Today's Playlist

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
The White Stripes - I Can Learn
Bush - 40 Miles From The Sun
The Shins - Pressed in a Book
The New Pornographers - Use It
James - Out To Get You
Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life
Belle & Sebastian - It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career
Conviction - When Tomorrow Comes
Double Barrel Darrel - 31
Radiohead - Pyramid Song

It's us

After two weeks of rehearsing Dirty Hands, we have gotten to the laughter stage. Seeing that we have to be off book for the first half of the play on Saturday, I'm not really surprised. The show is going to be good. The people that I've been working with are pretty good. We don't open for a month an they are right there already. Anyway, you should come and see it.

Today's Playlist

The Who - So Sad About Us
Sufjan Stevens - Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!
Moxy Früvous - Morphée
Jeff Buckley - Satisfied Mind
Architecture In Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind
Belle & Sebastian - It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career
ELO - Mr. Blue Sky
Oasis - Songbird
José Gonzales - Heartbeats
Prince - Raspberry Beret
Dave Matthews Band - Drive In Drive Out
Ben Folds - Annie Waits

Today's Playlist

Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes
Jeff Buckley - Forget Her
Pixies - Velouria
Alkaline Trio - This Could Be Love
Oasis - Lyla
Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice
The Shins - Girl Inform Me
Radiohead - You and Whose Army?
Morphine - Scratch
Live - White, Discussion
The Refreshments - Banditos

Daylight savings time is stupid

As some of you know I hate Daylight Savings Time. For all of the crap that Mitch has pulled, this is the one that I'm truly angry at. I feel supported in my view after seeing a study put out this year by Australian researchers that found that suicide rates in men climb dramatically in the weeks after the time change. So not only is DST stupid, it may kill you.

The politics of reason

I'm an Obama man. I have been since I heard him speak at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. As such, I've been none too happy with the way that Hillary Clinton's campaign has been attacking him. I've been thinking about not voting for her if she wins. Then this morning I read an article in the Washington post about John McCain. He's been bashing the Grizzly Bear project in Montana, calling it "pork.” I realized then that he doesn't care about scientific advancement. He doesn't care about education. He doesn't care about saving (and creating) American jobs in fields that require any education at all. He's for the dumbing down of America. He's for keeping us polarized. He knows that this is the only way that anyone like him can get elected. In an American where the population could engage in reasonable discourse; where we could understand our position and that of those that disagree with us; where the validity of any argument was based on reason and logic and not on any divisive political ideology; In that America he would have no chance of getting his party's nomination, much less the Presidency. All of which leads me back to Hillary. I don’t like her very much. And my dislike for here has made me start disliking here husband, of whom I was a fan. I feel like I shouldn’t vote for her if she wins, but I will. I would rather have someone in the office that I agree with and respect but can’t stand than someone that seems like a good guy but I disagree with about everything. Sure, I’d rather have a beer with John McCain than Hillary Clinton, but that doesn’t mean that I’d like him to be the President. I will still be voting for Senator Obama during my primary, but am now willing to vote for which ever Democrat gets the nomination.