Denis Leary Loves Twilight Singers May 30, 2006

like we didn’t know this already…. glad someone else caught on too…

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Denis Leary Loves Twilight Singers By scott on MP3 Fiery FX drama Rescue Me premieres tonight, and its star/executive producer is taking some interview opportunities to give free publicity to the new Twilight Singers album. Denis hit The Daily Show earlier this month and brought the CD with him: “This is an album I had nothing to do with. It’s the best album I heard in ten years. It’s called Powder Burns by the Twilight Singers.” He also says in the new Entertainment Weekly. “[Powder Burns] is one of the best rock albums I’ve heard in 10 years. Thematically, it seems like it’s all connected to a dark story of addiction. It’s really powerful.” Greg Dulli’s autobiographical tales of drug dependency do make for a great record. Especially if you like dense, guitar rock with a shot of depressing. Turns out, the song I picked to share with you is on the excellent Rescue Me soundtrack. The Twilight Singers – “Bonnie Brae” (MP3) Don’t tell Denis the show’s website never heard of them: At last night’s Boston gig, Twilight Scissors Singers did Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy.” (They’re a great cover band too.) I’ll keep an ear out for MP3. I should mention that “Bonnie Brae” song features Ani Difranco. Dulli told Billboard: “I’ll tell you, I love the wall-of-sound. I really do. I love layering and I love the discovery of new parts to go with other parts. That song in particular sonically came alive when I added the mellotron to it. And then when Ani did her harmony vocals at the end, it sonically blows my mind. So, that song in particular, it’s one of my favorites I’ve done in the last couple of years.” Stream more Powder Burns here.

back home May 27, 2006

today concludes my gig as a professional house sitter. it’s community days around these parts this weekend, i just want the funnel cake, there was talk within the group about going to see the fireworks tonight. i think it’ll actually be a nice day all day, no rain for the moment. stayed out late, later than usual, but a relatively low key night with the less dramatic of the crew. took my crazied hair self to get coffee this am and came back to hang out on the fab. glider swing in the back. as soon as i get situated, loud neighbors w/ kids come out- ending my fabulous relaxing saturday am.

i made a friend a stills mix cd- ran into her last night and she immediately began gushing about the cd and how she wanted to come to the show- it’s always nerve racking to make something for someone, even though a mix cd isn’t REALLY a total product of my full creation, you are putting your self out there by saying that you love this and maybe you will too. so, it was cool to know that someone appreciated it.

what to say. May 26, 2006

The Red Star
Originally uploaded by grawesome.

i saw this photo is grawesome’s flickr acct and had to blog it. nice shot of the red star that you have heard way too much about.

the week went ok, long but ok. i am back to my other library job at the beginning of june, so that’ll be work and the always great money. right now i am working less than 10 hours/ week for which i earn money; the majority of my working time i am actually paying to do as part of my field placement. so yeah, it’s a cruel summer to quote the bananarama.

i feel a bit bitter today, getting easily ammoyed by people participating in annoying activities like slurping their coffee. makes me insane. last saturday i had my all time favourite annoyance right behind me on the bus: clipping of the nails in public. i have to say it was way more present in dc than here, but still each clip makes me feel even crazier than the last.

not to make this entire entry be a boring bitter one, but…. last week one of my teacher’s called me by the wrong name, in a fairly confident way, saying heather and moving on to the next person, before i even knew what had happened. anyway. for some reason it really bothered me, making me feel terrible and weird. i guess it’s a think that i have always “struggled” with- i feel like i am always the other person, the friend of that person, the one who no one ever knows who the hell i am aside from the connection to someone far more cool and popular than me. is this part of only child syndrome? don’t know. anyway, i felt a bit pissed- apparently i am still bitter enough to blog about it a week later.

i watched an episode of stylicious on the tivo at natasha’s last night, it was ok, nothing i would make i don’t think, but i guess i might try and catch it again to at least see what the austin craft mafia is up to….

plans for the long weekend? i want to eat picnic food don’t know if that will happen, but i dig the grand concept of it.

sleep, please May 24, 2006

i am collecting some things for h, she’s under the knife this weekend, so i have been getting some stuff together. i also made a totally bedazzled (with glitter….) compact for her, it’s drying at present. i’ll totally photo that. (Sorry for the crappy cameraphone photos…) the purse includes a button that i borrowed from a friend, thanks.

the day was sooooooooo long. i took the bus from gbg to pgh. it was nice to not drive at all, but i didn’t get back until nearly 8:30. plus the bus contains people who talk too much about weird stuff. mass transit does weird stuff to people, yeah?

