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HAHAHA. incredibly happy about this.

Omens...

Last night a cockroach and a black cat crossed my path on my home. Tonight I saw fireworks. I was equally filled with dread at the sight of both.

whats really hood

ive had quite the time getting myself back on track, and continue to leap over hurdles thrown my way. while this blog has been and will continue to be a place for me to vomit out the ups and downs of straightening out my physical and mental health, i havent really made any steps or hit any hurdles i feel are appropriate for a public forum. it has taken me quite some time due to a couple of factors to even get behind a keyboard and be creative.

i find that writing about music is still very easy for me to do, and have started a blog dedicated to that. you can check that out at freelancefiend.blogspot.com. i will review records, profile/interview bands, post free music (bands permitting, obviously), and post djing playlists there, vs here.

i have a lot to say about whats been going on and where im heading, but to address whats pressuring me the most now would be in poor taste, be even poorer writing, and ultimately work against progress im attempting to make. please follow freelancefiend.blogspot.com if youre interested in learning about some new jams. 99miles isnt done, its just paused for the sake of positive progress.

ahem

aside from the occasional set of dj set lists posts, i haven't had much to say. i try to keep this thing from being a bunch of boo-hoo, woe is me bullshit, and while this may surprise many people who are close to me, there are some things about my life that i actually dont want the world to know about.

to sum it up, it was bleak. i havent left the house much in six weeks. i had medication that didnt agree at all with my brain, so it made for very poor socialization. i have since changed anti depressants which have got me out somewhat more than before, we still have a ways to go.

so i guess this is returning back to writing. i have a few hundred emails i havent even bothered to look at, and a bunch of music writing to catch up to (and figure out what's relevant). ive been staring at my laptop through bloodshot glassy eyes, completely unable to even put together a sentence. life grinded to a hault. it still feels like its moving pretty slow, but a few things are starting to move, and i was struck with a rare streak of inspiration, so i figured id break the ice. today is the first day of the rest of my life.

Half Metal Jacket Playlist 5/29/11

Set 1:
Ancestors - Orcus' Avarice
Earthless - Sonic Prayer
Kylesa - Only One
Saviours - Cavern Of Mind
Red Fang - Prehistoric Dog
Coalesce - Wild Ox Moan
Pig Destroyer - Piss Angel
Carcass - Embodiment
Machinehead - Davidian
High On Fire - Snakes for the Divine

Set 2:
Gorilla Biscuits - New Direction
Shelter - In Defense of Reality
Reign Supreme - Still Unbroken
American Nightmare - AM/PM
Eighteen Visions - Who The Fuck Killed John Lennon?
Unbroken - End of a Lifetime
Poison The Well - Slice Paper Wrists
Every Time I Die - The Logic of Crocodiles
Waka Flocka Flame - Hard In Da Paint
Lil B The Based God - Ellen Degeneres
Odd Future - Sandwitches
Cold World - Dedicated to Babies who Came Feet First
Snapcase - Cognition
Earth Crisis - Firestorm

Set 3:
Rancid - Timebomb
Agnostic Front - Last Warning
Cro Mags - We Gotta Know
Death Threat - Dead At Birth
Hatebreed - Proven
Left For Dead - Whod You Know
Kraeyshawn - Gucci Gucci
Screw 32 - Blindspot
Pennywise - Bro Hymn
NOFX - Lineoleum
Disembodied - Bloodshed Rain
Inside Out - No Spiritual Surrender
3 Inches Of Blood - Deadly Sinners

Agent Ribbons/The Hot Toddies/Bam! Bam! at the Uptown 5/18/11

Set 1:

The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray
Frank Turner - Reasons to Not Be an Idiot
Smoosh - Find A Way
New Order - Ceremony
The Kidcrash - New Ruins
Embrace - Can't Forgive
Jejune - Early Stars
Milemarker - Frigid Forms Sell You Warmth
Weston - Just Like Kurt
Polar Bear Club - Drifting Thing
The Van Pelt - His Steppe is My Prairie
Moving Units - Between Us and Them
Zero Zero - AM Gold
Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say
Bauhaus - She's In Parties

Set 2:

Cold Cave - Pacing Around the Church
Floor - Return To Zero
Joyce Manor - Constant Headache
The Nips - Gabrielle
Camera Obscura - French Navy
Holly Golightly - For All This
Jawbreaker - Jinx Removing

Set 3:

Moss Icon - Kick The Can
The Get Up Kids - Second Place
Murder City Devils - Rum To Whiskey
Wavves - Take on the World
Descendents - Hope
Go Sailor - Fine Day For Sailing
The Juliana Hatfield Three - My Sister
Seaweed - Kid Candy

Set 4:

The Make Up - Walking on the Dune
The Pee Chees - Grease
Best Coast - Crazy For You
Hot Snakes - If Credit's What Matters I'll Take Credit
The Lawrence Arms - 100 Resolutions
Q and not U - End the Washington Monument
The Dead Weather - Blue Blood Blues
Woven Bones - Blind Conscience
The Stitches - My Baby Hates Me
Crocodiles - I Wanna Kill
Anne - Stripping
The Exploding Hearts - Sleeping Aides and Razorblades
Heavens - Patent Pending
Lemuria - Pants

Sets from the Floor/Totomoshi show at the Uptown 4/25/11

1)
Heart - Magic Man
Karma To Burn - 19
Saviours - Cavern of Mind
Every Time I Die 0 - Wanderlust
Witchcraft - No Angel Or Demon
Red Fang - Prehistoric Dog
The Jesus Lizard - Mouthbreather
Ghost - Con Clavi Con Dio
Mercyful Fate - Nuns Have No Fun
Bison BC - Slow Hand Of Death
Fu Manchu - Godzilla

2)
Baroness - A Horse Called Golgotha
The Sword - Warp Riders
Kvelertak - Bloodtorst
From Ashes Rise - The Inner Beast
Pentagram - Forever My Queen
Trap Them - The Facts
Judas Priest - One For The Road