Saturday, April 22, 2006

The Mets are doing pretty well (although the second I started to get excited about this, they lost some games). In any case, David Wright has a blog, and it's very sweet and rather interesting.

Doing the Happy Ending reading series/musical thing; details here!

I've been listening to the new Rosanne Cash album, and it's really this whole little world you plunge into, which is her hipster introspective New York literary thing mashed together with the whole Johnny thing. It makes for a combination that fits right in with my own musical meanderings and taste. Plus throw in gals and their relationships with their folks, and you've got a powerful package.

Thursday, April 06, 2006

I finished another song....nice, right? It needs a name, though. I named it for someone who I'd like to remain anon, so what we're looking for is a three-syllable, interesting but not too interesting, man or woman's name. Let me know if you have any suggestions! Thanks! This song got written on a plane; it was one of those things where I had one idea, and absolutely forced myself to sit down and work on it, and then realized the theme was a lot like one of my other songs, and I took some of the lyrics and then steered the thing in another direction, and it just took off. It was one of those forcing things. Like forced flowers, which is something I'm always reading about but don't understand.

My new favorite site is Download.com. This is where I used to get shareware, on the rare occasion that I went looking for it. Now they have this nice music section. I have a page on there, and lots of other music that you may want to listen to resides there. Like, the whole Transamerica soundtrack is on there, and it's great! You can purchase, or just stream over and over again (as you know, my favorite thing to do). There is a very neat little player; and the playlists the editors have assembled are really very cool. I'm listening to one (can't figure out how to link to it) called "Theo's Playlist: Anti-Artists" that has Bettye Lavette, KT Tunstall, and Neko Case on it. Oh, and I found a cool Eleventh Dream Day song on one. I could go on. Just throw your favorite artists into their search and see what you find! I haven't even fully explored the functionality of it, and I think it does a lot more than I've done with it yet. Anyways.