keep it like a secret

new year's resolutions: :: run a marathon - not much of a stretch, half marathon in march, full marathon tba :: learn to play an instrument - all the best/most versatile bands have keyboards... :: read more - >200 pages/month, baby steps :: volunteer more - once/month :: draw/design/write/create more - join design-aerobics, review more shows, etc. :: focus less on social events/people - more on self improvement :: get back into/maintain shape - this last month of not being able to run has been driving me crazy, pushups + situps + sports + running will suffice :: stop putting more into friendships than I get out of them - you are wasting your time...

11 :: snowden - anti-anti - I had to get a local band in here, snowden gets the nod over dbt, maserati, and mastodon 10 :: girl talk - night ripper - so illegal yet so catchy, great mashup of many different songs [current and classic], pop music for ADD kids 9 :: the spinto band - nice and nicely done - about as fun as music gets 8 :: malajube - trompe-l'oeil - good enough to tide us over until 'neon bible', bonus points for being entirely in french 7 :: lupe fiasco - food & liquor - kanye west's protege, 'the game theory' was good too 6.5 :: voxtrot - mothers, sisters, daughters & wives [it's only an ep] - indie pop at it's finest, now if they'll just release a full length 6 :: we are scientists - with love and squalor - even better than the spinto band, i hate the roxy 5 :: peter bjorn & john - writer's block - just heard about these guys, it just keeps getting better 4 :: joanna newsom - ys - amazingly intricate/beautiful/ep...

it's been a very symbolic day...here's to the new year! - canada friday -

On my way home from work today [keep in mind that I live less than 1.5 miles from the shop] I saw a dead dog that had been 'placed' on the curb on glen iris and a pretty bad two car wreck w/n a block of each other. This is a relatively quiet two lane street, as far as atlanta goes, the speed limit is only 30 mph...and who would lay a dead dog on the side of the road?! - - - - - - - - - - - I'm sure I'm the last person to see this but it is hilarious & christmas themed so I'm throwing it in here merry christmas, I hope you give good presents...

Spent the day at work drinking red wine w/ montine, working and watching this movie that one of our crazy ass customers made. I think we're going to make some copies to show to all our friends. We're def. shutting down the shop the second week of January...I'm really going to miss having such a cool job, but we are both ready to move onto something else. I've just got to find that something else soon. I know that I enjoy the unknown/unlimited possibilities stuff way too much. We'll keep the t-shirt stuff going at some capacity. I think that my main requirement for a job is a 'studio' atmosphere where I can listen to my music, I don't think that's too hard to find. It's the longest night of the year tonight, winter solstice and all that. There is this totally hippie/witchcraft party going on in decatur but I don't think that I could even semi-blend into that kind of scene, although it would be a blast to check out. Wartown this weekend ...

I saw m3 reunited tonight...morgan [and joe] should've been there... Sharing butch, jayce, and slug w/ some new friends will work as well though I guess. I don't think that I can get enough of change. boston v. houston v. atlanta v. ?

free ticket, roommate bonding, an old friend, vanilla vodka, etc.

snowden rocks the buffet at the clermont lounge's holiday party is surprisingly tasty...such sweet strippers - now it's time for family, food, and beer in the middle of a field in collins, ga more later, there's a lot of stuff that I want to get down about tonight and I'm sure I'll have plenty to say about this upcoming weekend, there's no way that I'm going to be able to get the show review to my editor in the morning... - happy holidays -

...yeah, that sounds about right. - hold steady -

man, my mouth has been killing my head ever since dinner last night at everybody's 'disgusting' Our football game in the 40 degree weather took my mind off of it for a while at least. I have my best game of the year so far w/ a stress fracture in my foot: 1 td catch, 1 td pass, 1 int on d. Maybe we will have a shot at doing something in the playoffs. I hope I never get too old to do this stuff. Montine and I both agree that the shop is dead, we're ready for what's next...what's next? - Damn, it's back up there again. I wonder if/when I'll get a chance to make it right or how long it will last if I don't. happy friday

out of the 32 bowl games: 29) Independence (Dec. 28): Oklahoma State (6-6) vs. Alabama (6-6). Ladies and gentlemen, it's the first .500 Bowl. The stakes are higher than for most games: Someone's "bowl season" is about to become a "losing season." good news for reggie: 11) Gator: West Virginia (10-2) vs. Georgia Tech (9-4). At last, Georgia Tech QB Reggie Ball runs into a secondary even he can complete passes against. (WVU ranks 100th nationally in pass defense.)

Does everyone have certain records or artists that they associate with a certain relationship they were in? I don't think that I'm alone in this. I have at least one album or band that so directly relates to a significant relationship or time in my life that any time I hear one of these songs I always think about that person or time. I wonder how much could be read into which music corresponds to each girl or time period. Chronological, folks: seven mary three: rock crown / marvelous three / better than ezra / counting crows / death cab: transatlanticism / wilco: jesus, etc. / the good life: album of the year That's the past ten+ years of my life, with obvious overlaps at times. Hmmm, the most recent album on that list was released over two years ago... - Feel free to leave your own 'relationship records' as comments. That would be a good conversation/online experiment. [ I want to be Rob Fleming ] - update: zero for three on the football road trips over the pa...

