the gold rush is on
I've completely fallen in love with The Envy Corps, even though it's quite "normal" indie poprock, complete with the compulsory glockenspiel in some of the songs. I'm sure the Arcade Fire are responsible for the further sustenance of glockenspiel vendors everywhere. I find the Envy Corps' simple and straight-forward melancholic lovesongs to be very... quaint and charming. "Before the Gold rush" is also the best song seemingly about the war in Iraq I've heard. The intro alone is enough to make me play the song again and again.
For the time being I'm sat up in the woods, trying to digest more of my mum's cooking than I've ever eaten before. We have two family gatherings per year, and this is one of them, a joint birthday celebration for pretty much everyone in my family apart from me. They're all born on roughly the same day in september, so it's convenient to just chuck the parties together into one massively exhausting "cheek pinching and questions about when I'm going to produce some grand children"-session. I dread it every year, but you can't really skip stuff like that. Unless your family's a bunch of heroin addicts. Then it'd be ok.
I watched season five of The Wire in about two sittings this week. I've been following the series since it started getting released on DVDs a few years back. Without ruining it for anyone, the ending was especially depressing, even for a series focusing on the inherent problems of the drug trade that's entrenched in inner city Baltimore. In any case, watching all that tv made my head spin a bit. I've lived without really watching tv for about 7 months now, and it's actually been quite liberating. I mean, we've got dvds and such, but the government decided to dismantle the old aerial tv network, so you now have to buy a digital decoder box to get any signal at all. I couldn't be arsed paying for channels I'm not going to watch, so our tv just shows static if we try the normal channels. I'm ok with it.
This entry has been almost completely pointless! Let's just rejoice in the fact that it's over!
For the time being I'm sat up in the woods, trying to digest more of my mum's cooking than I've ever eaten before. We have two family gatherings per year, and this is one of them, a joint birthday celebration for pretty much everyone in my family apart from me. They're all born on roughly the same day in september, so it's convenient to just chuck the parties together into one massively exhausting "cheek pinching and questions about when I'm going to produce some grand children"-session. I dread it every year, but you can't really skip stuff like that. Unless your family's a bunch of heroin addicts. Then it'd be ok.
I watched season five of The Wire in about two sittings this week. I've been following the series since it started getting released on DVDs a few years back. Without ruining it for anyone, the ending was especially depressing, even for a series focusing on the inherent problems of the drug trade that's entrenched in inner city Baltimore. In any case, watching all that tv made my head spin a bit. I've lived without really watching tv for about 7 months now, and it's actually been quite liberating. I mean, we've got dvds and such, but the government decided to dismantle the old aerial tv network, so you now have to buy a digital decoder box to get any signal at all. I couldn't be arsed paying for channels I'm not going to watch, so our tv just shows static if we try the normal channels. I'm ok with it.
This entry has been almost completely pointless! Let's just rejoice in the fact that it's over!