I'm always a bit late on updating, but that's alright: I'm so busy that I really only have time to read LJ, rather than to post on it, so I get the important stuff done, I guess :)

Monday night, I was very, very excited to receive the proof copies of the Call of the Crane book, the book designed for the ADF Order of the Crane (totally not approved ( Read more... )

Related to a previous post, I felt this conversation should be added to the list of "awesome conversations regarding the Beastie Boys with my girlfriend".

*"Brass Monkey" comes on the radio*

Me: I wonder what music was like before the Beastie Boys?

Maggie: I don't know, sucky?

seamus_mcnasty posted about this today, but I wanted to note it as well:
The residence of Roger Drawdy, his wife Kate, and 5 month old daughter Sky, was consumed by flames beginning at about 2AM, 03/12/09. They are all safe and Roger also woke their downstairs neighbors, thus saving their lives as well. All got out of the building with the clothes on their ( Read more... )

Last night, Maggie and I went out to see Dierks Bentley at the Ohio State Fair. I don't go to a lot of concerts (I can probably count them on one hand, if I try), but I'd missed Dierks last time he was in town (I'd just returned from Austria that day, and was exhausted ( Read more... )

Be good and you will be lonesome,
be lonesome and you will be free. . .

Last night, I picked up Hot Water, one of Buffett's late-80's releases. I've been haunting the used music stores for this, one of Buffett's least-loved releases, for years.

Now, I can finally fulfill a promise to road_trip_judiThis means that I'm down to only missing two CD's from Jimmy ( Read more... )

A lot of people like to post lyrics to songs. I can't read them very well (long story, having to do with blunt-force trauma to the head), so I generally skip them.

As I was listening to the music today, though, an old Buffett piece came up. It's called "Today's Message," and you can find it on Feeding Frenzy. It's done, of course, in a sermon- ( Read more... )

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As an FYI, this post is about a country music song. But even if you dislike country music, you might find this amusing ( Read more... )

Some days, I just know I'd be contented to live and die in 3/4 time.

If only I could slow down to that lovely waltz.

"Mademoiselle, voulez-vous danser?"

So, I'm now the proud owner of the family guitar. There's just one problem: it's in dire need of a re-string. After fighting with the thing for about two hours last night, I have come to the conclusion that the current strings simply cannot be tuned: they are not only older than me, but frayed in places, anyway, and the sound. . . well, bagpipes ( Read more... )