Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Marty's LiveJournal:

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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
9:06 pm	I spoke into his eyes... Listening to the Nirvana "Unplugged in NY" album right now and realizing I've gotten smarter over the years, but I've also lost something. Why can't I listen to music like this anymore? I can remember sitting in Nick's back yard while his parents were on vacation smoking cigarettes and hanging out with Rachel and Katie ... whoever would just swing by. He would go run to brush his teeth when Julie would come over because she didn't like him smoking. We spun that album so many fucking times it was insane. But it never occurred to us that we should put something new in. That was simple. I didn't need 20,000 songs on iTunes. I didn't need iTunes. I didn't need to BURN CDS! I was 18. This isn't meant to be a nostalgia post, it's more about trying to come to terms with the fact that as I grow older, I lose those simple pleasures. Like walking on the pier in Grand Haven after sneaking on top of the hill in Grand Haven to down a fifth of Soco with friends. We had DRE 2001 playing in our minds, and we'd never been happier. Now I meticulously calculate my music taste. Tropicalia+ambient/hip hop = happiness. Happiness was not caring about what the 'zines said about your band. Happiness was going to buy an album on Tuesday. Happiness was cruising the strip with friends listening to this music. It has become a solitary experience in a lot of ways, and I wish it would come back. When I was 17, I was a drummer in a band called Lorraine. We played shitty alternative rock and worshiped albums like "In Utero." I wonder if that just dies at a certain ages. I hope it doesn't. I miss that guy. Also the new Harvey Milk and Walkmen albums are awesome. I've listened to "You and Me" probably 10-15 times and I still don't quite understand it. But I'm not stopping. I guess old habits die hard. Current Mood: on the level Current Music: Nirvana - Polly (Unplugged in NY) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
10:42 pm	also life... hey lindsey this is my emodiarhia. do you like it?  make yourself at home while i read up on your grover cleveland site. also, the human league is the greatest thing to ever happen to popular culture...ever more than madonna. also, if somebody gives me their top five albums of all time after a year-long absence, i'd be impressed. Current Music: the human league - darkness (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 8th, 2007
9:24 pm	talk about a lousy weekend I moved to Big Rapids, from Grand Rapids. What I've learned is that Grand is bigger than Big. Big Rapids is small. A college town. I'm working there at the city's paper (The Big Rapids Pioneer). I'm the Education reporter. It's an alright gig. Basically I drink beer in a different town. I guess I always expected to move on, but now that it's happened, I don't know what to think. I'm more isolated, but at the same time, I feel like I have more freedom. I think about music and what it means to me a lot more. Like reccomdenations I received for Royal Trux or Tall Dwarfs. They seem like ancient memories, now so imbedded in my subconscious. I used to strive to be eclectic, now I scavenge for things that make me feel good, like that new Hold Steady record, or the Tim Hecker albums or old Talk Talk albums that put me to sleep. I read on the campus a lot. I got a campus parking spot through the paper, and I've been reading in their lounges and libraries a bunch. Short stories by Raymond Carver and Jorge Luis Borges. Its funny how you can exist in a time frame that has completely passed you, and not fit in with your own. My roomate Brandon is cool, he's already introduced me to a bunch of cool rap music Current Mood: drunk Current Music: Sun Ra - Interplanetary Music (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
12:43 pm	Eh, what the hell Top 20 of 2006 ( Read more... )   Current Music: Pere Ubu (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 8th, 2006
6:27 pm	satire   I actually really don't care about this "new facebook" but if this were livejournal I'm sure this place would be blowing up. What do you think about it? I'm going to see a friend who is coming in from Minneapolis tonight in Lansing, and then limping back to Grand Rapids tommorrow for my friend Tim's bachelor party. What are you doing? Have a nice weekend. (also, does anyone know why the heck my current music is always listed about my entries?) Current Music: Judas Priest - Living After Midnight (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
5:46 pm	Oh yeah I went to the pitchfork festival a couple weeks ago. It was a pretty good time, or a completely awesome time for $40, depending on how you look at it. Os Mutantes were awesome as expected; so were Yo La Tengo. Liars were actually really great too, but there were some dissapointments (Mountain Goats, Spoon who both didn't play very long). But the show stealer for me without a doubt was: Mission of Burma I've always liked their albums, but they blew every other act away live. One of, if not THE best rock performances I've ever seen. Stayed at Curt's appartment and did the whole downtown thing which was pretty nice, Chicago is a cool city. Current Music: Mobb Deep - Drink Away the Pain (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
9:24 pm	this seems to be coming up often I made this: Create your own Music List @ HotFreeLayouts! (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 24th, 2006
