STUFFED UP

September 15th, 2008 Hello. I just returned home from CA last night. I was visiting Jenevieve and Dan, and their newborn baby girl, Jaden. She's beautiful. Babies are amazing little works of art... that sleep, smile, eat and poop. It's crazy how many hours you can spend watching a newborn do those four exact things and somehow you never get bored. At least I didn't.

I'm sick. Was it from sitting in a plane amongst 200 people breathing in stale air for 4 hours? Was it going from a climate of 90 degrees and sun, to a grey, dreary and rainy 60 degrees in WI? Perhaps just allergies? I don't know, maybe all three. In any case, It's rare that I get sick - in fact, I can't remember the last time I was sick. I don't like it at all.

Oh, I should probably write something about music. I listened to a lot of music while I went for my daily morning runs out in CA last week. Jen and Dan live just north of L.A., up in some pretty scenic mountains. That may have been the best part of my vacation: running, listening to tunes, and thinking about... things. I won't specifically tell you what I was thinking about but the next time I see you I just might tell you. Or maybe I won't.

OK, so that paragraph really wasn't about music either. Sorry. This was what was loaded on my Shuffle for my trip:

Eraser - No Age
Paper Planes - M.I.A.
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend
Campus - Vampire Weekend
Wham City - Dan Deacon
Welcome to Jamrock - Damian Marley
Poison - The Constantines
Age Of Consent - New Order
Pretty in Pink (Daytrotter Session, Psych. Furs cover) - The National
This Charming Man (Smiths cover) - Stars
Cemetry Gates - The Smiths
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - The Smiths
Schizophrenia - Sonic Youth
Ghost Town (12" Version) - The Specials
Biomusicology - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Ballad of Big Nothing (Elliott Smith cover) - The Thermals
Rise - Eddie Vedder
Satellite (Elliott Smith cover) - The Helio Sequence
Bodysnatchers - Radiohead
Weird Fishes / Arpeggi - Radiohead
All Mixed Up - Red House Painters
Revelation Big Sur - Red House Painters
Talent Show (live) - The Replacements
Words And Guitar - Sleater-Kinney
Thorn In My Pride - The Black Crowes
This Modern Love - Bloc Party
Police & Thieves - The Clash
My Serenade - Django Reinhardt
Say Yes - Elliott Smith
I Know You Got Soul - Eric B. & Rakim
Postcards - Faithless
Reclamation - Fugazi
Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem
All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem
Chinese Translation - M. Ward
Eyes On The Prize - M. Ward
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
Rotten Hell - Menomena
Academy Fight Song - Mission of Burma
Broke - Modest Mouse
3rd Planet - Modest Mouse
All The Wine - The National
Mistaken For Strangers - The National
Teen Creeps - No Age
Objects Of My Affection - Peter Bjorn & John
Up Against The Wall - Peter Bjorn & John
Paris 2004 - Peter Bjorn & John
Undertow - R.E.M.
Panic - The Smiths
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths
Fourth Time Around (Bob Dylan cover) - Yo La Tengo
Starship Trooper a. Life Seeker b. Disillusion c. Wurm - Yes
Beginning To See The Light (Closet Mix) - The Velvet Underground
Rock And Roll - The Velvet Underground
Good Times - Edie Brickell
Long Way Home - Tom Waits
Losing Keys - Jack Johnson
Give a Little Bit - Supertramp

I know this isn't much of an entry this month, but I'm sick. I'll add some links later and maybe write something a little more substantial, so check back. For now, I'm going to bed. Have a good evening.

September 24, 2008 Hello, just a brief update. This damn cold just keeps hanging on. I am feeling better, but still not 100%. I haven't ran since I was in CA, so in effect I haven't listened to much music lately. However, I am pretty psyched to get the new TV On The Radio disc, Dear Science, which was just released yesterday. Maybe I'll write about that the next time around.

Has anyone else been witnessing the Milwaukee Brewers piss away their playoff chances? Not that they've been eliminated just yet, but it would be a real shame for them not to see the post-season, especially with the year that they've had up until the last couple of weeks. For those of you who may have forgotten, or may not have been born yet, the last time the Brewers played baseball in October was in 1982. To give you some visuals of how long ago that really was, this song spent a few weeks in the pop charts and I was wearing red checkboard Vans the last time the Brewers made the playoffs. But check that video out - what's up with the guys in Toto? Did the percussionist and keyboardist borrow their sisters' glasses especially for the video shoot? Anyway, CC Sabathia is killin' it right now, which is good. That guy can pitch. Too bad the Brewers don't have a chance in hell of resigning him after this season.

Have a good evening.

STURGEON MOON 2008 Eraser

STRAWBERRY MOON 2008 PB & J

FLOWER MOON 2008 The Helicopter

PINK MOON 2008 Hooks

WORM MOON 2008 iPod and I

SNOW MOON 2008 All Around Al's World of Sound 101

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