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Monday, December 28, 2009
IF I EVER WROTE A SONG THIS SPECIAL I WOULD BE A MILLIONAIRES

GOOD MORNING AMERICA LETS EAT A COMPUTER

Labels: curiosities, lolgore, love, paper rad, videos

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Sunday, October 25, 2009
The King And Queen Of Slobovia

Returning to their island fiefdom of Bannerman Island.

Labels: love, quicksnaps, travel

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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
True Love, Always

Girls -- powered by http://www.magicrpm.com

I have spoken many times over the years on my great love for Daniel Johnston, and in particular his absolutely tremendous song "True Love Will Find You In The End" off 1990, which is my second favorite DJ song after the kill-me-til-i'm-dead "Some Things Last A Long Time", which I love pretty much more than anything in the world.

I have also recently spoken about my great love for the marvelous San Francisco band Girls, and now, lo and behold, here cometh a nice little acoustic cover of "True Love" by Girls frontman Christopher Owens.

Truthfully it's not as good as Beck's version (w0w), but it's still really great and if I'd been at a show where they played it I would have lost myself in a sea of uncontrollable happy bowel movements. Enjoy.

Labels: daniel johnston, love, music

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Monday, August 03, 2009
The Aching-est Of Musical Blue Balls

This photo means nothing to me. But I just don't see how using a photo of Toad instead accomplishes anything

I was chatting briefly tonight with Sig Sauer about ridiculous people who make my brain want to explode (following first climbing out of my skull and spitting in their eyes).

After a few minutes of hair-pulling, she insisted that I give four minutes of my life to Adam Duritz and the Counting Crows, in the form of "Raining In Baltimore". I indulged her but explained that after listening to August and Everything After approximately one thousand five hundred ninety three times in Grades 6-8, I didn't think there were any emotional "Wows!" left in me for that one.

In listening though, I was reminded of an old song I used to love that still does get me, even as the years that have passed since its release just make it seem cornier and cheesier than it ever was. This song that I speak of is Toad the Wet Sprocket's absolutely delightful "Nanci", from 1994's Dulcinea.

Right. Yes.

In 2009, goojing for Toad the Wet Sprocket doesn't even really seem like a guilty pleasure, or a remembrance of the follies of a ridiculous past. It just seems like a "Really?" Even in their 92-94 "heyday", Toad were about a softpaw sissy of a band as you could get, and their music largely sounds like a "masculine" equivalent of Paula Cole or something. They were basically a lite version of Gin Blossoms ("Fall Down"), which probably says everything you could say about them.

But. They were also tuneful. Honestly. And not in a stab-yourself-in-the-neck-with-a-fork-to-die-before-you-hear-another-song Bare Naked Ladies kind of tuneful. And on "Nanci", they are something more than that. It's a simple pop song, and yeah, it's not very toothy, but wow, yes, these are heart-playing-with melodies on display and they are seriously effective on my heart and brain and ears and fingers (which keep double-clicking to play on the track on iTunes).

As I started talking with Sig about Nanci, I suddenly remembered that this song actually first "came back into my life" a few years ago, for the first time since Peak Listening Era (94-95), and I was so stunned by the way that its inexplicable sappy awesomeness was bludgeoning me into happiness that I begged Jay Greene (Renaissance man and general music master) to explain to me what it was that I so heavily killing my fuck. Below, a brief conversation from October 31, 2007:

JeffreyBeaumont: http://slangeditorial.net/mp3/toad-nanci.mp3
JeffreyBeaumont: so, please: tell me what it is that just floors me about the part starting at 1:18
jaychampionvinyl: descending D progression, similar to "Dear Prudence"
jaychampionvinyl: in the beginning at least
jaychampionvinyl: is it the "oh I'll change my mind" part?
JeffreyBeaumont: yeah, god. i just love that shit
JeffreyBeaumont: there's just something about hearing that drop that really gets me
jaychampionvinyl: just a descending bass line
jaychampionvinyl: but a good one
jaychampionvinyl: D to D7, I think
JeffreyBeaumont: it's the harmony with the voice, which is rising?
JeffreyBeaumont: or something
jaychampionvinyl: great leading progression

jaychampionvinyl: yeah, and the 7 chord lends a great sense of inevitability, because our ear DEMANDS that we hear the next chord, or else we jump out a fucking window screaming and lighting our hair on fire
jaychampionvinyl: so when they do play the chord, it saves lives
JeffreyBeaumont: wow. that's it then.
jaychampionvinyl: a hanging 7th chord is like musical blue balls to the 1oth degree

Wow.

Yes, Musical Blue Balls. Jay Greene, please, take a fucking bow for that one.

