This week I have discovered new levels of exhaustion. It'd probably be easier for me to count the hours I haven't been at work. And yet my net progress on making my next month of existence less bleak than this one? ...Not very great. But this is a horse long ago dead and beaten, so let's not get into it. (I probably should, because I'm getting ( Read more... )

All right... I think it's about time for me to do my Best Albums of the Year post, right? I've had a bit of trouble with this, actually, because while last year there were at least two albums that I wanted to tuck under my pillow and keep with me forever, that kind of hasn't happened this year. Or, when it has, it only lasted for a couple of ( Read more... )

( Dearest and most excellent writer: )

Item One: It had been my goal, on and off for the decade or so, to locate a full copy of the "The Story of BJ and Rachel" set that Moxy Früvous played way back in 1998. I'd found a partial copy on Napster back in the day, and I loved it to death. The gist of it is that Moxy Früvous arranged their songs into a rough plot line and wrote ridiculous ( Read more... )

I've been more and more laconic lately... which I'm doing my best to remedy, but my mind has been buzzing about with all sorts of Future-related nonsense (and writing for fests... agh, the fests) and that's not very conducive to writing entries that anyone will want to read (not that that has stopped me very often ( Read more... )

A few random things to tide everyone over until I have enough time to write something proper:

( Here are some songs that I keep going back to lately, to get them out of my head )

Guys, I have a problem. It turns out the rumors are wrong and the Decemberists aren't playing Lolla. They are, in fact, playing a show here at the end of July. I haven't seen them in something like four or five years, and it's high time I fix that. But there is one problem ( Read more... )

Psh, I knew the Arcade Fire sold out this year. What else does an Album of the Year Grammy mean, right?

A moment of silence while I re-contemplate my taste in music. Also, to decide which of my hats looks tastiest (mercifully when I made that bet I excluded the hat on my head, which happened to be my favorite). Frak, they won over Lady Gaga, I ( Read more... )

So, as most of you are probably aware, apple_pathways and I have an ongoing musical battle going on, in which we challenge each other to come up with playlists for random things. She tripped me up pretty badly by asking for my favorite holiday songs, and I (apparently) caused just as much trouble with the current challenge: New Year's resolutions, the musical ( Read more... )

Ladies and gents, you are probably all tired of me talking about music but this one is apple_pathways' fault so you can all blame her instead. She challenged me, and I just cannot leave a challenge unanswered, especially when it comes in the mail:


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