Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Current Listening - December 2006

Listen:
Altar - Sunno))) and Boris
Ys - Joanna Newsom
Varcharz - Mouse on Mars
Black Antlers reissue - Coil
Peel Sessions 1991-2004 - P.J. Harvey
Black Ships Ate The Sky - Current 93
Blue Sunshine reissue - The Glove
Meek Warrior - Akron/Family
A.N.D. N.O.W. - The Hacker
The Silver Tree - Lisa Gerrard
Vulvaland - Mouse on Mars
The Ape of Naples - Coil
Rat Tapes One - Nurse with Wound
No Hero No Fool - Subtle
The Last Resort - Trentemoller
Human Animal - Wolf Eyes
One Step More and You Die - Mono
Self-Titled - KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Renberg)
The Letting Go - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
The Future Crayon - Broadcast
Self-Titled - Scarnella
Body Rework Remixes - Nitzer Ebb
Shipwreck Radio: Final Broadcasts - Nurse With Wound
The Lepore Extrusion - Thighpaulsandra
Total 7 - Kompakt

Monday, December 04, 2006

So much for 31 Days of Writing

Well, yesterday's blog entry never happened. Now, I have one hour left today and this is all I can come up with for right now. I hope to be more inspired tomorrow and for the rest of the month. Stay tuned.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

House Cleaning

Well, here I am on another Saturday night hanging out at home. I started work on some long overdue house cleaning. I started out by straightening up my cluttered bookshelf. It's been a few months since the last time I cleaned up the bookshelf. Over time, the shelves became littered with copies of old carbon credit card receipts, recently purchased yet unread books, stacks of magazines, multiple Southwest and Frontier credit card applications, and napkins collected from various trips to Starbucks, Seattle's Best, and Bauhaus Coffeeshop.

Now, I am sitting here watching Hildi from Trading Spaces go crazy (yet again) with her insanely wild designer sensibilities. Recently, Hildi thought it'd be a great idea to use sunflower seed packets as wallpaper. Needless to say, that didn't go over well at all. As a matter of fact, the couple she was working with took down when she left them to their homework. Well, tonight, her idea was to cover all four walls of a six year old boy's room with compact discs, numbering about 1800, against red paint. Hmmm....I wonder where she took her interior design classes.

Earlier this evening, while doing my laundry, I watched new episodes of Little People Big World. This is a wonderful show, documenting the daily lives of the Roloff family, living outside of Portland, Oregon. The Roloffs are just like any other family, doing what they need to do to take care of their family. The parents, Matt and Amy, are little, while only one of their four children, Zach, is little. This week's episodes have the Roloffs heading to Milwaukee for the annual Little People of America convetion. There was a touching moment during the first episode where one of Zach Roloff's friends, Little Zach, watched his father leave the family, heading out for deployment in Iraq. I honestly admit that I cried. Little People Big World is a show that I think everyone should see. It's a huge show with a lot of heart.

Being that this laptop is starting to act up, I'm finished writing for right now. But, I guarantee that I'm determined to write an entry every day in December.

Friday, December 01, 2006

The 31 Days of Blogging

Today is the start of the month of December. You know what that means? It’s Christmas time again? Yeah, it is, but that’s not what I had in mind. I was thinking more along the lines of blogging. I am determined to write something in this blog every SINGLE day during the month of December. It’s going to be a challenge since it is indeed the holiday season. But, since I am a loser and have a nearly non-existent social life, this should be a piece of cake, right? Well, we’ll have to see. So, wish me luck folks.

I am going to write every SINGLE day of the month of December. Yeah, I know I said it once already, but I said it again to make sure you’re awake out there. Even if I write only one sentence all day, there will be an entry every single day. I want to become actively involved in my blogging life again, even if I write the most boring and uncreative entries to ever exist in a single blog. I don’t care.

Fear of uninspired and uncreative writing being publicly displayed online is the number one reason why I’ve not been more active in writing. I’m always paranoid and fearful of rejection, but that’s got to change. I mean, after all, this is my blog and should be able to write whatever I want without reservation and without concern. That’s my new approach to blogging: Letting go of expectations and just write. So, there you have it.