What the hell is wrong w/ alabama? This has been some kind of sports weekend: tech blows the uga game, the falcons self-destruct, and bama fires shula... - - - - this helps Putting up christmas lights [ooooh], finding cheaper health insurance [with dental!], and getting a haircut tomorrow [finally] should go a long way towards evening things out.

to hell with georgia as well - jacksonville next weekend, shooting for one out of three...

islands @ eyedrum smells like hippies - - - The t-day road trip begins this afternoon: wartown - watkinsville - alanta - athens This is what holidays are all about: family and food, presents mess it all up at christmas. gotta keep it simple . have a safe & happy

two blisters, twelve miles, and a pair of chapped nipples later... - to hell w/ auburn: I've got your thumb right here

Do you guys ever wish that you had a personal highlight film? Like I was just in the shower and I dropped the soap out of the little hanging thing but I made a pretty nice grab with my other hand. It was a nice move that will go unseen by anyone else. It'd be cool if we had moments like that recorded so we could show other people or our kids...or maybe not. But it's like when you make a really good shot into the trashcan at work or something and no one else sees it. I think it'd be cool to have that stuff on tape to review and compare to your friends' highlight reels. Not practical at all, but I think a lot of cool stuff goes unseen b/c we're alone when it happens. It doesn't necessarily have to be stuff that we do, it could be stuff that we see that's too crazy to be believed. I'm not sure where I'm going w/ this...happy friday! - the greatest holiday of the year is less than a week away

'we are the innovators, they are the imitators' - my neck is going to be sore tomorrow...

whaaaa?!

top seven shows of my cmj experience: - birdmonster - the blow - malajube - the changes - snowden - archie bronson outfit - born ruffians I think I'm going to go buy some cd's in order to stay awake just a bit longer... - more later -

Last night I dreamt that I was Jerry Seinfeld & that I was reminiscing w/ Elaine about the days that we used to date. We seemed to be enjoying ourselves, trying to figure out where it all went wrong. We even looked at pictures of me [as Jerry], Kramer, George, & Elaine when we were younger. That's all I have to say about that...

A few lessons learned during the last week: -The real heroes in movies are the extras. Getting paid 75 bucks for sitting around for 12 hours acting like & dressed like it's 80 degrees outside [while it's actually only 40] is not the ideal way to spend the day. It's still a pretty cool experience though. - Photo shoots for business magazines, or any other magazine for that matter, are awkward. - Jack & cokes at huge Halloween parties in old churches w/ tons of crazy people, vaulted ceilings, stain glassed windows, and balconies are extremely strong. - Helping kids make t-shirts at a picnic isn't the best thing to do if you still have fake blood streaming down your face from the night before...ideally. - Ga Tech is going to the ACC championship game. Jacksonville anyone? Oh, and UGA sucks. - Moving the shop a half mile down the road while still doing business isn't any way to spend a Sunday or Monday either. We'll definitely be shaking up Studioplex th...

Alright, this is just going to be a lame 'things I've done' post...nothing special, but at least it'll be recorded here for whatever that's worth, the children I guess. It's been quite an eventful week: Saturday night was the yeah yeah yeahs @ the tab. Large concerts are pretty much always disappointing, not nearly long enough and w/ way too many 'hip' folks that just came to talk about how they were such big fans and drink a lot of beer the entire time the show was going on. It's a blast to watch Karen O though, just so joyful and nuts - good combo. We made it to the top of the Westin for a look around and to a random quickie for two 22 oz. of high life before hanging out and talking to a homeless guy for half an hour. I do that way too much, it was def. a new experience for Constance though. I think she actually thought she could make a difference. I think we've just gotta be kind to them & try to learn what we can from them. That, ...

Friends are friends... That's about it. Will Hoge was tonight but the only folks that I talked to about it were 'new friends'. It doesn't matter I don't guess, it's always been about the 'here & now', it just gets more apparent every day. GO THRASHERS!!! I LOVE HOCKEY!!!

I know posting videos is sort of lame, I just think this is cool as hell [plus I want to see how hard it is to figure out how to post video...turns out it's extremely simple] Jagger doesn't even miss a beat. - you show 'em, keith Anyway, went to my first real sierra club meeting tonight. It's always inspiring to see people committing so much of their free time to support something that they believe in, most often w/o much thanks. I was one of three people under forty out of like twenty, not much of a turn-out. I did learn that urban sprawl [I've always been very interested in sprawl] is a lot more interesting when your speaker can get his power point presentation to work [or I'm assuming it is at least]. There is always so much to learn, it's nice to see all these 'older' people still out there learning new things, making a difference, & shaking things up. I'm sure that's totally stereotypical and [whatever the word for elder prejudi...

Oh Monday, you are the day w/ the most opportunity yet usually the day I feel that I waste the most of. I usually think too much anyway, especially when I have an entire day to myself while everyone else is busy at work. I did get to eat lunch w/ some of my family today since Rachel left to go to Indonesia for two years. There are so many choices to make in life, so many things that totally change everything. Once you take one road, so many more are cut off forever. I know that is definitely a problem that I have, always wanting to experience so much, such variety. Although I feel that I do a pretty good job w/ it & that there is def. no real hurry to have it all figured out at this point in my life [or at any point in my life], I still wonder if I'm making the right decisions. Everything is magnified on Mondays, when I have so much time to do my own thing and realize how 'different' my life is from so many other people my age, especially my friends. It's wei...

is amazing. It took me way too long to finally check it out...WOW. You guys have got to see it. - more later -

I just got interviewed by a guy from 'investor's business daily'...how does that happen?! Ha, I might be getting a call from an AP photographer for a 'photo shoot'. craziness

I love having the freedom to work on both sides of my life right now: Went to 'sierra club & beer' tonight @ the savage burrito. It was really cool, my kind of people. I even met a guy that is in mazerati & was just interviewed by the magazine that I work for[he's an urban planner in his grown-up life]. You can't beat free sweetwater beer, trivia, & meeting other 20-somethings like yourself that have the same ideas & goals. I also firmed up my plans for nye in toronto & found out that I've got a free place to stay & free food for cmj in nyc this year. Although I definitely don't have the money to drop on plane tickets for this stuff, I'm totally doing it all. How often will I have these kinds of opportunities/freedoms? Delta's one-way fare sale is just god's way of telling me to go for it [as if I needed any more encouragement]. I'm going to get another job tomorrow morning so I can get more money for this stuff anyw...

