Intermittence

(In no particular order)

• What I Got – Sublime
• Fell In Love With a Girl – The White Stripes
• The Distance – Cake
• Around the World – Daft Punk
• Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
• Fett’s Vette – mc chris
• All My Life – Foo Fighters
• I Might Be Wrong – Radiohead
• Hypnotise – The White Stripes
• The Way I Feel Inside – The Zombies
• Everlong – Foo Fighters
• Such Great Heights – The Postal Service
• Times Like These – Foo Fighters
• Another One Bites the Dust – Queen
• Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes
• Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois – Sufjan Stevens
• Title and Registration – Death Cab For Cutie
• Weapon of Choice – Fatboy Slim
• Love Removal Machine – The Cult
• I’ll Stick Around – Foo Fighters
• Girlfriend – Matthew Sweet
• Machinehead – Bush
• Cochise – Audioslave
• No One Knows – Queens of the Stone Age

The play list is actually 25 songs long, but Everlong is listed twice. Read the rest of this entry »

Barack Obama starts his candidacy with a gaffe and an apology…

“We now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.”

I think he’s right. Consider a handful of $100 bills, each of which have value to various individuals. If somebody throws them into a furnace, they’ve been wasted: their value was not respected by the person in control of their fate, and their potential was destroyed.

Obama has nothing to apologize for, but the general public won’t see it that way. Here’s to hoping he watches his step a little better in the months to come… Read the rest of this entry »

We continue looking for the perfect house…

My attention is drawn to this and this, but people can’t really live in houses that small, can they?

Happily, I mean?

This is just disturbing.

Highlights:

• 1/3rd of High School graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives
• 42% of college graduates never read another book after college
• 80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year

This explains a lot.