Somehow you've reached what was formerly the Valleyell Podcast. I created it back in 2005, when I was 16, and I've deleted (I think) all 11 episodes I made for several reasons:

1. I'm afraid to listen to what I sounded like and talked about when I was 16. I'm even more afraid for you to listen to me when I was 16.
2. I don't think the content is substantive or useful enough to justify leaving it on the internet attached to my name.
3. If I decide I still want to podcast, I want to repurpose this thing so I can actually use it to talk about issues pertaining to the Rio Grande Valley community, rather than my own lame life.

But here lies the old blog. Soon, perhaps, this will all be deleted and relocated so I can make room for a new podcast. If you really want to listen to one of the old podcasts, I still have all the old files (except for #7) and I might be benevolent enough to let you listen to it. Until then, my new project is Tambourine Jam, a blog about music and community.

Meanwhile, I was composing a choral song (finished!), getting the highest score on the PSAT in the junior class at my school, and riding my new bike around. Just thought I'd let you in on those wonderful factoids :).

I haven't checked my stats in months... and I don't plan on doing it anytime soon. I am really either going to get my heart broken or become really scared. So I'm not going to do anything. I'm just going to keep on keeping on.

I knew my instincts about file sharing (that it's morally Right sometimes) were not shameful! Um, if that doesn't quite make sense, I'll explain it on the next episode.

This little article makes me happy. Come on, the record industry needs some reform.

I also wanted to let you know that I'm getting set to do the podcast once per week, and I'll try to get it uploaded by sunday at midnight, just like the word nerds, because they inspire me so. plus it makes just a hell of a lot more sense. for me. and I'm gonna try to play four songs per show.

there's more I wanted to say, I think, but I forgot whatever it was. I'll edit this post if I remember.

FOR THE LAST FOUR HOURS I have been trying to upload this stinkin' file. I don't think it's libsyn, but I tried CoffeeCup like I usually try to do and it wouldn't stay connected to the FTP server, then I tried the regular ol' libsyn way and that sat there for an hour and 7 minutes and I don't think it's supposed to do that. And then, I tried the CoffeeCup again and it ALMOST worked! but it only uploaded 21 megs and the file is twenty-FOUR megs... I'll burn it to a cd and bring it over to this computer (the family computer in the living room)...

made the 11th podcast, but I talk for about 10 minutes straight. no, longer, I think. It was an important topic to me, but still, I don't know what to do. I am way too sleepy to determine the right thing to do. I will listen to it in the morning and if it's not too ridiculous I'll post it asap. sorry for the big, humungous delay.

I miss you, podcast land.

But I have to be a responsible editor for a little while longer.

Once I'm done with that, I'll be very overjoyed and back at the same time.

Time frame = 1-2 more days. Because I know you cared. Ahhh it's been 11 days! I hate this responsibility business! I am so slow at it!

what do you do when you have the most extreme need to do a podcast but it is 12:24 in the middle of the night? i need to apologize for the last one. and I forgot to mention that the december drive's "none of the above" isn't really new. I think I had said it was. I need to wake up at 5 and do this sucker.

no austin today. maybe we can drive up tonight and still see the rest of them? I don't know if my mom's willing to go that crazy when she gets home. I don't think we have a place to stay, since my former ride probably cancelled their freaking hotel room.
Austin's KVUE - ACL Festival information, SBC blueroom live stream of ACL, noaa feed of the lastest with Rita.

i have no ipod, no austinmusic, and an enormous headache.
oh! but I have this clustermap thing now! It's so cool! hello montreal! and wyoming? and san francisco? uhh. I can't tell. I love you guys, but how am i ever going to get those australians?

Sooo. It looks like we might just be able to go. Maybe. I think. God, I hope. I want my tortoise and my mates of state and my rilo kiley and .... but I'm not gonna get crazy and excited quite yet... just quietly and robotically do my laundry and pack a duffel bag with the basics. I need to do that stuff but I plan to take a nice, long, compensatory (word?) 6-hour nap, and podcast afterward, because I hope and think my brain won't be quite as dysfunctional after i give it a chance to recoup!

did i mention bruce robison? god damn. I better not look at the names. only the fiery furnaces and the arcade fire and tegan and sara and bloc party and the dirty dozen brass band and widespread panic and buddy guy and death cab for cutie. only them. and the other people I hadn't really heard of but wanted to see anyway like kasabian and mofro and the walkmen and the frames and built to spill and aqualung and the asylum street spankers. gosh. and wilco. burhhh. I just had to remind myself of everything I'm missing. that's all.

go to the austin city limits schedule page and check out MY schedule by entering the code below. if anyone going reads this before the festival... we should meet! unless you're a pedophile!

ACL687305

SO. looks like RITA has totally destroyed the trip that was going to make our year. er, updates later.

(Also, expect a wee change in "format," if it can be called that. I'll talk about that soon.)

just to be clear...

I have no ipod and no internet card for my laptop, but am allowed to get on this big computer in the living room. apparently, until I can "prove that I can get myself out the door on time" in the morning.

