Love Sick

Well, serves me right for trying to ask someone out on a date ten years my junior. I asked this guy out - we went to Borders. Had an awesome conversation for two hours. We browsed the music magazine aisle, the graphic novel section of the store. The evening left on a "Yeah, let's definitely hang out again" note. Not a word since that meeting. I left a voice mail, I left an email. And to be on the safe side, I want to leave with my dignity - so I'll move on - leaving a weekend fairly open.

Plenty to occupy my time though - I got the Wire - Season 3 in the mail - looking forward to starting that series. In addition, I'm saving cash for one of two concerts: LCD Soundsystem and the Arcade Fire at Red Rocks or the New Pornographers in Tucson. Both occur in late September. I'm more familiar with Tucson and it would give me a few days to look for any employment opportunities, but on the other hand, LCD Soundsystem is supposed to be flippin' amazing live.

iPod list of this shortened work day...
"Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song)" - Fiona Apple ****
"Da Art of Storytellin' - pt. 2" - OutKast ***
"Tightly" - Neko Case *****
"Bulletproof" - Radiohead *****
"Swing on This" - Alice in Chains ****
"Rouge" - Miles Davis ****
"Entering White Cecilia" - The New Pornographers **
"Revolution 1" - The Beatles ****
"I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" - Prince *****
"Carry the Zero" - Built to Spill *****
"Optimistic" - Radiohead *****
"Bankrupt on Selling" - Modest Mouse ***** (wow, Whitey's on a roll)
"Jesus Christ Was an Only Child" - Modest Mouse ****
"Two Kinds of People" - The Magnetic Fields ** (eh)
"Immature" - Bjork ****
"Metropolitain Glide" - Tom Waits ****
"Wayfaring Stranger" - Neko Case ****
"You Make it Easy" - Air ***
"Ladyfingers (Remixed by Camara Kambon)" - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Band ***
"The Drama You've Been Craving" - Sleater-Kinney ****
"Talisman" - Air ****
"Make You Feel My Love" - Bob Dylan *****
"Watch the Tapes" - LCD Soundsytem ****
'When the Roll is Called Up Yonder" - Johnny Cash ****
"B.I.G. (Interlude)" - The Notorious B.I.G. **
"Humpty Dumpty" - Tori Amos **
"Xylophone" - The Magnetic Fields ***
"Can't Wait" - Bob Dylan *****
"Goddess" _ Mark Sandman ****
"Our Singer" - Pavement ****
"We Both Go Down Together" - The Decemberists ****
"Big Man With a Gun" - NIN **** (used to love listening to this playing N64's 'Goldeneye' on multiplayer)
"Something's Got to Give" - The Beastie Boys ****
"Graveyard Shift" - Uncle Tupelo *****
"Israel" - Miles Davis ****
"Heroin (live)" - The Velvet Underground *****
"Light Pollution" - Bright Eyes ***
"Turn Me Around" - Mavis Staples ***
"Holiday" - Green Day *** (way too burned out from this song)
"I'm a Man" - Pulp *****
"Abandoned" - Lucinda Williams *****
"Play With Fire" - The Rolling Stones *****

It's been a while...

...since I updated my blog. One of my best friends was injured in a car accident a month ago, so I've been going back-and-forth to the rehab center, getting her anything from specific deodorant from Wild Oats to her newly-recharged iPod. Still, I can't blame her for my lack of writing inspiration. It may be the summer heat, it may be the week off I took to read Harry Potter, it may have been those weeks where I focused more on exercise to help alleviate my anxiety. Or it could be that I've had absolutely nothing to write about for the past month.

iPod list for the day...
"Medley: Gambler's Blues/Sweet Little Angel (live)" - luther Allison ****
"Dead Leaves And the Dirty Ground" - The White stripes *****
"2+5=5 (the Lukewarm)" - Radiohead *****
"Dividing Island" - Lansing-Dreiden *** (very, very 70ish)
"8 Million Stories" - A Tribe Called Quest *****
"I Taught Myself How to Grow Old" - Ryan Adams ****
"Painted Soldiers" - Pavement ****
"Blue Line Swinger" - Yo La Tengo **
"The Story of Jazz" - Yo La Tengo ***
"Rollercoaster" - Sleater-Kinney *****
"Big Decision" - Elliott Smith ***
"I Don't Love You" - My Chemical Romance ***
"Bad Liver and a Broken Heart" - Tom Waits ****
"Parting of the Sensory" - Modest Mouse ****
"Stop Breaking Down" - The Rolling Stones ******
"Say You Miss Me" - Wilco ****
"Intro" - Ghostface Killah **
"The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders" - Sufjan Stevens ***
"What a Day (For a Night)" - Paul Westerberg ***
"The Late Ones (live)" - Wilco ****
"Dumb" - Garbage ***
"A Scale, A Mirror and those Indifferent Clocks" - Bright Eyes ***