Tag Archives: music

House of Leaves

Published: 6 February 2010
I bought a new book last night: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. And by “new”, I mean new to me, not new as in it just came out. It apparently was published in 2000 but I just now heard about it (on Reddit, actually) and got intrigued so I bought [...]
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news flash: music on the radio sucks

Published: 22 September 2009
This may be a sign of my impending fogeyness, but several popular songs right now annoy me greatly. Mind, this is so often the case with rap music that I don’t even include it in “music on the radio that I might enjoy” (see A Short History of African American Music—thank you, Lil Wayne [...]
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Boyz II Men and an interview

Published: 14 October 2008
Jessica mentioned Boyz II Men earlier and I was reminded of how I used to listen to their music back in elementary school whenever I stayed the night at a particular friend’s house. Actually, that friend was named Jessica, but not the same Jessica as my current Jessica. Though they’re each blonde, hm. [...]
Posted in Daily life | Also tagged | 3 Comments | Current music A Song for Mama by Boyz II Men

you gotta log out

Published: 15 September 2008
I just had to call Todd and tell him that I spent some of his money accidentally. Jessica and I have been singing the song “Hot Rod Lincoln” all day, so I went on Amazon to buy the MP3. I didn’t notice that I was logged in as Todd, who must have used [...]
Posted in Daily life | Also tagged | 7 Comments | Current music Hot Rod Lincoln by Bill Kirchen

new Portishead album

Published: 13 June 2008
Holycrapholycrapholycrap! Portishead, one of my all-time favorite bands, has not released an album for eleven years. When I first stumbled across them back in high school, I bought all their albums, I bought their t-shirt, and I thought for sure I’d never see anything else from them. The lead singer, Beth Gibbons, [...]
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free music and a turtle

Published: 5 May 2008
Brent informed me at lunch today that Nine Inch Nails is giving away a new album entirely free (and legal) on their web site; it’s called The Slip. I’m about to download it now, and am so excited because I loved Year Zero. I thought it was a much better album than With [...]
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American Idol

Published: 13 March 2008
I’m back from D.C. and had a great time, and I’ll have a big post about it once I get the energy worked up. That’s one thing about traveling: it leaves me dead tired. I slept 11.5 hours last night and still woke up tired. I’m doing much better now, though, [...]
Posted in Daily life | Also tagged | 5 Comments | Current music Come Together by Carly Smithson