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June 10th 2008 by E..

I have a totally reasonable and ‘aww’-inducing explanation for my lack of a recent update, but I’ll save the sad sappy stuff for a little later on, since I (by which I mean you) have got some catching up to do…

We last left off with me going to XPN on Wednesday in search of something to do…while I didn’t exactly find any spectacular jobs that had to get done there, I did put away just about all of my laundry when I got home, which is a bigger production than you might expect (then again, if you know me, you shouldn’t be very surprised)…first, I went through my closet and bureau and set aside any shirts I didn’t want anymore…after that made some space, I folded and put away all of the shirts that were previously in teetering stacks in the laundry room…there was just barely enough space for all of them, which was pretty satisfying…

Day 295 - June 4th, 2008

Fold your clothes, child...

…and that’s not even a quarter of the stuff I had to fold and put away…okay, well maybe it is, but it’s definitely not half!…

For those of you know don’t know, Mom is going on a trip to Florida this week…Dad and I aren’t going along, but we’ll keep ourselves properly occupied (or occerly propupied) for the time she’s gone…she’ll be driving down with my grandparents, so she asked me to make a bunch of CDs for them to listen to in the van…I made eight or so mixes of stuff, culled from XPN, Y-Rock and our own favorites, as well as a few single-artist mixes…she also asked to take along one of my portable CD players for her to listen to at night…it made me think back and struggle to remember the last time I carried around a DiscMan and a wallet of CDs…weird…

Day 296 - June 5th, 2008 ...like a record, baby

That happens to be the last DiscMan I ever bought…an mp3 CD player, even…I remember taking that to camp and having about 20 CDs with about 15 albums each on them…oh how times change…

On Friday, I went in to XPN with a full day of things to do…Y-Rock shift was a lot of fun, of course, and I got a bunch of new albums as well…during the day, my cousin ‘graduated’ from her pre-school, so we had dinner at my grandparents’ house to celebrate…it was cute, especially with the cookies that Mom got shipped from a company that does a lousy job of packing and shipping baked goods so that they arrive at their destination in one piece…oh bother…

Day 297 - June 6th, 2008 Good God it's a snack attack!

Saturday was the real reason I haven’t updated in almost a week…Mom, Dad and I went to the Appel Farm Arts & Music Festival in Elmer, New Jersey…the 20th annual festival featured sets from They Might Be Giants, Marc Cohn, The Smithereens, Matt Duke, Suzanne Vega and many more…we got in with the help of our dear friend Gene Shay, who got passes for the three of us…what he (or anyone else) neglected to tell us is that Elmer, New Jersey is located in lovely, scenic The Sun…personally, I blame Vienna Teng: I fell asleep on our blanket during her set, and when I woke up, I had some of the worst sunburn I have ever had (aside from when I got badly burned on a camp trip to a Kentucky water park)…I’ve spent the last two days slathering my arms and face with moisturizers and other such concoctions…at least the other performances were enjoyable…here’s The Matt Duke…

Day 298 - June 7th, 2008 I watch the corporations fall and make their graves

To whomever it may apply: flail away…

As I mentioned, I’ve been covered in moisturizer since Saturday night, which made doing anything beyond lying down hard to do without getting everything all sticky (and definitely not in the good way)…I’m really good at just lying down all day, but I had to help out at The Folk Show last night…luckily, the guest that night (local buddy John Francis) was just going to do a small performance, so I had time to rest and hydrate…when I got back home, well, what else?…

Day 299 - June 8th, 2008 My skin is white as parchment/drier than a downtown office building

Today was an interesting day at XPN…between everyone commenting on my sunburn (and my moustache, now that you can see it since it doesn’t blend into my skin anymore), I did my Monday Y-Rock shift and got even more new albums…I had a music meeting where we added a bunch of songs that I recommended, like new music from The Zutons, Fleet Foxes and Paul Weller…listen for all those and more on my show this Friday from 11:00am - 2:00pm (eastern)…yeah, I’m on for an hour less because they’re running an hour-long radio special about the new Coldplay album at 2:00…yeah, I know…

You may remember that I helped out at the Non-COMMvention a few weeks ago…well, today I got a thank-you package containing the free stuff I would have amassed had I gone to more of the events…most of the contents aren’t much of anything (save for a few neat radio samplers and Dr. John’s new album), but the bag itself is rather nice…

Day 300 - June 9th, 2008 Music is my bag

…it’ll go great with my Lost Highway “Get Lost” t-shirt…

Goodness knows what’s in store for tomorrow, but if my life is anything like a B-horror movie (which it often is), the subtitle might end up being “The Peeling”…gross, I know…

Moral of the story: The outdoors suck; avoid at all costs

E.

Lyric of the Time:
Do the Wall Street shuffle
Hear the money rustle
Watch the greenbacks tumble
Feel the Sterling crumble

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