Primordial & Parsnips Soup Playlist

Snicker…just looked in the blog logs here and see that last week, there were 27 page hits to my blog searching specifically for ‘ghetto bugs.’  Musicians looking for representation for their bands (re: airplay) ranked only 12.  Hopefully this week’s playlist will reverse these figures.  Don’t let the ghetto bug win!!!

Here’s the playlist from this past week’s installment of Primordial Soup, heard live Thursdays 1-2:30 EST, CFRC 101.9 FM.

Listen Now! Part One  Part Two

Tom Waits-Raised Right Men
Wilco-Capitol City
Bombay Bicycle Club-Your Eyes
Library Voices-Be My Juliette*
Acres of Lions-Reaction*
Charlotte Cornfield-If you don’t pursue*
The Falcons-Another Tear*
The Falcons-Western Dreams*
The Bon-Kaleidoscope*
Tommy Paxton-Beasley-Someday*
Sigur Ros-Vid Spilum Endalaust
Ohbijou-Balikbayan*
Magnetic North-When You’re Gone*
Ringo Death Starr-Down on You*
The Perms-High School High*
xoxoxo-Perfect*
Bella Clava-Conflict & Desire*
Pack AD-Lights*
Dutchess Says-L’ordre des secteurs*
MFMB-Seconds Away
Lights-Heavy Rope*

Just finished making a big batch of creamy leek and parsnip soup (plus the odd carrot, white yam & potato). Funny thing is that when I make a big pot of soup to last a few days, it tends to get eaten in a day. I suspect by lunch tomorrow, it’ll be gone. Ridonculous tasty.

Had some thesis breakthroughs this weekend…reading some theory stuff and the juices are now flowing…enough that I can envision at least 2 chapters ahead (chapters 2 & 3). After that…well, who knows. Once I’m underway, I’m sure I’ll know where to go beyond chapter 3. To make it all work though I have to drop some of my ideas I wanted to pursue for the moment…need to refine the focus…which has been my major problem to date.

Still doing some awesome cross-stitching which I’ll post evidence of in the future. Not your average stuff…mostly inspired by Steotch.com. (the net’s best kept secret).

Later skaters,

d

Oh, here’s a tasty treat furnished to me by the fine folks at With a Bullet:

movember music

Moving into Movember on CFRC this week with a few new and old goodies. Lights is definitely the highlight of the week for me, still uncertain about my feelings about Ohbijou and Ladytron’s new albums…need a few more listens to decide, but they didn’t grab me right away.

Here’s the playlist from this week’s installment of Primordial Soup:

Wilco-Casino Queen
Elliott Brood-Lindsay*
Vandals-Sugarplum Fairies
The Bon-Whammy*
Greengo-Ghosts of the Future*
Acres of Lions-Reaction*
Hexes & Ohs-Elementary*
xoxoxo-London Girl*
She wants revenge-The end*
The balconies-300 pages*
Ohbijou-Niagra*
Annie-Breakfast Song*
Lights-Siberia*
Arkells-Book Club*
Bosswich-OK*
Craft economy-tonic
Black Phoenix Orchestra-No Guarantees*
Go for the Eyes-Narcissist*
Huddle-Islands*
Diamond Rings-All Yr Songs*
Ladytron-Ace of Hz
Electric Soft Parade-If that’s the case*

*cancon

My class is going swimmingly and the students remain keen.  Our department sent out a notice for all post-proposal PhD candidates to send in their annual reports including a writing sample.  Given that what I have so far I may as well have written on an Etch-a-Sketch, I’m a little flipped out.  I have about 30 pages of a very very rough chapter but so many blank holes, I’d be embarrassed to submit that. There are even sentences that aren’t complete and dangling paragraphs.  Yerg.  I’ve got perhaps another 20 or 30 pages of very short writing samples regarding some elements that will appear in later chapters, but even though these tiny tidbits are well-written, they’re tiny…2-5 pages.  So I’m caught: do I send in the polished but tiny or the bulky but inarticulate mass of ideas strung loosely together?  I’ll go for the latter…a concerted effort this week will be made to plough through it and tie up loose ends.  Where there are obvious gaps that I can’t yet deal with, I’ll leave them and simply identify it in my report. which I may fill out with a crayon.