This is my desktop. The pic’s a balloon animal John made for Koko on her birthday. Gotta get those birthday pics uploaded soon. But anyway, I like this shot, the cheerful sweetness and all that.
Month: March 2004
New Music (Well, New To Me)
Here are some of the things I’m listening to these days which are new to me, or else which have reappeared in my life again, after a long absence: The Smiths. Myoung Jae loaned me a copy of the CD that collected their singles and it was funny, the conversation that he and Mer and I had about it. “When Myoung told me he’d loaned you the Smiths, I was surprised you hadn’t heard it.” “Yeah,” I said, sometimes it sounds like something coming from me myself, the lyrics feel like they’re coming from inside me.” “Yeah,” Mer replies. “I …
Back Afloat
Well, this site is back up. I’ve changed servers, and I’m working on a makeover for the site, but it turns out I am a lot busier than I thought I’d be. So the total makeover will have to wait for a week or two, once I’ve created the dabang band holding page and gotten a fair bit of the rest of the dabang site ready for the launch (which will coincide with our 2nd album’s release). Then I hope to make this site look exquisite. But for now, it’s a default style with a few mods and some hunks …
On Being A Grown-Up
This week’s Friday Five is mine: The other day I had a talk I had with a co-worker, Shawn, at my workplace. I was talking about an experience at the swimming pool and how I realized, through that experience, that I was actually an adult; I mean, I felt it clearly at that time. It wasn’t the first time that I felt clearly the reality of my adulthood, though. Those kinds of moments come at funny moments, don’t they? My baby sister, who is engaged to be married this summer, commented that she wonders when she will feel grown-up. I …
Desert Island Discs?
This week’s Friday Five question was posed by Gina: So, going back to the original source material responsible for “The Friday Five,” Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, (and its source material, Desert Island Discs the show): What are your top 5 “desert island” discs? Wow, that’s such a tough question. It’s a funny one, because you know, this weekend I was listening to the soundtrack of High Fidelity. I’d just had a kind of experience that could have been in that movie/book, actually, well, sort of. A kind of weird, degrading, or at least sorta perplexing, experience with a woman, and …