this is!

But feel free to stay here, I'm going to update this one, too!

this is how excited i am

so i'm online dating
(bounce rate 100% ha!
Google anal-ytics joke)

and i'm wondering
about the ethics of said practice.
it's going alright so far
by alright i mean i'm going to cancel
any payments i've made to any sites.

but i want to ask everyone
what do you think
about how i should be handling responses?

most sites have a preliminary
minimal commitment form of contacting members
often a way of contacting another for free
if you cheapskates want to contact people without subscribing
emails are a different story and you have to pay money
in order to get more harshly rejected
er, i mean
get to know another more deeply.

so this is what i've come up with:
i am morally allowed to ignore the preliminary,
minimal commitment overtures
but i try to reply to the DECENT emails
those that aren't gross or just so cursory as to merit an ignore.

hmmm
whatchu guys/girls think?
and do you have anyone you'd like to set me up with?

i'm pretty cool...

but i really have
HERE.
And also read
THESE.
or this will happen to your soul:

photo property of icanhazcheezburger.com

this is tricky.  he says "sigur ros?  mow mow?"

so,
my girl,
rhythmforcedmelody
wrote this great post
about sigur ros
and i was so inspired by it
i put them on
and my cats started to swivel their ears
questionmark helicopter style
my littlest one meowed eerily
in the same key as the song playing
so sigur ros: awesome
and freaking out cats since 1994

go read.
it won't freak you out.
you'll like it!

 

 you just can't say no to her:

firstly,
Overheard in New York,
(blog compilation of conversations
you guessed it,
overheard in NY, NY!)
makes me laugh
because of things like this:

No More Montessori School for You, Young Lady

Mom, about man on train with flowers:
Awww, he has flowers. They're probably for his girlfriend.
Eight-year-old daughter:
Mom, you never know! They could be for a boy.
--LIRR

and this:

You Have Measured Out Your Life in Baby-Food Spoons
Five-year-old girl: Mommy, come on. This is not your time.
Mommy: When is my time?
Five-year-old girl: Never!

--Barnes & Noble, Chelsea


the ones from kids are the best.

second of all, i "installed" Leopard.
it's in quotes because
it gave me an error message
and a heart attack
that it couldn't complete the install
before it restarted my computer
but then proceeded to work anyway
yeah i have no idea what that was about

besides having issues with iTunes libraries
which is an endless battle that i seem to lose endlessly
and the Backup program for Tiger being full of suck
and that finally working only after about two hours of futzing with it
everything is operational!

YAY.

my iTunes are back to normal
so now my soul is back to normal
(music is really that important to my inner life)
and iChat has TABBED CHATS
that's right
TABBED CHATS
so now my eight hundred IM windows
are in ONE window
glorious.

however,
the iPhoto backgrounds SUCK
as in
they don't work at all
because i do have a whole hand
and a whole head

but maybe i don't
and apple is actually right about everything.

what do you guys think??
not about that photo of me
(terrible hahaha)
but about Le Leopard?!

you know what's annoying?
that there really isn't a great music hosting service
for blogs
so i can't just embed this track i want you to listen to
into this post
you have to go find it on the internet
or go to an external link
which, face it
you're unlikely to do
because we're lazy internet users
i'm totally guilty, too.

but if you feel like it
go listen to
cave in's 'new moon (piano version)'
it's spare and beautiful
like the moon
on a really cold night
where you're looking up at the sky
and all you see is the ghostly vapor of your breath
against a black starless sky
like i said

quite nice.

i am busy converting this blog
to this new one
hosted by iggli
consequently,
my arm is twitching
and there is pain
in muscles i didn't know existed
this posting is going to be all short
and non-existent.

lol
sorry.
i bought a rad desk
and chair
for my home office though.
yay?

go listen to charlotte martin!
gosh darnit!

http://www.iggli.com:8080/roller/
that's the new address of the home page for the new iggli blog
mine is
http://www.iggli.com:8080/roller/highfiredanger/
bookmarkles!!

new Saul Williams album
november 1st
produced by Trent Reznor
sold on his website
the title is niggy tardust
hmmm david bowie
ziggy stardust
worldplaymuch?
should be REALLY interesting
to see what's on that album.
Saul Williams is one of the most profound artists out there
whether you agree with him or not.
SO EXCITED!

so, iggli
the rad company this blog was set up for
ugh horrible sentence structure
is setting up their own blog platform
so someday soon
this blog will be found at another address
i know, scary, scary changes!

for now i will keep posting to this one
and for awhile after that
i'll post to both of them at the same time
so as to make the transition all friendly-like.
because i love my readers.
and wouldn't want them to get lost

xoxo
happy thursday, lovers!

