Arise, Sir Terry Pratchett.

...I know, right?

I made one last mix this year. It's my State of the Union. It needed accompaniment.

1 Jens Lekman You Are The Light

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2 The Mountain Goats This Year

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3 Peter Bjorn and John Objects Of My Affection

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4 of Montreal The Party's Crashing Us
5 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Y-Control
6 Belle & Sebastian Sukie In The Graveyard
7 Junior Senior Move Your Feet

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A reddit discussion about the worst band in the world according to Google:

Akaji: Nickelback < Creed.
TJHookor: I was just about to write the same thing.
TheMemoman: Nickelback has just a worse reputation. Creed IS actually worst. Another bad PJ clone. Nickelback still sucks hard, I wouldn't mind a two-way tie to be honest.
blackeyes: Nickleback ( Read more... )

I know this one's been around, but I got "George Washington" stuck in my head today and had to watch it. Repeatedly.

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Brad Neely is a damn genius.

It's my birthday again. I'm twenty-eight this time. I'm not surprised.

My body is a mystery to me. Some nights I'll drink five beers and feel like death warmed over twelve hours later. Yesterday I had three margaritas, a Manhattan, a double Jack and Coke, an Irish car bomb (thank/curse you, li'l sis), a tequila shot (“”), and an undetermined ( Read more... )

Time for you to hear more about music I'm listening to now.

Asobi Seksu - Asobi Seksu and Citrus

I like the term "shoegaze."  , but the genre itself can grate on me at times. There's a degree of densely-layered, kitchen-sink sound that wears me out, but Asobi Seksu have a lighter touch and stay well inside that threshold.  They listen to My Bloody ( Read more... )

In the two years and a month I've been with this company, I have not taken any vacation time.  I discovered recently that I have three weeks of it saved up.  Alex, my boss, insisted that I dedicate one full, consecutive week, forty paid hours, to vacationing before the end of this summer.  So after I put in a few hours tomorrow to catch up on ( Read more... )

For a couple of days, I was having real trouble with my right ear. You know the sound of wind blowing on the other end when you're on the phone? Something like that would happen inside my ear every so often, for a little more than a second at a time. It was loud, but below the pain threshold. Distracting as hell, no matter what you're doing.
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The back wheel of my bicycle is missing.  Someone took my back wheel.  Not my front wheel, which is easily removed and replaced.  The back, which requires you to disconnect things and bend the shit out of other things and ruin the entire bike.  I didn't treat it the best in the seven and a half years I owned it, but it was mine and I loved it ( Read more... )

Most technology has a built-in feature, which is the ability to point out shortsightedness in its creators.  A few years ago, someone designed a spiffy radio alarm clock which, after prototyping, tweaking, testing, retesting, and probably sixteen more steps, ended up on a store shelf in 2006, from which it got bought for me.  They thought of quite ( Read more... )