#6 Lyle Lovett- Pontiac. If I were seeing my posting of this list 5 years ago, I would have though this was someone else's entry. I knew that I liked one Lyle Lovett song, but knew that he was a country singer and figured I wouldn't like anything else by him. The only things I knew about Lyle Lovett were that in Kissing Jessica Stein, they refer ( Read more... )

If you've ever met me in person, you know that I am one pale MF. And of all of me, not counting the parts they teach you in school not to go showing off in public, my legs are by far the most light-reflecting. My arms and face have a teensy bit of color and a fair dose of freckles. Generally that doesn't bother me, but in shorts and miniskirts ( Read more... )

#7- Oh Brother, Where Art Thou- the Soundtrack. This almost breaks the rules on a couple of levels. One: it's a collection of songs with different purposes by different artists rather than an intentionally composed album. Two: I don't actually love all of the songs on this album. I skip tracks when I listen to it. BUT, One: many of the ( Read more... )

#8 The Who- Tommy. This album certainly achieved critical acclaim, so I don't need to go on about the musical merit, I don't think. It's famous as hell for being the first real rock opera (a genre I support wholeheartedly) and it's two solid discs of pure thematic plunge out of your comfort zone if you're a normal person. I started listening to ( Read more... )

#9 Fiona Apple- Tidal. I deliberated over which album to list, as I adore all three of her albums. I find them all very rich and all very different. But Tidal came first, and I've listened to it more than almost every other album I own, except for maybe 3 of the other albums on this list. It was her first album and she was still really green. ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm going to give it a try. I'll list what are, in my opinion, the 10 best albums ever. For me. Personally. I tried to stay away from a bunch of albums that I liked for the same reasons and to spread it out through my music-listening history, but they had to be all albums that I will still jump at the chance to listen to, albums that I don' ( Read more... )

A few thoughts ( Read more... )

I have a few odds and ends to update. First of all, in the grad school arena, everybody but Carnegie Mellon has gotten back to me, so no grad school next year. One thing I have learned through this is that I do not want to go to Virginia Tech. Let me back up a little ( Read more... )

I'm beginning to suspect that I didn't get into any grad schools. I had thought that my interviews went well, and maybe they did, but evidently not well enough. I'm clearly not anyone's first choice, anyway, or they would have contacted me by now. This makes me sad. It's also very strange for me (cockiness alert) to not get into things I apply ( Read more... )

Haven't posted in a while. Recap ( Read more... )