Once again, this post mostly sponsored by boredom. And by our friends at "the desire to complain"!! Put on your party hat.

Horses
Let me see. Not a whole lot has changed since the last post. Horses are still being ridden on a weekly basis, bikes still being taken out to terrorize the neighborhoods of Ypsilanti (on a more random basis than the horses ( Read more... )

Are you ready for a really self-indulgent entry? I hope so, because I have absolutely nothing of worth in mind to share and am simply writing out of sheer, mind-numbing boredom. Get ready for pablum!

THINGS
First of all, I have stayed pretty busy lately. Busy enough to never find time to do things like laundry, anyway, which is a good and bad thing. ( Read more... )

I was driving to work today with the window down and warm-weather-appropriate music playing, when I was struck by the desire to watch this video. So that was the first order of business when I got in to the office. And now I will share with you. Or no, I'm sorry, now I will pass this on to you! Oh! The comedy doesn't stop!

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Why can't I be Swedish? ( Read more... )

FELLOW NICK CAVE LIKERS (aka RICHARD, EUCHRID, ANNA, and perhaps SANDRA ( Read more... )

it's "All Misery/Flowers," one of a few tracks on Saturnalia that didn't do much for me when I first heard it. Then the little intricacies started to grab me, and the clincher was seeing it performed live, where I think it really thrives...it's more of a proper duet that way, rather than Lanegan's party where Dulli sits in the living room on the ( Read more... )

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I'm in love. Horse love. With a sweet-as-pie and eager to please Thoroughbred named Night. He's currently ownerless and is kind of abandoned right now at this barn I was at today, where my friend boards her horse. I rode him (badly, since my tailbone is whacked, but it was still somewhat gratifying) for about 45 minutes or so, and really liked ( Read more... )

Leonard Cohen getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:

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Such a class act. Even Lou Reed knows it.

Nick and I are going to Chicago tonight to see the Gutter Twins, and staying the weekend.

Can anyone please tell me what the hell we should do once we get there? We're Chi-tards.

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