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Nov. 5th, 2011
Monkey Wedding
Nov. 5th, 2011 01:13 pmIt's been a week since I moved into my own apartment.
I happen to be spending this weekend without [Sexy!Roommate] but that's all right, because I met with friends last night. A friend from Uni (previous, not current) invited me over for Friday night supper and it was quite glorious. A close-knit group being so warm and accepting towards a "stranger" and excellent food - there were not enough people to eat it all.
And today I work up so very late and had breakfast for lunch.
Apparently I moved into a neighbourhood with quite a dodgy reputation, which I understand where it comes from, it is quite neglected (despite the fact that many of the neighbourhoods, other than the tourist traps and historically restored ones, are equally neglected by the city) and what you'd consider "low class", I can't really tell you if the reputation of dogdiness is warranted. Maybe once I've lived here for longer.
Right now it's raining buckets while the sun is shining. My parents always said that there's a monkey wedding when that happens.
I don't really understand that idiom, but it's something that stuck on my mind, because I can only assume it means monkeys get married under a rainbow.
My room still doesn't feel like it's mine. There are too many things missing and there is still so much to be done in the flat itself.
Maybe you're all bored by all this writing about the changes I've gone though over the past few weeks...
So, is there something you want me to write about? Something you miss reading on this LJ/DW? Are you all busy writing NaNoWriMo?
I happen to be spending this weekend without [Sexy!Roommate] but that's all right, because I met with friends last night. A friend from Uni (previous, not current) invited me over for Friday night supper and it was quite glorious. A close-knit group being so warm and accepting towards a "stranger" and excellent food - there were not enough people to eat it all.
And today I work up so very late and had breakfast for lunch.
Apparently I moved into a neighbourhood with quite a dodgy reputation, which I understand where it comes from, it is quite neglected (despite the fact that many of the neighbourhoods, other than the tourist traps and historically restored ones, are equally neglected by the city) and what you'd consider "low class", I can't really tell you if the reputation of dogdiness is warranted. Maybe once I've lived here for longer.
Right now it's raining buckets while the sun is shining. My parents always said that there's a monkey wedding when that happens.
I don't really understand that idiom, but it's something that stuck on my mind, because I can only assume it means monkeys get married under a rainbow.
My room still doesn't feel like it's mine. There are too many things missing and there is still so much to be done in the flat itself.
Maybe you're all bored by all this writing about the changes I've gone though over the past few weeks...
So, is there something you want me to write about? Something you miss reading on this LJ/DW? Are you all busy writing NaNoWriMo?
A Question About Music
Nov. 5th, 2011 04:51 pmI recently acquired the new Florence + The Machine album Ceremonials. It is very good in my opinion.
But tell me friends, how do you know which if the contemporary artists and musicians you like are popular or not?
I don't watch MTV, my trawling through Youtube is sketchy at best and usually directed towards videos of cute cat or various political gatherings and suffice to say that Israel is so stuck in the 90's that the website selling tickets for the K's Choice tour crashed several times when it opened up for locals to buy (yes, I have a ticket, weehee!). Oh, and I don't follow the charts or the Grammy's unless it's research for something I'm writing that's set in a certain time frame (which means I'm more likely going to be looking at charts from the 60's or the 70's).
We are slightly dated, also the radio is an unreliable source of knowing which acts are popular or not in my opinion.
I'll be the first to admit that my taste in music is terribly banal and ordinary. I have a few bootlegs (that I digitised) of underground queer core songs, but I don't listen to those on a regular basis and I bought the bootlegs in order to support an anarchist collective as opposed to actually liking the music, so, yeah...
It's just that, I read this article about Florence + The Machine and the middle class apathy and I really couldn't figure out what this guy was talking about?
Am I utterly mixed in my genres? Since when is a remixed to death and multi voice track recording considered folk?
I'll admit that I'm slightly dated in my definitions (seeing as I'm an avid Joni Mitchell listener, as well as Joan Baez and Tracy Chapman), but um, am I missing something?
I mean, isn't Florence + The Machine more like Lady Gaga than, say, Suzanne Vega?
But tell me friends, how do you know which if the contemporary artists and musicians you like are popular or not?
I don't watch MTV, my trawling through Youtube is sketchy at best and usually directed towards videos of cute cat or various political gatherings and suffice to say that Israel is so stuck in the 90's that the website selling tickets for the K's Choice tour crashed several times when it opened up for locals to buy (yes, I have a ticket, weehee!). Oh, and I don't follow the charts or the Grammy's unless it's research for something I'm writing that's set in a certain time frame (which means I'm more likely going to be looking at charts from the 60's or the 70's).
We are slightly dated, also the radio is an unreliable source of knowing which acts are popular or not in my opinion.
I'll be the first to admit that my taste in music is terribly banal and ordinary. I have a few bootlegs (that I digitised) of underground queer core songs, but I don't listen to those on a regular basis and I bought the bootlegs in order to support an anarchist collective as opposed to actually liking the music, so, yeah...
It's just that, I read this article about Florence + The Machine and the middle class apathy and I really couldn't figure out what this guy was talking about?
Am I utterly mixed in my genres? Since when is a remixed to death and multi voice track recording considered folk?
I'll admit that I'm slightly dated in my definitions (seeing as I'm an avid Joni Mitchell listener, as well as Joan Baez and Tracy Chapman), but um, am I missing something?
I mean, isn't Florence + The Machine more like Lady Gaga than, say, Suzanne Vega?
