So… I haven’t updated at all this summer as a result of two.. i guess maybe three.. things.

1) I’ve been working about 50 hours a week and go many days without even turning on my computer

2) I couldn’t remember my user name to log in.

3) I have been too lazy/busy to hastle with getting my correct user name from my laptop (AKA tabletop to store DVD box sets on.)

Here is a brief list of things I intended to write about this summer but never did:

• Girl Talk back in Tulsa (fun show; even better than last summer)
• The New CSS album (good, different, not too different. I like it)
• Random observations in everyday office work (and its parallels with the internets)
• Batman
• The Roots Live (I have listened to many many live recordings, but was not prepared for the awesomeness. Black Thought is most certainly an MC in the truest sense of the term.)
• Phantom Planet live (decent. not their best show. one more reason why i hate festivals.)
• The Happening (a movie in which nothing ever happens)
• Every Single episode of This American Life (With the Exception of #5… I probably will write about this experience)

And probably many many other things i cannot think of at the moment.

I never listen to the radio. (Don’t worry Ira Glass, I don’t mean that kind of radio.) It just doesn’t seem worth it to surf around until you come across the last half of a song I really like only to find it is followed by something i equally loathe. Perhaps working at Best Buy for so long has aided in this feeling. Once you see what kind of people come in to buy a Seether album it becomes impossible to have disdain for the band simply because they suck. That being said, my girlfriend sent me a message last night when she was driving to tell me she heard M.I.A. on the radio, because she thought it was weird. I am not aware of how long radio considered her friendly and easily digestible music, but I was a little surprised. Even more surprised when she told me it was part of a stations nightly top ten request count down. Okay, so granted it was Paper Planes, and a lot of people know it and it’s in the trailer for that one movie (Pineapple Express? I think?) but it still seems weird. And here is my sole point in this post, M.I.A. on the radio must make pretentious indie hipsters ecstatic. This is the PERFECT thing for them to complain about in an effort to prove their credibility. They were already in a grumble when so many magazines and radio shows named Kala the best or one of the best albums of last year. Now, everyone get to work!

“I liked her before she was on the radio, you know, when she was still making music.”