| reasons # 239875 and #5986.6 why tour ruled: |
[Jul. 22nd, 2008|04:12 pm] |
too many photos and videos over here: http://flickr.com/photos/krystinacore/sets/72157606275820812/
It looks like we're playing This Is For You Fest in December, which is, to me, a pretty big deal. We are going to get to play with and see so many awesome bands. I don't know how it all happened, but my guess is that Ryan from Positive Noise set it up. So December will look like: celebrate Christmas, hop in van to meet up with Positive Noise in PA/DC, play two shows down the coast, play the fest and hang in Florida (go swimming, make friends, see incredible bands, get hurt dancing, wear shorts in December), then tour up through the middle of the country for a week and drop off Positive Noise in their homeland of Michigan, play a few shows home on the way home. Sounds good to me. Road dog for life. |
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[Jul. 20th, 2008|02:29 pm] |
please, send me mail. I promise I will write back:
100 East Street
New Britain, CT 06051
got most everything out of my old house. I walked into a huge puddle on the living room floor, dripping in from the ceiling above. good riddance.
I had to use my inhaler in my new room last night, but tonight I'm buying a dehumidifier off of Craigslist. There are two organic gardens and currently no hot water, so Fred has been showering in the backyard in his bathing suit.
The tricky thing about punks is that you cannot tell how old anyone is. That said, my favorite new band is made up of sweet 18-year-olds who sound just like later Black Flag and are FUCKING INCREDIBLE. I am obsessed with Rational Animals, for real.
I lost 15 pounds in the last three weeks, but I think I look one hundred percent exactly the same. That makes no sense.
Things are hard but I can live, right? |
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[Jul. 16th, 2008|12:21 pm] |
"home" again.
nothing really feels right.
I'm going to try and look at the top floor of the Dwight house, and maybe see if Cat, Anthony and Fred want to rent it with Oakes & I. $1000/month, punks on the floor below, and it would be a vegan edge house. I don't know. I can't live at Goffe, even though I've technically only tried it for three days.
I want to move to Columbus, but I don't think Oakes will go for it and it really is a total frat boy town.
We're gonna visit Nashville in the Fall via train, and Britt is moving back there from Bloomington in a few weeks, so that makes it even more appealing. I miss her so much.
Tour was so good, and its technically not over because we're playing Worcester tonight and then possibly Hartford tomorrow with our new buddies in Brown Sugar and Rational Animals. The latter sounds just like later Black Flag and we all bonded big time.
I mad so many friends and future pen pals on this tour, its incredible. All of the dudes in Merkit and Positive Noise turned out to be really right on, awesome kids to talk to. I got to rekindle a bunch of friendships, too, which is always awesome. I'm totally feeling the post-tour bum-out, but I'm hoping to keep the momentum going with letters and mixtapes sent out to new friends.
Since food is always a theme, here are some delicious things I ate: tofu-broccoli knish and falafel-french fry pizza in New Brunswick; free Sticky Fingers via Brad in DC; soy beef patties and a free brownie cheese cake via Heis in Brooklyn; homemade chocolate chip pancakes by Ryan Delay in Columbus; chicken steaks at Govinda's and iced almond mate lattes from Satellite in Philly; a bunch of homecooked food that ruled in most cities.
photos by jimi of our best show of tour in Columbus:
john walsh high-five pit that same night!
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| what day is it? |
[Jul. 10th, 2008|10:35 am] |
Last night's show involved a high-five pit (which is exactly what it sounds like), getting sweatier than ever, playing barefoot in short-shorts (Rollins-style), a thumbs-up pit, riding on Ben's back in the circle pit, making more friends, eating amazing homemade lentil curry at the house/show space, that dude Biff yelling for like 15 minutes straight about talk radio, talking about wanting to get into a fight, yelling "FUCK YEAH!" and high-fiving until my throat and hand hurt.
Oh man, I don't want this to end. |
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[Jul. 8th, 2008|08:37 am] |
tour is ruling
throat is failing hard
I'm about to go get breakfast with Joe Biel, who I saw last night and it fucking made my life. Its been at least three years.
I got to hang out with Britt last night, who I walked in an embrace with for the first time in four years.
It has been incredible to see old friends, obviously. Staying up til 3 with Devin totally killed me but was way worth it.
Tour has involved things like: not knowing what day it is, making new friends, hardly ever eating and having a way shrinking stomach (which makes in painful to eat delicious things!), getting screamed at all night by new friends (in the fun way), hugs after every set, circle pits and posi jumps, busting up my leg via horseplay before we even play that night, going to a fake beach and a real pool with way too many punx, Kyle and Fred constantly singing fight songs and/or billy joel, killing every joke we come up with/stumble upon, missing the new friends we inadvertently toured with for four days, being whisked from hangout to swimming to show to record store to groceries to restaurant to van to show to house to dinner, and forgetting to send postcards.
love to you all! I have so many good stories and pictures to share. |
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[Jun. 27th, 2008|04:37 pm] |
I seriously lost around 4 pounds this week.
