I was reminded by Jamie Bristol’s blog of the apparently bizarre music selection that never gets radio airtime but might actually be the best thing ever.

So here’s my current list of music, by band and an example song:

Mumford and sons, little lion man
Carina Round, Down Slow
The Heavy, how you like me now
Ani Defranco, with both hands
PJ Harvey, down by the water
Edward Sharpe and the magnetic zeros, home
the dodos, fables
the black keys, tighten up
Kaki King, Life being what it is,
Diane Birch, Valentino
Regina Spektor, Us
metric, the twist
shiny toy guns, ricochet
king’s singers, fair phyllis I saw
mother mother, hayloft
The sources for this is mainly my brother for the indy music… although he probably doesn’t forgive my obsession with female vocalists.  The King’s Singers is a co-worker who will be singing that piece in a concert in a week (go Dan Clouse!).

A special shout-out goes to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.  Stewart Cole is a friend from WAY back and he is the trumpet in the band.  I had no idea until I was showing off a video of them to Robert Hogg and he said “Isn’t that stewart on the trumpet?”  Really good band.

The latest short story is within a larger sci-fi world that I may never get time to write.   This is really just a scene in a long series of very bad things that happen to the main character, but it is a complete scene at least.

“finished” to a short story is like “washable” to a new fashion design.  Both are desirable qualities, but we all hope for more when we’re making them.

Call it “Raka’s Break Up”, occurs one week after “Cata’s first date”.

http://www.box.net/shared/cgmdbge6tm

RedvsBlue.com is officially my favorite online video comic.  Of all time.

It is sometimes hit and miss, but the source of more actual, out-loud embarrassing laughing in my cubicle farm moments than every other comic put together.

A few selections for your delectation:

Epic, just… epic.  Their most impressive CG episode:

http://redvsblue.com/archive/?id=1344

One of the better CG sequences, beating down with a jeep:
http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=1221
sargisms (sarge is The Man)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM3VW4-zStk&feature=related

Exactly how any rescue of mine would end:

http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=927

And my personal hero, Tucker.  Bow Chicka Bow Wow! (skip to 3:30 if you’ve never followed the series before)

http://redvsblue.com/archive/episode.php?id=154