Playlist:

M. Ward - Paul’s Song
* Feist - When I Was a Young Girl
Neko Case - Look For Me (I’ll Be Around)
* Amy Winehouse - Rehab
* Tralala - Are You Gonna Dance (With Me)?
* Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
* The Western States Motel - Powerlines
Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You
Matt Sweeney and Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Bed is for Sleeping
Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother
My Brightest Diamond - The Robin’s Jar
Regina Spektor - Carbon Monoxide
* Of Montreal - She’s a Rejecter
* Matt and Kim - Yea Yeah

And now I go to bed. Yay bed!

A rather disjointed radio show tonight, thanks to sleep deprivation and not feeling drawn to any one genre in particular:

* Tralala - Early Tonight
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Phenomena
Enon - Shave
DJ Shadow - Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
Shark Quest - The Rosetta Barrage
Sleater-Kinney - Entertain
Bif Naked - Leader
My Brightest Diamond - Workhorse
The Go Find - What I Want
* Junior Boys - Caught in a Wave
Pretty Girls Make Graves - This is Our Emergency
Metric - Glass Ceiling
* The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy!

Yesterday the temperature got up to 79 degrees. Right now it's 67, and there's a good chance of rain this evening. Tomorrow, the high is 35, with snow likely. That's an impressive weather change right there. I guess the flip-flops are going back into my closet again.

Oh man, any possibility of productivity tonight just went out the window for me. Whole first issues of DC Vertigo comics online, for free. And at least 3 or 4 that I really must read, plus another 10 or so that look very interesting. Yum.

Playlist:

Driver of the Year - Even the Devil Has Friends
Death Cab for Cutie - The Face That Launched 1,000 Ships
Tegan and Sara - Where Does the Good Go?
Stars - Reunion
Beulah - Emma Blowgun’s Last Stand
Cold War Kids - We Used to Vacation
John Vanderslice - Letter to the East Coast
M. Ward - Chinese Translation
Neko Case - John Saw That Number
TV on the Radio - Ambulance
Cat Power - Lived in Bars
* Feist - Secret Heart
The Mountain Goats - Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod
Elliott Smith - Pictures of Me
* Tralala - Tallmansville, W. Va.

I've swapped time slots on WSRN, so now my show will be from 9-10 pm on Mondays.

I'm sick. Blarg. My throat hurts, especially when I swallow. I think it's just a cold, but it's still not much fun. Anyway, I'm skipping my radio show tonight (I've found a sub); I've decided to minimize talking and do as much sleeping as I can. Whee.

Playlist:

Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
John Vanderslice - Heated Pool and Bar
The Decemberists - The Legionnaire’s Lament
The Mountain Goats - Lion’s Teeth
* TV on the Radio - Hours
Sleater-Kinney - Get Up
Cat Power - Good Clean Fun
Wolf Parade - Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mysteries
Stars - What I’m Trying to Say
Built to Spill - Traces
Interpol - Obstacle 2
Head Like a Kite - Injecting 10ccs of Temptation
Fischerspooner - Cloud
* Tralala - Yellow Taxi

Playlist for last night's radio show:

Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
Sneaker Pimps - Tesko Suicide
Ladytron - True Mathematics
Fischerspooner - Emerge (Junkie XL remix)
Arab Strap - If There’s No Hope for Us
The Hold Steady - First Night
Cat Power - Crossbones Style
Portishead - It’s a Fire
Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong
The Go Find - Modern Times
Bloc Party - Blue Light
Architecture in Helsinki - Souvenirs
Asobi Seksu - Walk on the Moon
Massive Attack and Portishead - Teardrop

My first radio show of the semester had a small issue: the aux wasn't working, so I couldn't use my laptop. Which meant that most of the show was spent scurrying back and forth between the studio and the music library.

The playlist from the all CD show:

The Hold Steady - Hot Soft Light
The Music Lovers - A Hell of a Kid
Spoon - All the Pretty Girls Go to the City
Cat Power - Living Proof
Yo La Tengo - Mr. Tough
Belle & Sebastian - Sukie in the Graveyard
John Vanderslice - Exodus Damage
Wolf Parade - It's a Curse
The Wrens - This Boy is Exhausted
Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye'd Boy
Stars - Elevator Love Letter
Akron/Family - No Space in This Realm
Wilco - Can't Stand It
M. Ward - Right in the Head
M. Ward - Four Hours in Washington
TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun

My radio show this semester (my last one on WSRN ever) is Monday, 8-9 pm EST.

