vibration in a new key, upwards

Well, well...it appears I might actually have captured the muchly elusive time window in which I actually have the time, inclination, and space to "Post an Entry".

Am I the last livejournaler to still post music info to the field manually? Will someone please tell me how they're getting the automation to work?

The Outside Lands Festival is going on this weekend; I figure we'll just go wander around nearby if we want to hear the shows. Heck, if we're inspired, maybe we'll actually go on Saturday to see Tom Petty -- we've talked about trying to see him some day. I don't know, I'm feeling parsimonious lately, and not sure I want to spend eighty-five bucks for a one day pass. This is when I go into my grandma voice and say, "Do you know how much I paid for the first Lollapallooza? TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS! "

I spent twenty-five bucks and saw Henry Rollins, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, and Jane's Addiction, as well as Violent Femmes, Butthole Surfers, and Body Count (Goddamn, what a brother gotta do to get a message through to the red, white and you!). All for twenty-five bucks. I don't know, maybe we should at least go for one day, but geez, that's like 200 bucks for a one-day show for K & me and that just sounds over the top.

Twenty-five bucks. I also met Ice-T, who was wandering around w/bodyguard out on the lawn later in the afternoon. He complimented my hair, which at the time was one half shaved off and the hair on the other half dyed black. Good times. Heh. I don't think there are any photos of that era; that was when I was living in Columbus.

Anyway, I digress.

I owe blixt a package that I've finally boxed up and addressed tonight, so that should be hitting the old snail mail highway tomorrow - w00t! Sorry it too me so long, lady!

Between the Last.fm site redesign (about which I shall be waxing rhapsodically soon -- check out my profile page!) and my new toy (rhymes with HiCone) which has that lovely screen and lots of storage, I'm spending a lot of time wandering around in my digital music library. Good times.

Hopefully, I'll find more opportunities to post as things start to settle down in real-life land.

Being a full-fledged Bowiephile from way back (like when I was 2 or something, Dad listened to all the old bowie stuff when it was new, so I have memories linked to pretty much every Bowie album - then first love picked up the Bowie fascination where Dad's left off)...ANYWAY, I was well-chuffed to see that I'm:

Which David Bowie are you?

...well, when it was working, I was Berlin-era Bowie..., but it might be broken now....

31 Dec '99 - This is so weird. A new century and all. I have to let it all sink in, then I suppose I'll write about it. Anway, here are my top pics of the year.
*****Heather's Top Stuff of 1999*****

Top Reads of 1999 - I finished 22 books this year. I started about 7 others that I need to finish. At least one of these wasn't written this year, but that's ok. Here's the list:
1. Conversations with God, Book 1 - Neil Walsch
2. Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer
3. The Sandman: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman
4. The Portable Rollins - Henry Rollins
5. Codependent No More - Melodie Beattie

Top Flicks of 1999 - Visually, The Matrix rocked my world. Intellectually, I loved the Fight Club. GalaxyQuest make me laugh, Blair Witch was crazy, and Summer of Sam was the coolest Spike Lee joint I've seen in a loooong time.
1. The Matrix
2. Fight Club
3. Summer of Sam
4. Blair Witch Project
5. Galaxy Quest
Top Albums of 1999 - This was *hard*. I awoke from a musical fog of the last several years, started working for a music web site, where I've heard more new music than I can shake a stick at. Anyway, here's what I liked the best:

1. Red Engine Nine - Color of the Day
2. Chevelle - Point #1
3. Tal Bachman - Tal Bachman
4. Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
5. Johnathan Elias - The Prayer Cycle
Song of the Year: 14-41 - Jonah's Onelinedrawing
Honorable Mentions (released pre-1999, but I first discovered this year):
Far - Water and Solutions
Spinning Jennies - Starstruck
Nick Drake

22 April '98 - So, I'm sitting here, talking old music and listening to "How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths. That song was one of the defining songs of my teenage years...it was like nothing I had ever heard before. I remember just being so blown away by it. Other songs that were definitive for me from that era (this is a top 10 of sorts, I guess). No particular order.
"Age of Consent" - New Order
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division
"Tainted Love" - Soft Cell
"Somebody" - Depeche Mode
"Joan of Arc" - OMD
"Lindy's Party" - The Bolshoi
"It's No Reason" - The Church
"The Seventh Stranger" - Duran Duran
"Love is (what I say)" - INXS
"La Ment" - The Cure
...I could just keep going, but that's enough for now. Part 2 - the college years forthcoming.