YES! ::Extends arms victoriously:: This took me 4 hours to upload, people! And my website is totally blank! [Edit 1/8/09: That's because when I posted this originally I was posting it in "1969"] I am so confused! But here is the podcast! belaire, vinyl dharma, i love you baby!, and castor & pollux and the gemini fanclub

I talk about the issue I have with the word, "chonger."

eric whitacre

"why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race by beverly daniel tatum

blink by malcolm gladwell

frappr map! put yourself on here right now!!

other good things I forgot to mention that are way awesome: the bicycle diaries - is it possible to live in america without a car? uh, sort of. by bill gifford

"We all have a sphere of influence. Each of us needs to find our own sources of courage so that we will begin to speak. There are many problems to address, and we cannot avoid them indefinately. We cannot continue to be silent. We must begin to speak, knowing that words alone are insufficient. But I have seen that meaningful dialogue can lead to effective action. Change is possible. I remain hopeful." - Beverly Daniel Tatum

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 had the show notes typed out, and they were the best show notes in the history of this podcast. And my computer shut off. At least we still have sound :). I forgot to say the name of the show. Grr this computer pisses me off so much. I can't believe I lost the show notes. They were great. i had everything time-marked and linked up and the whole deal. here is what you get for the moment... the dead pets, get him eat him, evil robot us', 2me I have not even indulged in my daily podcast dosage, since 1. I knew I would get to hyped up and crazy to do this podcast when I should be being responsible and 2. My ipod is very very very very broken. I make very little sense, and if I had it in me to redo the show notes right now I would do that, but I am pooped.

I tried to make a podcast tonight, but I'm not making any sense and am frustrated with my microphone. and... I don't understand physics. I'll take a break and keep trying...

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!

I blatantly forgot to mention a million things. Namely, how BEAUTIFUL the weather was Friday and Saturday because of a cold front (it hadn't been 68 degrees for at least eight or nine months). It felt like we were on a different planet. and the lovely digital detroit radio shirt I made (I didn't sew it or anything, I just colored on it); go look at my flickr page.

newspaper has me losing my mind. there you have it. mindless. so... I'll try to do better next time and whatnot.

lots of huffing and puffing into the mic... sorry... ahhhhhhh. janemag.com... liliput is wonderful punk girl noisy music... check killrockstars.com. absolutely kosher records has a really cool podcast @ http://www.absolutelykosher.com/podcasts/dircaster.php . nicole(...god i'm mumbly... )'s ultimate bikeriding mix... how i found out about the band called thingy. (I emailed to ask if I could play it, but they never answered me... eventually there WILL be an ultimatebikingpodcastextravaganza, or else.) simon! mumblemumblemumble.... we do cryptoquips in my english class. pep rallies are "primal." patriotism may or may not mean putting your country's flag up on every fencepost. (I forgot to mention that simon lets me burn all his awesome cds i.e. manu chao and toots & the maytals.)

where the hell is my mouthguard?

now, support the causes I give you ample reason to support!!

da toonz.
des ark: "jesus loves you (but yr still comin home with me tonight)"
a kid named thompson: "i hate this town"
the buzzbombs: "truck driving vampires"
ennui-jolt: "seven," + "shopping line"

(why is the file name on this one so funny? I didn't name it that..)

I am very easily carried away by emotion, also very strong monsters. And I am really regretting my last two podcasts. Just because they were so angry and frustrated. Hm, the only thing I hope is that I don't sound like someone who thinks they're all intelligent as they say the words "how, now, brown cow" with a british accent. I actually have no idea where that comes from. I think a cartoon or something.

But, I have some cool stuff on the way. Looks like tomorrow will be it. I wouldn't ramble here if I didn't really feel like an idiot. I just want to acknowledge the stupidity, that's all. I am still very much a happy lady. :D!!!

seriously. no more talking. ever. again. I promise. well maybe a little talking.

WAYYYYYY too much school ranting, apologizing, and generally uninspiring banter. (Next time... I'm just going to play music... and not talk.) Talked about frustration and things unconsequential, attention deficit "disorder," extra ham omelettes, why teenagers should (utilize the right to) be angry, and challenging oneself.

