Entries from February 2005

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

I Heart Tim Burton

who doesn’t love a Tim Burton movie? i can’t wait for Halloween and the release of his latest movie The Corpse Bride with Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp as the lead voices!

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Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Remember?

remember a long, long time ago when i kept saying i’ve been working on moving off of Typepad onto a different host? i swear unlike some of what i say, this is actually true. it’s just that (here comes the excuse) it is hard to work all day on mind numbing, brain crunching software design [...]

Friday, February 25th, 2005

Eclecticism

some random sonic bursts for you:
working and watching The Arcade Fire live at KCRW at the same time. talk about multi-tasking. i’m watching in moderation though so as not to throw myself back in to the vicious cycle of listening to Funeral over and over again.
walked over to Tower at lunch today (sorry Sonic Boom!) [...]

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

O Canada!

we did it. we managed to escape the city this past weekend for a full three days. Friday night was spent bowling with the rowdy kids, my sister and Heff spent the night and we planned on getting up early Saturday to drop the dogs and head up to the great white north. i had [...]

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

I Heart Murakami

in case you haven’t noticed, i LOVE Murakami. and i’m not talking about Ryu Murakami either. never again will i succumb to the bookshelf neighbor of Haruki. i read Coin Locker Babies out of needing a fix for new Murakami, any Murakami. let me tell you, ain’t nothing like the real thing baby.

and now he [...]

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

Who Is Brendan Benson? or Where Has All The Free Stuff Gone?

i was over at Dunbarius’ LJ reading a quick post about Brendan Benson and it caused a minor flashback to the first time I’d heard of him. and now i must bore you with my stories of days long gone.

about 9 years ago i used to work in Royal Oak, MI the self proclaimed ‘hip’ [...]

Monday, February 7th, 2005

Music Is My Boyfriend

look people, you might as face it … i’m going to be posting about The Cure as long as they are putting out music (mediocre or not). our CDs could use some shiny new replacements and these reissues have been the opportunity to retire the old ones. oh the horror that Disintegration won’t be out [...]

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Random Sonic Bursts

things have been a little slow as of late, but i managed to scrape a little from the bottom of the plastic bin.

Low’s new album The Great Destroyer was released late last month and they are touring to support it. i’m not sure how i feel about it. they have definitely moved to a heavier [...]