-----

Since I'm on this memory lane trip, please let me just offer three more tunes from the era (ish).

"Pennies" is a forgotten b-side by the Smashing Pumpkins from the Zero single, off Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. As I've said before, it's pretty tough these days to hear Billy Corgan's voice and not want to puke, but there are definitely a few shining moments that I still love and will always hold onto--and this is definitely one of them. A short and sweet note to what could have been, I played this track for myself a million times while pining for various lost loves in high school (Caitlin, Kirsten--I'll never forget you).

Another questionably epochal moment in my mid 90s adolescent life was the soundtrack to the film Empire Records. I never actually saw the film (pretty sure it was direct to video), but the soundtrack featured a handful of artists that said everything about the mid 90s for better or worse (Evan Dando, Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra etc). There are a bunch of cringeworthy clunkers on this record Among these is Dando's fantastic cover of Big Star's "The Ballad of El Goodo" and also an excellent Gin Blossoms number called "'Til I Hear It From You". I just discovered tonight though that this song was in fact co-written with late 70s/early 80s power popper Marshall Crenshaw, and so included now is a nice live recording of Crenshaw doing the song himself.

Finally, I've included the Built to Spill track "Terrible/Perfect", which is a far more tasteful track that did not come from my I-Didn't-Yet-Know-Better stage, but instead from a few years later. Found on the early b-sides comp The Normal Years--which I received for my 18th birthday from my first serious girlfriend--this is a great song for a person who's just starting to understand what indie rock might be able to mean for a human being$$$$.

LISTEN:

Toad the Wet Sprocket - "Nanci", from Dulcinea

Smashing Pumpkins - "Pennies", from the Zero single

Marshall Crenshaw - "Til I Hear It From You (live)"

Built to Spill -- "Terrible/Perfect" from The Normal Years

NOTES:

*** -- In a perfect transition of sorts, in ninth grade I traded my copy of August to an older friend in exchange for Depeche Mode's Songs of Faith and Devotion, which after receiving Singles 81-85, I'd come to realize I should never have passed up when it was the BMG album of the month in the Fall of 1993.

$$$$ -- Better still is their amazing cover of Daniel Johnston's "Some Things Last A Long Time" but I've already shared that one a few times over.

Labels: IMs, love, loved sounds, memories, mp3, music, old flames

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Friday, July 31, 2009
Coke And Sardines

Alex Doorknobs was talking this week about how he's been turned back to Frank O'Hara again after digesting a recent This Recording post and it reminded me once again of how much I love the man:

Why I Am Not a Painter, by Frank O'Hara

I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a painter, but I am not. Well,

for instance, Mike Goldberg
is starting a painting. I drop in.
"Sit down and have a drink" he
says. I drink; we drink. I look
up. "You have SARDINES in it."
"Yes, it needed something there."
"Oh." I go and the days go by
and I drop in again. The painting
is going on, and I go, and the days
go by. I drop in. The painting is
finished. "Where's SARDINES?"
All that's left is just
letters, "It was too much," Mike says.

But me? One day I am thinking of
a color: orange. I write a line
about orange. Pretty soon it is a
whole page of words, not lines.
Then another page. There should be
so much more, not of orange, of
words, of how terrible orange is
and life. Days go by. It is even in
prose, I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call
it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery
I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES.

(1971)

From here

Labels: authors, love, poetry

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Monday, July 27, 2009
Things To Look Forward To

Catherine Keener is 50 years old, and still gives me precisely the same heart-heart-swoon-swoon as she did when I first saw her grace the screen in Walking and Talking sometime in the late 90s. Catherine, I will totally catch you a delicious bass if we ever cross paths, for ever and always.

Labels: BEAUMONT, crushes, love

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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Fuck You, Photo Me

"Kiss the ring, motherfucker!"

Late as always, but I finally put up my Berlin photos (no Paris yet) on Flickr. One more amazing trip made possible by my employer.

Next up:

--24 Hours In Paris: Solo Photo Club Day (the last part of my Berlin trip),

--Weekend in Boston on Film, and

--3rd ~~Men's~~ People's Photo Club Day

Berlin, ich liebe dich:

Labels: BEAUMONT, Berlin, late arrivals, love, photography, quicksnaps, travel

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Monday, June 29, 2009
Happy Birthday, Alex

Wreckage from yesterday's "Fete a Doorknobs"

Wish him well if you see him.

love

Jeffrey

Labels: love, quicksnaps

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Die Elemente Der Art

I may or may not have warned you that I play on the nerdiest basketball team known to man in the nerdiest league ever conceived, but yezzzzir, it's true. Our team, as you can see, is called The Elements of Style and because I am a maximum dork, I made the t-shirts above and below for our team. Mark had the brilliant idea that, given who we are and what we are doing (or not doing), it would make sense for us to choose punctuation symbols rather than numbers for our shirt backs.

