CMJ

HaYy ALL -

I didn't really do much this CMJ but here is what I did see:
-Mumford & Sons @ MHOW who were great
-Part of Brooklyn Vegan/Bowery Presents day showcase at Pianos on Saturday with Cymbals Eat Guitars (my new favorite band) and Pete & the Pirates
-p4k/showpaper benefit @ market hotel w/ Real Estate (always good), Cold Cave (who sucked), Delorean, and Cymbals Eat Guitars (yes, twice in one day)
-An awesome show at Above the Auto Parts Store w/ Surfer Blood, Sisters, Screaming Females and JEFF the Brotherhood. No one bled from their head this week but Lightning Bolt is there on Friday and that may be a totally different story...

pictures from the JEFF show up on BrooklynVegan here!
pictures from the p4k/showpaper show up on BrooklynVegan here!

Screaming Females pix will be on Variety.com and in the print version tomorrow!
I will link to those when they are up...

Class tomorrow, should do my hw. Cleaned my room, washed the dishes, started cleaning the living room. Productive day, sad that this is my life.
Ugh fuck have to do laundry asap. NO TIME AT ALL DSHFDSJFKDJFBDKSHFB


pix post soon

So many things

More on Brooklyn Vegan here

Friday I saw Wavves with Ganglians and Beach Fossils at Market Hotel. It was a great show. Almost died, but then again...it wouldn't be a show at Market Hotel if my life wasn't threatened in at least one way.

Around 4 am while I was sitting in bed editing photos, twitter exploded with talks of a fight between Jared from Black Lips and Nathan from Wavves at Daddy's. Daddy's sounded really familiar and then I remembered OH HAYYY that's the bar like two doors away from my apartment. Cool story.

Yesterday I met up with Grace and Hillary. We had lunch and caught up on various crazy college stories (well, their crazy college stories...I haven't had that much of an exciting life lately). We went over to Grace's apartment, which BTW is a penthouse apartment (she failed to mention that to Hillary and me and then we got into the elevator and she pressed the "PH" button, Hillary and I exchanged very impressed facial expressions). The apartment was beautiful and we sat out on the terrace and it was really so amazing. The view is beautiful. East River to your right, all of New York to your left. The kitchen was made entirely out of mirrors and Hillary and I felt compelled to have a photo shoot...so we did. They went back to Tuxedo and I met up with Caitlin and Misty for Misty's birthday dinner. It was really nice!

Spent all of today watching The OC. Like actually all day...whatever, I'm not ashamed. Maybe a little bit? ...hmm nope.

Tomorrow I am waiting for a package until 2 and then probably watching The OC all day...again. This is going to be a very wordy entry (as if you haven't already noticed that...), I'm on a roll tonight. I just wrote the longest email of my life to someone that asked me about the pros/cons of concert photography. I had too much to say, couldn't contain MY PASSSSSIIIIOOOON! It all spilled out.

Also: It's funny. I feel super disconnected from anyone and everyone because I didn't dorm. I mean, I do not in any way regret getting an apartment. I am ultimately happier and I know I would probably be (for the most part) miserable dorming. But I can't help but feel of secluded from any/every social activity that involves my peers. I guess I'm feeling a little lonely and shacking myself up in my apartment to watch The OC all day probably isn't helping but whatever. I suppose I'm in a rut, I'll eventually get over it. Also kinda feeling totally uninspired lately but that's just because of me being antisocial. Also, I miss my friends that went away to college. I miss having a group of good friends. I feel like a lot of my old friends don't even like me anymore and I feel like they're happy they finally got rid of me or something. GOD WHY AM I BEING SO DEPRESSING.

Anywaaaay...it's actually like 5 am now and I should probably get ready to go to bed even though I am past the point of feeling tired at this point.

HOME AGAIN HOME AGAIN JIGGITY JIG

Had a good day today. Melinda cut my hair, we reminisced on being scene kids that lived at the mall and then saw Blade Runner (oh my god what the hell so fucked up but so good) at the SVA theatre (Parsons should have their own movie theatre? that would be nice).

I have to wake up for class in about four hours (fml), Wavves at Market Hotel later today, Misty's birthday party on Saturday and then probably seeing A Clockwork Orange at the sunshine at Midnight with people. Good timez.

Great Success!

Shoot to Thrill was totally awesome. Thanks to everyone who came out, it meant so much! I'd never seen my photos so big so it was super exciting to have them out like that. Thanks to AdoramaPix, MHOW, Northside Festival, L Magazine, and of course BrooklynVegan.com for the experience! I may have even sold a print which is great.

I think today is the last day to check it out, so if you're in the area PLEASE GO!

Yesterday was interesting. Went to the Solar One show (but it rained?) then headed off to Market Hotel for an interview/photo shoot with The Coathangers for 'Sup Mag. Super sweet and adorable girls that put on a great show (I still love the song "Don't Touch My Shit"). I haven't seen them in a super long time (not since Maxwell's one or two years ago?). Definitely have improved and it was sweet seeing the new art at Market Hotel. Fiasco were great, as always and I was psyched to discover The Strange Boys. Wow! So good! I left before Mika Miko because I wasn't feeling very well (shit happens) but I'm sure they were good too...

Got some photos developed...mostly are of my sister falling asleep on my floor. She woke up to me taking photos of her and yelled, "YOU ARE SUCH A CREEP!"

Don't get mad if I take photos of you sleeping on my floor, I'm starting a series (people do it a lot).















two random photos from a show in washington square park a few weeks ago: