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Tonight was (and tomorrow and the two days following will be) spent enjoying the Denver Underground Music Showcase, featuring a hefty amount of local groups I admire and love seeing in tiny venues. However, everyone with whom I tend to attend concerts is either out of town or out of town for the majority of the festival, so I've been going it solo ( Read more... )

Must be dire times if I'm taking to the LJ. Truth is, with mono, I've spent a lot of time wishing things were like three feet closer to me, if not within reach. While I'm not feeling tremendously shitty, I am lethargic as all get-out, so the things that are within reach tend to win out over other things. In this case, I have exhausted the ( Read more... )

First, let’s talk about the Radiohead in the room. Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief and In Rainbows are all the best album ever in varying proportions. This damn band is the reason it took me so long to do the list. They’re a category unto themselves and it is unfair to rank them alongside other bands. CTTS is still better, though. Divisive ( Read more... )

So I decided to do the top 25 albums of the past decade too, and I wound up talking even more than the last one, like that's even possible. Again, dispute away, but you better be postin' your own list. Jerks.

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Hey, here's my top 25 songs from the past ten years. If you want to disagree with anything or argue my placing or whatever, that just means you'll have to post your own, so take that into consideration.

1. The Mountain Goats - No Children [It has a staying power like no other song I know. I've been singing it, yelling it, screaming it since 2003 ( Read more... )

I don't care if haiku doesn't need to be 5-7-5 or that it needs to be two clauses with a turn between them and relating directly to seasons or animals or whatever. I don't care. I wrote a haiku anyway, dedicated to my allergies. And now I am forcing it on you.

Cottonwood in bloom
and building nests in my lungs;
spring is for the birds.

Hey, Anna! That was a great entry about the party walking and the strange guy who turned out to be not so strange! I can surely relate, because I was lurking in the hallway with a screwdriver when who should enter my apartment but Luke and Anna! We laughed and then Luke brought in his Tiger CD shelf. It was a good time, and there were cookies ( Read more... )

It was a pretty full Sunday.  Yesterday, I:

• Woke up before 8 and ran
• Compiled recipes for Sunday Crew Iron Chef based around the named ingredients: Buffalo and Citrus
• Spent a little time at Ghengis Con's dealer room, bought dice (!)
• Along with Luke, cooked an orange-glazed buffalo sirloin, maple (buffalo) bacon, candied orange peel, and a warm (buffalo ( Read more... )

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