Ergo, Strunks:

Other punctuation marks on our team include @, $, :, and, of course, the interrobang. I enjoy the fact that this is perhaps the only basketball league in New York City where I might be made to feel tall; hence, Mark--our best player by far--plays point-center. I'm just happy to run around wearing Alex's weed shorts.

Strunks, fear not, I'll be back soon.

Labels: basketball, BEAUMONT, exercise, friends, lolgore, love

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 6/10/2009 02:50:00 AM 1 comments

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E-BAD said...: why oh why did you not choose the $$$ symbol? Together y'all look like a 5 letter curse word.; 6/10/2009 12:10:00 PM

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Saturday, June 06, 2009
Haben Sie Feuer? Life Is Fucking Crazy

Yes that is a picture of Alex Doorknobs signing a motherfucking AUTOGRAPH at his show last night. CRAZY.

more crazy reports to come. also it is 4:20 am and i'm leaving my hotel room to go out now, despite having to begin work at 8:45 am tomorrow.

life is insane and I love it!!!!!!!!

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart at the NBI Club in Berlin, June 5 2009

Labels: CRAZY, fucktactics, love, Pains

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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Happy Birthday, Ben D

Sunday was Ben D's birthday and yesterday we celebrated with mouthwatering BBQ at Williamsburg's Fette Sau.

In the spirit of brotherly love, this is the "blue velvet" cake I made him (with help of course from Lil' Beau) for the party:

Photo from Ben D's Photo-of-the-Moment microblog

Unfortunately I didn't use enough blue food coloring so the cake came out a lot more blue-green than blue, but I think it was still a cake unlike any the group had eaten before. And I would say that it tasted rather good.

Labels: BEAUMONT, Ben D, lolgore, love

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
"We played Bragging Party with the Kim and Kelly at Breeders' ATP!"

Wow.

A convergence of my favorite musician right now and my number one heart throb rock crush of all time, doing my favorite song she's ever written. I'm not even gonna do anything with this other than reblog Bradford's entry on the Deerhunter/Atlas Sound blog.

The only thing I will add is that it isn't just Bradford who bleeds Deal--Deerhunter guitarist Lockett Pundt puckers for them as well, and actually posted a lo-fi gauzy cover of "Bragging Party" tothe Deerhunter/Atlas Sound/ Lotus Plaza blog back in 2007 (long before there really was a Lotus Plaza, even), prompting this hilarious comment from Bradford:

"kim deal is my god. lockett you are full of shit. your vocals are amazing i told you that.
i love you
bradford"

Too much goodness.

Listen:

Lockett Pundt - "Bragging Party" (Amps cover)

Read on below.

Love love love love love, and ice cream cone hearts.

Sent to you by Jeffrey via Google Reader:

We played Bragging Party with the Kim and Kelly at Breeders' ATP!

via deerhunter / atlas sound / lotus plaza by bradford cox on 5/19/09

Here is another shorter video:

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Labels: crushes, deerhunter, Kim Deal, love, loved sounds, music

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Friday, May 15, 2009
Beaumont Glory

Jeffrey Beaumont and Lil' Beau, from A Beaumont Easter 2009. Taken by Kathleen.

HOLLA!

Labels: BEAUMONT, love

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Saturday, May 02, 2009
4 Bridges, 3 Boros, 2 Parks

Today's ride(s):

View 4 Bridges, 3 Boros, 2 Parks in a larger map

The map above is of ride one of two, both detailed below:

1) A long and snakey ride from home to DUMBO, over Manhattan Bridge to Central Park up Ave C > 1 Av, then 2 loops around park to 59 St greenway, south down to Brooklyn Bridge via Warren Street, down Henry St through Cobble Hill to Congress/Wyckoff, east to Prospect Park, 1 loop around park, then up and over Williamsburg Bridge, north up 1 Av to 59St Bridge, then through Queens to Walgreens on Union, then to Affinity where I bought clipless pedals, then home. Totally 51 miles.

2) Since they didn't have any bike shoes at Affinity, I then headed back into to the city over the Williamsburg Bridge to Bicycle Habitats on Lafayette between Prince and Spring. I found shoes, bought them, had the pedals installed and BOOM, on my way back home north to 59 St Bridge. I fell over TWICE on Park Ave (at 15 and 19 St intersections) because I forgot to unclip my right foot before coming to a stop. Stayed on Park on 32 St, then over to 3 Av and took that north to 58 St to 59 St Bridge. Then through Queens to home. 12 miles. Ahhhh.