8:50 am	Not About Sports Entry I was looking in the freezer today and I saw a ziplock bag with a hot dog in it. Why?!?!? Why is that in there? Who's going to eat that? So I decided to press on...Cheesy potatoes from last July, and a green bean casserole from February. 2004. I got a janitorial job cleaning a ford dealership and some trucking place downtown. I really hope I get a real job soon. I do get to listen to the iPod, and nobody bothers me, however. This layout job in Grand Haven is easy, but I'm getting sick of it. I want to write. I miss Pam. I haven't called her in like a month, so she's probably mad. But she lives in O fucking hio. Why is everything good so far away? I know that's a song, but I can't remember who. This "new" Orb record isn't half bad. In fact, it's about 75% good if I do say so myself. Current Music: The Orb - Ripples (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
6:54 pm	Final 4 Here are my Final Four/Overall picks: I'm going out on a limb and picking UCONN I have a feeling there's gonna be a ton of upsets this year. Nobody really seems like a stable pick. As long as Michigan State doesn't win it I'll be happy. Who are you picking to win it all? Do you care? Oh yeah, Happy St. Pat's you drunken Preved Medvedevs! Current Mood: Tourney Time Current Music: Charles Mingus - Trio and Group Dancers (Comment on this)
Monday, February 27th, 2006
11:16 pm	I think I'd score higher than Vince did I'm assuming the actual test was 50 questions, and that he (QB phenom Vince Young) only got 6 right. If this is the case, well, that'd be pretty shocking. Check it out yourself... Wonderlic Test Current Mood: 4.4 40, 25 reps at 225 Current Music: Tac Pocum System - Asmodia (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
5:22 pm	The Prototypical "I'm gettin' drunk tonight" Post I was gonna update with pictures and fun shit along with an actual update, but I don't have the pictures, or fun for that matter. I just got word today that I didn't get the staff writer position they had at AMG (yes, All Music Guide), which sucks something awful. I interviewed there last week and I thought it went pretty well, but y'know, not enough experiece...that kind of thing. I was the only person around at work today, and the computers were completely fucked so doing the layouts was like pulling teeth. I hate whining, so I'll just say that I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend. Oh, and if anybody wants to reccommend me some tunes, that'd be most good. Most good. Current Mood: well, yeah... Current Music: Van Morrison - Slim Slow Slider (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
9:53 pm	get out of the state I think I'm going to Nashville on Monday. I'll probably be there Monday night through Wednesday morning. Nick's there on a business trip, and I've got nothing better to do. I want to go line dancing and country music shopping. I start my job doing layouts for the Grand Haven Tribune tommorrow. It will be nice to be doing something again. I'll probably be out of town all weekend. Lansing Friday, although I may stay here and watch Ryan's death metal band play at the Intersection. Saturday it's Central Michigan for Kim's birthday. I wonder if any of these people have live journal... I watched the movie "Sideways" last night. I was not impressed, but it's got me craving a glass of wine. Sincerely, The Real Sex Chicken Current Mood: Steve Urkel Current Music: Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 23rd, 2005
5:12 pm	odds and ends i graduated from college. mark may said the 97 michigan team would lose to the 05 usc team 49-14. i'm going to stab him. ron artest has been on my fantasy basketball team the last two seasons. i'm going to stab him. i saw the singer from the red hot chili peppers at vertigo music today. he's short. my friend jessica is the sexiest woman on earth. if i had a picture of her i'd post it and whack off to it 7 to 8 times a day. merry xmas, marty Current Mood: am i leaving tonight? Current Music: High On Fire - Brother in the Wind (15 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 8th, 2005
6:22 pm	just saw this and eye felt like doing it Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrasing it is. How many songs: 6919 Sort Song by Title: First song: "'84 Pontiac Dream" by Boards of Canada Last Song: "Zurich is Stained" by Pavement Sort by Time: Shortest Song: "The Sky is A Harpsichord Canvas" by Olivia Tremor Control (0:04) Longest Song: Disintegration Loop 1:1 by William Basinski (1:03:29) Sort by Album: First Song: "Feel" by Big Star Last Song: "No Tears Fall Through Your Hollow Eye Sockets" by Circle of Dead Children Top 5 Most Played Songs: 1. The Replacements-Left of the Dial (16) 2. The Decemberists-The Engine Driver (14) 3. James Brown-I'll Go Crazy (12) 4. The Dismemberment Plan-Back and Forth (12) 5. Ghost-Hazy Paradise (12) Type in "..." and how many songs come up. "sex" 11 "death" 55 "love" 284 "you" 753 "blue" 568 Current Mood: in limbo Current Music: Cheap Trick - Oh, Candy (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 1st, 2005