I need to make a better podcast, and a promo. because whether or not I enjoy talking to myself and publishing what i say on the internet, it is all for naught if no one listens. lack of feedback bums me out so much. I know the last one wasn't good, but urgh.

speaking of feedback, I've enjoyed the random congratulations in the hallways, seeing as how my actual friends haven't really asked me or congratulated me because they don't really know what I do in choir. and I suppose that's cool. I just wish they knew what i did on saturday. ha ha. wow. that was a tangent. (the thing is, making district choir is a big deal... but does it matter, really? in the whole scheme of things, I mean? If I drop out of school tomorrow, will that really matter?)

By the way, I will probably be updating this thing like a freakin lj... since the livejournal thing is blocked from the school computers. so... deal.

I know no one's actually reading this. But I'm sorry that my ODEO page is so messed up. I tried to fix the files and make them shorter so I'd have space on my account... but it made like 10 ODEO shows. sorry sorry sorry. if I knew how to fix it, I would.

Ok em, f. that dude, I'm podcasting this week for sure. love, She-who-has-a-lot-to-say P.S. I'm sooo not scared anymore. Knowing your shit is awesome.

Stupidest post ever, my god. It needs editing.

I want to put a little blog entry out right now because I need to stay off the computer this week. I have district auditions for all-state choir on Saturday, which means I need to start getting consistent, adequate rest... as opposed to the... 5 hours I usually get. I need to be more organized with my time.

I'm in the most overwhelming electronica mood of my life. I've been listening to indiefeed's electronica podcast and there are these fricken laptop battles and I'm in love. go see for yourself or something. Hopefully I will overcome the urge to play with ACID this week while I keep the internet card thing out of my computer... for the most part.

I haven't been updating my livejournal for the past couple of months, but I have a feeling I will be doing so ferociously this week since I am not going to let myself podcast for sure, until Saturday night when I get home from auditions.

In the meantime, I'll just be looking for 5/6ish awesome tracks. And I have a ton of shit to say. Hopefully I said something of consequence last time, even though I was all hyped up on coffee. ERRRGH I have to go do homework.

THE POINT IS, please tell me what you hate and like and what you ate for supper. Leave me a comment here or on the audio comment line thing.

note to self: know shit about the bands and talk about their interestingness, and identify specifically cool things about music more often.

I am super tired. I sang the alma mater at the football game tonight and Ali (Ringtones, remember?) sang the national anthem. :].
But like I said, super tired. I've been really stupid the past couple of days and completed practically none of my homework while staying up late doing nothing online.
So I wouldn't have stayed at the football game, but I was trying to acquaint Kris the exchange student from Thailand with the game of football. Fabian and Simon from Germany were pimping it up (seriously, approximately 3 women a minute) like crazy so they had no trouble acquainting themselves.
Um, about this photo.. I can't describe it. Odd, there we go. (Oh, we lost the game by the way, really badly.) Oh yeah, later it popped up again with not one, but TWO phone numbers... aw damn I forgot to write them down.
OK zoning out.. time to go to sleep. Tomorrow morning I will wake up, drink coffee, and go biking to China and then maybe run a few miles. I think that will get me pumped up for the podcast I have been waiting to do for so long.
Oh, guess why I only have 39 megs left? because I've been putting my podcast out on this ridiculously high sound quality level and now I feel kind of pressed for space, since I've taken up around 50 megs per thingy , and guessed that's just how they rounded out. Stupid. OH WELL, no. You know what this is good for? Discouraging future listeners from downloading the really old podcasts. Taking up too much memory.

o.k. the end.

Editttt: --> ACL IN 14 DAYS DOODS (CONTAINS INTERNAL-ORGAN-EXPLOSION)!!!!!!#(P$YURIOJRKF

The next podcast, thankfully, won't be up for a few days. I'm not sure if I lose extra storage space after a month is up but whatever.
I wish I were articulate. I'm not. It makes me a little bit depressed. On the up-side, there's always music to make when I can't communicate like a damn human.
I want to leave here the links to my other web-things. myspace, livejournal.

OH! Just so you can start getting excited, the next podcast will include an Echo Base Soundsystem track (although you maybe shouldn't click on that cause then you will not be totally blown away by the podcast) and Ennui-jolt, who want me to wait until their freshly-recorded tracks get sent to them. So whatev'.

The next podcast, thankfully, won't be up for a few days. I'm not sure if I lose extra storage space after a month is up but whatever.
I wish I were articulate. I'm not. It makes me a little bit depressed. On the up-side, there's always music to make when I can't communicate like a damn human.
I want to leave here the links to my other web-things. myspace, livejournal.

OH! Just so you can start getting excited, the next podcast will include an Echo Base Soundsystem track (although you maybe shouldn't click on that cause then you will not be totally blown away by the podcast) and Ennui-jolt, who want me to wait until their freshly-recorded tracks get sent to them. So whatev'.