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Monthly Archives: March 2012
March Madness
Apparently my dog, Amos, was not impressed with Creighton’s performance against UNC. Either that, or he’s just exhausted after 4 full days of watching TV, haha. Every year, my buddy Chris and I get together to watch the first 4 days … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Sports
Tagged college basketball, college hoops, creighton, duke, elite 8, final four, first round, gonzaga, lehigh, march madness, marquette, missouri, mizzou, murray st., ncaa, ncaa tournament, ncaa tourney, norfolk st., north carolina, robbie hummel, second round, st. mary's, sweet 16, tarheels, tourney, unc
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The Joy Formidable, 03.13.12 @ The Independent, SF, CA
Great live show! Check em out if you like distorted/jamming indie stuff like Silversun Pickups.
Posted in Music
Tagged bay area, concerts, indie, indie rock, live shows, music, San francisco, silversun pickups, the independent, the joy formidable
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Warriors first night without Monta, lose by 2 to the Celtics
KG hits a last second shot for the Celtics to beat the Warriors by 2. This is a photo that I snapped just as Garnett catches the ball to hit the game winner. I just noticed that there are only … Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged andrew bogut, basketball, bay area, boston celtics, bucks, celtics, garnett, golden state, Golden state warriors, gsw hoops, kevin garnett, klay thompson, milwaukee bucks, monta ellis, monta trade, nba, oakland, oracle arena, paul pierce, rajon rondo, ray allen, sports, stephen curry, the dubs, warriors
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A Weekend in Bogota, Colombia
Last month I had the opportunity to travel to Bogotá, Colombia for one of my projects at work. After a week of long 12-13 hour days, we were lucky enough to have a co-worker in the local Bogotá office show us around … Continue reading
Posted in Eats, Travels
Tagged andres, andres carne de res, bogota, central america, colombia, colombian, eats, food, guadalupe, latin america, monsarrete, museo del oro, travel, travel diary, traveling, travels
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Small update to the Carry On vinyl blog entry
Check out what we found! I just made the following small update to the Carry On blog. What a cool coincidental find. UPDATE: About a year after I posted this entire Carry On blog entry, I opened up an old … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Vinyl
Tagged a life less plagued, allegiance, b9, breaker breaker, bridge 9, bridge 9 records, california hardcore, carry on, champion, fury 66, hardcore, hardcore punk, Jeremy Johnson, los angeles hardcore, over my dead body, react records, record collecting, record collection, records, roll with the punches, socal hardcore, Some Still Believe, stabbed in the face, straight edge, straightedge, teamwork records, The Damage Done, the line is drawn, the missing 23rd, towards an end, Vinyl, vinyl collecting, vinyl collection, west coast hardcore, youngblood records
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American Nightmare shirts added to the AN vinyl blog
I’ve added all of my American Nightmare shirts and hoodies to the AN vinyl blog. In addition to AN vinyl, I originally set out to collect every AN shirt ever made. I continued up through their summer tour after Background … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Vinyl
Tagged American Nightmare, american nightmare shirts, AN, AN reunion, b9, background music, bridge 9, bridge 9 records, cold cave, deathwish, deathwish inc, equal vision, equal vision records, farewell, Give Up The Ghost, GUTG, hardcore, hardcore punk, hearts, horror show, ice age, punk, record collecting, record collection, records, straight edge, straightedge, the ice age is coming, the sun isn't getting any brighter, tim bomb, Vinyl, vinyl collecting, vinyl collection, we're down till we're underground, wes eisold
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After a couple of weeks of work travel, it feels good to be home.
Posted in Home
Tagged bay area, california, home, lake merritt, oakland, photography, San francisco, sunday
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Fucked Up added to the vinyl documentary
Fucked Up is the latest addition to the vinyl documentary… Fucked Up captivated collectors in a non-conventional way by releasing several short vinyl-only 7″ singles. These singles almost never came on colored or limited vinyl, and most followed the same … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Vinyl
Tagged 000 marbles, 10, 10000 marbles, 7", baiting the public, black army, black cross, canada hardcore, damian, dance of death, dangerous fumes, david comes to life, deep six records, deranged, deranged records, dolly mixture, epics in minutes, fucked up, generation, hardcore, hardcore punk, haymaker, hidden world, jade tree, jade tree records, let likes be cured by likes, litany, looking for gold, LP, matador records, no pasaran, punk, record collecting, record collection, records, shop assistants, slasher records, spin, spin magazine, straight edge, straightedge, test pattern, the chemistry of common life, toronto hardcore, triumph of life, two snakes, vice, vice magazine, Vinyl, vinyl collecting, vinyl collection, whats your rupture, year of the dog, year of the pig, year of the rat
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