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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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3:04 pm - Only in Colorado
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Livejournal I do not have much to say. I am writing three pages a day in a journal. So, when it is time for the internet I am kind of wrote-out. But this is maybe my favorite picture I took last summer:
What does it mean?
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| Sunday, August 9th, 2009
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6:11 pm - Birthday Post
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Moved to Bloomington, IN. Very stressful move. The house was a real wreck. Still working on cleaning it. I live with Eric Ayotte and Matt Tobey. Lots of big plans for this coming year. Most of them start tomorrow. Today is my birthday. I don't have to do anything on my birthday. Mostly I just played video games all day.
The new address is:
909 w 9th st.
Bloomington, IN
47404
Pretty easy to remember. I never learned my address in Florida. It was written down in my wallet.
I'm planning some big posts soon. We still do not have internet at the house. Right now I'm at Qdoba downloading podcasts so I do not going crazy on the long drive to Michigan in the morning.
The first ever Baribeau Family Reunion is the weekend. Looking forward to swimming and eating side-dishes.
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| Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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2:45 am - big doooooooooooooooooooooobAAAAAAGGGGGG
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Got this today from one of my adoring fans:
yer a fuckin doosh bAAAAAAG, I LOVE YER FIRST ALBUM but honestly wny cant you be open minded AT llL cant you just be cool evey thing we do dosnt mean shit the guy im hanging out wioth is narly and he will drop me like a fly ....and writing this isnt gopnnnnA but this wont ammmmont to shit cuz im wasted and no one likes me and im a big doooooooooooooooooooooobAAAAAAGGGGGG. FUCK IT ALLLLLL JUST LET IT KILLLLL YA.
A letter like this makes it all worth while.
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| Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
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2:17 pm - Louisville, KY
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I've been in Louisville for a little while now. Frances and I tried to eat right and cook for ourselves. It worked well for about 5 days and then it was time for cookie dough. While buying cookie dough it became time for cheese queso dip. Also, I'm trying to drink as little pop as possible.
I feel like too much of life is about trying to eat right. It is so easy to eat poorly. Everywhere you go is crappy food that tastes great and makes you feel bad. I will be in California soon and plan to eat a burrito everyday. It may not be true, but I feel the burrito is a "health" food. Is there anything bad about a burrito?
Also, Obama is giving some benefits and health care to the partners of gay federal employees. This is pretty good news for everyone.
edit: “This is only one step,” Mr. Obama said. “Unfortunately, my administration is not authorized by existing federal law to provide same-sex couples with the full range of benefits enjoyed by heterosexual married couples.”
Friday is the first day of tour. I'm ready in my heart. We are taking a little car. Makes packing really hard.
Forgot to add this earlier...
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| Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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6:24 pm - moving day.
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E-mailed Jennifer at No Idea my t-shirt design. She replied, "I am stunned..." and said nothing more.
Ordered 250 stickers with king tut design.
Ordered 40 t-shirts with the sailboarding design.
Ordered 200 copies of the tape. 6 minutes and 15 seconds on each side. Short and sweet.
No new poster, but that is mainly because the car we are taking out west is far too small.
Hoping this pays off.
Woke up today and finished packing up my room. It is weird to pack up things. I came down here with so many ideas about what might happen. Like, the bass guitar that, while I had fun playing, I never really used for anything. The books I didn't get around to reading. Also, just finding things from different events. Like pictures of Ireland, movie stubs, journals, or CDs people gave me in other towns. Feeling very ready for some new adventures.
It started to storm really bad today so I took a break and watched the movie Under Siege with Steven Seagal. I really liked this movie, more than I had remembered. There is a former playmate on the battleship who was hired to strip for the captain's birthday party. Meanwhile, at the party, Tommy Lee Jones pretends to be in a successful blues band and starts killing people. By falling asleep inside the giant cake she avoids capture, leaving her and Steven Seagal to save the ship and its crew. The thing I love is that Mr. Seagal never questions the idea that she and he can work together. He never devalues her, just teaches her how to operate weapons and fight against Tommy Lee Jones. It turns out she is not only beautiful, but smart and capable of anything. A great film with a great message.