I got accepted into the grad program at bgi. I can't wait to get out there and check out the beautiful northwest. Now I've just gotta figure out if I can come up w/ the money for tuition [& plane tickets, books, etc.] w/n the next two weeks or if I'm going to have to wait til next fall. Everything happens so fast, this is going to be a really great experience, sooner or later. I've also got to figure out how to balance the eventual school work w/ what appears to be the now standard 45+ hours at the shop each week. - grow up boy - One more before I go: when doing sit-ups on an incline bench, how do you keep from rubbing the skin off of upper bottox [right where the cheeks begin]? Is this just me?

joe & britney are having twins! That is so cool.

Just dropped the 250 bucks to take the gmat in november. BGI is still saying I have a shot at getting enrolled this fall [classes start sep. 25th]. We'll see about that, I need to go ahead and take the test anyway though I guess. So apparently grad school is in my future... Any gmat tips?

Tonight, on the way back from waffle house, I got to see three cars submerged in the north avenue lake. Sudden downpours of rain + atlanta's 'sub-par' drainage system + people w/ momentary lapses of reason = good times...ah, memories of joe fyi: job interviews in the middle of the ghetto on mlk dr. @ an old, creepy looking house aren't always a bad idea - john smoltz, you are my hero, please promise to never leave us -

Here is tonight's unofficial scorecard for the run: ||| m. mclain ||| 3 pts - one for each time these these black girls in a car yelled something at me as I passed them [red lights, etc.] 10 pts - being high-fived by a hot girl sitting in a car at a red light 5 pts - not breaking stride while executing this maneuver 10 pts - possibly knowing the girl who gave said high five [yet to be verified] 5 pts - five miles 4 pts - one for each time a homeless guy said something to me 3 pts - finishing run w/o throat threatening to swell shut total: 40 pts [new high score] + + + I also signed the guys & me up for a team in creative loafing's field day @ piedmont on Sept. 30th. This consists of totally bad ass, straight up old school '80's field day activities [water balloon toss, eating contest, 4(?)-legged race, etc.]. The championship, after we make it there ;), is tug-of-war. It's time to return to the glory days in hs when the honors class & all of us smart kids...

It's nice to be back in atlanta, saving money and still having too much fun. I saw a quote earlier today that said you're life could be measured in how much fun you have. I think that's true to some point, but there's obviously a lot more to life than that. Anyway... Go see 'little miss sunshine'. While it is another example of how indie films are going more mainstream [good or bad?], it is a great movie. These types of films are my favorite: the kind about how messed up everyone is in their own way, how unfair yet beautiful life is, and how it's all about the true relationships that we develop during our time here. A dark comedy with a heart would be a good way to sum it up I guess. That's all I'm going to say about that, drive to atlanta [or whatever other city you're near] and see it. It was great getting together w/ everyone at Steve's condo [ridiculously nice, the kind of place that I might live in when I'm 50] Saturday night....

Let's make this quick, considering the massive amount of stuff to tell: lolla top eleven: - stars [canadians are cool & girls that sing and play the guitar are pretty hot even it they're not attractive] - my morning jacket [their brand of jam band meets classic rock is perfect for large festivals, all the hair doesn't hurt either] - the raconteurs [jack white, 'nuf said - also covered 'crazy'] - sleater-kinney [deserved a much larger time slot for their final date outside of portland, sucks they're going on an 'indefinite hiatus', three women that totally rock] - feist [canadian, plays guitar, beautiful voice, good personality] - the go! team [the music might get old but the beats are fun & the performance is like going to a pep rally on crack, european] - the new pornographers [even neko-less they put on a great show, they're music is some of the best ever and a.c. is always fun on stage, they definitely turned everyone that happened to ...

what a weekend - The eagles of death metal & peaches show thurs. night was a blast. Good times w/ all the guys. EODM were absolutely great, spoof-rock at it's best, sucks they didn't get a longer set. Peaches was good, even better than I thought she'd be. I didn't mind having to stick around to watch her set after the rest of the guys left. What a bill: I've never seen a crowd go from hardcore rock 'n roll to lesbian/metrosexual so fast. 97 estoria after the show was nice, although possibly a bit unnecessary. Our waitress, the 'morton salt girl', was the cutest/youngest looking 30-year old I've ever seen. Friday night brought Leo & Heather's wedding rehearsal and dinner. It was nice hanging out w/ everyone together again, even if these times are only going to get more sporadic as we all 'grow up'. The haiku that we prepared for Eric to say at dinner was great [& also a tradition that I am going to make sure to continue...

9.19 - Art Brut, We Are Scientists, & The Spinto Band @ The Roxy This is the most amazing, fun, & energetic bill you will ever see. I will buy you a ticket to this show & you only have to pay me back after you say that it is the most fun you've ever had at a rock show. How many tickets should I get? PS - how is peaches headlining the show tomorrow night over the eagles of death metal? Eh, I guess it doesn't really matter: a rock show with all the guys is going to be a blast regardless - cheers!

Great weekend: Friday night we got a crew together and headed to midtown. It was really nice hanging out w/ Eric and Lindsay again, we don't get together near as much as we used to. Live music is about all that is necessary for a good night whether you're sober or not [jb, bg, and I def. weren't]. I'm very thankful for running into Tatum and them, otherwise birt and I both might've needed rescuing from that crazy girl's house. Not opening the shop until one is going to make the weekends a lot easier on Montine and I. I haven't seen two movies in the same day in forever. Click had me fighting back tears the entire second half of the movie. It would be awesome if everyone could have that dream very early in their lives. I'm really digging the kind of films that adam sandler is getting into now. Dupree is good, although not half as funny as Tatum made it sound like it was. I'm sure the rest of the folks in there assumed that she was hammered si...