This has been a very draining 24 hours, both emotionally and physically. Found out about 2 engagements, had a long day of classes, pondered god and existence and such while doing my religion class reading, stressed about my future, and comforted/helped a friend whose grandfather died today. The last one, on top of everything else, led me to sort of go into confessional/emotional purging mode, which was probably good for me... But also -- (Note: This posting was interrupted by yet another deep emotional talk. I am now freshly drained of tears) -- very, very exhausting. Which is why I really need to go to bed now.

Too many people from my high school are getting or have gotten married. It's starting to freak me out - it seems like every time I log into Facebook there are new wedding pictures.

On a pleasanter and unrelated note, I am officially done with my work for the semester, so now winter break can begin in earnest. Yay!

My last radio show of the semester (and the main reason I actually bothered to get out of bed today):

Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
* Jens Lekman - Jens Lekman’s Farewell Song to Rocky Dennis
* Beirut - Rhineland (Heartland)
Beulah - Calm Go the Wild Seas
* Cat Power - Could We
* The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
* M. Ward - Requiem
TV on the Radio - Hours
* The Gothic Archies - Dreary, Dreary
Wolf Parade - It’s a Curse
Belle & Sebastian - The Blues are Still Blue
John Vanderslice - Coming and Going on Easy Terms
Voxtrot - Rise Up in the Dird
* Built to Spill - Traces
* Boy Least Likely To - Monsters
Mates of State - Think Long
Sigur Ros - Saeglopur
My Brightest Diamond - Something of an End
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Parade
The Dresden Dolls - Shores of California
* Exit Clov - MK Ultra
The New Pornographers - Use It
* The Hold Steady - You Can Make Him Like You
* The Futureheads - Skip to the End
Junior Boys - In the Morning
The Go Find - Igloo
* The Music Lovers - A Hell of a Kid
* Yo La Tengo - Black Flowers
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
Weezer - Only in Dreams

Tonight on WSRN there will be a special 2 hour Tuesday edition of my radio show! Phrasing it that way makes it sound much more special than it is, of course - my show is today because we're on a Tuesday=Thursday class schedule to make up for Thanksgiving, and I have 2 hours because the people with the show after mine can't make it. But still!

Anyway, it's my last show of the semester; it starts at 5 pm EST.

I'm 22. It doesn't feel very different.

This week's playlist:

Wolf Parade - We Built Another World
Of Montreal - Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games
The Go Find - City Dreamer
The Cardigans - Fine
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Sufjan Stevens - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!
Sufjan Stevens - Angels We Have Heard On High
Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance!
The Muppet Show - Mahna Mahna
Thurl Ravenscroft - You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
* The Shins - Phantom Limb
Beulah - A Good Man is Easy to Kill
* ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Naked Sun
Dandy Warhols - I Am Over It
* Califone - Spiders House
* The Futureheads - Worry About It Later
*Klaxons - Gravity’s Rainbow
* Exit Clov - DIY

I have one more radio show this semester; due to weird class schedules to make up for Thanksgiving break, it will be on Tuesday. Still 5-6 pm, though. So you should listen. Yes, you.

Quiz time:











And now I sleep.

This week's playlist, brought to you before the end of the show thanks to advance planning (ooh!):

* Joanna Newsom - Monkey & Bear
My Brightest Diamond - Dragonfly
Neko Case - Margaret vs. Pauline
* The Gothic Archies - This Abyss
Jens Lekman - The Wrong Hands
* Yo La Tengo - The Weakest Part
Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives
* Beirut - Rhineland (Heartland)
Bright Eyes - The Calendar Hung Itself
Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye’d Boy
* Cat Power - I Don’t Blame You
Beth Orton - Couldn’t Cause Me Harm
Pedro the Lion - Bad Diary Days
Elliott Smith - Pictures of Me
* The Mountain Goats - New Monster Avenue

I think next week is my last show of the semester, but 5 (6 when this show gets put up) of my shows are up on the WSRN website in podcast form. Spiffy, huh?

I don't think I've ever been so happy to hear the clanging and gurgling of the pipes before. Still no actual heat, but it sounds promising.

It's cold outside. My radiator is also cold, meaning that I too am cold. For some reason, the heat is on the fritz, and I am not pleased. I'm huddled up in a sweatshirt, fleecy pants, thick socks, hand warmers (I finally finished knitting them!), and a blanket. And still, I am cold. Grr. And brr.

Good news: Vanya is over, and a received compliments on the costumes. Yay. Bad news: Now I get to write the papers I've been putting off. At least I have a firm thesis and decent outline for the Shakespeare one... It makes things slightly less bad.