Yesterday I went to see the movie Drag Me to Hell. It was amazing. I snuck in some Gushers.
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| Monday, June 1st, 2009
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2:34 pm - Movie
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| Saturday, May 30th, 2009
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1:28 pm - King Tut
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This is the design for a new t-shirt. Well, this is a prototype anyway. Need to redo all the letters. Need to figure out what colors to make it. Feeling pretty good about it though. No Idea Records is going to "put it out." Which means I do not have to pay to produce them. They mail them all over the world, in theory, and we split the profits. This means I can make some money when I am not on tour. Which is good. The plan is to someday be make a reasonable income without having to tour all the time.
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| Friday, May 29th, 2009
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5:30 pm - 2 Inside
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David Hyde Pierce has gotten married. Sadly, not to Jane Leeves. This caught my eye because I fall asleep watching Frasier almost every night.
Spent almost all of today recording stuff. I finished all the main tracks yesterday. Today was just laying down the over-dubs. Did all the back-up vocals in about an hour. Spent the next 5 hours laying down guitar parts that I inevitably scrapped. Wrote all these lead parts but they just sound weird. I'm okay with cutting them. But it was a long day and my brain is pretty fried. Maybe tonight I'll listen to the solos and things will sound okay. Doubtful. I feel like I am pretty good at guitar until I try to record. Then I can't do anything right. It is pretty fun to be recording again. My plan for Bloomington involves a lot of recording... and getting an ulcer.
I remember going to see Frank Black play a show. He had shaved all the hair off his head including eyebrows. Was this possibly a dream?
current music: Canned Heat - Goin' Up the Country
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| Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
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2:12 pm - Recording
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Tonight I'm going to start recording stuff for the tape. I have 6 songs figured out. 3 new ones and 2 I had already finished and a cover of a Your Heart Breaks song. The plan was to write 6 new songs in a month. What a stupid plan. Then the plan was 5 new ones and the cover. Then the plan was this plan, which is: If I already have a couple songs, why not put them on the tape and relax. The other option was putting the garbage that I've been writing on it. This will not be the most classic tape ever made but I think it will be pretty good. I also think I can sell about 200 of them on tour. Am I delusional? Yes. It is more like, I NEED to sell 200 of them on tour to pay myself back for this month of not working and telling myself that I am an artist and will pay my bills by doing artistic things. It is really annoying because my favorite microphone was stolen. I like my other mic but that one was cool beans. I almost went out and got a new one but decided it would be a bad idea in my current financial situation. These are the things I think about all day. Did some yoga this morning with a nice man on a video tape. He seemed to think that my head could touch my feet. Sadly, my head does not touch my feet. I also found that a sock makes a nice "yoga strap."
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| Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
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2:27 pm - legendary reliability
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First, it is now legal to surf in Chicago. This means that it was illegal.
Second, a new (to me) PDA. Sometimes I see people putting their hands in each others back pockets. For a while I considered this to be a very strong showing of affection. Well, at the new Publix grocery store, I saw the next level. A man had his middle finger down the back of a woman's pants. I was shocked. Another dude almost ran into me with his shopping cart. It was causing a situation! Have you ever heard a hand described as "meaty" before? This man's meaty hand was in his girlfriend's buttcrack in a grocery store.
Third, Matt Tobey, Eric Ayotte and I will be living together in Bloomington, IN. It is official. They are signing the lease toady. It is nice to have some friends that will do all the hard work for me. We have plans to create a house band and pay our bills with iTunes sales. I hope it works. I'm very excited about this. We will live across the street from a large park. 3 on 3 b-ball.
Fourth, am I the only one who thinks pizza rolls make a fine meal?