These are the shoes and the pedals I bought below. The best part is that I realized that their total cost of $180 is less than what I would have paid for two Metrocards this month and next had I bought them! Holla!

And now... the rest of my life.

Labels: biking, fucktactics, love, VICTORY

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Saturday, April 25, 2009
The Sun Is Shining

It is bright and sunny out and, wow, is life feeling good. It's going to be 83 degrees today and my dudes and I are going on a big ride out to Nyack today. It's April 25 and the warm times of life in 2009 have officially begun.

This is possibly my favorite and most joyful reggae song I know, and pretty much says anything anyone should need to know about life right now:

John Holt, "A Love I Can Feel", The Best of Studio One Reggae Collection

Labels: BEAUMONT, love

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Kim, You Have Had My Heart Since The Beginning Of Time

Twenty years ago I was turning seven: Kim Deal in 1988

So...I often try to avoid generating my "work" so directly from things I read in Pitchfork--if only because usually any of you may have already read about it there--but today they featured an interview with Kim and Kelley Deal of the Breeders and I just couldn't pass up mentioning it.

Why? Well, not only is the interview great (and I love the Breeders and everything they do), but Kim Deal is my first and oldest crush and she still, fifteen years later, sets my heart aflutter everytime I read/see/hear anything that has to do with her.

Cassie, Nomi, I'm sorry--when Kim's in town I have to ask you to step aside. (Luckily she lives in Ohio with her sister so this isn't regularly an issue. Come back to me now, please.)

Anyway, the interview discusses the upcoming release of their new self-issued EP Fate to Fatal, the future of the Pixies, and other fun topics. You should check out the whole thing at the link above, but I loved this part and paste it here for you now:

Kim: I don't know if anybody's going to buy [the EP]. I assume one person will download it, and everybody else will steal it. I have no idea what people do nowadays. People might actually buy digital music. Do you know if they do?
Pitchfork: I buy off iTunes sometimes.
Kim: [To Kelley] He says he buys digital music off iTunes. [To Pitchfork] Kelley says you're lying.
Pitchfork: No, I do!
Kim: Really?
Pitchfork: Yeah.
Kim: Right. Right. Right. Right.
Pitchfork: Do you think you'll keep putting stuff out by yourselves?
Kim: I don't see the drawback yet. Like I said, music is free, so who cares? It's not like we're in a rap band and I really need someone to sponsor my hundred-thousand-dollar wardrobe and car. I don't know.

Despite the fact that this passage includes a bit of what kills me about pfork writing (writer dude, come on! stay out of the way! please!), I was cracking up here. If you caught the Pixies reunion docloudQUIETloud--please check it out if you haven't--you have seen the way these two sisters interact with each other and I just love it. I loved the "[to Kelley]" "[to Kim]" part. And their take on the state of the music industry? Man, great. My natural cynicism forces me to read it as a little forced, but these two are also totally nuts, so I won't pretend that I have any real insight into their opinions of the world. Either way, I love it!

MORE KIM! NOM FUCKING NOM!

MAKE ME COOL AND TRANSPORT ME BACK TO 1993 AND KIM I WILL COME TO DAYTON LOVE YOU AND TEACH YOU TO LEARN TO CRY WITHOUT DRUGS AND THE LATE 90S WON'T HAVE TO BE SUCH A BLUR!

Anyways, you got my number next time you plan in Brooklyn.

love,

Jeffrey

LISTEN:

The Breeders - "You Always Hang Around (Divine Hammer)", from Pod Demos (unreleased)

The Breeders - "Regalame Esta Noche" from Mountain Battles

Kim Deal & Bob Pollard - "Love Hurts"***, fromLove and a .45 OST

NOTES:

***-- I fucking love this one!!!!!!!

Labels: crushes, Kim Deal, love, mp3, music, REAL LIFE IMs

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 4/15/2009 11:56:00 PM 1 comments

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Monday, April 13, 2009
Wild Kindness

The Wild Kindness: hand-embroidered CD cover by Mabel de Silentio

A little burst of joy arrived for me in the mail this weekend, in the form of a new package from my longtime friend Mabel de Silentio.

Mabel has recently returned to New Orleans from a few years abroad in the Czech Republic and is gearing up for a move back to the northeast in a few months for grad school. One of the only friends I made in high school that I still keep in touch with, I am glad she is back in the states and look forward to seeing her again soon.