You can't say that I lack effort, I just need some new/old friends that are up for stepping outside their comfort zone...[what's new] Consistent communication would be nice as well, but I think it all comes down to having your siginificant other and maybe a 'top three', that's about all that seems to matter to anyone anyway. I did find out that I can shut the tops of my bananas in the bottom of the cupboard and make my own banana hanger, so I've got that going for me. That's actually a really nice discovery.

Alright, get this: I get back from the mendoza line show tonight and see that the ryan adams date at the tab has been moved to sunday. This is great, now that I have two tickets for the ryman date and two for the st. louis date, they move the show to a night that I could see him in atlanta...

Oh man, this lollapalooza + trip is beginning to look even better. I think I'm going to just make a week of it and hit up Nashville Tuesday, St. Louis Wednesday, and Chicago Thursday through Sunday. I've got tix to the Ryan Adams show at the Ryman Tuesday and at the Pageant on Wednesday. At this point I'm thinking I'll get rid of the Ryman tix b/c they're not together and they're off to the side of the auditorium. The tix at the Pageant are general admission so it'll be cool to be on the floor [standing is for old people]. The show at the Tabernacle Saturday night is a no go b/c of Leo and Heather's wedding. It'd be cool to check out a cubs game Thursday but I'm not sure how easy it'll be to get tickets. That's almost the kind of thing where you go at any cost just b/c it's such a great opportunity though. The epicness [epic-nicity?] of lollapalooza goes w/o saying, and as an added bonus, most of the set times for the folks I...

I wait too long b/n posts on this thing...although I'm not really even sure what this thing is for. I guess it's so I can look back on it when I'm older and be like 'ah, so THAT'S what was wrong w/ me'. That'd be a good topic for one of these entries, so much to say. Anyway, it's bullet time - : I really believe that this father's day will mark a huge change in the direction of my dad's life and our lives together. You definitely have to hit bottom before you can start your climb back up and I don't think there's any further to fall. - hope/belief in the future : I might have a job opportunity in nyc before long, that'd be cool : I finally got a phone that was made within the past twelve years. How do you get new phone numbers out to people [404.626.6233]? It's like the 'end of an era' kind of thing - so many numbers in my phone that I'll never enter into my new one and people who I will most likely never talk to...

the world cup starts today. it is now officially cool to eat sausage and beer for breakfast @ your favorite local bar [ at least for the next month] - that is all

- i f*ing love atlanta - Crazy couple days. Sunday Chris & I head to park tavern for unplugged in the park. Long story short, his jeep gets towed [that industry has to be run by the mafia], we meet some really cool people who also got screwed that night, hitched rides around the city, and ended up at the airport with MY renting Chris a car before it was all over. Mysterious skin is a crazy, freaky, beautiful movie. Last night I was thankfully able to drag Alex out to the 'prophecy on ponce' block party for 666 [it's just fun]. It was about what you would expect: a lot of people dressed up as demons, freaks, murdered brides, zombies, that bunny from donnie darko; 'repent' signs in front of the local; hard core punk rock/heavy metal; etc. I even saw a guy dressed as Jesus, that was a great idea. We started out at clermont for a pbr & some karaoke. We even ate at the vortex before we went, so that counts for some more evil points as well. The highlight o...

After a weekend of grilling out/eating totally unhealthy quantities of veggies & meat, playing horseshoes/poker/football, & drinking with my extended family on a farm in southeast georgia; I spent yesterday at the braves game, sonny's bbq, & the drive-in. That has got to be a record for one weekend of american activities by anyone named micah. I'm even red & white striped after sitting in the right field bleachers w/ eric sweating my ass off & watching the braves tease us yesterday afternoon. I love how my holiday weekends and my work week don't seem that different. - back to work -

If anyone w/n one hundred miles of atlanta missed the flaming lips at c.o.p. tonight then I don't know what you were thinking. I have no idea what friends mean or who you can depend on but I do know that that was one of the most amazing and happy shows that I have ever seen. Time after time, it seems like that's all that you really have to have. I guess we'll see...

I love summer in the city. I'm just filling up this new google calendar thing with cool stuff to do almost every night for the next couple of months. Plenty of concerts, movie screenings, festivals, braves games, etc. to keep us all busy. I wish it was easier to get folks together to do stuff.

Alright, this is a tough one. The lineup for the Austin City Limits Festival was just announced and it looks pretty damn cool. I think we're going to have to get old school & have a little battle to see which one I should head to this summer. This could get ugly...

I saw art brut @ the drunken unicorn last night. - top of the pops -

pathetically stupid . extremely embarrassed . unbelievably lucky - thank god for health insurance and advil... actually, just thank god period

After this afternoon I can no longer say that I've never drank [drunk, whatever] a forty in the rain while sitting on a park bench across from the carter center. That's one more check on my 'to do before i die' list.

I've seriously gotta make some more friends in the [non-valet] parking business or stop over-estimating my sneakiness, this is getting expensive. Another reason why I love being able to walk to all of the bars in midtown. - das boots win again -

Never talk to anyone about politics, W., race, the hip hop culture, illegal immigrants, affirmative action, the war in iraq, the 'n word', etc. unless you agree w/ them...especially after you've been drinking. Ha, we covered some ground tonight. - cheers, your 'indie kid'

I've said it before and I'll say it again: atlanta is awesome. I spent the day [from nine to seven] at the inman park festival today...'working'. It's so cool so see such a diverse group of people come together and have some fun. The parade was great, everything from old people dressed up and dancing like they're on bad acid to grady high school's band doing the whole 'black band' drumcore [or whatever the name of that movie was] thing. Of course my signature luck had my allergies kicking my ass all day but I didn't let it ruin the fun too much. After about twenty minutes of lying in bed and a double shot of benadryl [I know it's a histamine blocker] and some rockstar [to counteract the anti-histamine side effect] it's time for dinner and whatever I can get into tonight. All this on less than four hours of sleep. I'm sitting at 44 hours worked this week, not even counting being at the festival tomorrow from 11-7. You know you...

