resurfacing with a meme
Dang, I guess it's been since August since I posted, which I keep forgetting because I read my friends page every day and so I keep having the impression that my LJ output must correspond somewhat to the input. It doesn't. Anyway, since amocantare tagged me for a music meme, which I can never resist, I have a good incentive to get back to it.
The meme is "List twelve songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your songs. Then tag other people to see what they’re listening to."
I did something like this just three posts ago (in July) but I have been listening to new music since then. I am not going to tag anyone else but feel free to do the meme yourself if you will. Unlike Emily I am not going to categorize my current listenings into varying degrees of shame because I have no shame.
From Silent Shout (I think Joy Division opened up the buried nihilistic part of my brain; I can't get enough of the iciness of Silent Shout. I urge you to check it out.)
1. "Silent Shout" - The Knife
2. "Marble House" - The Knife
3. "Like a Pen" - The Knife
4. "Forest Families" - The Knife
Miscellaneous
5. "Diary" - Free The Robots (hip-hop meets baroque organs; awesome)
6. "Yoga Fire" - Free The Robots (cut that vibraphone up)
7. "Melody Day" - Caribou
8. "Irene" - Caribou
9. "Bamboo Banga" - M.I.A. (comin back wi' powa powaa)
10. "Helen Butte / Mr. Freedom X" - Miles Davis
11. "D.A.N.C.E. (MSTRKRFT Remix)" - Justice (basically MSTRKRFT and Justice are like two waves in constructive interference)
12. "Liar" - The Sex Pistols (iTMS finally got Never Mind the Bollocks)
There you go. Oh, architecture school? I am still there. It's going well overall; I'm a little behind in studio work, having had to put the finishing touches of my first project on the back burner while I concentrate on the next project, but I'm definitely gaining a lot of experience in constructing things, learning a lot from others, enjoying the friendship of my classmates a lot, and generating sincere interest in my projects from my studio instructors. Modern architecture history class, meanwhile, has been consistently fascinating.
I haven't been running much (about once a week), my SSN has been misappropriated by someone else, and the short heart arrhythmias that I usually get like once a month or week have been in the past few days happening a few times an hour. On the last point, don't worry, I have had it checked out and am getting further tests done this week, and it's probably benign; the increased frequency of such symptoms can be brought on by stress and lack of sleep. (I have generally been having 1 or 2 nights a week of very short sleeps, with good amounts of sleep the other nights. An irregular schedule like this, of course, is not very good even if the total volume of sleep is normal.) So sometimes things wear a little thin. The stimulation of school, though, generally more than compensates for its brutality, and if I just make my work schedule more consistent then I think I may be able to ease things for myself a bit, which my body is clearly telling me to do.
Whenever I get time to resume some work for fun, such as my website, I am going to start a Points Of Interest Blog (POIB) there. I already have a lot of topics thought up for it. I'm pretty stoked about it. I have similar stokage about finishing the captions for the Switzerland photo gallery, whenever that might happen. Sometimes I yearn for last year's schedule of 9ish to 5ish and having evenings to do these things. Oh well. That's what winter break is for. That and visiting everyone in Boston.
The meme is "List twelve songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your songs. Then tag other people to see what they’re listening to."
I did something like this just three posts ago (in July) but I have been listening to new music since then. I am not going to tag anyone else but feel free to do the meme yourself if you will. Unlike Emily I am not going to categorize my current listenings into varying degrees of shame because I have no shame.
From Silent Shout (I think Joy Division opened up the buried nihilistic part of my brain; I can't get enough of the iciness of Silent Shout. I urge you to check it out.)
1. "Silent Shout" - The Knife
2. "Marble House" - The Knife
3. "Like a Pen" - The Knife
4. "Forest Families" - The Knife
Miscellaneous
5. "Diary" - Free The Robots (hip-hop meets baroque organs; awesome)
6. "Yoga Fire" - Free The Robots (cut that vibraphone up)
7. "Melody Day" - Caribou
8. "Irene" - Caribou
9. "Bamboo Banga" - M.I.A. (comin back wi' powa powaa)
10. "Helen Butte / Mr. Freedom X" - Miles Davis
11. "D.A.N.C.E. (MSTRKRFT Remix)" - Justice (basically MSTRKRFT and Justice are like two waves in constructive interference)
12. "Liar" - The Sex Pistols (iTMS finally got Never Mind the Bollocks)
There you go. Oh, architecture school? I am still there. It's going well overall; I'm a little behind in studio work, having had to put the finishing touches of my first project on the back burner while I concentrate on the next project, but I'm definitely gaining a lot of experience in constructing things, learning a lot from others, enjoying the friendship of my classmates a lot, and generating sincere interest in my projects from my studio instructors. Modern architecture history class, meanwhile, has been consistently fascinating.
I haven't been running much (about once a week), my SSN has been misappropriated by someone else, and the short heart arrhythmias that I usually get like once a month or week have been in the past few days happening a few times an hour. On the last point, don't worry, I have had it checked out and am getting further tests done this week, and it's probably benign; the increased frequency of such symptoms can be brought on by stress and lack of sleep. (I have generally been having 1 or 2 nights a week of very short sleeps, with good amounts of sleep the other nights. An irregular schedule like this, of course, is not very good even if the total volume of sleep is normal.) So sometimes things wear a little thin. The stimulation of school, though, generally more than compensates for its brutality, and if I just make my work schedule more consistent then I think I may be able to ease things for myself a bit, which my body is clearly telling me to do.
Whenever I get time to resume some work for fun, such as my website, I am going to start a Points Of Interest Blog (POIB) there. I already have a lot of topics thought up for it. I'm pretty stoked about it. I have similar stokage about finishing the captions for the Switzerland photo gallery, whenever that might happen. Sometimes I yearn for last year's schedule of 9ish to 5ish and having evenings to do these things. Oh well. That's what winter break is for. That and visiting everyone in Boston.