I actually have self control with food for the first time in my life.
This feels so good!
I'm moving over the next couple of days and then I'll be on tour with Ripshit and our buddies in Dylan Bredeau for two weeks. Come hang if I'm gonna be near you and you don't mind going to shows or smelling my body odor!
7/03 – philly – party mansion
7/04 – pittsburgh – beleen woods
7/05 – detroitish - TBA
7/06 – chicago- ranchos huevos
7/07 – bloomington – sweet hickory
7/08 – louisville – skull alley
7/09 – columbus – legion of doom
7/10 – greensboro – TBA
7/11 – dc – girl cave
7/12 – baltimore - TBA
7/13 – new brunswick – the breadbox
7/14 – long island – a basement
7/15 – brooklyn – the boneyard
7/16 – worcester – the firehouse |
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[Jun. 26th, 2008|09:19 pm] |
no matter how good of a day I've had I still feel like I just wanna smash smash smash everything.
time to go screen print.
ps: wild foraging is real cool, especially when it happens right on your block. the only thing cooler than free food is free food you don't have to dig through trash for. |
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[Jun. 24th, 2008|01:50 pm] |
I just found out that the singer of a band we played with a few weeks ago was stabbed to death last Friday. This is so fucked. They were such totally sweet, nice dudes and I guess Chris was stabbed after getting into a fight with a guy who groped a woman at the show. fuck. |
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[Jun. 18th, 2008|04:23 pm] |
I found a recovery program to get photos off of my corrupted memory card. I don't think I ever mentioned it on here because I was beyond heartbroken - but I basically thought we lost all of the photos from our trip. I put a bunch up on a Flickr, in the "West Coast 2008" and "Fisheye Adventures" sets, but I'll be adding more later. Go peep it, if you wanna:
KRYSTINA'S FLICKR OF GLORY AND MADNESS
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[Jun. 17th, 2008|02:57 pm] |
for the new internet friends:
1. First Name: Krystina
2. Age: 23, yeesh
3. Location: the Beaver Hill neighborhood of New Haven
4. Occupation: assistant librarian and medical guinea pig
5. Partner? (in crime/life): Mike Oakes, ye ole fiance
6. Kids: NEVER.
7. Brothers/Sisters: a 26-year-old brother named Tyler and a 6-year-old half-brother named Jared, and two brother-dogs and one sister-dog
8. Pets: Arthur, the cat
9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life:
1.) my band, Ripshit
2.) my relationship with Oakes
3.) librarianship
4.) creating a healthy and happy living environment
5.) my future schooling (MLIS and phd programs)
10) Where and for what did you go to school for?:
I dropped outta high school
I went to MCC for a year and took a number of useless credit courses to get energized about school (it was so worth it!)
I went to Gateway for a year
I went to Southern for two years and just graduated with my BS in Library Science and Information Tech with a minor in Sociology
11) Parents? Divorced, thankfully. Mom is married to Jeff, a dude she was dating when she met my dad. They rule so much. Dad is married to Michele, they got married when she got pregnant, and I recently told my dad that I don't want to see her anymore!
12) Who are some of your closest friends?: Oaksey is my favorite person to hang with, but I also enjoy the company of my BFFFF Briham, my bandmates Ben, Fred and Kyle, my friend and local label-dude Thompson and a large cast of now internet-based friends who I know from the zine scene, traveling and pen-pallery back in the day. |
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| its like christmas! |
[Jun. 17th, 2008|12:14 am] |
the split seven inches are here and they are so pretty! I'M IN LOVE WITH THESE STUPID THINGS.
and yes, those are our cats!! |
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| home. |
[Jun. 15th, 2008|02:09 pm] |
we have keys and moved our first car load of stuff to Goffe. it is messy and there is awesome art and propaganda everywhere, so Oakes and I feel right at home.
Win said "I'm so happy you guys are moving in" and I just want to the next two weeks to be over so that can really happen. |
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| can't stop, won't stop |
[Jun. 12th, 2008|11:31 pm] |
so much to do this summer! I am siked and not overwhelmed!
1. go on a rad tour
2. do medical studies instead of getting another job
3. learn how to make a real compost pile
4. learn how to grow my own food
5. go in for another sitting on my sleeve (after tour)
6. build a loft for our bed
7. apply to my grad program
8. write a new zine
9. make special writing time at a certain place every week
10. go on swimming hole dates with Fred
11. go hiking with Oakes, Lou, Nelina and the dogs
12. have the split 7" come out
13. do a weekend with Coke Bust
14. go to the Farm Animal Sanctuary
15. read a book a week (easy, considering my job)
heck yeah! I also might go to Bloomington in August to visit my bff Britt!