On the upside, there are SIX truly awesome songs here. click on the links and tell the artists you heard 'em here and that they are awesome.

"bonestorm" by the isotopes, "tinfoil" by rainer maria, "pistol-whipped" by love county, "saccharine" by sunday's best, "holy night fever" by deerhoof

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.

"porksauce and applechops" by the un-fun slide, "do you crawl" by the bourbon knights, "your drama" by shanghai 5, "untitled for now" by goody anne, "penelope" by of montreal.

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.

more notes later!

vegan planet, tuesday night's schoolboard meeting

music:
Sweet Baby by The Gossip, None of the Above by .thedecember drive, I'm Gonna Kill My Baby by Atomic Boogie, Spot-for-best-vision by Mocket.

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.

Tey's voicemail
"new show notes"... whiteboard + goo-b-gone is awesome.
McAllen's population, as of the 2000 census, was 106,414. I didn't know McAllen has a wiki!!!
Nobody Loves You (Like Me) - Cari Lee and the Saddle-ites
(39 is a relatively low number of friends on myspace, and coordinately on flickr that "low, elite-friend" number would probably be like 9..) my flickr page... I would like more contacts than bob and aj...
skype..?
Etoile - Kleenex/LiLiPUT. Please check out this site for interesting stuff about this band. + Link to buy LiLiPUT CD
I never know the words to songs. (except for Travelin' Soldier)
podsafe polyvinyl?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!
my trip to New Orleans in 2004 with choir, Rufus is found, and the proposed trips for this upcoming year. Hopefully, we will stay in Texas and half of what we fundraise can go to the Hurricane Katrina funds.
Bad Day - The Guilty Parties' myspace, The Guilty Parties
ACL in 13 days!
I need a German! District Choir Music ... Iamgoingtodie.
Payphones are my Best Friend - It's a Hit
Burn, Don't Freeze - Sleater-Kinney
Laney's voicemail, Matt's voicemail. Best voicemails of my life. And only voicemails of my life.

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

getting drunk @ family gatherings... is there a reason?
big family and a few cool cousins
My Odeo Channel (odeo/8df2a985a3f86101)
"brooke rosemary"
no more room on my computer!!!
Music: The Sentient Manifesto
Agriculture Club, Ag Club's MySpace
The Tremors, Tremors' MySpace
Country Slashers
Alley Dukes, Alley Dukes' MySpace

If you want to be cool like me, you need to listen to the following podcasts,
A.S.A.P.
digital detroit radio
tragically nameless podcast
in over your head

When you derive happiness from nothing you create yourself, your happiness will not be sustained. That's something some hoes need to realize. I just did.

This podcast is late. I made it Thursday, but edited some things out. Please fast fwd through me talking, and you'll have a good podcast, possibly. God damn, I hate this podcast. But this is so old that it will take me hours to redo. Is that shameful? Damn.
I talk about... (I'll make links later)
Echo Base Soundsystem
being pathetic/creepy, albeit stupid for lamenting over it
Ennui-jolt
attention deficit disorder (excuses)
anonymity vs... truth..?
ambition vs. nerves
Mary Lou Lord

audio I cut out.
Why school is a drag...
I don't like to go to sleep
because I feel like I'm
WASTING TIME @ school
because all day I
can't use my brain
for my own purposes
unless I don't pay
attention!
and so
I don't do so well.

EDIT: I finally figured out how to do the sidebar links. Thank goodness. Now go do something with them.

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'.

mcallen critical mass, ringtones, dignan

It doesn't matter that no one listens to my podcast. You should just listen to in over your head

Bill Motter's original anti-dairy letter to the editor, My letter to the editor, Thomas Winkler's rebuttal to my letter to the editor

Article in The Monitor about Echo Base Soundsystem.

I think I can edit this later? I need to go to sleep, but for now: your valentine, dignan, a better transit, A-CUP was written by Nicole L. and Brooke L. and performed by Alex S., Nashla D., and Nicole and Brooke. PANIK is a song I got from kill rock stars by Bratmobile.