ENOUGH!

goodness gracious, flixster.
and all other facebook apps that i don't have.

thing is,
if you don't have a certain app
and a friend in your cadre does
then, whenever they do something
with that app
facebook feels like they have to tell you about it
because you're not complete
if you don't have that app.

it's gettin' real annoying.
can't we turn off that feature, globally?
the stalking slash advertising feature?
what's that, satan facebook?
no?
i hate you and love myspace better
i love you anyway!

usually i'm so-so
when it comes to cover albums.
but lovers, let me tell you
charlotte martin's
reproductions
is a stellar achievement.

i cannot get over the tone of her voice.
it's sick!
i saw her in concert two weeks ago
(review pending, obvs)
and she's spectacular live.

songs i love from reproductions
in particular:
pearl jam's
elderly woman behind the counter in a small town
sinead o'connor's
i am stretched out on your grave.
i get chills during that second one.

i am so sure
that my neighbors
can hear me belting them through the walls.
all i have to say about that
is GET USED TO IT PEOPLE!
IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY.
I AM SO ALLOWED.

reproductions
comes out november 6 on iTunes
i got it early because it was available on her tour.
http://www.myspace.com/charlottemartin
go listen!

in the mean time
buy stromata
i love that album!
the instrumentation is really different
from what a lot of female singers are doing right now.
this ain't no brit brit, kiddies.
in content nor in form.

you won't be disappointed.

okay, so i like boys.
irrelevant to this blog?
hardly.

many, many times they are not in my life.
mostly this is fine.
i am a fairly independent lady
and i like me to myself
after all,
i can listen to my own music in the car
i do hate compromising on the important things!

so what is are some good soundtracks and songs for the gaps between beating hearts?

grace - jeff buckley
twentysomething - jamie cullum
homogenic - bjork
white ladder - david gray
transatlanticism - death cab for cutie
kid a - radiohead
selected sad songs, really.
charlotte martin songs...
i love her, generally.

hmmm, i'll surely put up a list
of songs
for A Samantha in Love
when my luck changes!
wish me good things.
xoxo.

it's 23 degrees Fahrenheit outside!!
(a clarification for those of you who are Celsius people)
whaaa!?!
no wait wait
BRRRR!!

i went to an awesome wedding this weekend
hence the lack of blogs!
wow i know you were all so so so sad
to not hear from me.
it was so much fun!
congratulations to the newlyweds!
and bam margera's dad
don vito
spelling, who knows
but i don't think it's worth googling
frankly!
was on my plane flight home to denver
how strange is that?
i'm tired!
on topic stuff tomorrow.
xoxo

gotta love tonedeff.
i’m not sure why i never got into hip hop and why it never got into me.

i can’t blame it on living in the suburbs, or my WASPY catatonia (lol), because those are currently prerequisites for many hip hop lovers in America. in my formative years, artists like Nine Inch Nails or Tool or Tori Amos always stole my attention away. but recently i’ve realized it’s short-sighted to think hip hop is not a part of my life.

for example, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails recently toured with Saul Williams, collaborated with El-P, and compared his creative process of his most recent album Year Zero to Public Enemy’s; Tori Amos reinterpreted an Eminem song , and Wu Tang Clan just got the rights to the Beatles’ “My Guitar Gently Weeps.” okay, i don’t like the Beatles, but i’m just saying that hip hop intersects the alternative genre where i locate the majority of my taste.

thus, it was time for me to pay homage and I found the perfect opportunity!

