My current playlist.

I know I always am looking for songs to get (but NOT download illegally off Limewire **cough cough**), and I think it's fun to look at what other people are listening to. So, here's my super long playlist, with many many old songs. It's in mostly alphabetical order, that's how the music is organized on my puter.

"Breathe (2 am)" by Anna Nalick, because I'm a total tool, heard it on the radio, and love it.
About 5 Coldplay EP songs that I don't have on cd. I'm a tool for Coldplay too.
"Babylon 2" by David Gray, a very underrated song that came out sometime in the late 90's, I believe.
"Praise You" by Fatboy Slim.
"Your love means everything" and "Where is my Boy?" both by Faultline.
"Nothing's Going to Change my World" by Fiona Apple. I love it, sort of depressing and downbeat. Which is perhaps a little weird, maybe it works because of her voice.
"Learn to Fly" by Foo Fighters, cause they're Foo-riffic!
"Hemmorage" by Fuel, a heavy metal-esque song.
"Clint Eastwood" by Gorillaz. I don't know why I like this song, so don't ask me.
"Wish you were here" by Incubus. I have the Morning View album, but I don't think I've ever listened to it because there's so many songs I already know and like. Very bad of me.
"A Time to be so Small" and "Narc" by Interpol. I love Antics (the album)... a time to be so small has a strange, almost gothic quality to it. I get a mind movie when it plays.
"Sweetness" and "A praise chorus" by Jimmy Eat World. I loved this album, but it was too short, so I'm sick of nearly every song on it because you can play it twice in only 80 minutes. Sweetness is probably my favorite song off it.
"I Do" by Lisa Loeb. Very incongruous in this group of songs, eh?
A few songs by Lucky Boys Confusion-- they're a semi-local band.
"Something to Sleep to" by Michelle Branch. SHUT UP!
"South Side remix" by Moby and *sigh* Gwen Stefani. I didn't use to hate her, but she really gets on my nerves now.
"Onde Estas" and "Hey Man" by Nelly Furtado, easily my two favorite songs off her debut album.
"Speak" by Nickel Creek. Such a good song, but I've never heard anything else from them. I don't do country, normally, but this song isn't all that country.
"Meet Virginia" and "Drops of Jupiter" by Train. I still don't do country, but I like these. Train isn't really country anyway.
"The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen-- bet you know all the words, too!
"Gunning Down Romance" by Savage Garden. I loved them when I was 15, so you can stop laughing now.
"Closing Time" by Semisonic (and in this vein, a few songs down I also have "Bittersweet Symphony" and "The Freshman" by Verve Pipe, and "One Headlight" by the Wallflowers). If you like any of these, you'll probably like them all, because they are all of similar style.
And finally, "A Sorta Fairytale" by Tori Amos.

So, you know... there's some music! I bet you've heard some of those and forgotten you'd liked them, right? So, what are you waiting for? Go listen to some now!

Do you get WOOD?

So, I see this magazine every now and then at work. It always boggles my mind, but I also always forget to post about it, so I wrote a little note to remind myself a few days ago.

So, what's the magazine called? Wood. Just wood. Except, actually, it's all in caps in a big ol' font, so it's more like

WOOD

Well, not quite, it's much MUCH larger than that, and red (not yellow) with black lining, but you get the general idea. I can't figure out why anyone would call a magazine that. Pardon my dirty mind... but they have to be expecting people to smirk and poke the people they're with to point it out, right? I know everyone is not so immature as I, but even so, I would be physically unable to prevent myself from smirking.

What makes it worse, is they actually have the words "rock solid" on the cover. Admittedly, they're referring to a low cost workbench, but that doesn't matter. The word is there. If anyone were to google "rock solid wood", this website would come up, and WOOD's good name would be besmirched. Besmirched, I say! Then again, they also mention how to avoid "gluing goofs" and I can think of no way to make that into a double entendre, without really having to work it.

Then again, perhaps it's just very clever marketing. I did just spend an entire entry yammering about a woodworking magazine for god's sake, which is not normally a worthwhile topic of conversation, at least in my world. And those 20-somethings, walking to the checkouts at [home improvement warehouse of choice] would have no choice but to notice WOOD magazine, and maybe they would be so amused by the name that they would buy said magazine, and find out how to avoid those dreaded gluing goofs.

Or maybe, I'm doing their marketing for them, by trying to justify their magazine's ree-dick-U-lous name.

myspace.cum

I’ve been spending the odd minute or two on myspace lately, just out of random curiosity and boredom. I don’t think I’ll ever be an addict, because I’m not honestly that interested in trying to get 4321799 “friends” who never even meet each other. It also seems like most people with profiles on there are looking for a relationship or sex more than friends, with the pictures that people tend to post.

There’s the slutty girls who like to get as close to porn as possible. Look at my hot ass, etc. I don’t see the allure of posting your ass on the internet, it’s never sounded like a good idea to me.

There’s the whorish guys who like the slutty girls and their ass photos-- one guy who sent me a “friend request” had a picture of PARIS HILTON’S VAGINA (THE HORROR REQUIRES ALL CAPS) as his default photo. What the fuck is wrong with him?! And what would make you think that anyone on the planet (except him, apparently) wants to see the walking STD’s vagina?

There are a lot of smaller bands on there, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they spent hours each day sending out friend requests. I’ve received quite a few, and I’m not exactly an active member of the community. Especially if you’re in their area, then you’re guaranteed to receive one from every local band on the website.

There does appear to be a few normal people on myspace, people who read (books, even!), who don’t list their only interest as “partying” and who’s profiles don’t include gratuitous shots of their breasts or “rock hard abs”.

Incidentally, if you’re one of them, Hi.

Bruised and broken.

Well, back to the (for the most part) full-time retail jig I have returned. Of course, I have less than a week till summer class starts, but I'm still going to be working quite a bit, because I am REALLY broke.

There are a few things you should be ready for before you work in a hardware store, and I am going to mention a few of them.
1. Prepare for bruises.
At the current time, I have no less than 10 bruises on my legs. And I'm not talking little, tiny, "whoops, I stubbed my toe" types of bruises. These are monster, "where the hell did that come from?" type bruises. Shorts will be a distant memory, unless you like looking as though your drunken husband beats you about the legs.
There are a variety of factors causing the excessive bruising, but it can mostly be attributed to dumb customers with large, heavy carts and a very badly designed check out area, which insures you will run into hard things often. and. all. day. long.

2. Prepare for ugly-ass hands.
Hardware store= concrete. and sharp, pointy metal things, which you must then pick up and scan. Dry concrete will dry out the skin of your hands in a very surprising way. Sharp pointy metal things will then tear up the skin of your hands, which then are exposed to more concrete, drying out the cuts, which then tear. Also, your nails are constantly dirty, no matter how often you wash your hands and clean your nails. And heavy things will land on your hands, so your nails break or are bruised. It's just not pretty.

3. Prepare for soul-draining asshole customers.
Probably, most soul-draining asshole customers don't leave the house in the morning saying, "I want to make that cashier wish that neither of us were born, but be completely unable to say anything to me about my unacceptable behavior except 'have a nice day!' when I finally leave." Probably, but it's doubtful sometimes.
However, if you've ever worked retail at any point, you already know about these customers already, so you should already be prepared.
Also, you will be hit on constantly. There really isn't too much you can do about this, so just be polite. This phenomena occurs at any retail location which is worked, however the level encountered at a hardware store is unparalleled. This is probably due to the testosterone surge that men encounter when around large pieces of lumber and power tools, but it really just can't be explained.

Enjoy your future as a member of the new proletariat, customer service jobs!