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| Sunday, May 17th, 2009
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1:06 pm - T-shirt
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Designing t-shirts is a stressful business. Let me list a few reasons. It is expensive to have them made. It is weird to think about people wearing them. Very weird to put my own name on things. It is difficult to pick out the colors from an almost infinite number of possible combinations. And then deciding how many colors to use at all. It is very hard to think, "this will have four colors." This particular design could easily have one color. Just line art. Or even two, to make it pop a little. But I'm going whole hog on it.
So, I've been working on this for a while. Last night, with some support from Mrs. Doubtfire, I almost finished. All it needs is a little bit of clean-up. I think this is my new t-shirt design for the summer. Inspired by the Grand Ledge High School colors.
In other news: Had a stressful dream that involved logic problems. Woke up in the middle of the night with a splitting headache. What is that about?
current music: Temptations
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| Friday, May 15th, 2009
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8:45 pm - Hangtime
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Had to get out of the house. My roommate is out of town for a few days. Have the house to myself. It has been pretty nice. I made seitan for the first time today. Very chewy. Wondering if there is a way to make it be less rubbery. It rained so hard today that I got wet laying on my bed. I was watching an amazing kids movie called Ty's Home-Made Band. This kid Ty meets a hobo in a graveyard and they start a band. It filled me with intense joy. I'm at Jimmy John's right now. It seems like they want me to get out of here. It always seems that way. Finished a song for the tape I'm working on. One out of six. I'm so close on a few others. Tonight feels like the kind of night that a song gets finished. Or the kind of night where I watch Field of Dreams. Has anyone seen the VHS tapes at the library that are "described for the visually impaired"? It is the same movie but a calm voice explains what is happening on the screen. It is a lot more poetic than you would think. I have seen a few of these. I think Big with Tom Hanks is the best descriptions so far. They have Dick Tracy, but how could you describe the visual amazingness of Dick Tracy. Possibly the grossest looking movie ever made. I imagine the voiceover saying something like, "Ummm... There is a gross looking dude and everything is all wet and dark and Madonna is looking crazy, now that kid who looks like Mike Lovato is up to something..."
In other news: Did you know that the african-american friend in Clueless, Stacy Dash, was 28 years old during filming. I'm 28, and I'm not going to be playing any high schooler in a teen comedy. I might, MIGHT, get cast as the drug dealer. Did you know that the director of clueless said it was, visually speaking, the closest any film has come to looking like it did in her head? I did. Special features people. Got to watch those special features.
Historical fact:
current music: Blues Traveler
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| Thursday, May 7th, 2009
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4:35 pm - Bold Burglar
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Yesterday, between 1:30 and 5:00 in the afternoon, someone came through my window and took things from the house. Got robbed! What was weird is how long it took to figure out that it happened. I came into my room and couldn't figure out what was different. Well, no iPod is different. But maybe I just put it some weird place. Then, while jamming out, I noticed that my nice microphone was broken off of the mic stand. Okay, not good. So, I go into the kitchen and tell Travis that I think someone came into the house. He is like, "yeah, I've been getting that same feeling." He had thought a box mysterious jumped out of his closet. So we went around and took note of our loses. We quickly figured out that his laptop is gone. My roommate has been working on writing a book, so that is about as bad as possible. Not even a nice laptop, super old style Mac. Bikes are still there. Nintendo DS must have snuck under a book of Norse Mythology when he saw the robber.
Things could have been so much worse. Easily, could have been horrible. Still, today I am feeling real bad. I liked that stuff. I don't want new stuff! I feel like throwing a tantrum. Had the hardest time getting any sleep last night. Just so mad about it and there is nothing to do. No way to get these feelings out.
Travis called the police and two of the nicest most fun cops came over. The woman had us come out in the backyard to look at some possums. The dude cop kept saying, "let me give you the sha-bang-bang about this." Travis is going to call the insurance people today and see what they can do about getting some money to replace stolen things with.
