have to come home for at least 2 weeks in the fall, hopefully this means he'll pay!))
Current Music: Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Doralice
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June 10th, 2005
01:23 pm - again!
well, once again i've got a new telephone number
+45 41 50 05 42
mark that shit down, yo.
Current Music: Jean Luc Ponty - More Than Meets The Ear
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June 1st, 2005
04:09 pm - more music recommendations...
also, listen to the new white stripes album - Get Behind Me Satan. will be released 06.06 but can be found on the internet today!
also, the albums mermaid ave (vols 1 & 2) - they were a combined effort by Billy Bragg and Wilco, to write music to a bunch of un-recorded woody guthrie songs that his daughter found the lyrics to after his death. both are very nice.
that is all!
Current Music: Troo.L.S & Orgi-E - Forklædt Som Voksne
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May 30th, 2005
06:08 pm - illinois
the new sufjan stevens comes out in july.
but i've already got it.
listening to it for the first time, right now...
Track Listing
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1. Concerning the UFO Sighting Ne (2:09)
2. The Black Hawk War (2:14)
3. Come on! Feel the Illinoise (6:45)
4. John Wayne Gacy, Jr (3:19)
5. Jacksonville (5:24)
6. A Short Reprise for Mary Todd (0:47)
7. Decatur (3:03)
8. One Last Woo-Hoo for the Pullm (0:06)
9. Chicago (6:04)
10. Casimir Pulaski Day (5:54)
11. To the Workers of the Rockford (1:40)
12. The Man of Metropolis Steals O (6:17)
13. Prairie Fire That Wanders Abou (2:11)
14. A Conjunction of Drones (0:19)
15. The Predatory Wasp of the Pali (5:23)
16. They Are Night Zombies!! They (5:09)
17. Let's Hear That String Part Ag (0:40)
18. In This Temple, as in the Hear (0:35)
19. The Seer's Tower (3:54)
20. The Tallest Man, the Broadest (7:03)
21. Riffs and Variations on a Sing (0:46)
22. Out of Egypt (4:21)
sweeeeeet....
Current Music: Sufjan Stevens - The Black Hawk War
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May 25th, 2005
10:25 pm - Hey...
go get the new album by Stephen Malkmus, Face the Truth
sure, it's not Pavement, but still fucking good.
(and milan and liverpool are 3-3 if you care to know)
Current Music: Stephen Malkmus - Post-Paint Boy
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May 24th, 2005
03:25 pm - new telefon...
got a new phone-number, in case anybody wants to reach me.
+45 26603627
booya.
Current Music: Jethro Tull - Aqualung
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May 20th, 2005
12:31 pm - ok...
so a preface, firstly.
for the past few weeks, i've still been living at my old-teacher jens' colonihavehus just outside of århus. it's been a very nice time, really. spring came. then went. then came back a bit. and now it seems to be a bit too damn cold for may 20th, but the forcast keeps predicting it coming back, full-tilt. i've mainly been occupying my time by working, hanging out with misc. peoples, getting to know århus, and so forth. unfortunately, one of the draw-backs of rustic living is the lack of broadband internet - but i've made up for it by coming to the library most every day to keep in touch with the world, and for work as well. i've gone through three bicycles so far - the first being an extra that sara had laying around (death by broken chain), the second being a crazy-machine that søren brought out one drunken evening (was retired, and later died from a broken chain as well), the third being a speedy contraption (found late at night outside coffee and silver) that i lost somewhere in the city whilst drunk - i'm sure that i locked it, so if i could only remember where, i'd have it again! but, still have one left outside my house, so all is well for the time being. my birthday was this past weekend - on sunday - and i celebrated by having parties on both saturday and sunday nights (monday being a holiday of some sorts). i got a funny assortment of presents, ranging from very nice skunk and a woodstock dvd (thanks sara!), to a very creepy garden gnome and a stolen cactus (umm thanks anne and olga!), to a large wooden staff of some sorts (thanks sara's strange friend whose name i can't remember). also a very fine glass joint-tip from kristian and magnus (not the norwegian, another one) that has already been put to good use. that and a very stoned phone conversation with my parents, which is always fun!
