This new Lady Gaga music video is total alienating eye candy.

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Okkervil River is putting out a new CD! And, because I've preordered it, I'll get to download the MP3s for it on my birthday.

Word of the day: Serendipitty.

(Promo single: Lost Coastlines.)

ETA: Oh dear, everyone is VERY nice, but my birthday isn't quite yet, lovelies!

Many of you had heard me fangirl squee about this already, but Okkervil River's new album The Stage Names is nigh upon us. And there are freebies to be had: Our Life Is Not a Movie Or Maybe. (Folks unfamiliar with Okkervil should check out my old post about them for more samples of them.) And Will Sheff also shared his love of girl group pop, ( Read more... )

somerled showed me geeks singing a geeky song in a capella. FANGIRL LUFF!

This vid that includes a bit on speaking nerd that nikolasco showed me is kinda funny, too.

Music download you!

And also, Pandora is kinda fun. Open the box!

Mentioned on Slashdot, but it's been slashdotted, so I'm mirroring it for all my geek friends:

Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey

Released under a Creative Commons license, yadda yadda, so yes, it's okay to do this.

I have now listened to the "Mad World" song off of the end of Donnie Darko approximately 150 times since last night.

I have new deodorant since my last stick just crumbled to pieces, and now smell really sexy to myself. SpeedStick ActiveFresh. I bought it based off of decision 1 explained here. Gender neutralism be damned.

Okay, so, I noticed that a picture of my legs was on this guy's MySpace profile. I guess they're making some kind of doggie style joke or whatever. But what would an eyesore of a MySpace page be if there was no annoying music video embedded, right!? (If anybody here does that, you need to STOP PLZ KTHXBYE, for the good of the Intarnets ( Read more... )

So then I discovered Okkervil River remade one of their songs that's a lyrical favorite of mine in Black Sheep Boy Appendix, with an instrumental bridge that sounds like civil war soldiers of love marching off to die instead of Will Sheff wailing like a dog set on fire. (Seriously, folks, that's what he sounded like in the original.) So now I can ( Read more... )

So today I went to church and sang lots, and went to church choir and sang more! Much singing ( Read more... )