n sounds like she is having a good time on vaca. could her neighbors cut out the riding the bike past late at night, super loud? for me? please? also, i would like to request that the neighbor cat not meow so late? again, thanks.

can you imagine going to a stationery show? omg.

man, this turned into rambling central. sorry bout that.

i am using your knitting needles while you are away. May 22, 2006

i guess i came to n’s place totally unprepared. no knitting needles, at least i guess i can bum hers.

the weekend came and went quickly. school the majority of the time. it actually went rather quickly, well as quickly as a 9-5 class can go. saturday night i went out, seeing the usual suspects. h has her surgery on friday so i am compiling entertainment for her while she is out of commission. i bought some weird scrapbook paper at jo jo’s while looking for yarn for h, i think i’ll use it on my grand book making project, yea, the scrapbook paper was something like $.06 a sheet. sweet. i have some books for manipulating, and i am trying to learn some skills in the way of bookmaking. i have some other books to pick up so that i can learn more about the subject.

i’m watching DiG right now. i love the part when two of the dudes from brian jonestown quit the band in chicago and decide to walk back to california. that about sums up brian jonestown if you ask me.

i just had the crazy realization that i get to see twilight in like two weeks. sweet, like gd says, love don’t mean a thing but 2am and a telephone ring. if you know what i am saying… ok i’m out.

A Drink With… Carla Hayden May 20, 2006

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A Drink With… Carla Hayden By Blake on Smashing-image-of-a-librarian The Baltimore Sun Has A nice Q&A with Carla Hayden, “early 50-ish,” defies the stereotype of librarian. Stylish and sophisticated, with a strong interest in fashion, she has spent her career in libraries: in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and – for the last 12 years – as executive director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. Divorced, with no children, Hayden is also past president of the American Library Association. Q#1: What’s sexy about being a librarian? Here’s the link to the sun article.

was it speed or speed 2? May 19, 2006

i had the most bizarre thing happen to me today. i was waiting for the bus, late as one could expect. one bus bound for the garage goes by, then here come another. i must have looked pissed b/c it stopped, the driver asked me where i was going and said he’d take me. the bus was out of service b/c there weren’t people who needed picked up and they were off schedule, or something, i wasn’t really paying attention at first, i thought the bus would go back in service and others would join me on the bus. yeah, i think i was wrong. so we don’t pick up anyone else, the bus driver said b/c of where i needed to go he’d take another route, going on the ultra fun super fast busway, getting me to my destination in less than half the time. it was like being a huge taxi cab b/c the driver was a little bit chatty, and i was the only sole on the bus. so we get there, and he asks my name, as if i wasn’t weirded out by the big taxi cab thing enough, so then he tells me his, and then he says that he LOVES my hair. yes, i got off the bus about as fast as possible. best part, i have seen this driver before, and KNOW that i will see him again. totally random weird story, i know.

tomorrow is the crazy 9-5 class, i said i would go out tomorrow night, i think i’ll need a nap before that. plus, i am now juggling two house sitting jobs, i think i’ll end up getting that not knowing where you are when you wake up thing. that’s the worst feeling ever.

oh, i dig the twilight cd, it’s cool, more upbeat in that gd way where it’s upbeat but it’s really crazy upsetting weird lyrics. i have bought so much lately from bands that i really love that i feel like i am not focusing and overplaying just one of the cds, but all of them. aside from stadium arcadium, which i think is at natasha’s house. i hope it’s there anyway…..

clp May 19, 2006

there was a great editorial about the recent econ. impact study of the carnegie here.

just the facts May 19, 2006

work is going ok, i think it is trying to be better, and i am trying to give it the chance. this week was crap in so many respects, bad weather all around, bad feelings all around. don’t know.

i went to a session tonight as a observation for one of my classes, bizarro is the least of what i can say. i’m just going to say that i cannot believe the things people teach their kids, on purpose.

h styled my hair tonight, including a near side braid, will post photo later. i only wish my hair was long again so that i could braid it or put it in buns. oh, the good olden days…. (FFFF. i was going to insert a photo of me with long hair, but realized that my photos are in storage. you don’t care anyway. i will not even know what i own by the time i can get my stuff out of storage, good, no.)

oh, and i bought the new twilight cd tonight, you know, just on the recommendation of dennis leary. that’s a joke- it is cool that he is mad promoting the cd on the talk shows lately though, what a good friend gd has in dl.

whoa May 17, 2006

you must check out the website for the raconteurs, super cool, like 1980 in the good way.