May 2010

1. The Easybeats- Friday On My Mind

2. Harlem- Friendly Ghost

3. Delta Spirit- Bushwick Blues

4. Christmas Island- Black Cloud

5. The Animals- It's My Life

6. Julian Plenti- Games For Days

7. Dr. Dog- Someday

8. The Strange Boys- Be Brave

9. Roky Erickson With Okkervil River- Forever

10. The Black Keys- Too Afraid to Love You

11. Eels- In My Younger Days

12. The Verve- Columbo

13. Procol Harum- A Whiter Shade Of Pale

14. The Turtles- Elenor

15. Bob Lind- Elusive Butterfly

16. Status Quo- Pictures Of Matchstick Men

17. Little Anthony & The Imperials- Goin' Out Of My Head

18. The Doors- You're Lost Little Girl

19. Leonard Cohen- So Long, Marianne

20. George Harrison- Let It Down

21. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass- This Guy's In Love With You

April 2010

1. Nancy Sinatra- These Boots Are Made For You

2. Phoenix- Sometime In The Fall

3. The Walkmen- The Rat

4. MGMT- It's Working

5. She & Him- In The Sun

6. Metric- Gold Guns Girls

7. Okkervil River- A Girl In Port

8. Blur- Fool's Day

9. Orange Juice- Falling and Laughing

10. The Black Angels- Doves

11. Los Campesinos!- Death To Los Campesinos!

12. The Big Pink- Crystal Visions

13. Lay Low- By And By

14. Sad Day For Puppets- Blue Skies

15. Ocean Colour Scene- Better Day

Australia and Asia 2011

Yes, its true. I am planning on going to Australia with Julianna and Stephanie. I really do not know what I will be doing or what to expect of the trip but I am hoping to travel a lot, meet a lot of people, make a documentary, and live life. I been wanting to do this for a very very long time and the opportunity arose. For the longest time I did not want to travel because I wanted to pay my major debts. After 20 months of paying my credit card I finally finished paying it and now I want to get on with my plans. And even though a career and a family is in my plans it is still not the right time to fulfill those goals in my life. I want to do something that in the future I will not regret for not doing (did that make sense???). I am just lucky to have the family that I have who supports me with everything I set in my mind. I talked to my mom and dad and they think that its an incredible idea and the right moment in my life to do it.

Julianna and Stephanie came up with the idea a long time ago and it was always in the back of my head. I think they invited me, maybe not. But I just told them that I was coming and I think they liked the idea. I think that they are afraid about the fact that I will know their Australian secrets, but besides that I am sure that they are happy that I will be experiencing this adventure with them and I am too. I can't wait to see where this adventure will take me and I know that it will be fun and hard at the same time but in the end I will grow as a person. I know I will, and at the end of the trip I'll feel like I am ready to settle and start my career. And who knows, maybe I'll find someone to marry but now I am not worried about that, right now I just want to live my youth.

My parents and friends are very sad that I will be gone but I will be back. Austin is my home, I grew up here and I have the best friends living in this town. I will not leave, I will be back and I know things will change when I come back but things will change with me being here or not. I just need to set that in my mind. People change, my friends will change. But one thing won't and that's the love that we have for each other. I know that when I come back some will be waiting for me, and some might be gone. It makes me sad but its nothing that I can change.

I want to move to Australia in January 2011 and I only want to be away for about nine months (so I can be back for college football time!!). For the first six months I want to live in Australia and travel around the country and New Zealand and hopefully meet Sean Neesley. For the last three months I am hoping that I will be able to travel around Southeast Asia. Visit Thailand, Phillipines, Vietnam, Laos, India, China, Tibet, Nepal, Himalayans, etc... Travel around the cheap places in Asia. Will probably not see South Korea or Japan, they are too expensive, I'll probably save that trip for whenever I have money.

I just hope God gives me the opportunity to make this trip. He is the only one stopping me from it.

