Maybe I'm just a fangirl, but I'm listening to the Tori Amos holiday album and I'm finding myself thinking wow, there really is no genre of music this woman can't improve, and make her own.

TBS reunion (is it still a reunion if it's only 2 people?) this weekend. Excitement!

Well, the stockings are hung by the front door with care (or nails, either one), and the tree is assembled, lit, and decorated. Every year since I bought this fake thing (2003), I've looked at it when it's first put together and not liked it. I tell myself I'm going to get a real one next year. Then, we light it and put all the ornaments on it ( ( Read more... )

Just putting this out for any that haven't heard, but for those fans of nin's The Downward Spiral, there is a fan-produced dvd available of the performance of the album in its entirety done this past summer at Webster Hall in NYC. In addition to Interactive Menus, the dvd also features a photo gallery of stills from various fans' Flickr pages. It ( Read more... )

It was really nice having all of the windows wide open yesterday. Today? I wish we didn't have to. As it were, the heater in the basement was turned up to "omg SO COLD OUT you guys" when we woke up this morning, so now some rooms are stifling, and some have small, cold breezes wafting through them. Oh well. Such are winters here in the 'Lidge ( Read more... )

Whew, was I behind in my writing assignments. But, I think I'm this close to being caught up. Last week's Hell's Kitchen recap is up on Just Eyeball It, with yesterday's episode to be posted soon. Starting Monday I'm lined up with three weeks of postings over at Those Beer Snobs. Something new every Monday for the rest of October! Yay ( Read more... )

I am just as happy that it takes six hours to go from 9p to 11p, as I am sad and confused that it takes ten minutes to go from 11p to 2a.

I blame the weather.

I need to write two recaps for last week's 2-hour-long Hell's Kitchen, and I'm trying to muster up the wherewithall to do it, and it's tough ( Read more... )

...well, sort of. See, Brian Boitano currently hosts the greatest new thing to show up on the Food Network--the tongue-in-cheek What Would Brian Boitano Do Make? In this half-hour spotfest, Brian Boitano finds himself in a jam that only quick, ridiculously-easy-to-make food can get him out of! I was initially cool to the show but I'm warming up ( Read more... )

I figure this will take care of both.


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...for the two or three of you that come around.

So I was reading an article over at Cracked.com regarding the more obscure places some bands' names have come from. In the bit about Dexys Midnight Runners, the author described their song "Come On Eileen" as "just about the 80siest song imaginable ( Read more... )