Sunday, May 31, 2009

seriously?!!!?!?!?

dearest natalie portman's shaved head,

once again, you are in NY, and i don't get to see you.
and even more tragic, you're playing within my birthday week.
so i have made the [not so] wise decision to try to sneak into santo's party house on the 20th.
just watch me.
or not.
i give up.

love,
devyn

Saturday, May 30, 2009

bust craftacular!

so i forgot to talk about this ... it was like two weeks ago at warsaw in greenpoint.
overly crowded, but enjoyable nonetheless.
when you went in, there was a table where they were screenprinting totebags and people could just take one, for FREE!
so of course, i asked for the one with a unicorn on it.
it was so very exciting.


here's a close-up of the design.
it says "imagination is more important than knowledge"
of course, the screenprinting can't be perfect every time, so you can't really read it clearly.


i also bought this fantastic necklace.


yes, it's a mustache... you love it.



ALSO!
my beloved, gael garcia bernal is on the cover of the new issue of paper magazine!



i suppose because rudo y cursi came out this month, which by the way, was GREAT!
not amazing, but not at all bad.
honestly, it's pretty difficult to go wrong with gael and diego.







are you dying yet?

blink-182/weezer update!

i have settled on two dates.

August 25 - Wantagh, NY, Nikon Theater at Jones Beach - Blink-182, Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French, on sale 6/6, presale 6/3 10am

August 26 - Holmdel, NJ, PNC Bank Arts Center - Blink-182, Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French, on sale 6/6, presale 6/3 10am

i'm not...

getting into college.

i have already come to the conclusion that my grades aren't that great, my sat scores suck, i'm not in enough clubs in school...
i quit them all because they all meet on the same day.

i'm not that great of a musician, i'm not that great of a photographer. i'm not that great of a writer. i'm just not that great.

do i even count as a minority? can i get financial aid? i sure as hell won't get academic scholarships.

every school i 'like' ... every school i 'want' is too good for me.
average gpa, 3.5 i have a 3.4 ... maybe. average sat score on verbal and math, 1200. i have an 1100.

i'll always be teetering on the edge of good, and not good enough.

dear college,
why must you make it so hard for me?
sincerely,
devyn

Friday, May 29, 2009

window shopping.

i currently have $8 to my name, so it's not like i could actually buy anything.
but hey, my birthday is coming up.
perhaps someone would like to buy this dress for me.
it's from topshop, of course.
it looks even cuter when it's on!
yes ... that is a lovely milkshake print.
i died a little.



p.s.
if you haven't heard already, final fantasy was added to the saturday lineup of p4k.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

blah blah blahhhhhhh

it's one of those days.
those days when everything annoys me, but of course,
it had to by triggered by something, right?
triggered by a problem.

i have a problem.
my problem is my friends.
my friends who put their burdens on me, as if i know how to help.

i can't help them if i don't know or don't care what their problems are.
depression, angst, heartache?
nothing i have to deal with myself, so why bother with other peoples' issues?
i'd like not to be a part of your wallowing sadness.

it all just makes me so upset.
i'm NOT the knower of all things.
i give shitty advice.
i'm not a therapist.

then when i tell them i don't know how to help them, they get mad at me and tell ME that i'm being insensitive.

way to go, guys.

Friday, May 22, 2009

it's safe to say...

that i am officially super freaked out by the new grizzly bear video.
don't get me wrong, "two weeks" is a great song, but holy crap ... the video was weird to say the least.
here are a few screencaps i put together so you can get the "feel" of the whole thing.



freaked out yet?

Friday, May 15, 2009

so i basically just died.

blink-182 has just announced tour dates.
the support being weezer, fall out boy, then depending on the date, other openers could include asher roth, taking back sunday, panic at the disco, the all american rejects and chester french.
seriously?! i don't think the tour could get much better.

