sublurbs

2006-07-26T20:42:00.000-07:00

Rumor has it we suck at updating.

Read Aldie's hiplog. And my new blog.

-Lindsi

Four signs you're a bad friend...

2006-06-16T13:55:00.000-07:00

1. When your friend invites you and the rest of your group to a party at his apartment on Friday.

2. Then you go to the bar almost every day, to "live it up" before the big-girl job starts next week.

3. Then, you tell your other friend it's a good idea that he has a party on Friday.

4. Then when your first friend tells you he's having a party, you ask why you haven't been invited, and slowly realize it's because you've been drunk all week and have short-term amnesia.

I'm sorry, Aldie. Have fun tonight. Let's do Grand Slam tomorrow. I swear I won't forget.

One gripe and three goodies.

2006-06-16T08:24:00.000-07:00

Gripe: Sprint. Dealt with customer service on the phone three times about the exact same situation, and each time was given the runaround. Damn - I hope T-Mobile will pay my early termination fee so I can switch to them.

Goodie One: Jodi Picoult's "My Sister's Keeper." I was up 'til 3:30 in the morning finishing it last night, sobbing so hard I could hardly read the past page. A friend of mine said she read another of Picoult's novels and hated it, but I can only speak for this one.

Goodie Two: The new Quietdrive album. Okay, so I'm a little late. It has been out for a good two weeks, but I swear it's worth the buy. You can get it on iTunes - or if you like dealing with the actual physical album (which I've started to avoid), it's also at Best Buy. And they're not playing again in Minneapolis (at least a public show) until August, so you have a good two months to learn all the words and wear polka dots and get drunk and crazy at the show.

Goodie Three: The new Dropping Daylight album. This one has been less than a week. If you haven't heard about them yet, you will. They're most commonly compared to Ben Folds for the piano rock, but DD's a bit more... What did Hawthorne Heights say? Pissed off, I think. At least preview a couple songs on iTunes. You won't be disappointed. (Unless you don't have good taste in music. Then... You might be disappointed.) Best part - Sebastian, Seth and Rob are from the suburbs of Minneapolis.

Fitting, right?

-Lindsi

Happy graduation to me.

2006-06-12T13:01:00.000-07:00

I knew my mom was rad even before she took a Jello shot with me... And then started cracking up and spit a chunk of it on my forehead.

-Lindsi

I love it.

2006-06-12T12:31:00.000-07:00

This is a brilliant idea for a blog.

-Lindsi

2006-06-12T10:45:00.000-07:00

Ha!

-Lindsi

I almost forgot!

2006-06-12T10:27:00.000-07:00

I'm really hoping this is true. Sprint hasn't been terrible, but I'm really sick of signing online to text message, and paying for the internet when I can barely load any pages anyway.

T-Mobile, here I come. Just hurry up.

-Lindsi

Whoops.

2006-06-12T10:13:00.000-07:00

Good thing we don't have any readers, otherwise some people might be a little pissed off that neither of us have updated for over a month.

We've both been pretty busy, I guess. Aldie just moved into a new apartment downtown, but will be in Arizona all of July working at a venue there, so he's still spending most of his nights at his parents' in the suburbs. And I'm still living at home too - but I just got a job in Minnetonka, so I'm sure I'll move out there relatively soon.

In the last few weeks, I've decided that if I'm going to bars "downtown," I'd much rather go to St. Paul than Minneapolis. I'm not much for the clubbin' crowd anymore, nor the pretentiousness of the downtown Minneapolis business folk, still in their three-piece suits drinking $9 martinis. The Wild Onion and Billy's are my new favorites - mostly because the crowds are closer to my age, and people in St. Paul don't try to be something they... well... aren't.

Tonight I'm going to a show at the Fine Line where my friend's band is playing. Then I think the plan is Aldie's apartment on Friday, unlimited Laser Tag at Grand Slam on Saturday, and Warped Tour on Sunday. For as long as I've been listening to the types of bands that play at Warped Tour, I've never actually gone. So, it should be good.

-Lindsi

so i caved...

2006-04-30T12:34:00.000-07:00

...i needed to see what all the hype was about. i caved and went out and bought the new Arctic Monkeys disc. i'll admit it, it's pretty awesome. i don't know how they managed to sell over thirteen thousand records last week, but they did. that's twice as much as the kanye west record sold last week, so really, all i'm saying it that it's totally worth the $7.99 it costs at best buy right now. i've heard the singer being described as the best lyricist since Morrissey. that's a lot of hype to live up to, and well, so far they are doing their part.

i also picked up the new Streets album. i haven't decided if i like it or not. it has the obvious single, but that's about it. the previous album, original pirate material, grew on me when i first heard it, so i'm hoping that happens with this one too. i'll keep you posted.

maybe if i get around to it i'll post some pictures from a couple of the shows i went to last week.

remind me to never write about cds i get, when i write about them, it starts to sound like a review, and that is no good. i don't review records, i just listen to them and tell you when they suck. those are two completely different things,

also, spelling is my favorite.

-aldie

Mixed like Aldie's race

2006-04-24T20:23:00.000-07:00

Mixed reactions to Thank You for Smoking.

I think I liked it, but it wasn't what I was expecting. For some reason I thought it was more Michael Moore-ish, more like a documentary. Nope. And really? Every time I see Katie Holmes, I think of Tom Cruise and him eating her placenta. Sorry, Katie. Your career is probably over now. (Although... She seems to be the nowi'minlovesoicanstopworkingforeverandstayhomewithmykidsandcannibalhusband type, does she not?)

