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[electricland]

To self: Buy this record.

By the way, what else should I be listening to these days? I've been in heaven listening to CDs again, but I think it's time to branch out and get some new stuff. Also, I just filed my tax return, so I have money coming in.

Some evidence that humans really aren't the dead loss of a species that I sometimes fear we are:

Last night's seder began with a dedication to "the vision of a transformed Middle East: a free and prosperous Palestine alongside a secure and prosperous Israel."

Guests took turns reading from a text Yarosky had assembled from various sources, including elements from the Haggadah used during the traditional seder, held the first and second nights of Passover. The Haggadah, for instance, features a recitation of 10 plagues brought upon the Egyptians for refusing to allow the Israelites to leave, including frogs and darkness. Ten contemporary plagues were added last night, including tyranny and indifference to human suffering.

Meeting today -- uberboss explained the new compensation plan. No more overtime bank, but PMs get bonuses if we bring projects in on or under budget. I'm cautiously optimistic this will work out OK (at least, it will if we ever learn how to scope realistically). Good news in the short term: overtime payout quite soon, so that's some nice unexpected cash...

Just need to finish my timesheet, then I'm on vacation until the 19th! Wheee!

Comments

[javahousejihad.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the long holiday.

What kind of suggestions to music are you looking for, what types of music do you like?

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Well. Hm.

I listen to a reasonably wide range of stuff (pop, folk/Celtic, jazz, classical, country, etc.). I like lyrics. I like to be able to sing along. I hate whiny tenors and singers who sound like they're overstraining with every. single. note (recently figured this out about Sheryl Crow). I sometimes feel my collection is a bit skewed towards female singers and I'd like to get a bit more balance in there. I listen to pop radio only when I'm driving, which isn't that often, so a lot of stuff passes me by, and I don't follow music news with the same religious fervour I used to so my collection reflects the tastes of my early twenties more than perhaps it needs to. Dance music by and large annoys me. All this aside, I'll listen to most anything if someone I respect recommends it -- I need my horizons expanded some here.

Artists I like to listen to include but are by no means limited to... Kirsty MacColl, Tori Amos, Emmylou Harris, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Jann Arden, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, the Pogues, Aimee Mann, the Beatles, the Ramones, U2 (not so much their recent stuff though), Lucinda Williams, Boiled in Lead, Nick Cave (although I haven't found an album I really like yet -- this preference is based purely on one song on the Gas Food Lodging soundtrack). Good Lord, I know there's more than that. Much more. Really there is.



I get a huge kick out of Linkin Park and Evanescence and Avril Lavigne, but I'm not really sure I'm ready to commit yet -- it could just be the radio effect. I've been very much enjoying the White Stripes and am not quite sure why I haven't bought anything of theirs yet.

I don't know if this helps.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

you still at work??
if so, log into MSN (8:39 your time)

I have news.

[javahousejihad.livejournal.com]

Ok, well try Yoko Kanno. She's japanese and the person behind all the music to Cowboy Bebop. She has a kind of Blues rock thing going on with the ubiquitous japanese electronic side to it. Her albums some are imports some are not. But you can definately find her to d/l online for 'preview' purposes. I recommend Ask DNA and future blues.

You should also look in CD's by PM Dawn and Madness. Excellent bands.

anyway thats three of my many cents.

Music recommendations

[drkeys.livejournal.com]

- Nick Drake (especially Five Leaves Left)
- Stevie Wonder (I didn't see him on your list, but he's pretty obvious, I guess)
- Bruce Hornsby: Here Come The Noisemakers, Spirit Trail, Harbor Lights. You may or may not consider him on the whiny tenor side, but his piano playing more than makes up for it.
- Paul Simon
- Brad Mehldau: Anything Goes (great piano trio record, with covers of Radiohead and Paul Simon... definitely one of the top releases of 2004)

That's just the beginning...