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Year 10

Your Author, Then & Now

August 26, 2010 by krisis

One last 10th Anniversary post…

Your Author, August 26, 2000
Age: 18
Occupation: College Student / Orientation Leader / Barista
Education: One year of college
Residence: Double-occupancy dorm room
Roommate: Viktor, a despicable Eastern European cad
Music collection: about 2,500 songs
Songs written: 100
Girls dated: 0

As a performer: High school and college plays. Maybe an open mic.

Recording rig: Pinhole mic in PC monitor, into Real Producer

Blogging platform: Free account on freespeech.org; Blogger via FTP

Media experience: Hung out at Philly Weekly for the day. Wrote for a little-viewed e/n site (remember those?)

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Your Author, August 26, 2010
Age: 28
Occupation: Communications Account Manager
Education: BA Communications, minors in Theatre & Music
Residence: Single tudor house
Roommate: Elise, charming wife and rock star
Music collection: about 18,000 songs
Songs written: 262
Girls dated: 2

As a performer: A few hundred open mics and a burgeoning number of full gigs; public speaking for groups >4000

Recording rig: Multi-track digital home studio

Blogging platform: Pro account on Dreamhost; installed WordPress

Media experience: Copywriting for local and national publications & brochures; managing multi-platform ad campaigns; brand identities for two non-profit startups; 10 years of blogging

Filed Under: august 26th, Year 10

Happy Birthday To This

August 26, 2010 by krisis

A tenth anniversary post in five parts, accompanied by ten years of photos from the blog.

One of CK’s earliest mastheads, from 2000-2001.

I. The Measure of a Decade – what do ten years really mean?
II. My Random Niche – how CK began, and what it became
III. Excelsior, Always – my year in review
IV. The Unhealthy Habit – how CK changed my life (finally) (again)
V. Past Is Prologue – my gratitude for the past ten years
[Read more…] about Happy Birthday To This

Filed Under: august 26th, Year 10 Tagged With: OCD Godzilla

10 posts from Year 10 for my 10th anniversary

August 26, 2010 by krisis

In a few short hours it will be the tenth anniversary of my first post on Crushing Krisis.

As you might expect, I have a lot to say about that. Before I do, I wanted to share ten of my favorite posts from this past year. (Actually, it’s 13 posts, but the pairs are pairs for a reason – not out of indecisiveness).
[Read more…] about 10 posts from Year 10 for my 10th anniversary

Filed Under: arcati crisis, demos, elise, under my skin, Year 10 Tagged With: blamedrewscancer

House Concert Highlights: Madonna, Mieka, & Elise

August 23, 2010 by krisis

OMG you guys, you missed the best night ever. But don’t worry – I recorded it all for you!

Last night I supported Mieka Pauley at our first ever house concert, which was also ostensibly the CK 10th Anniversary Show. It was amazing. I had a great time playing songs I usually think are pretty hard, and Mieka was both flawless and real several feet away from my sofa.

Here’s two highlights I will treasure forever…

<a rel="nofollow" href="http://petermarinari.bandcamp.com/track/ray-of-light-live">Ray of Light (live) by Peter Marinari</a>
I cover “Ray of Light” for the first time ever, on my baritone guitar, which I had only figured out how to do about 24 hours prior.

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Mieka plays her spectacular tune “Colossal” with impromptu, unrehearsed harmony from Elise, my wife and lead singer of Filmstar.

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There’s way, way more where that came from. Also, my blog turns 10 in three days.

Did I mention that all happened IN MY LIVING ROOM.

CRAZY.

Filed Under: demos, performance, video, Year 10 Tagged With: Madonna

get elevated

July 14, 2010 by krisis

I wrote that last post on the El.

For those of you not acquainted with Philadelphia, we have exactly two and a half brands of subway. One travels north to south. One travels east to west. One spends half its distance traveling from the center of the city to the west, and then emerges from the ground.

(I always laugh when people find the Philly subway system confusing. They’re named unambiguously and barely make a turn. Paris – now that’s confusing.)