Good weekend - michi's art show at the shop friday night was fun. Anytime you get to get paid for drinking at work until one in the morning is a good time. I suggest that everyone try that out at some point. - saturday night was loca luna w/ a nice crew. I got to hang out w/ josh b/c they were in town 'cutting some tracks' in the studio. We got drunk & wandered around talking to girls. Jake even serenaded these black girls outside of the club [he got a number out of it]. I can't wait until josh lives up here. The whiskey & jello shots [just for you, yeager] got me a little too right though, after I had just told teddy how I hadn't drunk dialed in a while, or even worse, left drunk voicemails [hot tub, anyone?]. Disclaimer: If you are a girl that I know & you read this, don't answer the phone if I call you after midnight unless you want to party &/or make fun of me. - sunday was a nice bike ride around town [little five, edgewood, east at...

- I've got 18 days, 14 hours, 24 minutes, and 24 seconds worth of music on my ipod. Thank god. - I just finished reading high fidelity [again]. Could I read a history book [politics among nations] for pleasure? We need to learn from our mistakes. - I hope I get to hang out & drink sweetwater while 'working' at the 420 fest tomorrow. Pray for no rain. now we're all dumber.

I put too much time into personal relationships - maintaining, beginning, searching, etc. That's a large part of why I do so many cool, random, freelance jobs/volunteer work [other than the fact that it's a good thing to do]. I could learn to do a lot of cool stuff if I put that time into reading, working out, playing an instrument, drawing/designing, working, studying for the gmat, etc. It's just like if you're not in the top two or three [or one for that matter] friends that a person has, it probably isn't worth putting any extra time into [extra time = time that you put in that they don't]. Everyone knows that you can't totally depend on anyone [other than family for the most part], but you would figure that you sort of get out what you put in. You definitely do in some friendships, but I wouldn't say that that is the rule by any stretch. It's all about getting that number one person that has you as their number one as well and putting time ...

What a great weekend. Palmer and Erin were in town for a wedding so I got to hang out and act stupid w/ them Friday & Saturday night. It's crazy how close Palmer and I are even though I just met her last summer at the film festival. She was only here for the summer too. We're just so similar I guess - weird sense of humor, same interests, always up for anything. It'll be nice when she's back in Atlanta for good. Saturday night we ended up at the clermont, which is always ridiculous. Mrs. Pacman is an all-time classic for a reason, and apparently I'm a lot better at it when I'm wasted. Getting on the whiskey afterwards at my place was a bad call but it was a great night. This weather is so nice. I made it count today - tennis baseball w/ the guys; dogwood festival w/ daya, melissa, and jennifer; and having lindsay & jay join us for dinner at el azteca. I even biked everywhere in between. That's a pretty amazing day, especially considering I ...

Pardon my language- I just saw the most ambitious band that I've ever seen play Lenny's tonight. It was like perfomance art + a play + indie rock + an art exhibit. Absolutely amazing! I saw this band put everything they had out there in a place twice the size of my living room for a crowd of no more than 20 people...and for five bucks! The music alone doesn't compare, this was an experience. It was like Jessica [who I am so glad came] said: "it was like a dream." It was just crazy. Their cd comes w/ a graphic novella that plays out in their songs, like acts in a play. It's a group of various creatives [musicians, artists, film makers, dancers, architects, novelists, etc.] : quick facts - bicycle wheels, a guy playing wine glasses, huge projector, 'costume' changes, the singers never broke character, a trash can, hot girl w/ a beautiful voice in a vintage dress, and more. I'm not even going to try to explain it, it was just like nothing else I...

[ sometimes when i'm alone, i like to just cuddle ] On a non-nonsense note, tonight james, yeager, alan, and i beat four black kids at basketball on the roof. It was just like hoosiers, well maybe not JUST like, but it was sort of somewhat like it. - never underestimate the power of hustle Oh, they make nestle crunch's w/ caramel in them now

the e11even year curse is over. florida v. ucla in the 2006 ncaa men's basketball championship. both are mine. to blind willie's for the inaugural celebration w/ the blues guitarist of the year - hooray - postscript: what's wrong w/ me as a friend/person/etc? I just don't get it, but it's got to be something. Just leave anonymous comments here's to the time change - more daylight to play

Not a bad night. wndc at aiko pretty much blew, teddy and I paid five bucks to get in, four for a beer, and left w/n ten minutes. That freed up my evening for the great lake swimmers & centro-matic show at the earl. It was really good. Will Johnson's voice is just cool as hell and patterson hood would never lie to me. I even got to see will do one of his 'appliance dances', the toaster...I'm totally stealing it. Their t-shirts were only eight bucks too [and we all know how many more band shirts i need], but, alas, they only had s & xl. A really nice night, I think I'm a fan of going to shows by myself. It's nice not having to worry about whoever I drag along to hear some band they've never heard of and I don't even notice anyone else when the band is playing. I'm totally cool w/ drinking a pbr and chilling by myself during set changes. There's always the chance to meet other people as weird as I am as well. Taking jennifer to the...

My shower and I have this game that we play: I do everything that I can think of to keep the water from leaking all over the floor while I shower and it finds a way to get it wet regardless. I haven't discovered any correlation b/n what I do when it leaks and what I do when it doesn't. I had the lead for a while but the shower has really turned it on lately. I wonder what we're playing to... postscript i - I've got ucla and florida in the final four. Yeager has lsu and george mason [wtf?]. The eleven years of 'here, have some of micah's money' could be drawing to a close this weekend. Oh, and I'm winning all three 'regular' pools that I entered, so I've got that going for me. Why didn't I bet on any of those?! The answer, or course, is because if I did all of my picks would have lost on the first weekend. postscript ii - Check out band of horses [everything all the time]...anyone want to be my 'photographer' at a show at th...

ucla, i think i love you Good night of a few good friends and some randoms. Lunch w/ jessica tomorrow should be really nice. the twelve year losing streak ends this year!

