the reality tunnel

Rivulets plays nice, atmospheric, and swirlingly dark songs. He uses lots of effects, but without being wanky, and all the stuff that’s happening musically is a nice counterpoint to clear, direct vocals. Remora is also playing, though I don’t know anything about them.

Ghost Mice is acoustic guitar and violin-based sing-along songs about typically punk themes that are sometimes personal and sometimes funny.  The Gadabout Film Fest is an unassuming, DIY traveling film festival that is the product of a lot of hard work by some nice folks from upstate New York.

I was just told about this story, which I hadn’t heard about yet since my return home. From what I heard, the MCCSC wants to replace Fairview school and use the existing facility for administrative buildings. They want to build a new school and one of the proposed replacement sites is 9th street park. This [...]

Friday, August 24th Space 101 (101 E. 6th, Bloomington) $3,  All Ages, 8:00 PM “The Marvellous is Always Beautiful” -Andre Breton A presentation of large music in a large space featuring: MOUTHBREATHER GRATIS BASILICA GRATIS presents a wall of sound with a complex sense of humor. It would be unfair to say that these hard [...]

Edible Secrets is a guided museum installation by Bloomington resident Michael Hoerger of previously classified US government documents interconnected through the theme of food. The exibit runs through October 14, 2007. For more information about the show, contact michaelismichael@gmail.com.

Sample salsa from various Bloomington contributors.  In the past there was a fresh and cooked category.  I found a lot of them to be bland, but there were a few gems.

I decided to go to the IU library to check out the book The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World’s Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town? (ISBN-13: 978-1-56898-678-4) and found a wealth of other interesting books in the HN80.N5 section on the 7th floor. I also checked out There Goes The Neighborhood (ISBN-10: 0-394-57936-4), [...]

Now that I’m back in the states, I’m going to try to write in this more. I thought I’d start by keeping a list of media that I’ve consumed that I’ve thought was good or interesting. The Spokesman This American Life Episode (act 3) tells the story of Anthony Pico who is 18 grew up [...]

The plan was to ride bikes from Vienna to Budhapest and then from Prague to Berlin.  Plans changed, and we only ended up doing the Prague to Berlin ride.  But, I wanted to make a few notes about the way that we did things in case anyone wanted to travel similarly in Europe. Flights We [...]