I'm very pleased with the Oscars this year. My Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay choices all took the prize. Harrison Ford presented an award. Cormac McCarthy was actually in the audience. Jon Stewart made me laugh. And it was a VERY cool, classy, and memorable move to invite Markéta Irglová back out to have her moment (did you realize she isn't even 20 years old yet? Crazy). I've also decided I have an elementary-like crush on Amy Adams. I think I might write her a note to see if she'll be my girlfriend. If anyone could pass her the note for me, that would be appreciated.

Not too much going on right now... just the school thing. I should have a pretty busy couple months coming up though, thankfully.

What I'm looking forward to:
1) March 8 -16: Spring Break (TBD still)
2) April 7: Going to see Spoon with The Walkmen and White Rabbits... 6 rows from the stage
3) April 12: Finally going skydiving
4) April 25-26: Whitewater rafting?
5) Early April: Making money again
6) May: Getting the semester over with
7) May 22, 2008 (henceforth known as Indiana Jones Day)
8) Summer: Taking it a little more easy than usual
9) Leaving the country this summer for a week or two to put that passport to use (TBD where)

What I'm not looking forward to:
1) Having to actually go back to work to make that money

Alright, so here's the mix of the moment. Again, not really much of a theme here other than it being music that I've been listening to lately and most of it being new music as I continue to seek out new bands that I know little to nothing about. You can listen to them in your browser or just 'Right Click, Save Link As' them.

1. Wheat - Don't I Hold You
2. Keane - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)
3. Beirut - Nantes
4. Keane - Fly to Me
5. Band of Horses - The Funeral
6. Straylight Run - It's For the Best
7. The Kooks - Ooh La
8. Spoon - Chicago at Night
9. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová - Falling Slowly
10. The Decemberists - O Valencia
11. Frank Capello - For You
12. The Beatles - For No One
13. Bruce Springsteen - Gypsy Biker
14. Radiohead - All I Need
15. John Mayer - Find Another You

Now stop being lazy. Leave a comment.

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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
-The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

I figured I might as well make another mix blog, because I have all of this bandwidth and storage on my domain that I'm not using, but I'm paying for. So download some of these. Then tell me, so I feel special and so I can have some meaning in my life - which would be, I guess, putting music on my blog.

This is a wide array of music for The Mix Blog Vol. 2, as I'm continuing to broaden my musical horizons, mostly by checking out random bands that I know nothing about or in a few cases taking the advice of others. These are some tunes I've been listening to quite a bit in the past few weeks. I obviously recommend them all or I wouldn't have put them up here. Now don't miss out on this chance to discover some new music. Just Right Click, Save As those ones that interest you.

Make sure to leave a comment. I likey.

1. Chris Cornell - Thank You (Unplugged Led Zeppelin Cover)
2. Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day
3. Bedouin Soundclash - 12:59 Lullaby (thanks for this one, Kate!)
4. Soul Asylum - Miss This
5. Radiohead - Reckoner
6. Band of Horses - Detlef Schrempf
7. The Autumns - Every Sunday Sky
8. Grandaddy - Jed's Other Poem
9. Deep Blue Something - Tonight
10. The Postal Service - Nothing Better
11. Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes
12. Bloc Party - This Modern Love
13. Calexico - Sunken Waltz
14. Calexico - Black Heart
15. Foo Fighters - How I Miss You


I guess I'll also use this post to say there are some obvious changes going on at this blog (especially since I had taken it down completely for almost two months). I took off the Archives and Previous Posts links for now too, so it's almost, sorta, kinda like starting off with a fresh new blog, at least at first glance. You can also see on the sidebar where there is a feed for the Recent Comments. So, make sure to leave comments just so that feed can be put to use. I doubt I'm going to blog much, mostly because I don't feel like saying much of anything to the world and because I (pretend to) have better things to do, but I'm sure periodically I'll have something worthwhile here.

In the meantime, you can always check out what I've been reading on the sidebar. As a wise man once said, "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." If books aren't your thing (you heathen), you can check out the movies I've watched lately by clicking on "Movies" under the Sections label of the sidebar.


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I cant back up and start over. But I dont see the point in slobberin over it. And I cant see where it would make me feel better to be able to point a finger at somebody else.
-All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy