This morning I was able to steal an extra hour and a half or so of sleep. The kid woke up at 7:30, I fed her, then kept the lights out and covered her back up all without un-swaddling her. Magic. But while on the subject of sleep, I have had a longtime recurring series of bad dreams – those that I can actually remember – concerning my contacts. I dream that they are too large to put in and then my eyes are perpetually open and sore. I also dream they multiply within my contact case but by splitting and becoming thinner until I have three contacts a third of the size of what is normal. I do not know what these dreams mean so if anyone is into analyzing what they stand for, send me an email. But back to music, here, is my full list.
91. Pinback – Non Photo-Blue (mp3) from Summer in Abaddon
I bought this album on a whim several years back while browsing the used racks at my favorite local record store. That used to be a regular practice in finding new music that I rarely indulge in these days. With this record I happened to strike gold. I likely had heard one track somewhere and saw it cheap and grabbed it up. I could probably list the entire album somewhere, but this song is easily my favorite. The entire album, especially this track, is filled with bleak and imagery filled lyrics set to very precise and tight arrangements. Simple poetry.
92. Delays – Long Time Coming (mp3) from Faded Seaside Glamour
Upon first hearing this song in a damn jewelry ad, I fell in love with it. With a sappy, shimmery little riff set to an upbeat tempo it is no less catchy than the indelible “There She Goes.” I tend to agree with that comparison, which I’ve read in multiple places, to The La’s song that already occupies a place on my list. Catchy and heartwarming, it’s an easy song to fall in love with.
Yesterday morning sucked. My car wouldn’t start, so I drove my girlfriend to work, then back home to shower in the 10 minutes I had available to me before I had to leave to work myself. But before I got home, this particular 
We’ve mentioned before that we aren’t able to talk about all the music we might like to here on the blog. There are time and family and work limitations, and things obviously get passed over. 
I think Beck is a bit overrated. Really, it has very little to do with his “religious” preference. And I know plenty of folks who absolutely adore the man’s work, but it doesn’t do that much for me. By no means is anything terrible and indeed I enjoy a few songs, especially that which I have chosen to use today. But even this song fails to induce much beyond a cursory enjoyment. I suppose I’m just apathetic to his work as I don’t feel particularly strong enough either way to say anything else. This lack of feeling I find to be more of an indictment against his supposed genius than his actual work. I will say this however, the best thing his head has ever done was that one episode of Futurama where Bender performed as his washboard accompanist.
I got my new computer last night, so amidst all the transferring and updating and setting-up, I didn’t get a chance to write my normal 1000 Minutes post for the week. Since I’m 2 posts ahead of Dave, I figure this is a week for him to catch up on one.
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