joe erbentraut

andrew bird

Milk, Jens and Third: A few of my favorite things..

joe erbentraut

January 2, 2009

I had originally hoped to start the new year here with another “Best beats” post similar to last year’s, but as I went to work on the year-end summary, the list format just wasn’t working for me.. I was fortunate enough to engage with art of so many different varieties in the past year, that…

life, music

!!!, amanda palmer, andrew bird, animal collective, beth gibbons, bon iver, chicago, cut copy, dodos, doubt, dresden dolls, el guincho, harvey milk, hellboy, jens lekman, leslie hall, lykke li, m. ward, milk, neil gaiman, pitchfork music festival, portishead, ra ra riot, sean penn, sex and the city, stars, tegan and sara, the curious case of benjamin button, the kills, the rip video, twilight, vampire weekend
Big city livin’

joe erbentraut

September 22, 2008

A lot of people have been asking me what life has been like since moving to the “big city” [i.e. Chicago] and I suppose the time has come for something resembling a more standard update on my life in the past several weeks. I just yesterday returned from a weekend trip to Madison to partake…

life, music, queer

adventures in wonderland, andrew bird, flosstradamus, forward music festival, ian wilson, john mccain, leslie and the ly’s, male models, millennium park, neko case, republicans, sarah palin, superheroes, sylvia plath, test positive aware network, thao nguyen, the dials, the hulk, writing