I got tagged by Kimli to do this internet meme some weeks ago, and while normally I avoid memes she bought me a really nice watch for Christmas and I keep getting compliments on it so I’d feel really guilty if I denied Kimli this, a silly list of information about me.
The meme itself seemed [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
25 things
Home office equipment
I’ve been wasting away from the bubonic plague all week, but today I had just enough energy to run some errands. Working from home, I’ve been using up all my various office supplies, much of which was left over from university (nearly 5 years ago), so new purchases were in order:
pens
notepads
desk lamp
extension cords
pajama pants
There are [...]
In preparation for tomorrow’s inauguration
Here’s something you might not have known:
Barack Obama is left-handed.
Maybe 10% of the population is a lefty. I wonder what the percentage would be if there weren’t people around who were forced to switch to their right hand (like Mom). Maybe life would’ve been easier for people like me (another lefty) if there were more [...]
Music for a bad economy
Here’s something I read a week ago that has haunted me since and I wish I’d never read it: Beyoncé’s new single spells economic doom. I wonder if she feels responsible?
The idea is that (supposedly) whenever there’s been an economic downturn, it’s been preceded by a No. 1 song on the charts that has low [...]
“It’s Leonard Fucking Bernstein!”
I found this via Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise blog: a Youtube video the New York Philharmonic playing the finale to Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, Leonard Bernstein conducting, but with recitations of some of the Youtube comments heard over the sound of the music.
I hadn’t heard of the Youtube Commentary Project before, but [...]
2008 Music Review: Why breakups are truly awesome
Anyone who’s come to me in the last half year or so and asked me to recommend a band, regardless of what music they listen to I always mention Frightened Rabbit (MySpace). I start talking about how their latest album The Midnight Organ Fight is the best album I’ve heard in years, and how I [...]
2008 Music Review: For the open-minded
Why not?
Once in a while I surprise myself by what I like. Granted, I have pretty eclectic tastes and am willing to listen to anything once, but certain genres have just never interested me as a whole. Pop country is one of them: I once liked Achy Breaky Heart but I was 14 at the [...]
2008 Music Review: The mellower feel-good stuff
For weeks I’ve been thinking I should write a post reviewing music I’ve discovered and fallen in love with this year, and here is one such post. I pride myself in my talent for recommending music to my friends, but I haven’t done so here in ages, despite the fact that I’m listening to more [...]