“Next our statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation we attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception”

~Mark Twain

This is pretty incredible.

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Ahhhhh happiness. We got tickets - and for the last show of this teeny tiny tour. Fox Theatre in Atlanta looks pretty nice too! Ah, glad to be in the south.

Saw this floating around the world wide webernets and since I love to procrastinate and pay for it later….

Total Length
» 3,431 songs, 9.5 days total time, 19.5 GB
(that reminds me that I still have to move itunes songs from old computer onto this one)

First and Last Songs (by title)
» “A-Punk” by Vampire Weekend
» “2000 Man” by The Rolling Stones

Shortest and Longest Songs
» “Ask for Janice” by the Beastie Boys, 11 seconds
» “Train 1″ by Phillp Glass, 21:26

First and Last Albums (by title)
» “Acoustic” by John Lennon
» “11.11″ by Regina Spektor

First and Last Artist (by name)
» Aimee Mann
» 10,000 Maniacs

Top Five Most Played Songs
» “That’s How I Knew This Story” by Aimee Mann (26)
» “Beautiful” by Aimee Mann (25)
» “Little Bombs” by Aimee Mann (23)
» “Lived in Bars” by Cat Power (19)
» “The Greatest” by Cat Power (17)
» “Oooh Child” by Beth Orton (17)

(Guess you can see what happens with the first artist in my list …)

Search for the following words. How many songs show up?
» Sex: 2
» Death: 17
» Love: 154
» You: 387
» Home: 33
» Boy: 61
» Girl: 39
» Beautiful: 29
» Hope: 38
» Believe: 7

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle
» “River” by James Taylor
» “Horseheadedfleshwizard” by Devendra Banhart
» “Think Harder” by the Sneaker Pimps
» “Dirty Boots” by Sonic Youth
» “Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” by Bob Dylan

What about your collection?

Saw this on Penelope Dullaghan’s blog, so I’m passing it on…. spreading the cheer.

Ten things worth cheering about right now:

1. Dates with Dave (this Friday I hope!)
2. Joomla! 1.5 rockin’
3. Joining the Y with Marly
4. Half-Life (the book, not the game*)
5. Springtime arriving
6. Weekend arriving
7. New nephew’s cuteness
8. Fabulously fun art openings (one from last Friday comes to mind)
9. Planning trips
10. Driving a brand new car

Coolness…..

My job has been kicking my butt but I’m learning tons and improving my knowledge each day. Life has been so busy and I have to get back to this blog, but I came across this quote today and had to post it.

Hopefully more coming soon. Hopefully more in the way of photos, drawings, paintings, torn items, ripped papers, muddy thoughts….

The greatest success in life is to rise up from failure.

- Master Cheng Yen