Weirdo night.
current mood:  depressed
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| Monday, May 4th, 2009
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3:23 pm - Luther Vandross
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Only because there are other things i should be doing, I will do this.
Woke up at 1:00pm on the dot. Punctual, if nothing else.
Had a dream last night that involved dating a nun. Turns out they cut pretty loose at the convent. More a sorority house than a monastery. Thing is, I was trying to date the young Andie MacDowell, but the young Samantha Mathis looking nun was all about me. In my head I'm thinking, "this is going to end badly."
Yesterday, Rodney Mullen spoke at the library. Mr. Mullen is a professional skateboarder. He is the the person who invented the kickflip and many other tricks. He has not done much public speaking. It was like watching an amazing therapy session. The audience as therapist. There was more than one point where I thought he was going to have a psychological breakdown/breakthrough. Beautiful. A 42 year old man who changed the world of skateboarding and still wants to do more. Really made me feel good about the future.
In other news: Video games still rule my world.
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| Thursday, April 30th, 2009
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8:27 pm - Scared
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When I go to sleep at night I like to have the TV on. Okay, I need to have the TV on. The other night, as I was drifting off, I through on a little Northern Exposure Season 3. The episode took place on Halloween and was anything but scary. Somehow, just the idea of it being Halloween made me scared. I was overwhelmed with a feeling or terror. I had to turn it off. Weird feeling. Luckily, Karate Kid part 3 doesn't mention any scary holidays in the first few minutes. I was able to fall asleep without further incident.
In other news: Jimmy Johns is not selling sprouts because the FDA says they can't. They tried to convince me that the #6 would be just as good without sprouts. Right. So, I am now checking out this new pizza place. It is real bad. Have you ever taken a bite of something and realized you accidentally bit your napkin? Then your mouth has weirdo napkin in it? Imagine a napkin with some greasy cheese and tomato soup instead of pizza sauce. There are about ten people working at this tiny place. I'm glad I don't work at a pizza place anymore.
Today I started working on writing a song just about my love of junk food. For research I went to Target and wrote down lots of names of candy. Then I bought Chewy Chips Ahoy. When I was little my parents would only let me eat a few cookies at a time. I would think to myself, "someday, I will eat as many cookies as I want." That day is everyday.
This morning I woke up and poured a bowl of cereal. The milk had gone bad, but I didn't know that until it was in my mouth. I swallowed the bad milk. Then I thought, "it would have been smarter to spit that out."
When I say morning, I mean noon.
current mood:  tomato Mouth
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| Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
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3:31 pm - computer music
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In June I'll be going on a short tour out west with my friend Kari. I've been working on writing a new album for a long time. It has not been going very well. So, I decided to scrap everything and start from scratch on a six song cassette tape release just for this upcoming tour. It has been really fun to work on but still I feel like I hit a creative wall. I've been spending at least two hours every night sitting with my guitar and trying to write stuff. I have a couple really good starts, and about ten really bad starts. Last night I was trying to record with my computer and realized that recording on my computer is not really very much fun. I miss my old digital recording machine. It was hard to use, but I knew how to do it. It didn't do weirdo things that I can't figure out. I'm trying to get better at using the computer, but last night it really felt like the wrong way to go. The editing possibilities are almost endless though. Like if I want to make a guitar solo go backwards, it takes about ten seconds to make it happen. If I want phaser-reverb-delay-tape flutter-guitar solos, it is right there. I like that computer stuff is cheap (if you steal it) and the potential is endless. I do not like that it takes out the physical feel of recording music. It seems wrong to record onto the same thing I am writing this Livejournal with. Maybe I need a second computer with cool punk stickers on it and no internet.
It has felt really good to start on new songs though. I was just going back to the same five half-finished songs for the past three months. Going nowhere.
