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Siren Fest this weekend!

This is the lineup. It’s free too!!

For anyone who has dying to see some live music, and have otherwise been unable to escape to see some, you are in luck! The Village Voice’s annual Siren Festival is on Saturday at Coney Island. It’s going to be a full day of amazing music, hot dogs, beer, and roller coaster rides—in that order.


STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE (for you BSS aficionados, the current touring lineup does NOT include Emily Haines [Metric], Amy Millan [Stars], or Leslie Feist, but I can’t help but notice Emily and Amy are in town and otherwise uninvolved…)
ISLANDS
RA RA RIOT
THE HELIO SEQUENCE
BEACH HOUSE
TIMES NEW VIKING
JAGUAR LOVE
THE DODOS
ANNUALS
FILM SCHOOL
PARTS & LABOR
DRAGONS OF ZYNTH
THESE ARE POWERS
and a TED LEO DJ set (?!)

Yeah I wrote the poem a couple months ago. You will get better at your job. And honestly, I think its good for the mind to work at a busy restaurant. It trains your memory, and you learn how to deal with people in a whole new way. I find myself even in the hardest situations now being like “well this is actually easy compared to what it was like on sunday morning at queenie’s”. But, seriously, you will get better, and everybody understands how hard it is and how much it sucks to start out at a diner.

Last night I went to dinner with the head editor of Vanity Fair. I invited myself along. It was the wackest. Though he did order profuse amounts of wine and told us to get whatever we wanted, “It’s on Vanity Fair”. He was sort of a dickwipe though. Really pretensious and obnoxious. And his assistant and his assistant’s girlfriend were even worse. It was yet another rude awakening.

You are coming for Black Keys? Tight. I might be able to come next weekend, though I feel like there was some reason why I couldn’t. I am getting my uterus scraped next week. I am really not looking forward to that.

My sister also called me from her work yesterday (she works at a children’s art camp) and she was sooo fucked up. She said the counselor she is working as an assistant of keeps handing her muscle tranquilizers and zanax.

did you write the poem at the top? you should write poems more. i worked again today from 4 to 11. it’s fun but i’m not sure how cut out i am for hectic busy work, remembering lots of little things. i worked with different people tonight, had an awkward conversation about gay stuff. thought of our talk on the phone. you were right, whatever you said. tomorrow i work from 8-4. it’s supposed to be busier than the later shift. then i’m going to bike ride and take photos with the new camera and finally read more of this book (the bird artist) that i started. friday morning i leave for this wedding. saturday i might see cat if she ever gives me directions to the press. figure out when you can come to boston for a weekend?