My book was not downstairs at the apartment complex office, as I had assumed. Instead, it was something else from somewhere else having nothing to do with Amazon. Imagine my frustration when I came back upstairs, checked my Amazon account tracking, and read that the item was delivered yesterday morning at 9:57am ( Read more... )

I find it extremely irresponsible of Amazon to promise delivery of a product on a particular day via a particular shipping service (in this case UPS), only to breach that trust by shipping it USPS without notifying the recipient. After losing a day of work (a net amount equal to $***.**) to specifically wait around for my delivery of the final ( Read more... )

This annual attempt to cram nationalism "patriotism" down my throat really unnerves me. Every time I get one of those e-mails or read one of those LJ messages that talks about how our thoughts should be with soldiers, I cringe. How can I possibly respect someone who believes violence and murder is sometimes okay? that war is an acceptable ( Read more... )

Hey there, music fans! There's a new issue of Colorado Music Buzz magazine available! If you're not living in Colorado and can't get your hands on one, why not sign up for a subscription over at the CMB website? Anyhow, I also recommend you check out the newly revamped MySpace site. There's a music player on there that has some really fantastic ( Read more... )

The four-word summary would be this: The Police Are Back.

The two-word descriptor is this: Fucking fantastic.

More once I've recovered from one of the best concert experiences of my life.

So everyone I ask says that Nirvana's most popular song, the first song they think of when I ask, is "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and I would wholeheartedly agree. Strangely, I almost never hear this song played on the radio. I do, however, hear "Lithium," "Come As You Are," "Breed," "All Apologies," and "Pennyroyal Tea" from time to time, with an ( Read more... )

Just a comment regarding Florida's ongoing drought situation - yet another thing that makes me glad to be out of there. There were digital displays up at the airport terminal explaining that because of the drought conditions, the water-based cooling systems in the airport were re-set from 74-degrees to 78-degrees. It made for a somewhat ( Read more... )

In a few hours, we'll be heading out to Los Angeles for the ASCAP "I Create Music" Expo 2007 event. It should be grand fun, especially with Press access. Melissa's parents are flying in for the weekend, too. We plan to see Colin Hay on Satyrday night at Largo and eat many fine meals at nice places.

When the last living thing

has died on account of us,

how poetical it would be

if Earth could say,

in a voice floating up

perhaps

from the floor

of the Grand Canyon,

“It is done.”

People did not like it here.

So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut, R.I.P.

I've heard of a White Christmas, but I never expected a White Easter! It was snowing heavily when I got up for work yesterday morning, and it continued to snow most of the day. By the time I got out of work at 6pm, not only had it stopped snowing, but there was barely any evidence that it had snowed at all. Colorado's weird ( Read more... )