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One local radio station, WXRT, has recently been playing Death Cab For Cutie's new single Crooked Teeth, which I just love. It has that mixture of melancholy, bittersweetly observational lyrics with cheery, upbeat pop hooks. From their upcoming album "Plans" in May; I found it on YouTube. Give it a listen. Or view. Or both.
( behind the cut, links to Youtube vids of songs by Death Cab For Cutie, Brazilian Girls, and Webbie -- so you can capture the song with your favorite audio capture program like I did, at least until the DCFC CD comes out in May and I buy the Brazilian Girls' CDs; and a brief blurb about the Barber of Seville )
We got about four more inches of snow last night, making this the fourth snowiest February on record for Chicago. From Tom Skilling's weather blog at WGN TV's web pages, at (http://blogs.trb.com/news/weather/weblog/wgnweather/2008/02/snow_covered_the_ground_in_feb.html
Skilling also had a cool feature on the lunar eclipse and 2008 full moons in the Feb. 2/17 Sunday Chicago Tribune. I love the names of some of them: Hunger Moon, Green Corn Moon, Long Night Moon. I found it on the weather blog, too -- it has nice graphics you can print. See it at http://blogs.trb.com/news/weather/weblog/wgnweather/2008/02/a_timetable_of_chicagos_upcomi_1.html
--but keep in mind, the times listed for when the moon officially becomes full are Central/Chicago time.
Last night's snow started while my mother and I were watching Dr. Zhivago on Turner Classic Movies. I have to say, it's moving, but -- damn, I fell asleep during several parts of it. It is sooooooo looooooong. Then again, I hadn't slept after I got off work in the AM, so that was understandable. Also, having not seen it for a while, and so viewing it with fresh eyes and fresh ears -- I felt that Lara's theme was way too overused throughout the film. After a while I was like, "OKAY, OKAY, we GET IT already -- he longs for Lara! We know!" But, like all those doomed love affairs, it has its own sad attraction. And Alec Guiness was his usual stalwart self.
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So I get in my car the other day and discover two new bootlegs: Sweeney Todd and The Bucket List. I'd requested these from my bf before he became my ex-bf; he's got a connection. (I sound like he's my dealer and the bootlegs are my "fix"es. Hmmmm. Not totally inaccurate.) I forgot he has keys to my car, still. So I felt I should call him. But I called him at work -- a strategy he has used before to drop little bombs (like the "I'm staying with you... for the time being" from a couple weeks ago), and then to skip away from any real discussion of them by saying "This isn't a conversation I can have now -- I am at work."
So I decided to use the same strategy against him. Called him at work. He's like, "Hi!" I'm like, "Yeah. I got the bootlegs. Thanks." He's like, "Yeah, I left 'em in your car for you and your mom." [The Bucket List was for my mom.)
I said,"Nice try. It isn't going to work."
( short-ish description of our mutual agreement that it's been over for a long time and we're just making it official )
( behind the cut, links to Youtube vids of songs by Death Cab For Cutie, Brazilian Girls, and Webbie -- so you can capture the song with your favorite audio capture program like I did, at least until the DCFC CD comes out in May and I buy the Brazilian Girls' CDs; and a brief blurb about the Barber of Seville )
We got about four more inches of snow last night, making this the fourth snowiest February on record for Chicago. From Tom Skilling's weather blog at WGN TV's web pages, at (http://blogs.trb.com/news/weather/weblog/wgnweather/2008/02/snow_covered_the_ground_in_feb.html
Skilling also had a cool feature on the lunar eclipse and 2008 full moons in the Feb. 2/17 Sunday Chicago Tribune. I love the names of some of them: Hunger Moon, Green Corn Moon, Long Night Moon. I found it on the weather blog, too -- it has nice graphics you can print. See it at http://blogs.trb.com/news/weather/weblog/wgnweather/2008/02/a_timetable_of_chicagos_upcomi_1.html
--but keep in mind, the times listed for when the moon officially becomes full are Central/Chicago time.
Last night's snow started while my mother and I were watching Dr. Zhivago on Turner Classic Movies. I have to say, it's moving, but -- damn, I fell asleep during several parts of it. It is sooooooo looooooong. Then again, I hadn't slept after I got off work in the AM, so that was understandable. Also, having not seen it for a while, and so viewing it with fresh eyes and fresh ears -- I felt that Lara's theme was way too overused throughout the film. After a while I was like, "OKAY, OKAY, we GET IT already -- he longs for Lara! We know!" But, like all those doomed love affairs, it has its own sad attraction. And Alec Guiness was his usual stalwart self.
* * *
So I get in my car the other day and discover two new bootlegs: Sweeney Todd and The Bucket List. I'd requested these from my bf before he became my ex-bf; he's got a connection. (I sound like he's my dealer and the bootlegs are my "fix"es. Hmmmm. Not totally inaccurate.) I forgot he has keys to my car, still. So I felt I should call him. But I called him at work -- a strategy he has used before to drop little bombs (like the "I'm staying with you... for the time being" from a couple weeks ago), and then to skip away from any real discussion of them by saying "This isn't a conversation I can have now -- I am at work."
So I decided to use the same strategy against him. Called him at work. He's like, "Hi!" I'm like, "Yeah. I got the bootlegs. Thanks." He's like, "Yeah, I left 'em in your car for you and your mom." [The Bucket List was for my mom.)
I said,"Nice try. It isn't going to work."
( short-ish description of our mutual agreement that it's been over for a long time and we're just making it official )