Just got back from Mountain Park in Holyoke, where we saw The Decemberists. Good show and a really nice venue, as we were all outdoors on a big grassy hill. There was a smoking area, but someone lit up near us and it came right at us. Kevin tried to stop me at first, but then I went over and asked the guy to move to the smoking area. He made a big ( Read more... )

I had a hard day off yesterday. Today went better. I went to work, and then I ran. Part of what went wrong with yesterday was that I didn't go to the gym, for the second day in a row. That is usually enough to make me feel like shit. I have to do something high intensity for a decently long period of time, almost every day. Something like two days ( Read more... )

Kevin and I took a trip to Turners Falls today. I can't remember if I've ever been there, or just rarely. I'm so glad we made these plans today. The weather was perfect late fall: clear and cool and not too windy. Most of the leaves are down, but the vistas are still fantastic.

Today was the last day to experience Sun Boxes in the park in Turners ( Read more... )

Random stuff: in the late 90s, I sang a lot of karaoke and Kevin had a longish commute. We hadn't met yet, but we already had some music in common that one of us can now mention and remind the other of what we were doing ten years ago. Eve 6's "Inside Out," with the memorable line "wanna put my tender/heart in a blender" reminded us both of another ( Read more... )

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I like rap, and country (especially the Golden Age), orchestral music, Scottish bagpipe music, ambient... in other words, the most despised genres of music. (Okay, not Christian contemporary.) I know this about myself. So qwantz, that guy who writes ( Read more... )

I went to B-Side Records and bought as much music as I could carry from the used CD selection. (Notes to employees of B-Side: It's tacky to thank me for spending so much money, even if you have flagged me as family. And stop using those fucking plastic hangers so I can carry more music. And get a website.) A few are duds: Sinead O'Connor's am i not ( Read more... )

I'm listening to as much of the music as I've got downloaded that's from my childhood. I was really shocked at how little old stuff I'd downloaded. In fact, most of the music I've got downloaded, I couldn't name a song of theirs. Like I was trying hard to broaden my tastes. How disgustingly pretentious of me. What's wrong with meatloaf ( ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that sometimes I am just not a nice person. Just now I was thinking that secretly I judged D for having too many straight friends, that he was never gonna be really queer to me in part because of that. Then I was thinking about this group of friends I'm bringing out Friday night to celebrate my last day at this client site, and the ( Read more... )