I haven't read up on the inspiration for the movie or anything, but regardless it provided a pretty interesting perspective. And a valid one, at that. I laughed at a few parts, and left without regretting the seven bucks I paid to get in. That's a good thing, right?

-Lindsi

Before I forget...

2006-04-24T02:06:00.000-07:00

The Matches are at The Ascot Room on wednesday. They are so good and
such great guys. Also with them is MC Lars and Whole Wheat Bread. It's
gonna be a fun one. Seriously.

Everyone needs to make it out and support these bands. Ohh, and buy
their merch....it's what puts gas in their vans.

Real post soon. Promise.

-aldie

I swear to shake it up if you swear to listen

2006-04-22T18:31:00.000-07:00

Alright, Aldie - if this is true, I'm caving in and getting a Sidekick during "second quarter" of 2006. That means this summer, bitches. And with a little help from my lawyer stepfather, hopefully we'll be able to finaggle [sp?] something with the T-Mobile folks and score a deal similar to my current [really, really fantastic and cheap] Sprint plan.

-Lindsi

Put this in your blog and smoke it!

2006-04-21T22:04:00.000-07:00

Sunday matinee. I hope it lives up to its reviews.

-Lindsi

Good comic site... Good musician...

2006-04-20T21:06:00.000-07:00

Check out my friend Will's little comic project with his friend Whit at Comic Theory. (Hell, while you're at it, listen to his music and friend him on Myspace too.) This is my favorite comic so far:

-Lindsi

2006-04-19T07:25:00.000-07:00

The original plan was to write our first official post when we were drunk at my house last weekend, but that didn't happen. So, Aldie took it upon himself to write a pretty useless blurb about all the shows he has gone to recently - without offering anything substantial criticism or praise of any of them.

And it had a lot of typos.

Because I don't want this blog to turn into crap like my personal blog has, I took his post down. Sorry, Aldie - no one's interested in hearing the play by play of your life unless you have something interesting to say.

(Which, for the record, he already admitted he doesn't. Not at the time of writing that post, at least.)

(You may already notice we have a pretty honest friendship. I'm usually the less friendly one. But it's real - that's important.)

I went to a pre-screening of American Dreamz last night with my friend (Katie) from high school who's interning at KARE 11. Some city promotions group gives them movie tickets so they can do reviews on air, and Katie gets the leftovers when no one else wants them.

I had mixed reactions to the film. I knew it was supposed to poke fun at American Idol, but I had no idea how many political jabs it would take at our doofus president. Which was fun... Don't get me wrong. The only annoyance I had with that part was that Dennis Quaid actually made Bushie-poo seem a little endearing, rather than completely incompetent. And most of the jokes were too blatant to be legitimately funny, although I let out plenty of chuckles at different times. Mandy Moore did a good job - the movie was supposed to be obnoxious, so it's not like she'll get an Oscar or anything. All I'm saying is obnoxious and loud is good for her. (As opposed to the whole leukemia victim thing in A Walk to Remember - a movie I enjoy ONLY because I'm a girl and I HAVE to.)

Katie and I had a good little pre-movie chat with her coworker (a producer at KARE) and her sister. They provided a humorous little inside look at what it's like to be a young business woman in Minneapolis... A conversation I need to have with people more often.

(My occasional discontent - or maybe my occasional contentment - with my job is pretty fluid. I don't really know what I should be expecting from my first "grown-up job." But, that's a whole 'nother story.)

Off to work.

(I'll make Aldie fix his post soon.)

-Lindsi

aldie's lame play-by-play

2006-04-17T19:03:00.000-07:00

well, it really sucks that music is such a big part of my life. i sometimes wish is wasn't because there is so much crap music out there that even when you want to hold on to some sort of dignity and or hold any kind of indie cred... you can't, and we all know it's all about the indie cred and/or scene points. i'll get into scene points some other time.

sooo... yeahhh... here is what i have been up to...

4/8 i went down to saint peter for the academy is... and the plain white t's show. it was good. after the show the t's ended up driving back to chicago minus their drummer demar. so demar, the academy guys, lindsey and her roommates, whitie, smokey, lindsi and i went to the bars. it was fun, i got a chance to actually talk to the guys in the academy and they are all real down to earth. hello, my name is william beckett.

4/9 was the take action tour at the quest. matchbook romance headlined... which is too bad. they're terrible. i don't really remember who else was on that tour other than amber pacific and the early november because they shared a bus. i ended up driving some of the amber pacific guys to my house to take showers. [editor's note... aldie knows these guys, it wasn't random. love, lindsi.] i'm nice it turns out. lindsi is a trooper for hanging out as late as she did. [heck yes i am.]

4/14 we ended up going to lindsi's for some grilling and drinking. mickey's is gonna leave us hurting by the end of this summer. so many good times were had. i'm stoked for the rest of the summer.

4/15 was the saves the day show with circa survive. went to that, stayed for the first band, down to earth approach... who you should all check out and support... such great guys. said hi and caught up with those guys, then left. i went to rob's [from dropping daylight] house and had some burgers... it was his birthday.

-aldie

Crappy phone pics....

2006-04-17T15:11:00.000-07:00

Here's pictures from last week.

-aldie

Well....

2006-04-15T23:15:00.000-07:00

Since lindsi is making test posts....so am I...from my phone.

-aldie

2006-04-13T11:41:00.000-07:00

Hey ya'll. We're up and running.

-Lindsi