Without knowing even half of the words, I've managed to have "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" stuck in my head at least once a day for going on three weeks now.  It's become progressively less faithful a rendition and more a profane one as the days have worn on, because it gives me giggle fits.

I will now infect you with my opinion on music I've ( Read more... )

I'm not extremely fond of this list; not that it's not all gems, but there's too much of something.  I don't know what.  Maybe it's waiting.  Parts of this compilation have been sat in the playlist for around a year before I finished the thing.  One day in early April I decided it was done and did the last third of the work all at once, so it feels ( Read more... )

Tom Waits breaks my heart, and then he kind of halfway glues it back together ( Read more... )

Because I don't have the brain power for anything more worthwhile, thoughts on a few recent music acquisitions.

Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombones. I can't decide if I'm awesome enough to really get into Tom Waits. I can tell that there are some really neat things going on here, because you listen to him sing and realize that it was at least ten ( Read more... )

And it was fantastic. I'm dedicating number seven to her.

ariiadne, callmetrain, incidentist, laurizzle, metabeta, spectralbovine, and uncleweezer: I don't expect any of you to do this, and that's fine.  Just doing what it says to do.

1. The Decemberists, "The Tain"
2. Moxy Früvous, "The Drinking Song"
3. The Cardigans, "The Boys Are Back In Town" (Think Lizzy)
4. Morrissey, "Every Day Is Like Sunday"
5. Tom Waits, "Alice"
6 ( Read more... )

Odds are at least a couple of you have read this in the year-plus since it was posted. I'm mostly posting it so I'll be able to find it again if I want to show it to someone.

The male privilege checklistIt's one of those things everyone should really consider, not like the trite crap people put in mass emails. It's a list of forty-five true ( Read more... )

This year I decided to keep a list of all the books I read, just for the hell of it. When I finished a book, I wrote its name and, if I remembered to, the date on a piece of paper I’d stuck to the board on my wall. Conclusion: I did not read nearly enough this year. It’s so embarrassing that I feel I ought to apologize to someone.

( Sorry. )

A really nice girl sent me a check for her dowry. I, understandably, thought she overpaid. So I sent her this to take care of that small debt.

1 Tegan & Sara You Wouldn’t Like Me
2 Sufjan Stevens Say Yes! To Michigan!
3 The Shins We Will Become Silhouettes
4 Cake Strangers In The Night
5 Fountains of Wayne Valley Winter Song
6 Her Space Holiday Tech ( Read more... )

I went through a box of old scraps the other day in preparation for ( Read more... )