This is my month of getting things done. In college I never got anything done until the last minute. Well, it turns out that wasn't just college. That is the way I am. It is good for me to have deadlines. Without them nothing gets finished. October 31st is the official deadline for the new album. We'll see. Also in college, I would sometimes turn in total crap at the last minute and fail classes.
I have decided to stop working until I finish this tape. Which means not having much spare cash around. Which means being stressed about cash. Kind of a big decision. I'm saying, "this is what I do. I write songs."
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| Saturday, April 4th, 2009
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11:38 pm - Bloomington, IN
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I've been staying at Matt, Eric and Nate's house in Bloomington for the last few days. Last night I had the whole place to myself, and it is looking like tonight will be the same. Kind of weird to stay over and be all alone. Kind of boring is what it is.
Started working on a cartoon. It is called "Slurps Up" and is about dogs who live on a beach and surf. I've been getting better and better at using an animation program called Flash. It is weird and kind of hard to figure out but I'm getting the hang of it. Spent about an hour at Taco Bell, ate the 7 layer nachos, slammed some Mountain D, and wrote the first episode. It will hopefully be about 2 minutes long. I'm averaging about 10 minutes per second right now. Think I'll be able to streamline it. The drawings look crazy bad and the animations are very, ummm..., bad. It is really fun though. I'm excited to put down the vocal tracks and add music. The whole thing is really fun. I've got tons of ideas for episodes. By episode I mean, real short skit type deals with a punchline at the end.
That is the main thing I'm excited about these days.
Been trying to write songs for a new album for about two years now. I've got basically nothing. This stresses me out beyond measure. I don't really want to tour again until I have new songs. It is weird. It is hard and it upsets me and it isn't any fun. You know what I can't stand though? When people say, "it is supposed to be fun," or, "It should be fun." Why? Why should making music be fun? Its hard. It is so ridiculously difficult. It is no fun at all. Playing guitar solos is fun. Screaming and dancing around is fun. Writing music and words? Not fun. Work. The real trouble I'm having is that I'm putting in the hours. I'm sitting with a pen and paper and a guitar for an hour or more almost everyday that I'm not on tour. I've got pages and pages of ideas. None of it is quite right. None of it is a breakthrough. I'm stressing.
In other news, I'm going to Michigan for a few days. I'm very excited. My good friend Frances is coming with and I hope to get a chance to show her some good secret places. Locals only type of spots.
Slamming Mountain Dewz for inspiration!
Finally got through all the Harry Potter books. Was a little confused about some of the goings on toward the end but whatever. Restarted Lord of the Rings. Read The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay. So good. So amazing.
Took this in Old San Juan:
current mood:  Potter
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| Friday, March 20th, 2009
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11:46 am - New Haven, CT
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Last night Ginger and I walked down a street near Yale University. We were struck by a sign that said the word "Apizza." This was clearly a pizza place but what they sold was apizzas. It was after midnight and of course closed, so we could not investigate further. Another block down the street we find another Apizza shop, and then another. Having spent some time in Connecticut before I know these are a strange people. Somehow the idea of putting the letter A in front of the word pizza was really too much. I had to know more. Turns out that an apizza is a kind of pizza only from New Haven, CT. It has crust, sauce, chopped garlic, oregano and a little sprinkle of grated parmesan cheese. If you want Mozzarella, it will be considered a topping.
I'm getting chinese today.
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| Monday, February 23rd, 2009
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3:57 pm - Puerto Rico
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I want to write about my trip but right now my mind is too busy to do it justice. Most of the time I kept thinking, "why did it take me so long to get here?"
Took this picture at 5:30am on Culebra Island.
current mood:  blindfold
current music: PUNK
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| Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
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1:43 am - Get Money Get Paid
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Just bought a ticket to Puerto Rico. Ghost Mice is going, they said I could come along. We are going to snorkel.
In other news: That dude in The Pixies really knew how to play guitar.
current mood:  Tomato Hat
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