Music Blogs

This post is really just for me to keep a running list of the music blogs I check regularly and even the ones I don't but still like:

Stereogum: http://stereogum.com/
Sub Pop: http://www.subpop.com/
The Yellow Stereo: http://theyellowstereo.com/
KEXP (Seattle Radio Stream): http://www.kexp.org/
LA BLOGOTHEQUE: http://www.blogotheque.net/
Music for Kids Who Can't Read Good: http://musicforants.com/blog/
Day Trotter: http://www.daytrotter.com/
The Music Slut: http://themusicslut.com/
I Guess I'm Floating: http://iguessimfloating.blogspot.com/
Shoot The Player: http://shoottheplayer.com/blog/
Gorilla vs. Bear: http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/
Pitchfork: http://pitchfork.com/

If you have any favorites that are along those same lines, please let me know! I love finding new amazing music blogs from which to get mp3s and word about new bands that I should have been listening to months ago.

Radi-OHHHHH

My friend Claire is starting a radio show here at CU. We have never had a radio show, but we are one of the three major colleges in Nebraska so it's silly that we don't. It's going to stream (live?) over the internet. I'm going to possibly be in it!

I think I want to do a "This American Life" type show, or if you're familiar with it, something akin to Canada's "Wiretap", which ever since discovering during the summer last year I have been slowly drowning in love for. Jonathan Goldstein and Ira Glass are two of the most respected people in talk radio today. And they are gorgeous specimans of the male-type-gender. Siiiiiiiigh


Ira. Hottie.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure my first show (that is if this really all works out...cross your fingers!) will be about Friendship. Namely, I will explore what people believe the definition of a friend is, how many they think they have, what a friend means to them, if there are different levels of friendship, etc. We talked about this in my AdvancedComp class last semester and I loved it. We looked at people's facebooks, talked to people on campus, and just talked to each other about this word that encompases so many different meanings. I love talking about this kind of thing, and I love talk radio. So why shouldn't I be a talk radio host that explores things like this?

Maybe I will also have some type of literature to read. Be it a quote, a song, a poem, a selection from a novel...I have to start writing so I'm ready when it acutally comes time to do the show. I'm a little bit nervous but not really because I know that it's a brand new thing so chances are people won't listen that often or be aware that there even is a radio station. That should give me time to be more comfortable with it.

Whew! Off to write something...

Another KCUJ host,
S

Miss American Ex

I practice my wave
Like a pretend beauty queen
So that if I see you
Somewhere sometime
I can look graceful
And you’ll think
I’ve won the grand prize
Or asked the judges
For something better than
World peace

Instead I probably look
Like one of those other
Ex-girlfriends
You know, awkward
Trying too hard
Smiling too much
The fake happy face
You put on when you opened
The package you thought
Was something else

But perhaps I convince you
That behind door number 3
Was Happiness, and I just
Happened to walk in right
After you left and saw him
Sitting there on the couch
Waiting for someone
Who would ignore
The brand new car.

Premonition

Sometimes I write things before they actually happen.



Fingers Crossed

I sleep with my fingers crossed and wake dismayed
to see that they came untwined while I drempt
like tiny double-agents. Should I take it as a sign
we're not going to keep our promises to each other
or to ourselves?

Untrust Us

DIZ SHITE* IS STUUUUCK IN ME HEAD BOIZ N GURLS


*it is good.