I just realized who Katherine Lindsey is. I can't believe that. I only met her a few times but I could tell how great a girl she was. Life is so fragile, crazy, beautiful. I am always amazed how the Lord shows his plan in the deaths of those that we love. Just looking back on recent events and posts and stuff you can see how everything is meant to be. It's just crazy. Why does this stuff happen? I can't believe it. Postscript: after talking to Lauren it is unbelievably amazing how the Lord works. It was definitely Katlind's time, I have never heard of anything like this. unbelievable

I had a dream last night that Josh and I were riding around some town w/ my mom and she was exacting revenge like she was straight out of kill bill or something. She would do stuff like shoot a dude in the head [it would explode everywhere w/ way more blood than a head can hold - like the movie] and then she'd just sit down right in some nearby chair that had totally gotten soaked in the dude's blood. I don't really remember her having any kind of special ninja moves, but I'm sure they were in there. I do remember her bad-ass attitude though, that was hardcore. After the killing spree, we all went back to my really cool loft apartment in the city and hung out on my rooftop deck. A bunch of my friends were already up there hanging out, they must've had a key. Daya was there with her boyfriend though, so that kind of broke my 'dream heart'. It had to be somewhere out west or something. - I'm seriously thinking about heading back to tech for a masters...

I want to be rob gordon. I'm probably half-way there already, not sure if that's a good or bad thing...

Friday night: Met everyone at park tavern for dinner, drinks, and games. I then headed to the highlands w/ Chris Wilson [yeah, I thought he was dead too], James, and some other folks. Long story short, I ended up getting left, walking/running to loca luna to meet some friends, then walking home. I'm not sure if my friends straight left me or if there was a communication breakdown but I guess I did knock out like eight miles that day since I ran that morning too. Good night last night. I met tatum and her sister at hole in the wall...not my idea, but it was fun anyway. I saw quite a few other people that I knew there as well. I didn't think people went there, but I guess that's just me. Everyone else went to northside tavern, so that would've been fun too. I just hate paying a ten dollar cover charge to go to a place that's free and still just as cool during the week. I guess I just like to get out and put myself in the position to meet new people too. choi...

Alright, let's take a look at the casualties after the first round of games: 4 - kansas 5 - nevada 6 - michigan state 9 - uab 11 - san diego state 11 - southern illinois 13 - air force 15 - winthrop 15 - davidson 16 - oral roberts Man I suck at this thing, my high seeds get upset and my low seeds just miss pulling off the upsets

lollapalooza 2006 :: august 4th - 6th :: chicago's grant park weekend of rock, anyone? That'd be a great trip.

It's that time of the year...march madness. That means that it's time for the 12th annual 'middle school pick 'em'. I'm meeting up w/ yeager, joe, and james to do what we've been doing since the seventh grade. And we're meeting at zaxby's [one perk of the suburbs]. I'm the only one who's never won, but I've got a feeling this is my year, plus the law of averages can only screw one person for so long. Delicious food, old friends, talking crap, and betting on sports. I think that's about as good as it gets, w/o getting ridiculous. - update later - Alright, I know no one cares but I figure I'll keep track of my teams on here for my own purposes. I made some stupid ass/brilliant picks: 2 - ucla 3 - florida 4 - kansas 4 - boston college 5 - nevada 6 - michigan state 7 - wichita state 9 - uab 10 - alabama 11 - san diego state 11 - southern illinois 13 - air force 14 - northwestern state 15 - winthrop 15 - davidson 16 - oral roberts...

I've got health insurance! Bring on the dangerous stuff! I don't think it kicks in for a few days though, so no one needs to hurt me just yet.

Last night I dreamt that I was at a bar but everytime that I tried to play spoon on the jukebox that someone would change the song as soon as I walked into the other room. What's up w/ that? How can you not enjoy some spoon at any point in your waking life, much less when you're hanging out at a bar and drinking w/ some friends? people...

What an awesome title for a rock song. Man, I love dbt. They've got it all. It's just dirty, rowdy, heartfelt southern rock. Anyway... Mondays are weird. I always feel like a slacker b/c everyone else is at work and I'm not, even though I work Saturdays and I went into the shop for a few hours today and did some freelance stuff. I guess it's just me. Such beautiful weather, it seems like the weather's been pretty much awesome for the past month or so. Pretty good weekend. Friday night we checked out Front Page News in midtown. It was pretty cool, I just miss the good ol' days when everyone else would get a little crazy, seems like they're all so chill now. I guess that's how it is when you get in a relationship though, so that's good for them. I guess I feel like having a girlfriend doesn't really change the way I act that much, but maybe it does. I'll work on them though, now that even more of us are in the city. Saturday was an ...

I hate it when a girl gets in your head, even when she shouldn't be. I just want to know what's up, but I should know by now that there's no sense to be made when it comes to them. Anyway, I got a haircut today [so everyone can quit their whining]. The whole aveda institute plan sort of failed though...a dude cut my hair. One of the best things about going there is that you have like a 99.99% chance of getting your hair cut by a young, cute girl. Not today. He did the whole shampoo and conditioner thing too. Thankfully he didn't do the neck massage. So now I look like a little kid as opposed to a hippie, which I'm sure is an improvement to some. I need to research some graduate school opportunities around Atlanta, I'm getting a little bit of that 'spinning the wheels' feeling again. - keep moving -

I want to go to nashville for the new pornographers/belle & sebastian show on march 8th. They should've come through atlanta. Who's up for a road trip?

