Well 2010 is really looking up.  Everything is going well at work, I'm slowly making the crap-shacks my own, and most of the unpleasant aspects of the end of last year seem to have been resolved or managed.  Add to that a few other nice little developments, and you've got a damn good January, with the potential to be simply fucking awesome ( Read more... )

Wow.  It's been a while.

Life has been rather busy and confusing for the last couple of months.  The last few weeks have been a mixture of confusion over whether two of my closest friends and I can remain as such, irritation over whether or now I'm going to be able to sell the cottages that I stayed in through college, and uncertainty over whether I ( Read more... )

Flight delays suck.  My flight was supposed to leave for Boston at three.  Now I'm supposed to leave for Philly at 6:30, but apparently the plane that I'm supposed to be on is still on the tarmac across the state.  So that's not going to happen.  Not even sure what city I'm flying to at this point.  Still, I'm confident that I'll be in Dublin ( Read more... )

 Broken Social Scene is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good.
They almost makes me not want to make fun of Canada.

Amost.

From http://sru.edu/pages/15531.asp

Paranormal researchers seek truth behind ‘Emma the Ghost’

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - Students, faculty members and others who claim to have seen or heard “Emma the Ghost” at Slippery Rock University will finally have an answer when someone asks them: “Who you gonna call?”

Baelfire Paranormal Investigation ( Read more... )

Happy Darwin Day!  It's the 200th anniversary of his birth.

All is well in the land of Pete.
The trip to Europe is shaping up nicely.  I'm moving 20 miles south at the beginning of March.   Bert and I are heading across the state to see Marco play with Andrew Barr and Marc Friedman on the 5th, and next week I'm going to see Ben Folds (Sierra wants to ( Read more... )

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is offering free downloads of their latest studio album, Winterwood.  Its a good album to start with, and for the price its unbeatable.  Reed Mathis' arrangements of Armstrong's Song of the Vipers and Ellington's Oklahoma Stomp are particularly delightful.  You just have to give them an email address, and they'll send you a ( Read more... )

Brad's got a studio version of Hello I'm A Monster posted on his Myspace page, and I've had it on repeat all morning.  Of course it's stunning live, but his transition from standard Brad Barr ambience to the first chorus in this version brings tears to my eyes each time.

As time goes by he reminds me more and more of Cat Stevens, and always in the ( Read more... )

• Joe West is awesome.  If nothing else, go download his song Cold Canadian Love.  The rest of the album is great too, and as soon as I get me some extra cash I'll be getting the rest of his releases.  Trust me, anyone who tours as Xoe Fitzgerald Time Travelling Transvestite is worth a listen.
• I'm becoming more and more of a fan of Stephen Fry ( Read more... )

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