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Archives for July, 2009

All Tomorrow’s Dystopias

Finished All Tomorrows Parties by William Gibson this weekend. It was copyright 1999, which makes it only mostly unbearable, instead of completely and totally unbearable, even if it was pretty cool anyway. The fact is, almost everything was unbearable in 1999, especially in the Bay Area. Maybe this book can be forgiven. I love Neuromancer, [...]

Drum Corps at Stanford

Last Saturday a friend and I went to Stanford to see DCI West, a Drum Corps competition. Sorry. It’s marching band, but without woodwinds, and with harder music, and harder marching, and all summer, and competitive. There. Santa Clara Vanguard is the home team. I tried out once, when I was a sophmore in high [...]