Good day. Banged on some flash ads for Josh this morning, spent the afternoon doing promo stuff for the new Chappelle movie in Little Five [what a beautiful day]. There is so much cool stuff out there, just in Atlanta. It's amazing to think about how much there is to experience all over the world, it's ridiculous really. Played poker at a bar across the street w/ some of my new neighbors and James and Teddy tonight. We came for the free drink and finger foods and stayed for the poker. James lasted about three hands, I ended up playing for like three hours, not too bad. They were both finished for the night by the time I got done so I headed up to karaoke w/ Beth and her crew by myself. It wasn't bad, I'm just more of a chill guy [and a metalsome monday kind of guy, which I plugged to at least five people]. Now I'm going to try to knock out the rest of these farm team reports and hit the sack so I can get up and run/workout in the morning. I love full days. S...

Not doing so well at the whole 'updating' thing, oh well. Pretty good week. It was nice to go home for a couple days and see my mom, dad, Josh, and the rest of my family. Even got to see Jessica Thomas, who I haven't seen in like 6 years and who, during that time, has turned into a straight-up backwoods redneck [jk]. Oh, and I want my wife and I to die together. I don't want to be a sad old man, but it is semi-comforting to know that men die younger than women. fri - chilled w/ james, threw a bit, tried to meet courtney and some of her friends in the highlands but that didn't happen, not much sleep though. sat - played softball from 9a to 6p in the rain, it was a very literal debut for the swamp donkeys, we were definitely in our element. We ended up w/ 2nd in our division, not too bad for a bunch of guys that have never played together and just went out there and got totally soaked and covered in mud and acted stupid. Saturday night never really got going b/...

Ah, it's been too long. It's really nice to see you again, internet. It's been a while so let's just recap the weekend w/ the quickness: - friday night was basketball w/ the guys & then plenty of red on the walk to Spring Forth [an industrial/gothic club] w/ James to meet Andi and her friends. I was hoping to see some suspension and hardcore piercings and stuff but I'll take a bunch of cool, different people and a live industrial band. this is what the city is about - saturday was strugg-a-ling through eight hours running the shop, a quick half-ass nap and the will hoge show w/ Eric, Lindsay, Mellissa, etc. Their new stuff is good. It looks/sounds like they know they're ready to make that next step. We all hung out at Smith's after the show. Delicious cuban sandwich, tater tots, and conversation. It was nice having some time w/ that group. It's so cool that almost everyone is in Atlanta [finally] - yesterday was softball practice in the free...

It's been a while, let's make it quick: - my new apt. in midtown is a great value [you should come check it out] - I've got a better set of old school glasses than you [alvin & the chipmunks, looney tunes, flintstones] - I want to try out a bidet, those things sound scary but I bet they're awesome once you give in - my chemical romance is a really good band [at least based on their last record]. Great image/good tunes. You can't fight it.

Quite a weekend. The game was pretty good yesterday, my hawks had their chances and just couldn't make the plays. The commercials during the first quarter were pretty good. The beer ones are always the best by far, no wonder we're all drunks... The weather today is amazingly crappy, just in time for my move. It's alright though, I'm not against any kind of deadline or anything. I'm just ready to get settled somewhere and start making some things happen. After acting stupid and having too much drunken fun this weekend I'm just looking to start knocking some stuff off of my list. We'll see how that goes. I just feel like I'm not making any kind of real progress in anything although I'm sure that's not true, right? ...right?

:: whatanight ::

So I just found out that my 2nd ex-girlfriend is engaged to be married this summer. Wow, it's crazy how things happen and change so fast. It's also so weird how different people are depending on who they are dating at the time. It sounds like her ideal life though, so that's great. It's not a sad thing or anything, it's just crazy. Ha, I'm not sure what it is about dating me that makes a girl want to get married to the next guy she meets... that's all

I felt funky today at work: my body was all achy, head felt weird, pupils were dilated. It was crazy and sucked. I would say it might have been the flu or something...but I don't get sick, so that can't be it. It did give me an excuse to use some of that theraflu stuff that I got at a thrashers game like two years ago [it wasn't expired, I checked]. I feel fine now and am ready for the weekend. Plans are as follows: Fri - cosmolava w/ everyone and their friends for Sam's bday [girls always get the big celebrations]. hopefully I'll stay semi-unretarded so work Saturday won't be rough as hell. Sat - pre-gaming the thrashers game at james' studio downtown then heading to the clairmont after the game. it's gonna get nuts, that's a requirement anytime the clairmont is involved. Sun - total man's day at yeagers: poker, video games, beer, pizza, chicken, etc. for the super bowl. Oh yeah, I've still got some work to do on the apartment and job...

just a few thoughts: - I don't recommend salmon in a can. While most people would never even question buying this, I am not most people. It's really freaky, it's like they just stuffed an entire salmon into a can: meat, skin, bones...everything. I grilled some of it and made two sandwiches, we'll see how that works out for me. - I got two nice shirts from Goodwill today. One was Geoffrey Beene and one was Britches of Georgetown. I think those are pretty fancy labels. I love thrift stores, it's just a nice little challenge/victory. - I finally heard from my editor, so the show reviews are back on. Up next, Andrew Bird at Eyedrum on the 11th and the Fiery Furnaces at Smith's [!] on the 22nd. The Hold Steady would be a badass show this Saturday, but I'll be enjoying the Thrashers and the debauchery of the Clairmont Lounge in the name of Sam's birthday. We're going to have a monster crew that night. [ you should be listening to okkervil river ]

Last night was fun: we got quite a crew together and checked out the spotted dog on north ave. It's a nice place, it'll be even nicer in two weeks when I live two blocks away. We had quite a crew there, I'm wishing I would've had about two or three less drinks, Wes just keeps buying those shots... Football today definitely suffered as a result of our activities last night, none of us could really get it together. I hate it when you can't play as well as you know you're capable of. Oh well, we'll do it again in a few days. Hung over football is not that great an idea. Now it's time to shower, get some groceries, and recover. I've gotta design some flash ads and billboards too, so I've got that going for me.

