1. Bastille - Pompeii. So catchy!

2. The Mountain Goats - Steal Smoked Fish. I had it stuck in my head for an entire afternoon at work, and it makes a much better mantra for keeping calm than my previous favorite Mountain Goats song to sing to myself at work, which was No Children.

3. The National - Fake Empire. Uggggh, I love this song so much ( Read more... )

1) The thing I forgot to include in my last post:


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So a few weeks ago my external hard drive--where I kept all my music--started dying. I managed to get all the music onto my laptop (and thence onto my shiny new 1TB backup drive), but this also required me to re-import everything into iTunes from the new location (which I dodged doing when I got a new computer thanks to having all the music on the ( Read more... )

From rubynye, a meme about characters and a meme about songs: ( under the cut. )

12:00 AM - standing third row off the stage as John Darnielle leans down into the crowd to sing-scream "No Children" with us at the end of the encore.

12:03 AM - make heart-hands at the bass player, last to leave the stage.

12:05 AM - apologize to
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1) I am going to see two concerts with
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I started randomly looking up musical artists I like and checking their tour schedules, and after suffering the heartbreak of a totally logistically-feasible Sufjan Stevens concert having sold out more than a month ago, (which is to say nothing of the almost but no not really at all feasible SINGLE MIDWEST TOUR DATE EVER for Greg Laswell), I went ( Read more... )

I've been reading/watching/obsessively refreshing a fair amount of coverage of the uprising in Iran this past week. I knew I was saddened by it, but hadn't really thought it was affecting me particularly outside of the time I spent actually watching it ( Read more... )

1. Apparently the Caps only acknowledge the luckiness of ONE of the lucky shirts that worked for the Wings last year--if I wear my Fall Out Boy (pre-C&D Young Wild Things Tour) t-shirt, then they win 100% of the time (based on three data points, WHAT THAT'S PERFECTLY REASONABLE). So. I guess I will be doing some laundry tomorrow, to prepare for ( Read more... )

Memes = proof of life, right?

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.

2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.

3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

idyll gave me P:

Gord Downie - Pascal's Submarine
Counting Crows - Perfect Blue Buildings
Iron & Wine - Peace Beneath the City
Maura ( Read more... )