Ever had that dream, like 5 years after college, that you skipped class all semester and then realized that you had to take a final that very morning and you wondered how you could possibly bluff your way through it and were certain that if you failed that the rest of your life would tumble down and since you know that you are dreaming in the past ( Read more... )

This week, my job will be to organize, email, call, harrass, collect, review, compile, and deliver (on-time) about 12 briefing books with such exotic acronyms as BIS, CGFS, WP-3, and G-10. I'm a little low on sleep, in desperate need of caffeine (coffee or tea?), and must focus this week so I can see OSU v. Texas on Saturday without fear of having ( Read more... )

So here's a totally true, and cautionary and inspirational story. It's 1998 and Insound was just born and I'm in a tiny office of three and am planning a party for Insound's big debut at South by Southwest and I'm telling my friends 'This party needs to be mega. It needs to say something important. About Insound. And rock.' And I'm saying this ( Read more... )

Sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, Dan arrived in DC. After spending the night exploring DC, I found him asleep in his car Thursday morning. I got him inside, went to work (while he slept off the night's adventure), and chilled at Gravelly Point with him and Hillary for sunset and landing planes. We had a nice dinner of tapas ( Read more... )

Thank goodness. A brand spankin' new New Pornographers album. "Twin Cinema" it's called. It should be arriving in my mailbox today. Can I tell you how good this thing is, simply based on the three mp3's I've downloaded? It's AMAZING. There's a reason I include the NP's on nearly every mix CD I make. Because there's something special in the ( Read more... )

In honor of my lil' sister's birthday, I post the following link. Why yes, I am elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant :-P And I'm gonna take a wild guess and say my sister will choose the photo that leads to "dependable, popular, and observant ( Read more... )

For Twin Cinema The New Pornographers were "fascinated by the ability of the ebow and baritone guitar to sound kind of like a cello. This fixes the problem of wanting cello, but not wanting a cello player in your band. They take up way too much room. We can also get that Creation bowed guitar sound without bowing the guitar, and looking like a ( Read more... )

Courtesy of ABC News OnlineNew academic research in the United States has found that money can buy happiness ( Read more... )

Aversion's review of "Twin Cinema" by The New Pornographers ( Read more... )

It's summer and you're on a pier way downtown and the breeze is finally back and you have a coconutty alcoholic icy drink with a colorful straw in it and the music is free and it's Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and in front of you is the water and up above it's really blue and there's a Pizzeria Uno over to the left and the tourists are dancing and the ( Read more... )