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I'm not one to get all soppy very often, but Gore Vidal's closing words in this video brought tears to my eyes:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRSL03fCwLM&NR=1

What a crazy-ass planet.

Nathan Moore's newest studio album is now available for download from reapandsow, and It is flawless, absolutely flawless.  His last recording,  In His Own Worlds, has moments of blinding brilliance but never makes the transition from a collection of great songs to a coherent album.  You Yeah Smokin' Hot features the heart-achingly poetic, yet ( Read more... )

I normally hate online quizzes, but I liked the Libertarian Purity Test.  I scored an 81 out of a possible 160 (“You are a medium-core libertarian, probably self-consciously so. Your friends probably encourage you to quit talking about your views so much”), which seems accurate.  As much  as I want to consider myself a hardcore libertarian, I can’t ( Read more... )

Woohoo!  El Ten Eleven is coming to the 'Burgh.  If you've never heard them, they're definitely worth a listen.  Take Air, a little Keller Williams, and a tinge of the better qualities of U2, and you'll be somewhere not too far from them.  Their self titled album has been on my playlist more or less nonstop for a year.

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Bert and I have become rather close over the past few months, to the point where he's started referring to me as his best friend.  At first this made me slightly uncomfortable because, frankly, it's been years since I've thought of anyone in those terms.  My last official "Best Friend," Kara, moved away just before all the pain of Homeschooling ( Read more... )

Last night was easily the greatest night I’ve ever had.  Bert, Josh, Ashlee, Joel, Dave, Jess (the good Jess, not the horrible one), Sierra and I went to Club Café early in order to get good seats for the Sonya Kitchell and The Slip show.  It turned out that arriving early was unnecessary, as the eight of us were a quarter of the audience.  The ( Read more... )

Fall break.  Yeeha.  Means I get to work another 20 hours this week.  Actually, that really is rather exciting.  I paid for graduation yesterday.  Next week I take the CompSci GREs.

I spent yesterday with my parents and Ed at a small airshow at the county airport.  As cool as it was to climb around in a B-25 bomber, it was even better  to spend the ( Read more... )

Well, The Slip is finally coming back to Pittsburgh this October. Only it’s not just The Slip, it’s Sonya Kitchell and The Slip. All that I know about Sonya is that she’s very young (20ish), that she has been touring with Herbie Hancock for about a year now, and that Brad and Andrew just finished recording an album with her (it’s out in a couple of ( Read more... )

Uggh.  I've been working on my software engineering final for 14 hours now.  I've got about five hours left to finish it, and I'm not certain that that will be enough.  In any case, my brain will probably explode within the hour, so it's not really that much of an issue any more.  I knew things were going down the wrong road when I spent fully five ( Read more... )