The Modern Log

On Thursday night, I saw R.E.M. And while I have to say I was oddly disappointed to not hear “Underneath the Bunker” (have they ever played this live? My guess is “no”), it was a wonderful show. I can’t imagine a better first time. Sloan was playing the same night, at the same time, at [...]

Sloan’s new album, Parallel Play, came out yesterday. My pre-ordered copy is somewhere in the mail, but Yep Roc is nice and lets you download it as well as having a hard copy.
This morning, after spilling my coffee on my light blueish green shirt (”I’d call that seafoam,” said a co-worker who shouldn’t say things [...]

This morning, on the way to work (sipping on an ICED coffee — thank you so much, Daniela, for asking) I was listening to the previously discussed “Lovely Allen” and realized that I love it because it reminds me of Thrush Hermit’s glorious “Patriot.” The videos are quite different, I think you’ll find, but [...]

I have a strange relationship with music videos. I loved them, mainly. At first, they were a novelty to be enjoyed late on Friday nights or whenever I was visiting Long Island. Once we had cable, I began consuming music videos the way I had previously consumed books, constantly, passionately, voraciously. I still remember the [...]

I just had the most wonderful idea, but I’ve already talked myself out of it.
While reading Popbitch, I noted a fantastic acronym: IDNSHC. I have read it before and enjoyed it before. (For the uninitiated, it generally pops up in “Stood next to ___ at the urinal” posts. You can figure it out.) Today, [...]

Every once in a while (more like every couple of years) I meet up with people I used to know and still sort of know, in the following-along-online way. Today was one such day.
There’s the standard “What have you been up to?”/”Eh, the same. How about you?” exchange, generally. But this time was a bit [...]

There’s a dog barking behind one of the houses. I like to think it is because I am singing this song out loud in my kitchen with the windows open and the little guy is singing along. Probably not though.
Anyway, I am going to keep singing it, because I got out of work on time [...]

Um, remember that whole re-crushing thing? Yeah. So it turns out, after watching Johnny Depp accept his MTV Movie Award, I’ve regressed further into re-crush territory. Clearly, I’ve never been righter than I was in 1987. Holy smokes.

Sometime last week or the week before, I got re-crushed on someone. Re-crushed is bad, worse than newly-crushed. With newly-crushed, there’s a lot of learning to do, things to watch for, things to look up.
With re-crushed, there is all of that, plus all of the stuff I’d originally experienced/written/talked about to re-explore. In other words, [...]