When I first read about this guy, I fucking hated him. After I watched this video I realized how amazing all of this really is. I don't think you have to be a record collector to understand this guys passion for music.


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I Promised myself I wouldn't cry, and I didn't

The new Fake Problems record makes me very depressed. Not because it is bad, or sad, or even because it is so great. It makes me depressed because I know these kids are my age and younger, and this is what they are creating. The musicianship and the instrumentation in the song-writing on their new LP "It's Great To Be Alive" is so intricate, complex and dense that it makes me so sad, simply because their are so many layers on this record that I never could have thought of. The songs these guys wrote are so complex and beautifully crafted, and they are my age. I am my age, and what am I creating? What am I doing other than playing other peoples songs? I think I wrote 3 new songs last year with my bands and maybe 2 more that will never see the light of day. I thoroughly enjoyed how I spent my year, but what am I creating, other than a ringing in peoples ears in a couple cities on the east coast?

When you compare records like "It's Great To Be Alive" to what i accomplished in 2008 and I think thats where you can draw the line between artist and musician...They are artist, I am just a musician.

Why did no one ever make me listen to Torche earlier? So much wasted
time listening to bands that don't matter

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I forgot to mention that sometimes my parents are too absurd
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i use to be real big into End of the Year lists. I guess I'm not anymore...it was hard to think of 10 albums that I really liked. Anyway, if i had to make a "2008 Mixtape" this would be it. I dont think all of these songs came out this year, but these were what i listened to a lot....

1. "Get Some Sleep" - Lemuria
2. "Chips Ahoy" - the Hold Steady
3. "Wendy Clear" - Fake Problems
4. "You're Not Afraid of the Dark, Are You?" - Look Mexico
5. "Call to the Comptrollers Office" - Bridge and Tunnel
6. "Vinegar and Baking Soda" - Scream Hello
7. "Mechanical" - Lemuria
8. "Massive Nights" - The Hold Steady
9. "Foolish Optimism" - Jena Berlin
10. "Sponsorship For Life" - Antillectual
11. "Seconds Before the Bottom Drops Out" - Glass and Ashes
12. "When People Have Something to Say" - Worn in Red
13. "Track 2" - Make Do and Mend
14. "Posterchild" - Crossbearer
15. "They Know Not" - The Hope Conspiracy
16. "Stars" - Hum
17. "Bleach Funeral" - City of Ships
18. "Chimps Night Out" - OleHole
19. "Young Bloods" - the Bronx.

So there's that. I havent had a day off since December 7th.

Last night I showed up to a petsit and one of the dogs wasn't in the back yard. I spent two hours with another sitter and my boss looking for the dog. The dogs at this clients house stay in the basement and have a dogie door that lets them go in and out of the house as they please. Apparently the missing dog got out of the fence sometime between my morning visit and when i returned for the evening. There was no opening in the fence anywhere, no holes to get out. There was still no sign of him this morning.

My boss just called me to tell me that he was hit by a car and died. This is not my fault, nor is our companies fault...the dog simply jumped the fence or got out somehow. We never touched the gate, he must have just been spooked by the fireworks and jumped the fence and got turned around. Its no ones fault but i still feel a ton of guilt and have no idea how to handle this situation, and cannot believe this happened on one of my sits and with my dogs that I was paid to take care of.