It's over-excited Clare time again! My mission this year is to learn the names for some beepy music genres, if I can. Anyone know a good music genre encyclopedia ( Read more... )

I am obsessive, and and music fills my head. When I discover a new band I like, I often play their music round and round, until it settles in the corners of my brain and I can't remember how it felt to not have it there. My latest obsession[*] is Pretentious, Moi? (AKA I Can't Believe It's Not Manuskript), who I have had on repeat for I don't know ( Read more... )

Today I have been learning several different ways to be awful at plying.

waylay has given me copies of several very helpful DVDs. One of them annoyingly tells me that for knitting I ought to be making 3-ply yarn (half as much work again) and spinning it in the other direction. Apparently European and US knitting work differently. WTF? Don't you just, ( Read more... )