You know how I get into phases where I intensely listen to the same artist for months (sometimes years) on end and then one day, I'm like "That's enough. On to the next thing!" Well, the last one was Depeche Mode, and it's been nearly two years and I started to get bored and I was kind of in an in-between period, and then I watched this video by a ( Read more... )

I bought a ticket to the DC (techically, Bristow, VA) Depeche Mode concert next week, but had no one to go with. My sister had also brought tickets to see her favorite band a few weeks ago and had no one to go with. So, we killed two birds with one stone. She's going with me to see Depeche next week, and two weeks ago, I went with her to.... well, ( Read more... )

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Ugh, Mad Men! I thought you had me last week. But this week? I see what you did, and I don't like it. But when I think of the other ways it could have turned out, I guess I'll take it. I won't like it, but I won't hate it as much as I would the alternatives. On an unrelated note, it was good too see that the little bit of work-related fire that has ( Read more... )

The first Mad Men of the season I watch on Sunday night and it had to be that one? It just ended and I don't even know where to start. For now, I will just say "WHAT?!" to everything. Every. Single. Thing. And that includes "there are only two episodes left". Man, this show...

Sometimes, just because you've been listening to the same band for four months straight, the people with you just assume that when you go to four stores to (try to) buy a CD it must be a new release by the same band. Wrong! I mean, it could be. But sometimes it's a CD by an unrelated production team that makes their own albums, each one featuring ( Read more... )

It's May 9th, which means it's the 50th birthday of my new favorite singer ever and person who I wish I'd have known about 20 years ago. So here I am to ramble on and post videos. It's what I do. (In unrelated news, my laptop is something like dead. This is not so bad in that it allows me to work on things that I should be working on that require ( Read more... )

April 15, 2012 (that's today) marks the 15th anniversary of the release of my new favorite album -- not my "new favorite" like "I just decided this was my favorite album ever" or "this is the newest album out that I like" but "this is the latest addition to my list of favorite albums" -- Depeche Mode's Ultra. I can't pick one track (I love them all ( Read more... )

I finally watched the Mad Men season premier (last Wednesday... when I wrote this), so I can finally comment! (I've been avoiding everything these past few days because I didn't want to be spoiled)! And now I am behind again, so I gotta get this (late) one out of the way so I can watch last night's episode so I am not on full-on Spoiler Alert mode ( Read more... )

I finally got a new MP3 player, so now I can start the Spring of Bowie in earnest! I'd say "David Bowie Month", but that's never how it works. "Beatles Month" went on for like half a year, "Depeche Mode Month" is on day 51, and kind of morphed into Dave Gahan Solo Record Week (and threatened to expand into I Still Really Need To Listen To Black ( Read more... )