i'm back, thank goodness.

so, i've been in monmouth county for the last god knows how many days without internet.
oh grammy, you're so behind the times ... so of course, i came back to 98 notifications on facebook, 23 unread e-mails and surely, no time to take a nap.

i messed up my finger when i was adjusting a chair, so i'm obviously not at my bass lesson right now.
whatever, i needed a break.
nasty blood bubble ... i keep thinking it's gonna pop all over my macbook while i'm typing.


as soon as i got home from my lovely grandmother's home, i was right back out again to go see maria taylor (some may know her as conor oberst's ex-gurlfran) and whispertown 2000 at maxwell's.
good show ... i love her voice so much!



maria's bassist, nate nelson was perhaps one of the most attractive young men i've seen in a while.
i kid you not, it's as if gael garcia bernal and devendra banhart collided in a tornado of handsomeness and made a love baby.
it is most definitely this boy:


and a note to whispertown 2000 ... YOU HAVE THE BEST MERCH!
yes, that's a baby harmonica necklace


somebody make this rain stop.
thanks.

ooh!

here are some things i got at topshop.
i'm gonna wear everything this week ... hello, spring break.
anyone hear anything about matt and kim playing with pb&j last night.
wtf. no one told meeeee.

cutest skirts everrrr ... i had to buy two! and they were affordable!
tell me those pockets aren't great.


awesome dress!! ... there's a bow in the back!


hearts! and the buttons! oh, the buttons!


i can't even deal.
everything at topshop is so fabulous.

leaving for south jersey tomorrow morning.
won't be back til monday, just in time for maria taylorrrrrrr.
her voice is so pleasant.

monday update ... again!

blawgging has been slow lately ... but it's for a good reason.
i've been busy all week pretty much. just been busy being awesome.
probably one of the best weeks in a while ... not gonna lie.

on thursday, i went to topshop ... opening day, so i had to wait approximately an hour and 43 minutes to get in, but holy hell, was it worth it. i went through the entire store about 4 times and bought a whole slew of fabulous garments. so exciting.



on saturday, i went to see ra ra riot and cut off your hands at webster hall. as much as i hate hate hate webster hall, this show was just fantastic. i hadn't been to a good show in over a month ... i NEEDED something great to end my withdrawal.
okay, so the first guy, jon moses was a little strange, but i suppose he had fun. i'll just say, i would NOT want him to be my underwear. no thank you.
next up was cut off your hands. they were every bit as wonderful as we thought they would be. we'd been dying to see them for so long, and my oh my did they deliver. nick basically owned the entire stage with his spazzmatic dancing.
agh ... sooooo good!























then ra ra riot was the icing on the already delicious cupcake.
i hadn't seen them since summer 2008 because i felt like i was all "ra ra'd out" from seeing them so many times last year. i had almost forgotten how good they are live.
of course, i still can't forgive them for changing the lyrics of "can you tell," but the set was good. they played for about an hour and 15 minutes, oh and they did some new songs, good stuff.
i was fully satisfied.





































and my very favorite:


the next day, i finished all of my awesome essays, then went back to topshop to buy more things and to see kim dj.
i picked up another dress and another skirt. kim was playing all my favorite booty bumpin top 40 hip-hop tunes, then as i was dancing while waiting on line, i glanced out of the corner of my eye up to the dj booth, only to see kim waving really hard to get my attention. she slapped matt's arm, pointed at me and they both waved. i looked around to make sure they were waving to me, and sure enough they were.
i waved back and continued dancing.
i guess matt doesn't secretly hate me anymore.
oh matt and kim, you are the best.

i officially have $12 to my name. awesome.

dear matt and kim, i miss you. love, devyn

so, i was reading this interview today and it made me realize how much i miss matt and kim.
i know, i know ... i saw them last month, and the month before that but i feel like it's been forever.
they're the one band that i'll travel to the ends of the earth for, or at the very least, the outer edges of godknowswhere brooklyn.

matt mentioned a show in the interview, which was by FAR, the best matt and kim show i've ever been to.
it was the summer of 2007, 4 days before my birthday, sweltering hot, in the middle of bushwick, in a completely illegal warehouse. it was blissful.
best fwends opened, and although i could've done without that band that stole my water, it was still a fantastic night.



i might've named it best show of 2007. i probably did.
i don't remember.





this is what matt had to say about it:
"I'd have to say we probably played our first hundred shows in New York, shows Todd P had booked at whatever random art space or warehouse and things like that, so while everything might not have been perfect—the sound probably never great, the ventilation always below par and this and that—it was always unique and memorable. People see so many shows at venues they tend to become un-unique. Once Kim and I did a show with Todd at a warehouse in Bushwick that was initially set to be at a place above this auto parts store. And then the day of the show, we found out that apparently there was a sweatshop above the auto parts store. They couldn't do anything about it, when we stepped in to move stuff in to do the show there were like all these sewing tables and they were like, "Sorry, we forgot." A few hours before the show was supposed to start we had to find a new place and we ended up finding this pizza place that was getting made that was connected to a warehouse full of bricks and rubble and crap and no one was actually permitted to be there. The people building the pizza place had been using it as a workshop. Basically they ended up clearing this place out, going in, trying to get a couple porta potties and then spreading the word and they had to stop letting people in at like 650 people, at this bizarre warehouse in Bushwick where no one has a right to be there. It's probably what a rave was back in the early 90's. I met people in Australia who told me about seeing us at that show and how memorable it was and things like that. People just getting texts like, "Oh, I heard it moved here." It's things like that where memories can be created that way."

anyone who was there would agree that it was one of the most epic matt and kim shows to date.
that night, matt broke his glasses and decided to take off his shirt (he hasn't done that since) and it was the first time they played the new songs that would be on their second album "grand" ... they were overwhelmingly happy just to be home, with their friends. i was happy too.

oh p.s.
all points west lineup? FANTASTIC!

deprived.

so, march has proven to be a slow slow month.
i haven't been to a good show in god knows how long, and i need something fantastic.

we thought about seeing wavves last night, but settled on roaming around the mall for a couple hours.
sorry nathan ... i just wasn't in the mood for sweaty madness and dirty kids in bushwick.

apparently the all points west lineup is being released tomorrow morning. let's hope for something amazing.
chances are, the lineup won't be worth $100 a day. whatevz, who wants to pay that much for 12 bands per day anyway?
i'll just listen to everyone from my rooftop. yes, you can hear everything perfectly from there. all points west is basically in my backyard.

blogging will be back to normal in april.
i've got a good amount of shows, including of montreal ... thank goodness.
ra ra riot and cut off your hands on saturday. so good.

i've had a lot on my mind lately.
i kind of just want to open my head, take my brain out and put it in a box for a few hours. that would be great.

i have tons of homework to do.
tomorrow is going to be bad.