2003. ‘They’ said it was going to be a big music year. ‘They’ were right.

There is so much new music that I find it hard to keep up. I want to listen to band X, because its new, but then band Y comes out with something the next week and I have to listen to that. But then Band Z comes out with something on the same day, so band Y & Z share a day, and then band X gets left behind. It’s just not right. I guess I’ll survive, though. I made a list in my head of stuff I want to listen to.

the list: The Mars Volta, Weird Al, Staind, Brandtson, Pollen, Coheed and Cambria, Less Than Jake, Third Eye Blind, Fall Out Boy, Armor for Sleep, Anberlin, Brand New, Mest, The Starting Line, The Suicide Machines.

…which reminds me. The new Suicide Machines CD is great. Thank you Suicide Machines for bringing it back to how it used to (and should) be. ‘Boo pop radio’ is right.

the list, continued: The Jealous Sound, Northstar, Deftones, Story of the Year, Motion City Soundtrack, Finch, Radiohead.

I want to listen to every band on ‘the list’ all at the same time and cannot.

I’ll survive. And so will you. And so will they.

So, being the music geek I am, I ended up listening to ‘May 16th’ about 7 times yesterday. Pretty good for being on random. Today, I listened to Owen Meany (the song after May 16th) once or twice already. Maybe I’ll just listen to this CD, one song per day, until 2009 and see if May 16th lands on May 16th again. o_O

While adding stuff to my playlist yesterday, I stumbled upon the old No Motiv cd (And The Sadness Prevails). Wow. I love(d) that cd. I’m glad I found it, because I was diggin every song. It was like listening to them again for the first time, I swear I haven’t listened to them in a year+. I didn’t listen to the newer album, though. Maybe I’ll do that on Monday.

That’s the thing I like about Winamp2. You can’t save more than one playlist in the player. With Winamp3, I was keeping about 12 playlists, and my listening got stagnant. I would listen to the same thing over & over & over. With Winamp2, if I want a change, I have to either load up a saved playlist (which I don’t like to do for some reason), or I have to start fresh. That involves going through the MP3’s I have and finding what I’m looking for. And that leads to finding stuff I haven’t listened to in a while: No Motiv.

I also loaded up my favorite NOFX cd, ‘Punk in Drublic’. And of course, Lagwagon’s ‘Lets Talk About Feelings’. I came to the conclusion that I like ‘Let’s Talk..’ and ‘Plaidinum’ the best ouf ot all Lagwagon albums. The new one seems a bit odd, more crazy-metal guitar solos & Bad Astronaut-ish. That’s not a bad thing, but definetly not like the previous 2-3 Lagwagon albums. Maybe I just haven’t listened to it enough, yet. Who knows. All I’m saying is that ‘Plaidinum’ and ‘Lets Talk.. ‘ are two CD’s that I can safely say I like EVERY song on each of them. Alot.

Alot.

So, I was thinking: “Oh, its May. On May 16th, I will listen to May 16th by Lagwagon alot, just to be dumb.” And I thought, that since one of the lines in the song is: “It’s just another saturday”, it would be extra cool if the 16th was on Saturday. Well, its on Friday this year, so thats out. But then I thought “oh, next year its a saturday, cool”. Then I went and checked it out, and no, thanks to leap year, its sunday. It totally misses Saturday. Lagwagon planned it that way so geeks like me had to wait until 2009 to fulfill this mission. Grr.

I bought 5 cd’s today. I am proud. I have to make up for the years of the ‘oh, ill just download it’ mentality.

1. Stairwell - The Sounds Of Change. It reminds me remotely of Weezer and the All American Rejects. The vocals remind me of Harvey Danger, in a way. o_O

2. NOFX - The War on Errorism. I had downloaded it a week ago, but had to buy it because its NOFX, and wanted to see the enhanced cd material. Was well worth the $13.99 or whatever I paid for it.

3. Fall Out Boy - Fall Out Boy’s Evening Out With Your Girlfriend. This is not the Fall Out Boy I have heard on the new album I downloaded (until released, of course). This is a younger Fall Out Boy, who didn’t have the big-label production behind them. Still good, don’t get me wrong.

4. Saddle Creek 50. A 2-CD comp with bands such as Cursive, The Desaparecidos, Bright Eyes, and Rilo Kiley. Good stuff, still havent gotten through it all.

5. The Special Goodness - Life Goes By. A 99cent EP from them. 3 songs, all good.

Weeeeeeeeeeeee. new music.

This months flyer from the apartment complex has this whole ‘hooray, spring is here’ feel to it. They usually describe something about what the current month stands for, or whatnot. Like February (i think) is black history month, and March is womens history month. Well, May just so happens to be National Barbecue Month. They have this whole little paragraph about barbecues, spring, and everything.

They then go on to remind us that barbecues are prohibited from Essex at Hampton property.

We still are dumb and will burn down our building, I guess. So anyway, they go on in another flyer to tell us that they appreciate us not having grills and to please report them if we see them. We are getting ‘community barbecues’ in ‘common areas’ along with ‘picnic tables’. Super, I get to grill on a dirty-share-with-your-neighbor-hope-you-arent-barbecuing-the-same-time-i-am-if-you-are-allergic-to-fish-pardon-my-salmon-steak-it-wont-hurt-you-too-much-oops-i-forgot-to-clean-off-the-grill-you-dont-mind-do-you-i-didnt-think-so grill. Woo.

Yes. 10 months later, and I still miss my grill. :(