July 24: Las Vegas (the Joint)
July 28: Vancouver (GM Place)
July 30: Calgary, AB (Saddledome)
July 31: Edmonton, AB (Rexall Place)
Aug. 1: Saskatoon, SK (Credit Union Center)
Aug. 2: Winnipeg, MB (MTS Centre)
Aug. 4: Milwaukee (Marcus Amphitheater)
Aug. 6: Boston (Comcast Center)
Aug. 7 Quebec City, QC (Colisee Pepsi)
Aug. 8: Montreal (Bell Centre)
Aug. 9: Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon Theater at Jones Beach)
Aug. 12: Hershey, Pa. (the Star Pavilion)
Aug. 13: Cincinnati (Riverbend Music Center)
Aug. 14: Pittsburgh (Post Gazette Pavilion)
Aug. 15: Chicago (First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre)
Aug. 16: Omaha, Neb. (Westfair Amphitheater)
Aug. 18: Minneapolis (Xcel Energy Center)
Aug. 20: Indianapolis (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
Aug. 21: Buffalo, N.Y. (Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center)
Aug. 22: Detroit (DTE Energy Music Theatre)
Aug. 23: Toronto (Molson Amphitheater)
Aug. 25: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)
Aug. 27: Saratoga, N.Y. (Saratoga Performing Arts Center)
Aug. 28: Camden, Pa. (Susquehanna Bank Center)
Aug. 29: Hartford, Conn. (New England Dodge Music Center)
Aug. 30: Washington, D.C. (TBD)
Aug. 31: Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon Theater at Jones Beach)
Sept. 2: Cleveland (Blossom Music Center)
Sept. 3: St. Louis (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
Sept. 4: Kansas City, Kan. (Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone)
Sept. 6: Denver (Fiddlers Green Amphitheater)
Sept. 7: Salt Lake City (David O. McKay Events Center)
Sept. 10: Seattle (White River Amphitheater)
Sept. 12: Sacramento, Calif. (Sleep Train Amphitheater)
Sept. 13: Mountain View, Calif. (Shoreline Amphitheater)
Sept. 14: Santa Barbara, Calif. (Santa Barbara Bowl)
Sept. 16: San Diego (Cricket Wireless Amphitheater)
Sept. 17: Irvine, Calif. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
Sept. 19: Phoenix (Tempe Beach Park)
Sept. 21: Albuquerque, N.M. (Journal Pavilion)
Sept. 23: Dallas (Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion)
Sept. 24: Houston (Superpages.com Center)
Sept. 26: West Palm Beach, Fla. (Cruzan Amphitheater)
Sept. 27: Tampa, Fla. (Ford Amphitheater)
Sept. 29: Atlanta (Lakewood Amphitheater)
Oct. 1: Charlotte, N.C. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
Oct. 2: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
Oct. 3: Atlantic City, N.J. (Borgata Events Center)

Saturday, May 9, 2009

i have come to...

share with you, my superb photoshop acting skills:



perhaps you caught my cameo in the new star trek movie, perhaps you didn't.
but of course, if you did not see it, here is a photo of me and my best friend, baby spock.

star trek was fucking good.
if you're comfortable with the fact that basically the entire story you know and love was CHANGED, then you won't be disappointed.
GO SEE IT!

p4k looks good.

anyone know of a bus that would take me to chicago so i can see matt & kim and beirut in the same day?



i can't even deal with how GREAT the lineup is.
seriously?!

Saturday, July 18
The National
Beirut
DOOM
Yeasayer
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Fucked Up
Plants and Animals
Matt and Kim
Lindstrøm
Wavves
Ponytail
Charles Hamilton
The Duchess and The Duke
Disappears

Sunday, July 19
The Flaming Lips
Grizzly Bear
M83
The Walkmen
Pharoahe Monch
Blitzen Trapper
Frightened Rabbit
The Mae Shi
Black Lips
The Very Best
Mew
Vivian Girls
Japandroids
DJ/Rupture
Women
Dianogah


yeah, it's flippin gooooood.

Friday, May 8, 2009

a bamboozle sampling.









going to see star trek now!

Friday, May 1, 2009

it's been a while.

today has been the worst day ever.
i've never cried so much in school in my entire life.
i mean like, i cried for the first 5 periods straight, pretty much.
and it doesn't help that it rained throughout the whole night, ruining the hoodwink festival, which alone, left much to be desired.

but anyways, school has basically been taking over my life. i have no time for anything anymore.
i feel like everywhere i turn, it's "college this," and "college that," and "do your apps now!" and "your SAT scores aren't high enough!" ... frankly, it's getting on my last nerve, and i'd love for my senior year of high school to never come so i don't be to be burdened with college.
then on the other hand, it all seems totally fantastic and exciting ... in the event that i get into the school i want to go to.
i've bee seriously looking into eugene lang and the 5 year BA/BFA program with either parsons or the new school for jazz and contemporary music. it basically sounds like a dream.
i spent a half hour at the lang booth at the college fair this week, and i swear, the school had my name written all over it.

i'm currently in the middle of choosing courses for my senior year.
none of the classes caught my eye, and i can't decide what AP's to take.
i have a feeling that school will be a drag next year.
all of my favorite teachers are getting fired.
it's already a disaster.
oh, and i lost the election ... i'm not the new vice president of my school.

it's supposed to rain this weekend.
i'm going to bamboozle ... the lineup is less exciting than previous years, but i figure, i might as well.

i wrote a poem the other day based on what i saw on the way to the museum of natural history ... it's called tulips:

Two old women,
I’ll assume age sixty-five,
Standing among a bed of tulips,
Gazing at them as if
The orange bells were foreign;
Engrossed in the beauty we take
For granted.

The constant
Snap-snap-flash
Of those
Dated, digital, devices.

Never stopping,
If only to find another flower
More vibrant,
More orange,
More worthy,
Of the precious space
On their memory cards.