For her birthday, M has asked people to make her mix CDs (in an ill-fated attempt to resurrect the long-lost art of the mix tape). Since I've been listening to a heck of a lot of what can only be described as relentlessly upbeat music lately, that's what she got. The original goal was aggressively perky music with lyrics that just didn't fit the ( Read more... )

Thanks to cheshcat for earworming me today. Grr. (Argh.)

Re: Your Brains by Jonathan Coulton
Heya Tom, it’s Bob from the office down the hall
Good to see you buddy, how’ve you been?
Thing have been OK for me except that I’m a zombie now
I really wish you’d let us in
I had actually intended to do this daily, since I usually get into the office in the ( Read more... )

Truce, by The Dresden DollsYou call it over and I call you psycho
Significant other?
Just say we were lovers!
and we'll call it even

What a pain.

I've been downloading JoCo's Thing a Week podcast for a while, and I've been having problems with the file behvior, because I want it to behave like individual music tracks and not like a podcast. Unfortunately, there's no button to hit in iTunes to "un-podcast" a track ( Read more... )

Over in cheshcat's journal, sassenach1970 asked, after I had posted some lyrics to Poi's Thanksgiving, asked: what other lyrics do you like? AFter thinking about it for a few minutes, I decided that it was much more of a post than a comment, so here are my favorite PdP lyric snippets, broken up by album and song. I've probably forgotten some, but these are the ones ( Read more... )

Staurday night was the best Poi show since 1999. I am tired, and sore, and aching. It was such a good show ( Read more... )

Okay. I've been listening to The Rhythm of the Heat on repeat for too long. . .

Smash the radio
No outside voices here
Smash the watch
Cannot tear the day to shreds
Smash the camera
Cannot steal away the spirits
The rhythm is around me
The rhythm has control
The rhythm is inside me
The rhythm has my soul.

I've had Poi in my mind and in my players even more lately than usual; making a mix for the uninitiated and planning a trip to the east coast around their tour schedule will do that, I guess. Hopefully I'll be able to convince Karen that going to the show Sunday night is a good idea, but I'm fairly doubtful. I wish I had more time -- I'd still ( Read more... )

I am slightly reminded as to why I should not drink during shows (or perhaps why I should). I get all hypersensitive (especially hypertactile... I just want to touch everythingI saw Zwan tonight, and it was very good. They were tight, I was zoned -- it seems sometimes like live shows are the only things that will make me focus entirely upon them ( Read more... )

We were going to go into the city today but bailed because it was just too cold out (amongst other emotional reasons that might be addressed later). We had been planning to hit the Vic at 10am to get Poi tickets, but since we weren't going into the city, that obviously didn't happen. We went to the closest Ticketmaster instead, and the line was ( Read more... )