There is a new acoustic version of my favorite song on the new album, and it comes with a video, too. I'm not sure how I feel about the video yet, but it is interesting. [In one scene, there are four, instead of three, so maybe partially some kind of tribute to Alan Wilder?]

I love Mexican food. It is nice to be back in the Northwest where I can get some good stuff. Tacos, burritos, chimichangas, enchiladas. Bring it on, baby ( Read more... )

Dear Madonna ( Read more... )

Wow. I haven't had so much music-centered activity for quite a while. It was great ( Read more... )

Okay, SOOOO much happened on this trip that it will require several entries. I didn't get to take many pics (didn't even need any of those extra batteries as it turns out) but here are a few that I kind of liked.

( Seattle. . . or Brigadoon? )

I am back from a splendiferous few days in Seattle. Of course I only got 5 real e-mails (out of 648) while I was gone, so the next thing I do will be to catch up on reading my friends' pages ( Read more... )

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We might not miss them, either, ( Read more... )

LJ Interests meme results

1. amélie:
   Best French movie ever. Try as I might, there is not a thing about this movie I would have done differently. The music, the cinematography, the acting, the story-- all superb. And if you know French culture at all, the cameos are splendid!
2. charles baudelaire:
   Best French poet ever. His most notable work is "The ( Read more... )

Extravagance comes in many forms. Here are a few from today.

(1) I now have a fully functional bathroom, in a manner of speaking. Yay! ( Details here )

Did you hear about this little 11-year-old British girl who saved some people from the Tsunami in Thailand? [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4229392.stm] She had studied tsunamis a few weeks before in her geography class. She recognized the warning signs while walking on the ( Read more... )