Archive for January 2007
music week! day 04
Vinyl – the warmth of music you can touch Today’s post is brought to you by esteemed guest blogger: my darling Andrew. I’ve got a Joni record on right now. The thunder that preceded the rain told me in dark tones that Joni Mitchell was the only one who could sooth my crooked back with…
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MemeMEEEEE! Here’s another Music Meme for you to tolerate enjoy. (here’s the first one I did. I encourage participation.) iTunes meme iRipped from karinski. Thanks for being there for me! Within each item, songs listed in Title – Artist – Album. How many songs? 5777 songs, 14:05:41:14 total playing time, 20.84 GB And my hard…
Read Moremusic week! day 02
Soundtrack of our lives. Link: Bob Thompson — Overlooked genius of pop music Listen to this MP3 Starfire (from Bob Thompson’s site, above) and you will get a glimpse into a sound that is very close to a piece off my own, personal, internal soundtrack — that late-50s, perky, plink-plink-plink violin sound is often what…
Read Moremusic week! day one
As I continually compile and save little snippets of this-and-thats for potential posts (the modern equivalent of clipping recipes and stories from Parade and Reader’s Digest to send to family members), I find that I’ve been ruminating quite a bit on music. I’ve got enough to write about it every day for the next week…
Read MoreProtected: devil’s cake: post 16
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Read MoreF***balls!
Kathy on the monitor, originally uploaded by hambox. My friend Jen and I saw Kathy Griffin at the Chumash Casino a couple weeks ago. It was a rockin good time, from the candy-fueled drive to the crazy, alpine, seemingly-middle-of-nowhere casino, to the fascinating/scary casino dwellers, to our complete incompetence at gambling, to the show itself.…
Read MoreProtected: devil’s cake: post 15
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Read Morethe mod lady with the impossibly hip kids
The picture is taken by my dad. My mom surrounded by her children. Peter, Annie, me, Paul, Lisa. My mother’s handwriting reads “Lisa off to college in ’65 or ’66.”
Read Morefrugal bugle vol. 1
So, the road to getting a grip on my finances is annoyingly rocky and inconsistent. I haven’t followed through with some of my intentions, and so, in addition to feeling poor and out of control, I feel guilty. I am hoping that taking on a car loan will kick me in my atrophied ass —…
Read Morethe Tiny Bag
The time has come to relate this tale (though some of you are intimately familiar with it). I was enticed into purchasing a subscription to Jane Magazine a couple years ago, partly because they promised a “Free Fashion Bag”! The picture of the purse made it look like a nice messenger-like sachel, in olive green…
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