Completely Blown Away

Every once in a while I'll shuffle through songs  in iTunes or on my iPod and will be completely blown away by a song that I hadn't heard before.  I will find just a kick ass song  that is so good and wonder why I hadn't been playing it every single day. Sense I have been working at home, I don't have the bandwidth to stream music and run all of the programs that  I need to at the same time, I have been coming across these mind blowing songs off of my iPod more often.  So I though I would share a few that I have managed to mark and highly recommend.

• "Park Avenue"  The A-Sides
• "I.C.E" Antibalas
• "All the Truth" Bear is Driving
• Tears from a gun" The Black Ghost
• "Veloso Odeio" Caetano Veloso
• "Love Me in the Morning" Clare Burson
• "The Satisfier" Eli 'Paperboy' Reed
• "Captain Captain" Haley Bonar
• "Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe" Okkervil River
• "Fear" Paddy Casey
• "Tonight I Have to Leave It" Shout Out Louds
• "When you Were Young" Astrid Swam
• "Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo" Jens Lekman
• "Let's Try This Again" Sara Gazarek
• "Jade Like Wine" Six Organs of Admittance
• "Passages" Passages
• "71943676_75b9ec81" Unknown artist

The last two are all the information that I have. "Passages" is smooth jazz, which I don't usually like, but has this nice blues twist.  The last one is a fantastic version of Death Cab for Cutie's, "I Will Flollow You into the Dark," but done with a piano and a female voice. 

Some have asked where I get my music from, so here are the the places my digital music come from (all very legal mind you);

• iTunes- both the free weekly songs, make sure you find the discover tune which is usually next to the free regular song in the "free on iTunes" box at the bottom of the home page, and paid for
• 7digital.com- I get all of my European music here that hasn't been released in the states for whatever reason. I pay for them, but its in pounds so you'll have to pay the exchange rate and what ever fee you bank charges you to do it.  This usually makes out for what ever I buy to be about twice as much as if I would have bought it form iTunes. Great for those artist who you have bought their American stuff and want that song that wasn't included but is on the European on or those Canadian artist who don't release there stuff here but do in other countries. Although they do have stuff for free if want to be on the artist' mailing list.
• linktvstore.org- part of the uber liberal cable channel Link TV, which if you have it you should be watching they have some fantastic documentaries. But back to the music, there store basically supplements there global music show. They have stuff for free and stuff you can buy.  I have done both, but for whatever reason cannot download stuff from them onto my Mac.  PC has always worked though. Great music ever sing time, exceptionally if it doesn't really matter to you if it is in english.
• wxpn.blogspot.com- From a fantastic NPR station, great to play during the day.  They play the stuff that wouldn't necessarily be played on normal radio but should be on it plus with a nice mix of the older stuff that isn't really genre focused. . The music can be found under "My Morning Download" (a shameless take on My Morning Jacket.)  I have always found there stuff to be just ahead of the curve with music and ever song just as good as the last. And its free so even if you don't like the song, you're not out anything and you add to you play count.

Like Clockwork

In everyones' life there are those annual events that, although be they unplanned, happen regardless of any productive action take to start on a regular bases. And of course I should add that if by some chance you're able to bypass an occurrence, there will be hell to pay next time it does. 

• Getting pulled over while driving, every six months
• Finding that a piece of chocolate has melted all over ____ (fill in the blank) once a year and always when it starts to get boiling hot outside
• Majority, stop everything, injured, every two years and usually in the summer

The the most part the first two are simply hiccups in your daily life and once the matter has been addressed no further action need take place. For the latter, however, forever comes back to haunt you.

To know me; is to know that I tend to land myself in a Dr.'s office more then say almost everyone else I know,  Starting in third grade, and every other year there after, I can list out the injuries that have forced me to put my life on hold and question just what the hell I doing wrong to deserve this.  Not all of them have been self inflicted nor recurring, but the  ones that are follow me around like a omnipresent shadow.

With my current injury, my ankle, I am but days from being put into a boot/cast, a course of action that I did not really care for the first time around and even less for now that I know what it's going to be like now.  I guess in hindsight there were events that foretold that some major disaster was coming. The spring semester was all but like getting lost in a very dark, deap cave.

Me Vs the World

My next door neighbor is moving out, the cute one across from me, which is not necessary news worthy except for the fact that he only has one other person helping him and they seem to have it under control.  While I, on the other hand, need and increasing amount of people to help move me each and every time I do.  I am willing to admit that I do in fact have a lot of very necessary "stuff," and my neighbor, being a male, does not. I just find it strange when anyone is able to move with less then a small army, or an ensemble at least.  I won't even mention those who are able to accomplish such a task in one day.

Relating to all of the "stuff" I have, I am in the process of trying to contain all of it into my apartment in an orderly manner where every thing has a place and everything is in its place.  I hope to even get ALL of my dishes washed.  Of course writing this blog is just another was to procrastinate, but I have every intention to put on my apron and get to work. 

Right after a trip to Starbucks.

Zooooooooooooooooooom

I rode my bike to campus to work on my A&P review.

But in reality I did it more so to ride my bike down the hills then to study.

I cannot really be guilty thought, It's far to nice outside to stay focused on anything.

So get of of your computers this very moment and go fly a kite, I mean ride a bike.

(shameless Mary Poppins' reference)