Soaring Gas Prices Changing Lifestyles

no shit. i filled up my tank on saturday (at one of the cheapest spots in the city) and it cost me $73. and i have to fill up once a week. and you know that $10 out of each tank is going right back into the bush 2004 campaign coffers.

can you spell r-e-c-e-s-s-i-o-n? because the only thing keeping the economy going was consumer spending, and that is/will evaporate when everyone's $$ is going to gas.

ahh, springtime. things pop up out of nowhere.

like an .mp3 from the Recoys record, for example. check it out.

French Kicks Pics: NYC 3/6/03

hugh mcintosh is leaving las vegas in a bloody sweaty heap. jesus, dude. picture by jinner.

art by my boy, and ex-recoy, Damon Hege. if you are in nyc over the next 2 weeks go check out his show.

sounds like the french kicks show last night in nyc was a recoys reunion. jinners makes me miss my friends. did i make the wrong move coming out here to los angeles when so many people i love are back east? no, i am claiming more territory for the home team and working towards the eventual world domination.

enjoy one of these last weekends of the 'before time,' the 'long long ago.' remember what the air smells like, and how the sun feels on your skin. remember your family. call them just to say hi. surprise one friend you haven't talked to in months with a long distance phone call. walk around your neighborhood for hours with nowhere to go.

so did bush make you feel safer to be living in ?

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The Morning News - Talking with Hamilton Leithauser

the morning news loves the walkmen.

a belated welcome to 2003, from our own buckwheaton and unnamed blogger #1

MoveOn.org: Emergency Appeal to the U.N.

may not help, can't hurt.

so i heard on the news today that the airlines are going to start "color-coding" their passengers by perceived security threat level, either green, yellow, or red. frequent fliers will get a badge to wear in the airport: apparently, the green ones are shaped like crosses, the yellow ones like stars of david, and the red ones like crescent moons. (insert .mp3 of a rimshot). seriously, i need a sidekick to bounce these things off, or an animated bandleader or something. maybe i could talk the microsoft word 'paperclip wizard' into being my straight man.

here's an example of what you're missing by not hanging out with us over at the realistic records message boards:
"i'm serious about berlin. i'm going to apply and if i can't get into a program i'll go anyway. it would be nice to be surrounded by people who hate bush, even if they have bad taste in music."

cheers to el. jeers to w.

great weekend. i did nothing productive and loved it. thank god february is over. the month is brutal and possibly actually evil. it was deliberately kept short to contain that evil. i mean we wake up 2/1/03 and the fucking space shuttle has exploded. welcome to february. yeah it was my birthday and a bunch of other peoples' but in my estimation that just establishes the goodness of the month of may, when our parents were fucking, and says nothing about february. everyone i know or read everyday was at some point this month in a deep funk and bad things were happening left and right. i think last week was possibly the longest week of my life, and the worst part that there was no good reason for it.

here's a review of the scene creamers record that i wrote.

1.) yes, we've already gotten a couple entries for the contest. one of them is going to be a contender for the t-shirt/LP, i can tell already. thanks ladies. no entries will be displayed until the end of march, so you have time, everyone.

2.) tiny update at my fake life.

3.) it feels like everyone is down in the dumps right now. that is february scraping up against your back, stepping on your shoes as you walk, etc. it is the most evil month, but it is short and yields to spring when confronted.

4.) now there's a french kicks video up on the muchmusic site. you know the deal. vote for it.

5.) here's a picture of tommy keefer.

so it's almost march, which means that the brutal rainy season in los angeles is almost past us. people can put away their umbrellas and long sleeve shirts and look forward to another 11 months of sun.

so, during a breakfast meeting at the affordable justice offices, the staff came up with an idea: a contest. and not just any contest: a sexy contest!

you might have seen pictures on other web sites where ladies have written the name of said web site or whatever somewhere on their body, or held up a sign with the name written on it, or gotten a tatoo, etc.

so that's the idea. write 'affordable justice' ir 'i love buckwheaton' or something like that on a piece of paper or on your body, or get a tatoo, take a picture, and e-mail it to us. you have until the end of march. the winner, chosen by the staff, will receive a copy of the recoys LP and a one-of-a-kind affordable justice t-shirt with a design of your choice.

these pictures to not have to be safe for work, do not have to show your face, and you can indicate that you don't want it on the web. i will obscure faces if you so desire. everyone who enters will get some sort of prize, so please include mailing addresses where i can send the prizes.

everyone here at affordable justice would like to congratulate bangin' brooklyn on the record. we're proud of her.

the grammys are a joke.

is anyone else wondering what happened to those 3 ships that are sailing in circles on the high seas with all of iraq's weapons?

nye.nyc.2k3 pictures up tomorrow.

i had a great birthday weekend, thanks everyone.

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maybe this doesn't seem so entertaining if you have the right language packs installed.....