Anyone who has been following this journal recently (say just this year, for example) will have read much about (or seen listed in the tags, or in the what I'm listening to song) that there has been a huge influx in Sleater-Kinney in all the domains mentioned. They formed in '94, I first started listening to them in about '99 or so and they've been ( Read more... )

Before I even clicked on lj, I told myself that if I were to update again today, it would be a short, tightly-written entry about how today was great. Instead, however, I am going to wax nostalgia once more, for that bygone era of summer 2005 and the album that dominated my life back then. Actually, this entry will be a broader meditation on music ( Read more... )

It has been a few days since I have written here. I suppose that's a good thing, as I feel that despite my proclamations to the contrary, I have continued to be overly personal and revealing here on lj. I still need to work on rectifying that incongruent behaviour ( Read more... )

1. Awaiting on You All by George Harrison ( Read more... )

"If you must write prose and poems
the words you use should be your own
don't plagiarise or take "on loans"
there's always someone, somewhere
with a big nose, who knows
and who trips you up and laughs
when you fall
who'll trip you up and laugh
when you fall""Cemetery Gates" The Smiths ( Read more... )

This Sunday has gotten off to an interesting start. I've purchased (and read most of) the Sunday New York Times. Six dollars a little steep for such a luxury, but I don't see the problem in doing it every once in a while ( Read more... )

I'm feeling pretty chipper this morning. Manic, one might even say. I don't like it. I know I should be asleep, and am in fact starting to get somewhat tired; however, it would not be a nice, fitful rest like I need ( Read more... )

Stop me, oh, stop me
Stop me if you think that you've
Heard this one before
Stop me, oh, stop me
Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before

Nothing's changed
I still love you, oh, I still love you
...Only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my loveOver a decade ago, I began listening to music. I must have been 12 or 13 when I ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure I'm going vegetarian again. That is all, for now.

1.I hope I wrote about this, because I'm not certain: earlier this month we switched our internet providers. Prior to this, it was near impossible to access facebook, youtube, pandora, etc. Consequently, I have been spending more time on facebook and youtube, but until recently I hadn't really played around with pandora. (I'm also on last.fm, ( Read more... )