but, things have changed up a bit. i found out from jens this past saturday that he wants his house back june 1st. which meant that i needed to figure out what the hell to do - my previous plan being to stay there until going to france in july. i looked on the net a bit for places, both in århus and in københavn - sent out a few emails (to which i've still received no response) and was a bit uncertain. sara had said that i could live with her for june, but she is going to bergen in the beginning of june, and it would've been a bit strange to just be living with her roomates for a week. but, as luck as it... luck had it. sara's friend trond, whom i had met on the 17th of may (norwegian national day!) was moving back to trondheim on may 19th and hadn't found anybody to rent his room in the flat he lives in. so i called him on the 18th, and set up to meet with him and his two other roomates on the 19th (yesterday). went over there (he lives just off of nørre alle, if you know århus at all - very central and a very nice place to live, really!). so after a quick introduction and all that, they decided to rent me the room - quite cheaply, in fact. so the beginning of next week i'll start to move over there. funny how things work out so easily sometimes - on the 15th i had a conversation with stian's girlfriend katrine about finding a place to live in århus, and she was incredibly pessimistic about it (could've been the massive amounts of vodka coursing through her system, though) - but, somehow i was in the right place at the right time and got a wonderful flat. trond is planning to come back to århus in july - but he is also trying to get a job in lillehammer - so if he gets this job, he won't come back to århus until august or so. thus i might continue renting the place - while starting my search for somewhere in københavn to live in the fall - for as long as i can. as a bonus, i've got internet access - which means i'm soon to never get out of my pyjamas, just sitting at home all day long, smoking spliffs and working.
another funny story of sorts, before i get back to working - on saturday, a few friends of mine (olga, anne, søren, and søren's friend janick) were drunk and talking about taking a spontaneous voyage to amsterdam on monday. well, i didn't pay it much mind - assuming drunken jokes to stay at that. come sunday, the discussion continued to planning a trip to the dam - i even drew a little map showing where some nice coffee shops were located in relation to the central station. late sunday night, they left my place to go back to (my old) school. i forget about it, mostly - until monday when i get an sms from anne saying they were in amsterdam, stoned as the night sky - and what i thought about some mescaline that janick was trying to broker (probably fake, i told them - nobody synths mesc anymore, they just try to sell random research chemicals - 5-meo-amt, 2c-b, 2c-t, etc - as mescaline and lsd.) i tried to place an order for some 15-20 grams of cubenis, but they were all broke as shit, and weren't sure if they would be able to pull it through. i guess i'll find out when they get back this weekend. the strangest part of the story is that out of the four who went, only one is what i'd call a "pothead" - the kind of person who would take a spontaneous voyage to mecca, err amsterdam.
now, i need to get back to work. if you're really interested to see what i'm working on, check forums.insurgent49.com - it's still a bit in the development stage, but we're slowly getting there.
Current Music: bigupradio - http://66.28.68.70:8000/listen.pls
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April 28th, 2005
01:23 pm - music music music
going to see dj babu and iverscience of dilated peoples tonight. should be jammin.
tomorrow going to see Nikolai's friend Cyron's reggae band play. It turns out that Cyron also went to højskole with Sara last year, and that they were/are quite good friends. crazy ass small world.
on another note, i'm planning to get a tattoo. i want a picture like this
on my back, to represent my middle name and family heritage. but that'll cost a lot and i'll wait until i'm back in kzoo and DZ can do it for cheap for me!
so i think i'll get this instead:
on my inner fore-arm.
(if you don't know who that man is, then you are very lame and i don't want to talk to you anymore.)
but i won't get exactly that one - i have a better picture that i saved from a pack of papers, but it looks similar...
anyway, back to work. if anybody reads this and is in Århus, come to VoxHall tonight for great hip-hop!
Current Music: The Grateful Dead - The Other One (live 06.08.71)
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