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| just a random update:
modestMOUSE thing yesterday in nyc was great! they played a lot of songs, i think. they really should've played more from MOON & ANTARCTICA. i remember them playing the following.
from BUILDING NOTHING OUT OF SOMETHING:
broke
never ending math equation
LONESOME CROWDED WEST:
cowboy dan
doin' the cockroach
MOON & ANTARCTICA:
third planet
paper thin walls
wild packs of family dogs
GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE BAD NEWS:
black cadillacs
blame it on the tetons
bukowski
float on
the ocean breathes salty
one chance
satin in coffin
the view
world at large
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now my throat is quite sore. | | |
| THIS IS QUITE INTERESTING
from a friend's journal:
From planetout.com:
"Five years ago, one young man's beating and subsequent death marked a dark day in gay history. Today, the memory of that violent crime has inspired some people to stop anti-gay hatred, others to stoke it.
In the early hours of Oct. 7, 1998, 21-year-old college student Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, robbed, tied to a fence in rural Wyoming and beaten by two assailants. Shepard's battered body, still lashed to the fence, was found 18 hours later. He lived for another five days without regaining consciousness. Shepard died Oct. 12, 1998.
Shepard's killers later admitted they targeted the young man, in part, because he was gay.
The gruesome killing garnered international attention, sparking memorials and vigils worldwide. Celebrities -- including Elton John, Helen Hunt, Ellen DeGeneres and her mother, Betty -- spoke out publicly against anti-gay violence. President Clinton issued a statement challenging Americans to "search their hearts and do what they can to reduce their own fear and anxiety and anger at people who are different."
But Shepard's death was not without controversy, and that controversy continues. Anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps, whose supporters picketed Shepard's funeral with their inflammatory "God Hates Fags" signs, recently announced plans to construct an "absolutely beautiful" monument to the young man in Shepard's hometown of Casper, Wyo., the Denver Post reported.
Standing 6 feet tall and 3 1/2 feet wide, the monument would display a plaque reading: "Matthew Shepard entered Hell October 12, 1998, at age 21 in defiance of God's solemn warning: 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination.' Leviticus 18:22," the report said.
Phelps plans to erect his monument in a one-acre, public city park, and a court ruling last year may make it impossible for city officials to stop him. In 2002, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals stipulated that since the park has displayed a monument of the Ten Commandments since 1965, monuments promoting other messages must also be allowed.
The Casper City Council will discuss both monuments at a meeting scheduled for Tuesday evening.
Cathy Renna, a spokeswoman for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, told the Post that Phelps is "a bully," but, she said, "he serves as a reminder of what we're really battling against."
In the years since Shepard's death, awareness of gay rights and of anti-gay violence has shifted dramatically. "In Laramie and throughout the country, it's all gotten better," a University of Wyoming student told the Associated Press yesterday.
"We're more than just a rural community, which we're portrayed as," Laramie resident Dee Swanson told the AP. "We accept people. We're tolerant. The people are more verbal now about being tolerant," she said. " | | |
| school's not so bad.
just going through some personl emotional crap. i'll be good and running by end of this month.. i hope. | | |
| for the one who thinks i'm mean,
LeBlanc to Star in 'Joey' Spin-Off
Television network NBC said on Thursday that Matt LeBlanc, star of NBC's top-rated comedy "Friends," will return in his own spin-off series when the 10-year-old show ends its run on NBC next year. The new program, to be called "Joey" and starring LeBlanc in his popular character Joey Tribbiani, is scheduled to begin airing in the fall of 2004, on the same night, Thursday, as "Friends."
-yahoo.com
and on an actual important note:
my modest mouse t-shirt arrived in mail yesterday.  | | |
| went to village voice's siren music festival yesterday with shan. it was at coney island in brooklyn. we went 'cause the concert was free, but more importantly modest mouse was going to be performing. shan and i had arrived there around noon, and sam met us there around 5pm, after her orientation was done. we stayed until 9:30 and got back home around 11:30. good times..
modest mouse played 3 songs from the moon and antarctica, two songs from the lonesome crowded west, and i couldn't recognize the other 4 songs. anyway, they were great. | | |
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