But for now, we're playing a cool show tomorrow and then Saturday Oakes and I are going to his parents house in the morning, going swimming at my FAVORITE SWIMMING HOLE IN THE WORLD and then going out for a big dinner with my side of the fam! Sweet! |
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[Jun. 11th, 2008|08:49 pm] |
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DELAYED FLIGHTS AND STAYING UP ALL NIGHT HANGING OUT AND TRAVELING FOR 12 HOURS AND IT BEING HOT AS FUCK IN CT = I WANNA DIE. WOOF. |
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| THIS JUST IN: |
[Jun. 10th, 2008|10:31 am] |
In the airport in Philly I said to Oakes "Oh man, remember internet cafes? Now everywhere just has free wireless and you never see internet cafes!" It turns out that all of the internet cafes in the world went to live in San Francisco.
We are alive and about to go hang out with Josh Russell for the first time in 2-3 years. I am so siked and don't wanna come home, 'cept for that silly cat I miss so much. Just wanna walk around, look at bikes, records, books, eat soyrizo burritos and vegan ice cream sundaes and hang forever. oh, life. |
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[Jun. 1st, 2008|03:05 pm] |
oh haiiiii, vacation rules!
vegan food highlights, thus far: pecan sticky bun, tempeh and roasted pepper sandwiches with spicy mayo, boston cream donuts, chocolate glazed donuts, elephant ear with peanut butter (aka fried dough), pizza roll with cheeze and spinach, mini-mart style nachos, orange chicken, moo-shu beef w/ pancakes, indian food from sidewalk carts, best coffees ever, quinoa w/ lime-ginger tofu and peanut sauce, all-you-can-eat brunch w/ grits, biscuits, gravy, fake meat, kale, peach crisp, tofu scramble, orange juice and more coffee.
animal highlights: three stray cats that hang outside the sliding door in our room, the long-haired house cat Katie, sweet pitbull at Infoshop named Jae Lee, bull terrier on Division St, samoed/husky/WOLF on Belmont St, orange cat that lives at Really Good Stuff, little Shiba Inu outside Herbivore. |
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| more like christians...later! |
[May. 27th, 2008|11:47 pm] |
Tour is finally coming together really awesomely. For instance, we're playing in the woods with a generator on the 4th of July.
Oakes and I leave in the morning, so I should get in bed and suffer through Poltergeist III. If you wanna hang when I'm on the west coast, please give me a ring at 203-444-6835. I am keeping my fingers crossed for non-rainy camping conditions and a non-scary plane ride (as if that is even possible, for me). See you in two weeks, internet! |
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[May. 25th, 2008|01:09 am] |
oh, hello.
I graduated. I love my friends and my family so damn much. Tommy and Bramhall came from Boston for my party and I wanted to cry. Also, when you graduate, people that you hardly know give you envelopes full of money! That is crazy. This week was so fucking awesome, between eating tons of free food, playing an awesome and fun show, making new friends from Maine, getting almost-evicted, hanging out at two bars and having a blast, winning a $50 IKEA gift card for doing nothin', and getting a fisheye lomo! We leave for our trip on Wednesday and I am so ready for more excitement! Spending time with Oakes makes me happier than most anything, so I know we will have a blast.
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| holy god |
[May. 19th, 2008|03:28 pm] |
I just stood up for myself to my father, for the first time ever, and now I feel like barfing. He called to see if he, his wife, and their family could take me out for dinner for my graduation and I informed him that I graduate in a few days, so I already made plans which he decided to not participate in. I also told him that he could take me out for dinner when we get back from my trip, but I don't want to be around his wife because I know what she says about me and I wouldn't feel comfortable. WHOA. I deserve 200 gold medals for this!
This week is going to rule so hard because I don't have to see my step mom except for a minute at my graduation! But also, I get to work tonight and tomorrow during the day, burn a couple of screens (offsides shirt and ripshit patches), spend Wednesday with Fred (hiking, free vegan food at Cafe 9, free pizza at BAR), have band practice, play a show and eat a vegan potluck, see Max, graduate, go out for dinner with my favorite family members at Its Only Natural, go shopping at Whole Foods, have a party thrown in my honor and go to another show! HECK YEAH.
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also, I sometimes can't wait to go away, away, away. |
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[May. 17th, 2008|07:05 pm] |
I am so full of rage today. I don't know what is wrong with me, except that I am about to get my period. That probably explains it.
I used the money I found at Yale to buy a George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine. whoa. I want to eat healthier. I do okay, mostly eating oranges for snacks, but my meals aren't so great.
I also brought all of my Yale goodies to the consignment shop up the street. Hopefully that will net me like, $20 or more, all for doing pretty much nothing!
I cleaned the whole fridge, which contained some frightening things. So much wasted food! It pains me.
Okay, time to play with this stupid grill and read some more of Going Up The River: Travels In a Prison Nation. It is really good so far. |
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