Reed, a friend and iggli colleague of mine, suggested a genre-swap – to go and experience a type of music that is far outside of one’s normal tastes and then write about it. lucky for both of us, he’s a promoter with Nancy Drew Presents, and was one of the masterminds behind the incredibly successful october 6 show at the Fox Theater. the bill was Cunnin Lynguists, PackFM, Sleep of Chicarones, Zelly Rock, Whiskey Blanket, tonedeff, and audible audities.

i got to see it from upstairs, downstairs, back stage side stage... lucky me! it was truly an experience.

would you like to know one main conclusion from the evening?

people are wrong!
the accusations you hear about hip hop do not apply wholesale.
the acts that I saw had a ridiculous amount of skill, linguistically and physically.
i always hear in the media, that hip hop is a useless bunch of soulless thugs.
these were some of the nicest, most polite people i have ever met. they are also some of the smartest and well-spoken.

kids, turn off fox news!

another remarkable thing about the evening was the energy. the conviction in the room, the love for the artists was unbelievable. even for the opening acts, the appreciation and attention was intense. now, these aren’t acts you’d yet see on the billboard charts, but it was as though they were the greatest in the world at that moment. their interaction with the crowd was indicative with their impeccable showmanship and the crowd showed their appreciation endlessly. i was very impressed that even the openers got so much attention, as a lot of the rock shows i’ve been, the openers usually get little to no attention. i’m not sure why this is, and why this show was different, and if this is generally a trend in hip hop (i can’t say since this was only my first show) but it was an interesting observation!

i was also lucky enough to sit in on an interview with the headliners of the show, Cunnin Lynguists, conducted chiefly by out tha box television. they were very fascinated with the fact that i had never been to a hip hop show, and i was grateful that they let such an amateur like myself be a part of it! i asked, what seemed to me, like fairly informed questions: what do you think about the state of hip hop?; what do you think about the push to remove certain words from hip hop altogether? i will certainly post the interview when it is up.

my second and final conclusion is this: it is worth it to go and experience a completely alien form of music. keep your mind open and you might find a new artist. at the very least, if you work for iggli, you can write off the ticket in your taxes.


Cunnin Lynguists - Fox Theatre 10.06.07

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look that at that CROWD!

as i said
in my last half-post
i had my browser up all day
on hype machine's page*
watching the numbers
getting counted
because the new hype machine would only launch
phoenix anew-style
spiffed from all its changes
if 10,000 people viewed the page all at once
COOL!

tangent:
you would think 10,000 people
looking at ANYTHING at once would make that thing
explode with that energy
but I GUESS NOT!
i guess 10,000 pairs of eager eyes
makes hype machine launch!

so all of the sudden around 12:30am
the hit counter all of the sudden went crazypants!:

whoa, i say
to myself
as it goes to this:

but the biggest difference
was THIS:

ZOMG GETTING READY TO LAUNCH!
and then
@12:33pm MST
IT DID!
*cries*
O HAI new Hype Machine!
enough from me
go see!

http://hypem.com/

*HM is a music blog aggregator
it also allows you to preview tracks directly from its page
as a digg commenter said
with top diggs from other commenters
meaning that they agree
"i wouldn't be cool if it weren't for hype machine"
or something like that
'cause i think it was spelled incorrectly.
BUT YOU GET IT
so go GET HYPED!
(yay anthony volodkin!
awesomely awesome creator of hype machine!)

i've had my browser open all day
after i heard that the new hype machine will only launch
if 10,000 people view the page simultaneously
WOW
that's just cool stuff


OMG!

IT DID IT DID!

why do i have to love this album?!
why do i have to love this album!?
why do i have to love this album!?
i don't have to
perhaps i shouldn't,
and yet i still do...

STUPID IN RAINBOWS!
WHY DO YOU ROCK ME SO!?
even as your progenitor may so royally whomp us all
i hope there is a good explanation for THIS
eventually

but i can't deny
that all of the songs have crept into my subconscious
to the point where
i'll be doing something else in the house with no music on
and i'll get a sudden intense craving to listen to it
RIGHTNOW

i'll have to turn it on immediately
elsewise it will just play endlessly
most likely looping a part
for which the lyrics are unclear
so my mind turns this bit into sea glass
turning it over and over and over and over in my head
so you really must understand that this is serious.

i call it raddiction.
*pukes from pun-induced vertigo*
i'll just keep getting slapped around listening
because i can't stop
and hope things between us get better...

GET IT?

I messed up FeedBurner
and I called it
a missFIRE
FIRE because it's feed BURNER
and MISS because
my attempt was previously full of FAILURE

i saw that if you were subscribed you got flooded with posts about an hour ago
since i entered the correct thing today
which was
good AND bad to get flooded
depending upon how much you LOVE me
i think i've got it all under control.

i will stop with THE STRATEGIC CAPITALIZED WORDS
eventually
i PROMISE.

xoxo