What's your policy when it comes to getting music recommendations from friends? Do you avoid them, take them when they come, or seek them out? How effective do you think friendly recommendations are for finding stuff you're really going to like? Do you ever feel self-conscious about getting into stuff because other people introduce you to it, ( Read more... )

I'm writing this from Lainie's house, where I'm keeping an eye on the little schmoes. They've been pretty immersed in this video game that takes place in a Star Wars world made of Legos for most of the time I've been here. They call me in when something entertaining happens. Also, I had a snack with Cole and then he ate some Fun Dip and turned ( Read more... )

I just found something out that probably won't interest anyone besides me. Since Karen dubbed it for me last year I have been obsessed with a Robert Wyatt song called Experiences no.2. I googled around months ago trying to find out what album it's on. I couldn't figure it out, but I did learn that the words are from an e.e. cummings poem, it is ( Read more... )

My copy of the Shivers' Phone Calls finally came in the mail. I like how when I imported it into itunes to put it on my ipod the genre was listed as "unclassifiable ( Read more... )

Request #1: Can I get some comics recommendations? Mostly I'm thinking about mainstream-y superhero type stuff. When it comes to that whole mainstream-ish non-superhero kind, like I have a good idea of what I want to check out, and once I check out more of that stuff I hope I'll have an idea of where to go from there. When it comes to indie ( Read more... )

I was tagged by the lovable automatic_girl for a meme. Here are the instructions:

each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. people who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. at the end you need to choose 10 people to be ( Read more... )

We've had a weird cold front and lots of sleet and freezing rain and stuff, so everybody in Austin is pretty much trapped indoors today. That means no first day of school, among other things. Thankfully I just happened to go on a big grocery trip on Sunday in an effort to do more cooking from scratch at home, so I'm all stocked up with food ( Read more... )

All of my lyric quotes got guessed except for #1 and #8. I'm not that surprised about #1, but I would have expected somebody to get #8, it's a classic. And the words are from a James Joyce poem, to boot.

1. All that unfinished wine. Don't measure, it's fine.

Let's Active - Lowdown2. I'm jumbled up, maybe I'm losing my touch. But you know, I ( Read more... )

I owe everybody some kind of update and hopefully it'll be forthcoming soon. In the meantime, here's a silly meme by way of handwriting. Lyrics snippets from ten random ipod songs. Guess the band and the title in the comments if you want. Most of these seem pretty easy to me, but that may just be because I'm me ( Read more... )

It might be a little early for this since there are still ten more days left in 2006, but I'm doing some thinking about the last year and about how I want to start off the next one, so I figure I might as well do the requisite entry on the subject.

Ten things I learned this year:If you're itchy all over, you might be allergic to that new kind of ( Read more... )