Whine

It never ends. My car died on me this past weekend, what turned out to be some sort of fuel line leak. So that's three hundred dollars that I can't afford to be spending right now.
I totally understand what people are talking about when they say that one medical emergency can ruin your life. In my case, the medicial situation wasn't too bad, but bad enough to fuck me over financially. But at least I'm a broke man who can walk again. Whatever, God hates me.

I don't even think anyone is reading this anymore, so I'm just doing this for my own entertainment. I also thought that it would be a way to motivate me to get an album completed. It's just very hard to get anything done or focus on creative things when I'm so preoccupied with just trying to get my head back above water and not default on my student loan. I feel like the main character in Sideways, I'm halfway through my life and I've accomplished nothing.

Anyway, I read something about the Pixies playing some European dates this summer, but it looks like the whole reunion thing is going to wind down, with no new album to show for it. That sucks. It's not like they lack material either, because Frank Black has a double cd coming out. Apparently Kim Deal is working on another Breeders album, but that last one took about ten years to finish, so I'm skeptical there.

Tom Jones is now a knight--about fuckin' time!

I saw a clip of Snow Patrol playing live in what looked to be some sort of European city square. I have no idea what the song was, and I can't even remember if I've ever heard their music before. At any rate, they might be another overhyped "next big thing", but whatever I heard sounded pretty good.

Sambassadeur, from Sweden, is a good band that I discovered through one of the music blogs a while back. They have a full length album out now. Ch-check 'em out.

New South Park is starting now, one of my few sources of happiness anymore. Sad, but true. Later...

Rock Hall

From what I read at Rolling Stone, this year's ceremony kind of sucked. I guess that's what happens when most of the inductees don't show up or don't play. Or if they're Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Pandora's Box

I discovered(probably much later than most everyone else) an interesting site called Pandora.

You enter a particular artist or song that you like, and they create a playlist or "radio station" consisting of similar types of music.
I like the concept, because it's another way, along with various music blogs and online radio, to find new stuff.

SXSW

I have seriously got to get to this thing. Unfortunately it won't be this year. Even if I could afford it, the leg still isn't 100%.

The list of bands is impressive. I don't actually know most of them, but sometimes just the name interests me enough to check them out("Gingerbread Patriots", "Yuppie Pricks", "Sailboats Are White"). Hey, and Jules Shear, I haven't heard anything about him in years.

Austin is really the only place in Texas that I would like to visit.