Inspired by JB’s triumphant return to the inter-tubes, an actual post! Or at least some semi-connected ramblings.
Facebook has ended up being a lot of fun - somehow it’s easier to get in touch with my sisters via that web-site than by email or even telephone. I think I have a very bad combination of personality traits for Facebook: a good memory for names and faces coupled with the belief that everyone I’ve ever met wants to know that I’m growing a beard again.
The beard is indeed back, so long as the Canucks stay in the playoffs. One unfortunate thing about living out East is that most of the games in this series won’t start til 10 p.m. in my time zone. I used to be a night owl, but in my new place, even with curtains, I wake up a little after 6 a.m. with the sun. It looks like this:
“At Dawn” is also one of my favourite My Morning Jacket songs. I once saw part of a MMJ show when they were opening for Wilco, but I had no idea what they were playing at the time.
Wilco has a new album, not yet in stores but available on the web after a few pre-release online listening parties sanctioned by the band. I was going to write a quick review of the album, but then realized that to get the proper context, I’d want to write a giant story about me and Wilco, filled with sentences like “when I pick up a guitar, the first song I’ll usually play is ‘Far, Far, Away’” and “those two albums, released in the same year but coming to me five years apart, basically define growing up for me”. So I’ll save all that for now, and just say that Sky Blue Sky has some really great moments, but is frustratingly uneven as a whole.
Finally, I have joined a band so awesome that so far I’ve played acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums, and cowbell. Our name is Katie Loves Pain.
Facebook has ended up being a lot of fun - somehow it’s easier to get in touch with my sisters via that web-site than by email or even telephone. I think I have a very bad combination of personality traits for Facebook: a good memory for names and faces coupled with the belief that everyone I’ve ever met wants to know that I’m growing a beard again.
The beard is indeed back, so long as the Canucks stay in the playoffs. One unfortunate thing about living out East is that most of the games in this series won’t start til 10 p.m. in my time zone. I used to be a night owl, but in my new place, even with curtains, I wake up a little after 6 a.m. with the sun. It looks like this:
“At Dawn” is also one of my favourite My Morning Jacket songs. I once saw part of a MMJ show when they were opening for Wilco, but I had no idea what they were playing at the time.
Wilco has a new album, not yet in stores but available on the web after a few pre-release online listening parties sanctioned by the band. I was going to write a quick review of the album, but then realized that to get the proper context, I’d want to write a giant story about me and Wilco, filled with sentences like “when I pick up a guitar, the first song I’ll usually play is ‘Far, Far, Away’” and “those two albums, released in the same year but coming to me five years apart, basically define growing up for me”. So I’ll save all that for now, and just say that Sky Blue Sky has some really great moments, but is frustratingly uneven as a whole.
Finally, I have joined a band so awesome that so far I’ve played acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums, and cowbell. Our name is Katie Loves Pain.