In the meantime, I shall enjoy the most recent of what has become an infrequent but long-standing tradition of mail-delivered communications dating from before the era of standardized electronic interaction. Key among each of these packages is always the golden ticket: the latest distillation of music interests accumulating in our brains as transferred to the world by the <79:59 style="font-style: italic;">The Wild Kindness and I look forward to spending the next few months digesting it until I can't hear it anymore.

Labels: friends, love, loved sounds, mixes, music, REAL LIFE IMs

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Sunday, April 12, 2009
On Today's Raised Stakes: This Ain't Pinching Pennies, This Is Carrot Cake

I'm still struggling to re-learn how to control the muscles of my body after the absurdity of last night, but it is Easter today and we are preparing to make merry. Lil Beaumont has crafted the above delicious carrot cake and we are also going to bake a ham, cook some gruyere-asparagus and love life with our closest friends.

Yay earth. Go Unitarian Universalism!

Labels: love

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 4/12/2009 02:16:00 PM 1 comments

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Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything said...: Also, I love our little pig friend.; 4/13/2009 01:56:00 AM

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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
More Foolz Gold: NIN Edition

God, seriously, I love Trent more every day:

Key track: "Even Closer (f. Justin Timberlake and Maynard James Keenan)"

Looks great!

Labels: case studies, fucktactics, junkjunk, lolgore, love, Nine Inch Nails

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The Pains Of Winning At Life

In honor of the Pains flying to LA tomorrow TO PLAY THE CARSON DALY SHOW (erm!!!)### on Wednesday, I thought I'd finally throw up a few shots I took of their last NYC show--sold out--at the Bell House in Brooklyn on March 14.

It's not always easy to take flashless photos at shows (hence the millions of motherfuckers snapping flashes for three hours straight) but the Pains' recent upgrade in show presentation means more lights and therefore better photos. Holla Kuroda! ****

All photos below, and many more of the Pains and other delights, can be found on my Flickr page (except where noted). Photos from opener Let's Wrestle will appear someday too when I finish my theoretical post on their glorious awesomeness.

Kip Berman, Conjurer of Awkward Glory and Leader of Teens Worldwide:

Alex Naidus, aka Man Among Men, Forever Fake-Boyfriend, and Glorious Guru to the Jeffrey Beaumont Revolution of 2008:

Peggy Wang, Lover Of Pop and All Things Nice:

SORRY Kurt Feldman, YOU WERE TOO FAR AWAY BUT I LOVE YOU AND SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE:

I did not take this photo; available here.

NOTES:
### = I guess this show might still be a "secret" given the fact that Carson's website lists the performers for Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday--Chris Cornell, Iglu & Hartly (??), and Kelly Osborne--but what would the point be of them playing if none of their actual fans are aware? Therefore I am sharing this with you now.
****= Seriously, if ANYONE gets this reference I will mail you a papaya, a cigar, and a check for $5. I AM NOT JOKING.

Labels: late arrivals, love, Pains, photography, quicksnaps, VICTORY

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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Wilt, You Are My Father

Shaq recognizes the importance of carrying a sword on any father-seeking quest

As I think both Doorknobs and Hendo Crocus will attest, Shaq is and continues to be the motherfucking man.

After passing Moses Malone today for fifth place on the all-time scoring list, Big Aristotle had the following to say:

"It was good, but I'm still kind of disappointed in myself," O'Neal said. "Mathematically, I've missed three years worth of games and I missed 5,000 free throws. If I was there, I'd probably be No. 2 or No. 3 right now."

Then he added, "It shows I've been consistent at what I've been doing and the next guy is my illegitimate father -- Wilt Chamberlain -- so just like in Star Wars, hopefully I can catch up to my father."

I LOVE this man. Good god I love him and the NBA will be an immeasurably worse place when he's goes.

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posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 3/22/2009 03:16:00 AM 0 comments

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Friday, March 20, 2009
"If a crowd is in my realm I'm saying -- mic please"

CAUSE, YES IT'S NOT JUST THE WEEKEND, BUT SPRING AND I'M POSITIVELY BUGGIN' OUT:

Tribe Called Quest - "Buggin' Out"

HOLLA!!!!!!!!

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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Ides of March Bring Celebrations

Congratulations to Jayson Greene, member of the world's top 3 list of most amazing friends, for being lucky enough to meet the woman of his dreams. In today's world, it is hard for me to imagine two young people meeting and staying together for an entire lifetime, but I can easily and without hesitation say that I can't really imagine it any other way for the two of them.

When I first met Stacy two years ago, I could tell right away that she and Jayson made a special match. In my admittedly limited world experience, I have never before played witness to a connection like this.

I love them both, and look forward to celebrating every successive touchstone to come in the future life of happiness that they are sure to share.

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posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 3/15/2009 11:40:00 PM 0 comments

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