Saturday, July 08, 2006

"Here in this empty house where nothing stays buried"

So I've been out of touch with the blogosphere (I always wanted to use that word) for quite some time; this is largely the result of the fact that our apartment seems to get and lose free wireless access on a random basis. Another contributing factor is probably the fact that I'm now working six days a week. And when I'm not working, I tend to be reading or hanging out with people. Still, I'm going to try to keep things a little more up-to-date in the future.

Tomorrow at 1:00 is the world cup final between Italy and France. Italy has my bet, since France had a shaky start and last game. However, I'm not strongly rooting for either team.

My obsession with the Mountain Goats is continuing to deepen. John Darnielle is a phenomenal songwriter; I wish I could some even close to capturing the way he uses simple symbols and ideas to create huge impact and communicate deep ideas and characters. I've also been listening quite a bit to the Drive-By Truckers and Jens Lekman.

I'll write more later, but now I need to go take a shower.

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