Hey, this thing's still here ... who knew?

hey, lookit -- I'm updating my journal!!!

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Go here, skip ahead to the 12:15 mark if you're impatient, and in a few seconds you'll see my funny bald head in the upper left corner...

on edit -- Okay, let's try to embed this sucker:

I'm gonna join a virtual choir!So the other day I was listening to one of my favorite webcasts, KCRW's Eclectic 24, when this guy Eric Whitacre's "Seal Lullaby" came on and kinda stopped me in my tracks ( Read more... )

Told y'all I wouldn't finish this until November. Or do things in the proper order. Anyway --

Day 10 - A song that no one would expect you to love

I heard this just now on one of my regular webcasts. Evidently this woman's pretty well known, but I'd never heard of her before now...

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It's got one of those 60s-orchestrated-Shirley Basseyish vibes. ( Read more... )

Adopting another rescue kitty --


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Hey, it's me. I'm still alive. Just been inordinately busy lately. I'll continue with that song thingie one of these months.

It was time to procrastinate again, I checked lj for the first time in a while, and felt like reposting this quote. I kinda like it. For a politics junkie, it seems to explain a lot --

"W.H. Auden makes a beautiful ( Read more... )

Why should I? People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like ... you know. So here's day 8, since I just heard this for the first time this morning on KCRW's 24 hour music thingie and felt like sharing. Luckily, some guy recorded himself playing it, and ( Read more... )

Day 05 - A song that reminds you of somewhere ( Read more... )