AUTHOR: Brad DATE: 9/30/2003 10:41:00 PM ----- BODY: A Return

So here I am again after multiple weeks of neglecting the very site I created as a means to log my intellectual stimulation. What have I become? Sometimes I catch myself visiting this site to go back and chronicle through my mind spewed out onto a computer screen. I see the number of posts I had created pre-Kansas City and post-college and it just blows my mind away what a difference it is. In many ways, I have gotten frustrated at how much I've alienated my friends and little things in life so I could work insane hours for a company and catch up on sleep. Lately I've found that my biggest fault lies in the fact that I've alienated myself from myself. One of my favorite movies in the past year is Adaptation. In it, Meryl Streep discusses how she is drawn to a man because he has such a passion for what he does. She works, has a marriage, and is very smart, but she lives her life without a passion for anything. She just exists. That's the way I feel like I've become as of late. I work, eat, sleep, and do the same routine over again. My passion for creating music, reading, thinking, bascially anything, has subsided and this thoughless drone of a young man is left in place of it. It's frustrating to realize such a thing. It's even more frustrating to know it and not know how to respark all those things you were once so passionate about. Maybe it'll take a new group of friends. Maybe it'll take me forcing myself to get into a routine of getting back into the swing of things. Maybe it'll take meeting a cool girl to turn that switch on. Maybe it'll just take me getting full nights of sleep. At any rate, I need to make a change. I also need to update this site more (which I will do). -------- AUTHOR: Brad DATE: 9/07/2003 11:31:00 PM ----- BODY: So Many Shows, So Little Time (and Friends)

The following shows are playing in or around Kansas City in the coming weeks/months: Mason Jennings @ the Bottleneck in Lawrence 9/16 Wilco in Des Moines 9/17 Nada Surf @ the Bottleneck in Lawrence 10/5 Grandaddy w/ Elbow @ Liberty Hall in Lawrence 10/12 Pete Yorn @ the Beaumont Club in Kansas City 10/16 Junior Senior w/ Electric Six @ the Hurricane in Kansas City 10/20 Earlimart @ the Bottleneck in Lawrence Spiritualized @ Granada Theater in Lawrence 11/2 Chris Robinson @ Liberty Hall in Lawrence 11/11 Polyphonic Spree @ Liberty Hall in Lawrence 11/12 & 11/13 Obviously, I'd love to go to all of these shows if my work and wallet permited such a thing. Anyone who is interested in going to any of these shows please email me at Sniffy716@hotmail.com or call me. I really don't want to have to go to these alone. --------