The Academy Is... put out this EP about this time last year. I happen to think it's perfect for early fall: like a cool but bright day with sharp sunlight and a stiff breeze that reminds you all at once of what we're leaving behind and what's to come ( Read more... )

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload) 5 songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

isis2015 gave me the letter N. And it was a damn hard letter, let me tell you. Here be my randomest (no, automatic spelling correction -- not the 'randiest') of random offerings.

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Some songs have times of day for me, and some have seasons. Down here in Alabama, it's still hot as hell, but there's a point -- and I think we've just about reached it -- at which summer just...turns. It's a melancholy time (just ask the English poet Keats), sometimes sweetly so. Makes me feel like sharing music ( Read more... )

I didn't let myself think about what I'd lost when my un-backed-up desktop died, because it was potentially too depressing to endure, so I have these daily realizations of things that are just gone ( Read more... )

1. Have set the date for my PhD comprehensive exams: April 20 *BITES NAILS OMG OMG ( Read more... )

Seriously, I've been too busy the last couple of weeks grading exams and papers and in general being a student to be around and be social. Not just with LJ, but with my life, too, mostly. And I haven't done any writing in nearly a week. I haven't read a hell of a lot either. It's fucking weird ( Read more... )

So I'm taking a break a few minutes ago, sitting in the conference room of the special collections library where I work, here at this very southern university. So southern it was burned down by the Yankees during the civil war. Dour-looking Confederate generals on the walls stare down at me and watch me eat my fat free lemon merenge pie yogurt ( Read more... )

Anybody have this song they can upload for me?

"Deep Red Bells," from Blacklisted, by Neko Case.

(I'm making a mix, and the only copy I have is a rip of a rip, and the sound quality is poopy.)

I'd love you forever. Or write you a drabble or something. *makes puppy eyes*

ETA: Found! Thanks, pirateygoodness!

1. LOST: Haven't watched it yet. Don't know when I will. I'm kind of scared of it. I have the atypical impulse to simply read summaries and not bother. Which is really weird because I loved the last up and I'm on board with the direction the show's going, but I'm not in a headspace for dealing with it on any deep level, and no matter what my ( Read more... )

(You know, I'd forgotten that term until I saw crowgirl13 use it recently.)

Anyway, "We Both Go Down Together," by The Decemberists, is an evil song. I've had a certain part of the song stuck in my head so long I am no longer impressed by his vast veranda, nor do I believe this Miranda could possibly be as virginal as he claims she is ( Read more... )