JNip

Upcoming HBO series

Boardwalk Empire

People like to think of it as the next The Sopranos. It is supposed to be about the Prohibition era and it takes place in New Jersey. It is an adaptation from Nelson Johnson's book, Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City. Terence Winter from The Sopranos will be producing the show and Martin Scorsese will be part of the production too (directed the pilot).

The cast looks stacked: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, William Hill, Michael Shannon... here is the cast


Debut: Fall 2010 (imagine having Boardwalk Empire before Entourage!!!!)


Game of Thrones

"One of the most hotly anticipated shows the network has ever made." A new fantasy series based on the novels by George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire. I've read that they think there will be seven seasons, one season for each book. HBO has committed to the pilot plus nine more episodes for the first season. The pilot was shot in Northern Ireland and production will resume in the summer.

"The fantasy is so incidental, it has a very adult tone," Lombardo said. "You forget it's fantasy while you're watching it, and that's what I love about it."

The cast includes the cast includes: Mark Addy, Alfie Allen, Sean Bean, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Jennifer Ehle, Jack Gleeson, Iain Glen, Kit Harrington, Lena Headey, Harry Lloyd, Richard Madden, Rory McCann, Tamzin Merchant, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, and Isaac Hempstead Wright. cast

Debut: It will probably premiere in the Spring of 2011.


Spider and Son

This series will be about the life of Anthony Kiedis, not the rock star but the son of one the most important drug dealers in Hollywood in the 70s, Spider. It will be based on Anthony Kiedis book, Scar Tissue.

"The backdrop of the book is his relationship with his drug-dealer dad, who was also a drug addict, as well as with his father’s friends – all of whom used drugs."

Debut: About a year ago it was rumored to premiere in late 2010 but I have not heard much about it anymore so I really do not know where in production they are.


I'm With The Band

I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, a memoir by groupie Pamela Des Barres. In early February it was confirmed that Zooey Deschanel would be starring in the series as Pamela Des Barres. "Des Barres bragged about her bedroom experiences with the likes of Mick Jagger, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and actor Don Johnson. But along the with excitement of rolling with famous rockers, there was also the emptiness and heartbreak of being demeaned and discarded by stars once the next pretty young thing came along." Yes, its pretty much Almost Famous made into an HBO series. I know, sounds quite exciting. Can't wait for the soundtrack.


Debut: Who knows, but there is a pilot in the making.


The Miraculous Year
Mildred Pierce

....and more

February and March 2010

1. The Big Pink- Love In Vain

2. The Coral- Everybody's Talking At Me

3. The Walkmen- In The New Year

4. Lightspeed Champion- Dead Head Blues

5. Eels- Fresh Feeling

6. Florence And The Machine- You've Got The Love

7. Gorillaz- Stylo (feat. Mos Def & Bobby Womack)

1.Broken Bells- The High Road

2. Gorillaz- To Binge (feat. Little Dragon)

3. Nicole Atkins- The Way It Is

4. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- Bad Blood

January 2010

1. David Bowie- Kooks

2. The Cribs- We Share The Same Skies

3. Eels- That Look You Give That Guy

4. The Rifles- The General

5. Boston Spaceships- Big O Gets An Earful

6. Brakes- Don't Take Me To Space (Man)

7. The Clash- Bankrobber

8. The Horrors- Who Can Say

9. The Dears- Lights Off

10. Wolfman and Pete Doherty- For Lovers

11. The Pixies- Here Comes Your Man

12. Massive Attack- Saturday Come Slow fea. Damon Albarn

13. The Strange Boys- Woe is You and Me

14. Surfer Blood- Swim

15. She & Him- Take It Back

Young Folks: A Story About Friends

COMING NOT SO SOON!!!


Will have to write a lot and interview everyone.

-Embarrassing stories
-How that person got into the group through who?? how??? where??
-Young Folks Family Tree----obviously on top of the chain we will find most of the UTSA people
-Feelings toward each other
-Relationships
-Mistakes
-The Administration
-Nueces Apts
-The DEW
-The summer of 2007


who knows what else. Might take a million years to write. And the worst part of all is that there will be memories being made while writing the whole thing.


Might never happen, but sounds like a great idea.