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HI was walking through the city last Friday, and I thought I recognized someone.  Got me thinking.  how come the older i get, the more people's faces begin to look the same, and the more mine looks unfamiliar?

Also.  This is entertaining:

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

woot.

For those of you looking for a giggle, I'm playing with my buddy's joke band, Ketchup Embroidery, on Friday, July 31st , at The Zone Comics in Homewood.  Cost is 5 bucks, which the shop mostly donates to cancer research.  Here's the myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/ketchupembroiderytheband

Also.  I put some of the tunes up that Haymarket did for the last album we recorded and worked on all last winter.  Though the band doesn't exist anymore, I'm glad the tunes are finally getting done.  Check 'em out here:

http://www.myspace.com/mattwdowiarz


Really.  Ketchup is gonna be funny.  Come out.

stupid chicago tow trucks.  did you know there's a lower, lower wacker drive?  i walked a good 3 blocks of it this morning.  woot (if you like crap).

Jake came over this afternoon to finish a few licks on one of the songs.  We sat and watched the data transfer from my laptop's hard drive to the portable, back-up hard drive for what must have been a half-hour.

Then, we took apart my living room.  Neatly splitting up both Jake's and my recording equipment, we loaded up his portion into the back of his truck.  Light snow began to fall, and the yellow street lamps in Pullman created the most eerie, but relaxing shadows on the pavement.  The latent sounds of the evening seemed swallowed up by the brick row-houses.

Haymarket is finished recording our first full-length record.  The project is titled Vesper.  After five months, we are finally finished.  Twelve originals.

The album is being processed/mixed by one of the guys who engineered "The Dark Side of the Spoon," by Ministry.  I guess Jake knows him.  We hope to have a completed record by Christmas, though I hesitate to guarentee a product, as we have yet to figure out how we're going to package the record.

If you'd like a copy, message me.  They'll probably run about 5 bucks just to cover packaging costs.  We're gonna throw a friggin huge album release party.  You should come.

oh impatience.  someday I will destroy you.  someday.

So.  If I threw a shindig Saturday, November 1st at my place in the city, would you show?

autumn is still my favorite season.  i need me a campfire.

as school starts back into session, i never cease to feel amazed at the contrast between the school year and the summer.

I say "bah!" to the end of the summer!

 I know that summer is beginning to wind down.  I am definitely not wanting to return to normally schedueled sleeping routines.  I know will not garner any sympathy from many of you, out there in the real world. But summer vacation is so, so wonderful.  I am not kidding when I say that my three favorite parts of being a teacher are June, July and August.  That is all.

I took  my first capoeira class on Monday, and now I am so sore that I have given myself a cold.  I'm roasting and cold at the same time.  Summer colds suck.

Capoeira is the fighting form that Eddie Gordo uses in the Tekken video games.  It's attack lines are based in circular, deceptive motions, where martial arts like Tae Kwon Do or Karate are based in linear motions designed for energy preservation.

The art was designed to be deceptive, as it was created by Brazillian slaves in front of their masters.  They would practice what the slave owners thought was dancing, but in fact was fighting.

The environment is waaaay intimidating, but friendly and encouraging at the same time.  It reminds me just how out of shape I am.  I kinda like it.

The city's windows swallow me whole.  There are so many windows, surrounded by all sorts of frames, supported by so many different kinds of materials.  Especially in the older portions of the city.

There so many stories to consider, so many people with stories to tell.  The amount of life in such an isolated location is staggering.

I was flipping through channels on T.V. and I found a Chuck Norris movie.  I stopped only because I recognized that he was supposed to be a Chicago cop.  It's amazing how long lower Wacker drive is in the movies.  You'd think friggin Moleman lived down there.

The one thing in particular struck me about the movie, though, was how low the skyline looked.  The height of the structures in this late 70's, early 80's movie blew my mind.  I guess I didn't get downtown enough as a kid to notice the ridiculous amounts of construction going on.

And now that I'm passing through the loop at least two or three times a month now, I the change in the scale of the city seems that much more staggering.  Check out the Spire, which is supposed to be done in 2010.



Change is the only constant, I guess.  So many stories.  How many more windows are we going to see go up?

I should have something to say.  Mountains disintegrate before any conclusion will suffice.  Silent moments I seek to fill with noise, yet in noisy moments, I seek silence.  The silence screams at me in volumes of cascading vibration, pouring over me in deafening waves.  Why is quiet loud?  Has true perception been lost within cognitive description, or has true connection simply been lost in our inability to completely elaborate upon our relative, meaningless perspectives?  Why is quiet loud?

This is not meant for anyone, which in itself is a vain thought.  Please disregard.

Hey kids... do you like music?  Live music?

Haymarket, live, at the Pub at Midtown, Manteno IL

Definitely a benefit for fighting cancer

Saturday, April 26th

Doors open at 8:00, The market opens at 9:30

Cost:  10$, all proceeds go to charity

Come drink, eat, and rock.

 or

 
SUCKS TO YOUR ASS-MAR!

i want a pony! 

 i just figured out that my computer has been blocking everybody's posts... since probably around october because the settings on my web securtiy were jacked up.  what's up?

i live in Chicago now.  south side.  bout' 115th and 94.  it's friggin awesome.  when I get some furniture y'all should come out.