8:32 pm	this book is a movie forced update. not much to say other than i graduate from college in a few days. pretty much just one final for the rest of my life and i'm done. has it really been 5 and a half years? i think i may hit the road for a couple of weeks, maybe go some places i've never been, get drunk at some shitty bars, get out of the cold for a while. i've never really traveled anywhere, unless it was with family. i'm not even thinking about a job right now. i just did a review of big star's new album for creem magazine (online edition) that's yet to be updated. hopefully that place'll start printing again soon, cause they have a great history, and the guy really cool + will probably offer me a job. other than that, maybe Grand Haven? Grand Rapids? Holland? hell, Detroit, Chicago...but i think Lansing would be a nice fit for me right now. maybe i could get a shitty slave job as a stringer or something, and still sow some of the remaining wild oats on that college campus with kathy, dan and rick. i'm definitely not ready for this, but it's the best i've felt about the future in a long time. oh and this nitty gritty dirt band stuff is just about the best thing that's happened to me musically in quite some time. Current Mood: gettin' there Current Music: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 11th, 2005
3:10 pm	by the time i read this i'll be back from being gone i'm leaving for the weekend. going to see kathy, rick and such in lansing and attending a concert; so bad, that i will not reveal the name of the artist/performer. saturday i'm going to be in farmington hills again fuckin' round with nick and some of his friends. it seems like by the end of the weeks lately i just can't stand being in grand rapids anymore. i really don't even care where i'm going, but i can't stay here anymore. last weekend i was at the b.o.b. with scott, nick, tricia etc. and it seemed like i had the same conversation with all of them. it's not coincidental i think. "so what are you doing lately," they ask. "school, work," i say. "oh really, what are you 'going' for," they say. "journalism." "really thats cool, so what? are you gonna like write for a newspaper, magazine?" "well i don't really know, wherever i can get a job i guess," i say. i am 100% sure they don't care, and then i have to ask them and not care about what they're doing with their lives. it's not a terrible thing to be surrounded with people that are completely different than you, i don't think, but i really wish there was someone i could relate to other than just nick. i never talk about music with anyone, i usually just end up talking about what they want to discuss, because i know they'll just think i'm weird or boring if i do. but at any rate, i don't much give a damn about all of that, because soon i'll be a free man on the open road. i leave you with a pic. of britt daniel that karley took, in all of his sweaty heterosexual sexiness. Current Mood: drive Current Music: Merle Haggard - Today I Started Loving You Again (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 30th, 2005
6:59 pm	yearly update i just got back from detroit. what a shitty city. spoon was great. no job, no sex, no drugs, no happiness it seems a lot of the time but then i think about things and: i am the quarterback for the arkansas razorbacks on ncaa football 2004 and i'm kicking major fucking ass even though i made myself shitty and pencil thin like real life...and most importantly, i've got an education: You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 9/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math? Current Mood: exanimate Current Music: Tom Waits - Goin' Out West (Comment on this)
Monday, October 17th, 2005
9:21 pm	i was out of town all weekend again. friday i was in farmington hills/detroit, saturday in lansing. it's impossible to meet girls, and the ones people want you to meet are never the ones you wanted to meet. i ain't bitchin or anything, but i want someone to say: hey, you should go out with...and then have them be above average. my grass cuttin' job is winding down, and i'm glad cause i'm real sick of it. next up, assembly line. then...the "real world." oh; and springsteen fucking rocks. (Comment on this)
Monday, October 10th, 2005
12:10 pm	yeah, we'll get back to you... this weekend was decent. went to tim's house and sat around drinking a lot of beer and spitting ping pong balls all over the place. that actually wasn't decent. neither was michigan fucking up again. saturday night the new pornographers were playing in kalamazoo, so i went with nick and took a gander. they were actually quite awesome live, even though they didn't go on until 1230 in the morning. mr. bejar and destroyer played before them, and were pretty nice as well. i've gotta write like 4 stories for the newspaper this week, which is fucked, and i've got a huge midterm i took off work to study for, but instead i'm on livejournal. if there was a way to make these entries less boring i'd do it, but y'know that just aint the case. oh yeah, i wrote a review of wolf parade's album. i'm such an indie fuck it's ridiculous, but the album is actually quite good. not the album of the year or anything, but solid. i actually wrote it b/c they didn't have anything for publishing, so it was done in like a half hour. really, i'm just trying to justify its suckiness. alright here's a link to it. http://www.lanthorn.com/index.asp?type=AE&aid=5365 Current Mood: chips ahoy Current Music: Big Daddy Kane - Set it Off (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 6th, 2005
7:25 pm	i dream of chair i'm mainly just doing this because i've never posted a picture before, soooo here we go: i hope that works. anyhow i bought this album tuesday and since, i've had 2 dreams about it. both times i'm looking right at the chair w/ my friend charlie and i'm trying to explain how looking at the chair helps you understand music and life in general. fucked up. anyhow, if i dream about this damn thing tonight, i'm throwing the album booklet away. seriously. i'm mainly just procrastinating on studying for a rhetorical communication class. Current Mood: gnarl Current Music: ornette coleman - eventually (1 Comment |Comment on this)