The Long Winters

yeah, they opened with 'love you just the same' when they played in mpls last and it broke my heart into so many pieces i could barely listen to the rest of the set. of course, i'm ridiculously romantic. although i'll do everything in my power to convince you otherwise. i got 'distance and clime' fi...

fluffers union does a truly lovely cover of steely dan's 'dirty work'. i don't think it gets much better than that.

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(i stole the parka)

well, at least those of us who were freaky enough to have our first loves be fictional characters or already dead didn't have to deal with the trauma of having them die later on. that would really be rough.

oooooh, i love to talk politics! any one notice that Al Gore endorsed Dean instead of Leiberman, his ex-RUNNING MATE? and the word is he didn't even tell Joe before-hand. what a jerk. but can you really blame him?? i mean, dean is sooooo much sexier than lieberman. anyway, i bet running a losing pr...

YEOW! that's a lot of baby-havin!

my list is boringly similar to what's already been posted but i will join the chorus to say: anyone who hasn't yet heard Love You Just The Same and Welcome Convalescence : YOU ARE REALLY MISSING OUT ON SOME GORGEOUS AURAL. confidential to stephanie: especially if you're feeling heartbroken, will joh...

my very favoritist picture of myself ever was taken when i was 8, sitting in this ancient olive green recliner with my horrifyingly permed hair held back with little plastic butterfly barrettes, reading this book. (now i am going to make a confession that will reveal the true severity of my dorkines...

hope y'all had a rockin thanksgiving!!

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yes, yes it is. but there's a really cool gay bar called sassy's and i get to be a farm girl when i'm here and brand cows and eat extravagant amounts of chicken fried steak and drive tractors and exciting things like that.

it's really unfortunate that i'm such an ignorant lazy slob and have never bothered to learn any languages other than english.

i would start now but i have to go drink bud light and watch invader zim with my exchange boyfriend and my exchange brother in law.

ya here w/ yer younguns? what r ya doin in Big D? Big nite planned? well, actually i'm somewhere vaguely east of Amarillo at the moment. i'm here having my trimonthly conjugal visit with the love of my life. don't think i'm gonna make it to dallas this time, but i usually do. maybe someday we'll me...

funny, if virtually unintelligible.

what i want to know is: what is schelmisch??!?!?

yep, i made it out of minnesota just ahead of the blizzard, and into texas just in time for it to feel just like minnesota did 2 weeks ago. *sigh* but, today's gorgeous, actually, i can't complain. no pic, where are you in tx? i think i remember you saying dallas at some point? is that right?

all midwesterners like to think that they are somehow superior to residents of other regions because of our ability to withstand snow emergency parking, shoveling, chronic back pain from walking hunched over in the unrelenting wind etc etc. and let's face it, if we didn't think that it somehow prove...

yes, alaska definitely wins. also scandinavia. and probably most of canada.

snow is really really beautiful until you have to go anywhere or do anything besides sit in front of your woodstove drinking tea and reading novels.

yeah, if you've never lived through a midwestern winter you really have no idea how miserably long a winter can be. the year i spent in austin, tx was the most blissful year of my life...there were maybe 2 days that were too cold to go swimming in the river the whole year. speaking of which, i'm on ...

Apparently you've never come across someone like, say, Ted Leo? There's a whole fucking lot of sincere, earnest (thx Meg) folks armed only with guitars and strong voices who could give a damn if they get laid or a sense of validation by rocking out. Moreover, I think it's simple, overwhelming self-...

I think you can absolutely want attention without being hugely narcissistic or self-important, though. You could be overwhelmingly sincere and earnest in your desire to, simply, share. share? share what? i mean, doesn't it all come back to a belief that whatever you've got going on is really really...

I'm not saying that seeking sex and/or attention cannot be a reason for people to be in bands, I'm sure it is for many, and to think so is not what I call cynical - nor do I think sex is bad, far from it. I just think there may be other reasons that might possibly inspire people to be in a band, an...