The Modern Log

Here’s just a little peek inside our house:
At 11:30 PM tonight, Dollie and I sat in the living room hysterically crying. She, at some certainly monumental and touching moment in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And me at a lady butchering the lyrics to “Uptown Girl” on “The Singing Bee.” Mine was of the [...]

Today, I present “Smothered in Hugs,” because my sunshine fund is low and because it seems an appropriate send off for the lovely Matt Cullen.
I hated this song when I first heard it, along with everything on Bee Thousand, an album so painfully low-fi that it smacked of a rich kid slumming. Seriously, unless you’re [...]

As noted last week, I’m collecting songs that I have deemed among the greatest ever and posting them here for in no particular order. I do this for kicks, for posterity, to be productive and to share the love.
“Creep” by TLC
The greatness of this song inspires me to be greater. The chorus? Killer. The verses? [...]

Last night I saw Travis, just two weeks shy of 10 years since I first saw them (at Brownies. Yes, I’m awesome).
The show was great. I really like the new album quite a bit (and I’ve only really liked Good Feeling — which STILL holds up on a roadtrip — and The Man Who, so [...]

There’s one lady who always knows what to bring and how to bring it. And when it’s Xavier Boyer, the time is always right.
Thanks to a gift from this wonderful woman, I have been ferociously enjoying the Axe Riverboy album (when I’m not watching Fabrice Fabrice over and over — seriously, what is wrong with [...]

I famously (seriously, did Nick Kroll observe my behavior at a bar one night and create Fabrice Fabrice, or is this all a coincidence? And is it wrong that I have a tremendous crush on a fictional character who bears a striking resemblance to myself drunk — well, except the clothes. whoa. — because I [...]

Henrik has re-signed. Hallelujah!
To celebrate, here is a nice video for a not-bad Sloan song. (Though, as the lovely and talented Lola has noted, the “or maybe TWO!” at the end almost ruins it all).

Oh, and THIS … is awesome.

How was my week? Well, I’m not drunk and yet I just started crying laughing at this Andy Milonakis segment. Whoa. Seriously, though, the “Do you Herbie Johnson take this lovely wife … to be your lawfully wedded wife” part is pretty flipping hilarious. And then when he throws the water? Awesome.

I had another memorable dream. Two of them. And they were way better than the stupid Sloan/ Korn one, though both were tied to work.
In one, it was my last day of work, and some IT person was running off a report of my computer, noting all the things I looked at that I shouldn’t [...]