[...] #1 Regina Spektor’s Begin To Hope. First off, she’s Russian, which has that certain Slavic cachet, I think. Russian, and as you can see here and here, hot and the wearer of some very cute clothes. Can we just talk about the cut-out elbows in the second video’s suit? Because I think they’re just awesome, somehow. They remind me of something Linda Loudermilk would design, and I’m strangely obsessed with her clothes. But, um, I suppose her music isn’t about her clothes or her cute hair or any of that. So, the album. This is not really my usual type of music, but I like her voice and some of the songs are totally catchy. Boyo and I sang “It breaks my hear-ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arrrt“ for hours after listening to it in the car. But some songs are just too Tori Amos punk rock grrrl with fairy wings and a piano for me, because I hate Tori Amos. Also Dave Matthews, not that that has anything to do with anything except to show that I am kind of a musical weirdo, apparently. Ahem. So, there are four or five songs on the album that just rock my world and get in my head and I sing all day, and there is The Suit Without Elbows, and the hot Russian-ness, so I think all that combined gives a thumbs up to Begin To Hope. Because, really, isn’t that what you were waiting for before running out to the store (or clickety-clickety Amazoning) to purchase the album? [...]

But, since you brought it up, may I add one of my “web irritations”?

Music and/or talking on the website? I’m not talking about a video or something i can click a little arrow to listen to if i so choose. I’m talking about music and/or talking that starts even before the website is fully loaded.

#A, it always, always, ALWAYS scares the bejeebers out of me, which in turn, PISSES ME RIGHT THE HELL OFF

#2, i may or may not be checking the particular website at work and did you ever stop to THINK? I may not want to broadcast to the entire workplace that i’m CHECKING OUT A WEBSITE???? (And don’t tell me to must the sound. did you also ever stop to think that i might need to sound on OTHERWISE? for ME? and not YOU?)

So, if you want me to visit your website, PLEASE, for the love God! DON’T have music embedded in it! Cause the second i open a website with music, no matter HOW badly I want to view it, if the music and/or talking starts up? I immediately close it.

um, yeah. apparently, i feel pretty strongly about this issue. Sorry for the all caps back there. crawling back under my rock now… thanks.

Speaking of spending money: Sundry, if you and/or JB are not sporting these shirts by Easter I will be dreadfully, dreadfully disappointed.

http://www.seibei.com/shop/intramural.html

You can customise VARIABLE LEVELS OF GORE. Don’t tell me you’re not smitten.

:)

And if you sit anywhere in the first two rows, you inevitably get splattered with stage blood, which just makes it all the more enjoyable as far as I’m concerned.

[...] Ever since I read this, I have been in a tailspin. Wait, people don’t like links to open in new windows? But what if they lose their place at the previous blog? Do you have any idea how LONG my average post is? Yes, yes, I know, Firefox holds your place for you, but believe it or not, some people do not use Firefox. [...]