I was super upset and depressed yesterday over fandom matters, but I'm trying to reorient my approach so I stop caring as much, lol. Everyone is petty and pathetic, that's just the bottom line. I don't know why I keep trying to get around that to give people more credit than they're due.
Practicing translating a lot these days. It's tough; my vocabulary is still really lacking and I have to research and guess by context A LOT. ; __ ; Still I think this modicrum of productivity is good. It takes me away from being a total consumer. I eat much too much media.
I listened to Belle & Sebastian's The Life Pursuit this morning on the drive to work. I have really strong memories associated with that album. I relied on it a lot in the beginning of 2006. Nothing makes you feel as new and old and the same and different all at once like music does. We Are the Sleepyheads is still one of my favorite songs in the world. "So I took a turn to myself -! And I was surprised, because I saw everyone who ever I had loved - I felt, a whole lot better, after that."
My hair is really weird.
I was so tired this morning, I felt like I was about to tip off the face of the universe. I had a dream that two difficult clients called the house phone to complain. Hahaha. I hate phones!!!!
This is such a dull entry. Sorry about my boring life!
Hammer Museum
3 From 33 1/3
33 1/3 is a series of books about a wide variety of seminal rock and pop albums. Join three of the authors for readings and special multimedia presentations. Hayden Childs’s Shoot Out the Lights puts into context Richard and Linda Thompson’s album—from the personal history driving the songs, to the recording difficulties they encountered and the subsequent fall-out. He has appeared in Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed. Kim Cooper’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea sheds light on the underground classic album by Neutral Milk Hotel. Cooper is the editor of Scram, and co-editor of the anthologies Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth and Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed. Scott Plagenhoef’s If You’re Feeling Sinister provides perspective on how Belle & Sebastian transformed from a cult secret into a polished, highly entertaining, mainstream pop group. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Pitchfork.
Every once and a while I get a nice little surprise in the snail-mailbox, and this most recent surprise is Seabear's effervescent debut album entitled The Ghost That Carried Us Away, a collection of 12 light, pretty, lift-your-head-up songs that are guaranteed to brighten even the darkest shades of blue. Sounding like a less pompous Bell & Sebastian or a more eccentric Pelle Carlberg, Seabear weave nearly unforgettable melodies with never-too-serious lyrics to create tunes that occasionally approach breathtaking moments of grandeur...something that really needs to be heard to be believed.This dicksmack did not just, did he? Oh yes friends, I think he did. Well, we see how this goes right? H8. BELITTLEMENT. NEVERENDING RANCOR. NO RESPECT. We see that he a) spelled Belle and Sebastian wrong; b) had the nervey nerve to call someone ELSE pompous, uh, igif, pull your head out of your ass; c) has as usual oversold like an overselling thing.
