"How sweet it would seem, once more just to dream in the silvery moonlight..."

Sometimes I feel really old. Not like in that "Oh no, I have a gray hair" or "here come some crows feet" kind of way. But in that way of sometimes not getting new things - new trends, ultra brand-new stuff. It's like it doesn't make sense to me or I can't understand how something so utterly new and potentially disposable can become the center of someone's word. Don't people understand trends and fickle attentions and "flavor of the minute?" I mean when I was in college grunge was never going to die. And then grunge shot itself in the head with a rifle. When I was in college my very wise friend Andre Young said that a sign of aging is when you don't understand a trend. Like even if something isn't your thing you can get why people are into it. But if you don't get it then it's because you're not young enough to understand it. We both agreed we didn't "get" rave culture and huge plastic necklaces, candy bracelets and dizzyingly endless loops of generic techno. Every now and then I still see someone sporting those huge pants and brightly colored necklace and I feel a tiny, sweet smile of nostalgia bubbling under my disbelief that someone is still dressing that way.

I hate the word "vlogger". I know it's a silly thing to hate, really. It's a word. It's intangible. It's not doing anything to hurt me. But something about it just pisses me off. I think it's because I find it really silly and yet also humorless. I feel like every time I encounter "vlogging" it's taken SO seriously by the persons involved in it even if the topic is totally funny. It's the same thing with "blogging" except now we have to see faces and hear voices. And it's touted like it will change the world forever and never die. How can this be so many peoples' entire worlds - you can't even touch it or smell it or taste it or talk to it. Oh, you mean like the dot com boom? Yeah, remember that?

I can't put my finger on it really. It's this way that no one has to memorize poems anymore and how I can remember the phone number of my best friend Johnathan Lawson in 1st grade but I can't remember my boyfriend's without looking at my cell phone. I remember when I wasn't going to give in to owning a CD burner because I'd still make mix tapes and now I just make iTunes playlists. I'm making one right now. And I love it! I love having so much of the music I love so easily accessible and able to be manipulated into endless mixes at my merest whim with very little effort involved. I totally buy into it and find it annoying at the same time. It's like how I love my iPod but I don't want to upgrade every year and buy the Shuffle and the iPhone and whatever new thing comes out after I've already bought the old version of it two weeks prior. I don't think it's bad that there are people who love these things or want to be called "bloggers" or "vloggers" but it sometimes feels like people are more interested in being able to have a title or a tag as opposed to actually developing a personality. That sentence could just as easily be about "Bears."

I am going on vacation for a week tomorrow and my goal is to not go online the whole time. We'll have Ryan's laptop to look up locations for fun stuff and to get driving directions. I don't want to check my email or look at LJ or even upload photos to Flickr. Hell, maybe I'll bring some stationery with me and write some letters.

Enjoy this song, it's one of my favorites right now and it's completely suited to this olde post:
"Tonight You Belong To Me" - Patience & Prudence.

Ex-Boyfriends @ Hemlock Tavern, Friday 6/22!!

There are 1,001 gay things to do this weekend. My band is one of them.

Come see us rock the Hemlock Tavern on Friday the 22nd!

Infos:
Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk St. @ Post
9:30pm, $7, 21+
Ex-Boyfriends (we're 3rd)
Looker (they're 2nd)
Lou Lou & the Guitarfish (they're 1st)



Photo by Geof Teague.

Ex-Boyfriends New Song Sneak Preview!!

Go check out our Myspace page and you can hear a track off of our upcoming album. It's called "Pickup Line". It's superhappyrockpopfuntimes!!

Better Off Dead

Dear John Cusack,

I really don't know what you're trying to accomplish by doing this. Or what you were thinking when you did this or this or this. In fact, looking at your entire IMDB page, it seems like it might've been a good idea for you to retire or place yourself in a rocket aimed at the sun once you wrapped High Fidelity. Although I would've been more than fine if you quit after Grosse Pointe Blank. I didn't hate High Fidelity, it just felt like kind of a melange of all your winning roles - like a Greatest Hits of John Cusack and you were all crying in the rain about 101 times. And also, Jack Black kinda bugs the shit out of me.

But seriously dude, I have been seeing the previews for 1408 and it is not pretty. And by "it" I mean "you". Are you drinking too much? Dying your hair too much to look like you did in your heyday? Something is...off. I mean, you are the person who once inspired my friend Christopher to drunkenly write a song in one night entitled "Dear God, Before I Die I Want To Bury My Face In John Cusack's Butt." I don't think he'd be singing that tune now (he was way drunk like I said, so I doubt he remembered it even the next day but you get what I mean). I know I wouldn't be singin' it. And it's not just cuz you're lookin' waaaay less than fine. It's mainly cuz you've spiralled downward into this horrible stew made of hack-y romantic comedies and craptastic horror films. You're new movie coming out is so The Shining on the 13th Floor has a Grudge on my Ring or something. It looks just PAINFULLY bad and your outfits is heinous and makes you look like a 70 year old retiree. Remember when you were this guy?



I miss that guy. And not just cuz he was hotter than lava. But because he made good movies and I liked watching them and I didn't stare aghast in abject horror as the preview for one of those movies scrolled before my eyes. I think maybe you need to go get in a time machine and find that guy and bring him here and you can just hide out in the past and like, become a tax auditor or something. I think you've got the look for that.

Hugs and kisses,
Chriso

"You'll hope we haven't finished with you yet!"

The Pipettes Live @ Rickshaw Stop, 6/12/07
Originally uploaded by ohnochriso.

Last. Night. Fucking. Ruled. Seriously. The Pipettes totally and completely owned and were fun and rocking and tight and silly and so totally awesome. I am as gay as a basket full of hot pink kittens but I think I may be in love with all 3 of the Pipettes ladies.

A lot of my photos are blurry cuz I am not smart and did not turn off the ANTI-SHAKE FEATURE on my own camera. But Ryan did. Here's the entire set of photos. I'll have some videos posted soon once I tweak some distorted audio.

And for those of you unfortunate enough to have never heard the Pipettes, here's a track: "Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me".