Oh, hurrah, I have to get a root canal on Tuesday. And then I go to the optometrist on Wednesday because I haven't worn my glasses in ages and I've been squinting like mad and mixing up letters. It isn't possible to suddenly develop dyslexia, is it ( Read more... )

Mmhmm, it's settled: I have put an indefinite halt to the dating of musicians.

I'm so happy Deadwood has brought the word 'cocksucker' back into common parlance.

listen to "Love Will Tear Us Apart" today.


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Now this is fucking ridiculous. Just watch MTV for a day, no, half an hour, and tell me that every single video they play doesn't contain material far more explicit than one bloody line in "Please Stand Up." For fuck's sake, what have we come to? Still, this will likely get them more attention than the actual video would have ( Read more... )

Am I being ridiculous to spend 13.8612 of my hard-earned dollars on a song that I don't even like ( Read more... )

So. Bought the album and have listened to it nearly nonstop since Tuesday. Haven't really fully digested it yet, but I can tell it's a grower. As the band indicated, it is indeed an album about girls. I was afraid that they'd traded in all their idiosyncrasies for safe pop tunes. Well, the album is far poppier than The Decline of... but they've ( Read more... )

so, yes, tomorrow Open Season hits and I am terribly excited. I've spent the weekend listening to The Decline of... Hundreds of times I've listened to it, and still it smashes me in the chest. Every single time. This time "Lately," especially. I was out walking and when it got to the "do you like my megalithic rock?" bit I realized how much this ( Read more... )

Ahhhh, the Futureheads show. So good. So enjoyable. I've never felt like such a teenybopper (Ross smiled at me! Barry pointed at me ( Read more... )

I cannot sleep. I cannot sleep, and I really need to, and I believe it is a side effect of my new medication. After seeing the doctor Thursday, I am now (temporarily) on two different medications, one for migraines, the other for dizziness. The one for migraines causes dizziness. Lovely. I had never seen this particular doctor before, but he was ( Read more... )