Favorite 2006 So Far Albums
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Snowden - Anti Anti
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
The Appleseed Cast - Peregrine
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar

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For $85, my guitar has been fixed. The neck was put back together, the volume and tone knobs were tightened up so I can actually use them, and it got a set-up job - the action lowered, new strings, bridge set-up, tuned, etc. etc.

$85. I can't decide if that's a fair price or not.

watch this. pay attention at the 2:35 mark. if you don't laugh until you cry, something is wrong with you.

I'm planning on submitting (for the first time) something to CNU's literary magazine, Currents. It never attracted me in the past despite having been an editor and constant submitter for and to my high school's literary magazine, Maelstrom (what's the deal with the water theme?), but this year I've decided to succumb to these infallible points of ( Read more... )

I'm burning a mix for James. James is a member of the Sudanese family that The Lost Boys of Sudan assigned to Citizens of the World to tutor and assist in general acclimation to American culture. Hence the mix. Tell me this isn't a kick ass introduction to American (okay, and British...) music ( Read more... )

This song is an old friend. I'm glad to hear it every once in a while.

Greetings in BrailleIf my senses fail ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is my first day tutoring a member of a Sudanese refugee family. I'm very nervous.

I had band practice with Prisms (?) today and that went very well. We were only a trio, but we got some good work done.

( New glasses. )

Actually, I don't see any reason why I can't just post this now. Obviously, all of the italics and other codings will be lost, but it still makes sense.

( Folktales in Context: A Gruff Meeting of Norway, Ivo Andrić, and the Author )

And only 6 hours later, I'm finished my first big research-based paper of the year. And what's more? I like it. At least right now. Probably, I'll wake up and read it tomorrow and realize how retarded I am when I write at 2am ( Read more... )