Alright, this will be a nice little excercise: Top three sexiest 'indie' women... let's go w/ neko case, jenny lewis, and m.i.a. for now...there's some variety seven

The gt crew romped all over the state guys in a couple of friendly football games last night. I hope that kind of stuff never ends. - I just saw Steve-o drink a cup of chew spit - tennessee fainting goats are really cool [guess what they do] I bet I'd be an excellent goatsman... six

just found out there's going to be a mustache party at yeagers for the super bowl. this should be interesting...

The homeless census went well. We had a lot more help this year than last. My group had the grant park area, it was pretty cool walking around the park at one in the morning. I have so much respect for anyone that does social work, especially when they get a masters, so many sacrifices on so many levels. It is def. one of the most fulfilling jobs on the planet though. But yeah, we only found three homeless people [ha, it's like we all wanted it to be more or something], but we did find this homeless 'campsite' right off of I-20 in some trees/bushes. It was crazy to see something like that: like ten pairs of shoes hanging from a tree, garbage bags full of aluminum cans, shopping carts, little cleared out spots where they had layed whatever they could find to sleep on. I guess it's just a group of them trying to stick together, hopefully it's not an entire family Last night I went w/ Josh to Rehab's recording studio near Athens. It was a really nice studio...

- yesterday was a very manly day: bowling w/ bg & jb, then watching football, drinking whiskey, and playing poker for the remainder of the day. I need a good cry - I just got done checking out the new rusan's in edgewood w/ beth. Buffets are good. Now it looks like a little job searching, bowling w/ bg, sweetwater at 420, dart match [ha] at 8, and meeting up to help out w/ the homeless census at 1030. It lasted until like 4a last year, so it looks like I'm in for a long night of driving around east atlanta in the rain looking for lost souls. It really makes you think about & appreciate how much we all have... And I get to hang out w/ other homeless people, which is always interesting. four

I'm growing tired of the long play by play-type blog [and some food and a nap before this evening's festivities sounds nice], let's try something different. With the quickness [or quickerness]: - thursday's dbt show at the 40 watt rocked . over three hours of passionate songs about whiskey, women, and being from the south . rocked - last night was bowling with the crew . i passed the line where beer stops helping your game and starts making you suck about half an hour before we got to the bowling alley . fun for all - tonight on the way home from work I saw: a] a man waiting at the intersection w/ his child, whose too-large pants had fallen to his ankles . apparently the father did not notice this & b] a guy riding a bike down flat shoals w/ a 12 pack of old milwaukee bungie-corded to the bottom of his seat - the new issue of spin is pretty much the best, most consistently good issue I've ever held in my hands [i've only browsed through it backwards but i...

SXSW would be insane, I'm going w/n the next few years. Mark my word...

Just got back from the independent. It was cool, Croyle's birthday 'pool' party...that was a freebie, folks. I'm glad Jessica called, she's a good friend: very dependable. Group tabs are messy and not a wise choice - fyi - Ha, myspace is pretty interesting. You can find people on there that you never thought you would talk to again. It's that new, new facebook. First blogs, then facebook, now myspace...where will it end? I don't really have much to say tonight. I am selling my old turbografx on ebay ::::::::::: You can look at it there. Apparently it's worth some money or something. I'm probably the only one amused by this. Oh, and Joe had a girl come look at my room tonight. Well she got here at nine and I get back from the independent...and she's still here. I even told him how you can't mess w/ someone that you live with. Not a good situation [I wouldn't know by experience, just intuition]. Ha, I guess he's just goin...

Not a bad weekend. Friday night was a Thrashers game and then drinking at the top of the Westin w/ jb, bg, and stuart. The game was cool, they're actually playing really well right now and we snuck down to seats a row behind the glass for the third period. The Westin was cool: sweetwater, fruit, and cheese while looking out at an awesome, rotating view of the city. We had to be the only people making under 50 grand a year in the place. Good times. Saturday was tons of kids at work, football games, and the local w/ my old crew for lindsay's birthday. I love that place - a laid back crowd, foosball, good bar video games, and indie rock...about as good as it gets. We packed into the Majestic for food at 3 in the morning following the bar. That place is always interesting. That could be due to the fact that I only go there early in the morning when every customer in the place is wasted. Sunday was football with the guys again [fourth game in eight days]. It was alright, nothing spe...

Quite a day here in East Atlantaland. Katy left for five months in NYC this morning. That's going to affect me a lot more than I allowed myself to believe. It's all worked out pretty well though. She's a pretty amazing girl. Now for the total testosterone-infused event that only I would care so much about - And we got into the most epic game of football that I have ever played in tonight after work: six v. six, full field, two hours nonstop, just unbelievable how much everyone gave. I just love that, when you get a bunch of guys out there and everyone just busts their ass for twice as long as they feel like they can. Both teams made some huge plays, the gt crew had our chances but came up just short. It was awesome though, you should've seen it. That's the third football game this week and I felt like an old man after the first two...tomorrow is going to be ridiculous. I've gotta just get this off my mind a bit though: I have a pretty good temper, especially whe...

lots of good shows coming up, kids. - get your rock shoes on -

Alright, not a very eventful day. I've been listening and thinking about music a lot as usual and figured I'd try to throw down a list of my top five/ten/twenty/whatever albums of 2005. Oh, listerine is almost amazing [the searing flesh means it's working] Hopefully this won't take too long... Alright, I've been thinking about it for a while and I'm going to go w/ ten [and some late entries] b/c five is too tough and twenty is a bit too easy and doesn't take any balls. I think it's going to come down to which ones I have spent enough time with because I've just heard about a lot of great albums in other year end lists. In other words, this could easily change a few weeks down the line as I get more into some of the most recent stuff [it's been a long year]. One more thing, there are many different ways to approach year end lists. I am going to approach this one as 'the ten albums of 2005 that I would want if I could only have ten' so I...