» my newest column for XLR8R magazine is out, or should be out soon. this is notable for a variety of reasons, primarily that it’s my final column for them. yes, yes, i am the victim of restructuring and now that leaves me writing for no one. im actually happy about this. another reason you should totally check out the column is because the art department screwed up the picture of spoon. the band in the picture is clearly not spoon, but appears to be some sort of limp bizkit-esque group. [hi, antny!] its page 89 in issue #94. unless you’re into hot chip [seriously, why?] just spend a minute or two browsing it at your local book/magazine/record store.

» caught the oxford collapse last night at the north star, opening up for myspace-hyped we are scientists. ill have to have a better listen to WAS but they were impressive live, asking the OC dudes to come onstage to play/sing along to the ronettes “be my baby”. i dont think the audience “got” it, nor did they the oxford collapse’s cover of “roadrunner” [in which WAS took the stage for that, sorry i didnt come up on stage dudes -- could you believe i was feeling sheepish?!]. it was a weird mix of no one over the age of 24, total suburban types, possible retard bloggers and emo dudes [due to criteria's mineral-esque tendencies]. you know, crowds who are “indie” but dont have a clue what that really means. whatevs. OC played a rock-solid set, dedicating songs to the guy in the audience that looked like johnny lawrence from the karate kid and the girls who were sitting down in the front row. also to note: their new band t-shirts, which combine their two loves. im not going to spoil it for you, its that awesome.

» thanks to my EMP proposal, i have officially overdosed on figure skating. saturday and sunday it was watching nationals and the ice diaries, wednesday it was skating with celebrities and project runway, the last one was like watching two halves of my life fold over. it will be interesting to see if these ideas trickle down into the sport but that seems doubtful. as for SWC, it was pretty awesome.

» i dont know if i mentioned this yet, but im performing in glenn branca’s “hallucination city” piece on february 4th with 99 other guitar players [one of which is mike from lee-jae-won]. details here.

» quiet weekend around here — ive got to plow through the rest of geronimo for class and then start the autobiography of alice b toklas. i also have some skating and pizza club matters to tend to!