David Byrne covers William Onyeabor.

I'm obsessed with this artist, Hurray For The Riff Raff.  She released a great new album this year.    

This....blog....is....still....in...action.

I am nuts.

3 odd things about me:

1.  If I know maybe 3 or 4 pieces of information about a girl I am talking to on OkCupid, I can find them through Google, and learn their life story before they even know it.  

All I need is a first name (no last name even needed, and they never give it out unless they are really desperate) and hometown and maybe one fact about them and I can find out about them before they even know I am finding out about them.  It's always a good idea to test how deep the water is before you jump in, don't you think? 

I've done this for quite a few women, who I know everything about before they even know that I know about them.  

2.  I can't stop buying dish sanitizing liquid.  Even when we have enough, I always buy another one of the $1 containers because I guess I really seem to care about using clean dishes and utensils.  I almost bought a large two-pack of sanitizing liquid the other day just for the sake of having more dish sanitizing liquid. 

3.  I check the mail too many times.  Something about me just loves checking the mail.  Then I realize that I already checked the mail today, and I still go and check it again.  



So much weirdness on one website.

There's everyone else, then there's tUnE-yArDs.

I hate to pick on a guy who has produced some of my favorite music out there, but he defends his heroin use as part of the creative process.  Still, sometimes you have to separate the music from the guys who made it.

Happy Easter to all my Christian friends.  I hope the Easter Bunny gives you some good gifts this year. See, I really know my Christian holidays!

Actually, I didn't buy my tickets yet.  Really though, it is going to be a really tight show.  Their latest album is a really tightly performed Perfect Pussy album.  Pun intended!  File under bad hipster humor.


By the way, real men don't tell.

Angry blogging.

I recently left this job that I put a lot of energy and time into, which sort of advertised itself as a "hey do you want to be able to spoil your girlfriend or impress your friends with your new Ferrari or whatever?" kind of job.  It ended up being a dud kind of job, a job for sheep.  

A sheep: a meek, unimaginative, or easily led person.    

It is a relief to be out of there, but I'm hoping that whatever I end up doing next ends up being what I need, which is something stable.  

In music news, a Wu-Tang affiliated rapper cut off his own privates the other day and jumped off a building in an attempt to end his life.  I can't really laugh at the cutting off of the privates thing, even though it is tempting to laugh at such an absurd action, because the guy was clearly down.  

There is always room in the world for Brit stuff as cool as this.  

Who on earth is Blank Realm? Why should anyone listen to this? I'm just glad someone is making music like this.  There's never too much music in the world.  


I'm feeling the feelings of the Jewish people who were enslaved in Egypt, who only had unleavened bread to eat as they left the place.  Passover food, for the most part, tastes like cardboard.  I always liked the bitter herbs though.  

Consistently good stuff from album number one.  The newest album is excellent.

Yesterday, a man decided to shoot people outside a Jewish Community Center in Kansas, in what was likely a hate crime targeted against Jews.  It turns out that two of the people he killed weren't even Jewish.  Any child could come up with this thought, but it can't be said enough. 

 Can we all just stop hating a little less?

I took my "Judaic Studies" minor off of my resume, because you never know how people are going to re-act when you tell them what you are...

I kind of miss my friends at my job, but it wasn't working for me, so I had to move on....

I am currently writing an operetta about life insurance called the Operetta of the No-Cost Benefits (and the additionally benefits you might qualify for).  It is a work in progress.

Wow, I actually left my job for real yesterday.  It really felt like I was breaking up with a girlfriend.  Most time consuming job ever.  Part of me feels relief, and part of me feels disappointment that it didn't work out.  I'm not regretting the experience because I learned a lot.  I did leave them on good terms though, which is the right way to leave a job.

I went in to an interview today and the guy didn't like my hair even though I had just got it cut, and something about my suit for some reason...the sleeves of my shirt weren't long enough or something.  I guess opinions about me differ all over.

Hey, some kid in a Pittsburgh suburb decided to randomly bring a knife to school and stab people this week, but at least there is one good thing happening in the world.  Jessica Lea Mayfield has a new one coming soon.

"You're so quiet, it's like no one is even there."

Have you ever been going through something, and wondering if anyone else is going through the same thing? I think a lot of us use the internet to try to find people who feel like we do.  

I found this video to be relevant to my life because I keep getting called "quiet" at my job.  I am quiet because I am one of the people who is doing what I am supposed to be doing.  Also, someone recently said to me "you don't talk." Is that really going to make me feel any more comfortable?

When I was in college, I spent a lot of time alone sorting through my thoughts, searching Facebook for groups of people like myself, and trying to work myself through my own pain.

My grades got remarkably better once I was moved to a quieter hall, and when I found friends who didn't drink 24/7, who were actually considerate of others.  Thank goodness for that!   And listening to Dinosaur Jr. really helped too!  

I think the worst is when people straight up say to you "you have an anxiety disorder!"  or "You're so quiet, it's like you're not even there!"

When you meet someone who is different than you or who has something that is different about them, do you just immediately point out that difference? I met someone with a lisp today who was doing my dry-cleaning, and I chatted briefly with some guy at the library who just kept talking to himself the whole time, and I didn't say anything to them about either of those things.

Ted Leo and Aimee Mann teamed up to form The Both.  Looking forward to the full-length.




Considering whether I should defect over to Prudential or not.

Just did an interview on 2 hours of sleep.  I really don't like insomnia.

2 more interviews this week.

I've been absolutely enamored with this Classixx album, Hanging Gardens, from last year.    Just discovered that they released another video. 

My brother sent me an article today from the New York Times.  I found this one particular quote really relevant to my life.  

"Job seekers are told to present one linear narrative to the world, one that can easily be read and digested as a series of clean conquests. But if you are stuck in an airport bar with a colleague after a horrible business trip, would you really want to have a drink with a person like that? No, you’d want a real human being, someone who’d experienced setback, suffering and recovery. You’d want someone with obvious holes in his résumé, who has learned the lessons that only suffering teaches, and who got back on track."

Looking forward to this album!

And this one! Definitely no shortage of albums to look forward to this year!

Just the right combination of punk grit and accessibility.  

West Side Story-style dancing, done to the music of Wye Oak? I'm liking this.

I can't keep myself from posting this one, even though I am enamored with my cleverness in my last post and don't want to move on from it.  I've got the entire album on repeat for the past couple of weeks.  Somehow listening to this just makes me feel better about life.

Why do I keep this blog again? I often feel compelled to highlight things that inspire me.  And yup, I'm a big indie rock guy, but not quite snarky enough to be considered a hipster these days (come on, don't dislike someone just because they like a band you don't like.  Dislike someone because they are a jerk), but if you knew me in college, you might have considered me a hipster.  
Of course I will listen to your Something Corporate and American Hi-Fi albums with you :P