Dear Ani DiFranco,

You're fantastic. Seriously, you're gifted and driven in a bunch of ways. But this thing you've been doing, the having a song that almost perfectly sums up every semi-major problem I ever have... It's starting to weird me out a little. Are you reading my mail? Brainwave scanning? What is the deal?

Love,
Me.

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You can hear about four or six of me singing in the last few seconds of this, because boymaenad pulled me in and told me what to do. You can also hear our band trumpeter- any brass instruments in the mix are probably him.

Hell yeah, you guys, and thanks for letting me play too. ^__^

Nobody will find this funny except me, but I'm finishing up my umpteenth reread of Tamora Pierce's Terrier and my winamp is on random.

Tom Lehrer's "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" just came on and I giggled myself silly.

So. Since the divorce FINALLY went through a few months ago- it's only taken, what, SEVEN YEARS for this clusterfuck to get resolved, thanks Dad- I've been thinking that for Christmas, I want to make my mother a mix CD. The current tentative title is "Cheating Bastards Can Take a Long Walk Off a Short Pier," but is subject to change. So far I've ( Read more... )

I'm awake.

Before eleven AM. On a SATURDAY. And there were no loud neighbors, animals, housemates, or alarms involved in this.

THE END TIMES ARE UPON US.

Edit: Oh, THAT'S why. I was woken up by the force of Trent Reznor's PURE AWESOME ASSKICKERY. ::downloads fiendishly like a fiendish fiend::

Little freaked out right now due to an alarming phone call, but here's the entry I typed up during a slow spot of work.

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There was slightly less Death this Weekend than was expected, and enough fun to mostly make up for the lousy week. Friday I learned that Stromkern is quite respectably fun live, and I am horribly amused to find that the ( Read more... )

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I do love me some twisted up fairytales. Plus, I like the groove of this song.

In case you weren't aware that Alice Cooper was one of the coolest rock stars ever, have some NPR for the learnings. Dude overcame his addiction to alcohol with GOLF, at least partly. The man who damn near invented shock-rock, who catapulted the idea of a concert as theater into pop consciousness, and to whom Marilyn Manson, Kiss, and hundreds of ( Read more... )

Because I've not really been able to move around much today, and at least this way I will have done something.

Una Princesa (A Princess) - Javier Navarrete, El Laberinto del Fauno/Pan's Labyrinth OST One of the most beautiful soundtracks I've ever heard, scored for one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it yet, I ( Read more... )

http://www.hbo.com/conchords/ Someone needs to explain to me why I've been missing out on NZ hilarity all this time. First Black Sheep and now this? Was listening to "Most Beautiful Girl in the Room" on the way to work today, and HEE.