The “El” is short for the Market Frankford Elevated Line, the east to west subway named thus because it runs along Market Street & Frankford Avenues and because after it exits the central part of its route in either direction it runs along elevated tracks. Creaky, red iron, elevated tracks that tower overhead, dripping rain that smacks as it hits your scalp.

Nothing in the world skeeves me out like the El. In fact, for several years at the old house I boycotted it entirely. However, it’s a reality of traveling to and from the new house.

The grime of it is paralyzing. The navy blue floor is encrusted with untold months of flotsam at every crack and corner. The blue seats are not plastic but a sponge-like blue fuzz that seems engineered to attract and retain dirt.

Then there are the people – the degenerate, tactless people. I have heard of and witnessed people doing things on the El that you would never witness elsewhere in public – let alone on public transit. Vandalism. Performance art. Investigations of personal hygiene. Sex acts.

The charming combination of environmental grossness and personal grossness is enhanced by the claustrophobic layout of each car. To a New Yorker – accustomed to their wide, hard-plastic benches and center-of-aisle poles – it probably seems like an amusement park ride.

A tiny, disgusting amusement park ride.

Whenever I ride a carefully tuck my limbs into my body like an Olympic diver, trying to avoid contact with something or something that will give me syphilis or leprosy.

Carefully tucked into myself, I pull out my laptop, and log in remotely to work for 29 blocks of elevation, before shutting down and doing my best to hold my breath and stay absolutely still for 10 blocks of subway.

The first thing I do every day in the office is wash my hands.

Filed Under: day in the life, thoughts, Year 10

man (just me, actually) vs. nature (mostly this one bird)

July 12, 2010 by krisis

I have been waking up early almost every day at the new blue house.

Some of that awakening has been of my own volition. Other of it is due to an east-facing window.

However, largely the inspiration is avian in nature.

When we talked about owning a house in a speculative fashion, people would say the same sorts of things. “You’ll always have projects,” was a common response, and I’d never dispute it. Another common one was, “Oh, you’ll have a yard! There will be birds singing.”

No, really, people say that.

I would consistently respond, “Yes, I need to figure out how to poison them all.”

It’s not anything I have against birds, per se. I have a friend who disputes the very nature of birds. Like, “feathers, hollow bones – that shit is just unnatural.” She regards each sample of the class with guarded skepticism, as if it could be a carrier of bubonic plague or infectiously bad credit scores.

That’s not the nature of my problem. Birds are fine as a concept. I just don’t like things that make uninvited noise (other than, obviously, me). Birds fall into the same offensive category as small dogs, train tracks, and babies.

Which is an entirely other topic.

Birds know no reason. At least trains pass and babies are usually hungry or tired or want to chew on your remote control.

Why is the bird chirping? Like, this morning at 4am when the species of bird I refer to as “Digitalis Clockus” – which earned its name because its brief, repetitive, perfectly-pitched warble is louder than my digital clock, even when it is positioned across the street in a neighbor’s yard where it would be technically trespassing for me to poison it or beat it to death with a wok – began chirping, why was it chirping?

Why, gentle readers, must it not only begin to chirp, but chip that piercing, non-snoozeable-but-very-alarming chirp every morning between 4:07 am and 5:15 am? Why must its circuit carry it from our neighbor’s broad yard across the street to the towering dogwood beside my window?

I have encountered it once in close quarters, in the lower boughs of said tree. I assumed my avian foe would be approximately the size and shape of one of those totally over-the-top Hammacher Schlemmer alarm clocks that light up and vibrate and make bagels, but with wings.

Nay. It is a tiny, mottled, gray thing that I could probably fit whole in my mouth.

If I thought that it wanted to fly into my mouth I would put the poison right on my tongue, like a tiny, toxic hit of LSD, and wait patiently for my avian friend to swoop into my maw.

That would be better than waking up every day at an average time of five forty-one in the morning.

Filed Under: house, thoughts, Year 10

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