June 2010
22 posts
Things that are Great, 11 of X
28 days until the start of my first annual leave in over three years.
Jun 29th
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things will shortly get completely out of hand
There are files on my work computer called “quetzalcoatl has plans.txt” and “orange ball of metlink.txt” and I suspect that this is only the beginning.
Jun 27th
zucchini is just a jerk sometimes.
No two ways about it. (Weird lasagne with jerk-zucchini, pumpkin, cashew ricotta and spinach is pretty good, but that doesn’t make the zucchini any less of a jerk.)
Jun 25th
okay, what the hell is wrong with you, itunes,
you’ll let me change the genre of these tracks to “Poo” or “itunes has a stupid face”, but as soon as I try to change them to “C20 Classical” you decide that the real genre Carl Orff belongs in is “Alternative”?
Jun 24th
Things that are Great, 10 of X
Staying home alone on a rainy Friday night in winter, listening to music, obsessively organising music, being warm, thinking about music.
Jun 24th
1 tag
Things that are Great, 9 of X
Listening to a great-quality bootleg and hearing the small gasp of recognition and joy when a girl near whoever is recording the thing figures out that John Darnielle is about to play one of her favourite songs ever and she is there to see it happen.
Jun 23rd
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-20) →
Jacob Newman (33) Eels (32) Shearwater (32) Galaxie 500 (29) Sunny Day Real Estate (20) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz I guess scrobbling plays from my portable music playing device broke this week.
Jun 23rd
1 tag
Some kind of pun about grains? I don't know.
For a while I’ve been thinking about keeping a record of the songs my brain plays to me unbidden, over the course of a day or a week or whatever. I don’t know what I aim to achieve - maybe some kind of weird self-psychoanalysis - but I actually started doing it today. While I was noting today’s jukebox favourites on my magic phone, my clumsy end-of-the-winter-day fingers were...
Jun 17th
Jun 17th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13) →
The Mountain Goats (137) Brother Ali (32) Bill Callahan (28) Ben Frost (23) John Coltrane (21) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 15th
What's with the flood of spam followers, Tumblr?
I thought you were better than this.
Jun 14th
“Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive,...”
– David Foster Wallace
Jun 14th
1 tag
god damn it
I love John Coltrane.
Jun 11th
“It’s not that hard to imitate a style, as anyone who has read my Raymond...”
– C.L. Minou
Jun 9th
“Of course, as an American, I am inclined to believe that Germany is a city...”
– Brad Warner
Jun 8th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-6) →
The Mountain Goats (104) The National (37) John Coltrane (32) peter peter hughes (30) Ben Frost (17) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 6th
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Jun 3rd
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Jun 2nd
4 notes
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30) →
Rites of Spring (95) Mountain Goats (67) Low (65) The Mountain Goats (29) Autumn Gray (29) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 1st
May 2010
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