keith birthday is not in russia: Archive

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →

Yo La Tengo (39) The Zombies (5) Belle & Sebastian (5) Ella Fitzgerald (4) Super Furry Animals (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jan 25th

goodbye europe, glad we’re still friends. hello asia, please dont be as cold as when i left.

Jan 22nd

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another not so legit excerpt from email update

well, actually im in naples, italy at the moment. I am also going to apologize in advance for not using apostrophes because its too complicated on this keyboard. Anyways I have been eating a lot of pizza because it is super cheap and super delicious. i am also enjoying the fact that italians eat cookies for breakfast, its like a childhood dream come true. ive been staying with my friend...

Jan 18th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →

Elliott Smith (35) Sigur Rós (18) And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (13) Mogwai (10) Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by …

Jan 18th

hey berlin, es ist gut nochmal hier zu sein. hoffentlich haben wir viel spass miteinander. -Brendan

Jan 14th

ongoing excerpts from travel emails

Well i’m officially back in berlin, was driven back by a polish guy who speaks pretty good german and a german girl via this carpooling craigslist type website, it was pretty cool. we spoke some german, he spoke some polish and I answered in Russian, it was pretty understandable both ways which was really interesting. going to panda bear tomorrow, i’m actually heading over to the...

Jan 14th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →

Air (23) Wladimir Kaminer (20) The Books (17) Joy Division (15) Add N to (X) (14) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jan 12th

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New Year’s party video from my Philadelphian home. Miss you friends/building/PBR

Jan 11th

excerpt from recent correspondance (because i...

I’m currently in Warsaw Poland, and I’m completely charmed by the place. The language is funny in that it’s closely related to Russian (similar sounds, some similar words, etc. Sometimes I can understand the gist of what people are saying. I usually can read menus in restaurants. I forgot that the phrases for ‘how are you’ and ‘thank you’ are the ones...

Jan 10th

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Just had to squeeze by two women who were arguing on the bus. Something about ‘vodka’ and a ‘bad heart’ and ‘allergies’ and ‘i also paid 500 rubles for this bus ride’. I think that russian people like arguing, it’s some sort of socio-cultural aspect of russia. This sort of stuff is supposed to be ‘good when teaching a foreign...

Jan 5th

Exiting tomsk via aftobus

On a bus, heading to novosibirsk. First time on a big coach type russian bus. First time i get to see a substantial stretch of russian ‘highway’. Got some ani co to listen to. Shoulda brought some willie nelson. Feel like this whole trip is ‘something like an adventure.’ Feel like i could ‘discover myself’ in new and exciting ways. Felt connected when the guy...

Jan 5th

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Jan 5th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →

Padla Bear Outfit (53) Peter and the Wolf (50) Blastoids (27) Breathe Owl Breathe (26) Girls (21) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jan 5th

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Going to be bad at blogging for a while...

Tomsk (bus) Novosibirsk (plane) Moscow (plane) Berlin (train) Warsaw (train) Krakow (car) Berlin (foot) Panda Bear Concert (plane) Naples (plane) Berlin (plane) St. Petersburg (train) Moscow (train) Tomsk.

Jan 4th

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