Scatterbrained

I keep opening “new post” and staring at it and closing it.  Le sigh.  You’d think that blogging wouldn’t be an activity fraught with dramtic sighing and hand-wringing over what to write.  I mean, I could probably post my grocery list (TP, unbleached white flour, yogurt, coffee, skim milk, ground beef… so far, if you’re interested).  At least then I’d be filling the page.  But to save the internet from boredom, let’s do some relevant and topical listing!!

1. I sort of want to write about the presedential race but I also don’t because 1) I am just not educated enough about the candidates to really get up good arguments, 2) I am not down withe either major party and so, since I am probably going to vote 3rd party again, I think my opinion is pretty biased, 3) I don’t want to get into any kind of brouhaha (not likely, but also not a can of worms I want to open).  So, basically, go Nader?  Maybe?  Or go McKinney?  I don’t know yet, but I’m much more likely to vote for one of those two than Obama or McCain.

2. Right now I’m reading two very different books.  Well, one I’m listening to from this awesome downloadable audiobook website that my library subscribes to, so I”m not really reading it, I’m listening to it.  Anyway, that one is Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, and it is phenomenal – the woman reading it, first of all, is just fantastic.  She does all these different voices without sounding fake or forced, and she reads beautifully – I’ve had some that really took away from the book due to throat clearing noises, bad awkward pauses, men’s voices that sounded like children with head colds.  The story itself is great, too (so far).  It’s weird; because I know I started the book a while ago, when it was newer, and because it is so freaking long I ended up having to return it to the library before I was done (or got distracted and never picked it up again, which happens to me a lot, too); and hearing it again is kind of like rereading and kind of like hearing something totally different.  I like it, though, and I recommend it.

The second book I’m reading is Karma Girl, by Jennifer Estep – opposite end of the spectrum, this one is chick lit, only it’s about superheroes!!  How fucking cool is that?  There are tights and capes and all of that, but with the fun snarky 20-something chick lit thing going on.  I am having so much fun with it.  She is pretty hilarious about the whole putting on a mask and being unrecognizable thing, and she has some great superheroes, too (a purse-snatcher avenging Grandma hero, for one).  So go read that, too, if it sounds like your kind of thing.  Or not – I mean, you can always expand your horizons, right?

3. Musically, I just (as in about 30 minutes ago) downloaded some stuff from Angus and Julia Stone, which I found in the roundabout way of going from Mighty Girl to her linked blog for today, Loobylu (one of those blogs I sigh over when I’m in my covetous crafty moods), and which I am really enjoying (his voice more than hers).  Thanks for the music, internet!!  I’ve also had the new(ish) Mountain Goats album on repeat, we all know I love, love, love him; and Grizzly Bear, who I love so much I spent the weekend after we saw their show talking about them and only listening to them and repeating how they were so cute I just wanted to put them in my pocket and carry them around with me.  Seriously, watch this and don’t just fall in love with them.  (Also listen to “While You Wait For The Others” from this page, because it is gorgeous.)

Also this, which is so adorable because you can tell they put on their dress-up shirts to go on the TV, how can you not love a band that does that?

And also they are so. fucking. awesome.  Mind-blowingly so.

4.  Did I mention that I Love Money is NOT GOING TO BE ON THIS SUNDAY???  That’s a crime against humanity and E and I have been fretting about it all week.  Cry for us.  Email VH1 to complain.  Start a revolution!!!

5.  I have been exploring the internet today like a crazy woman and have found approx. 8000 new blogs to read, which is great except that on Monday it will make me cry when I am at work and supposed to be, I don’t know, working and I won’t be able to because of all the blogs I’ll need to stay up-to-date with.  I’m already behind, actually.  I should be in google reader right now, keeping up.

6.  I am sewing myself a tote bag from old T-shirts and I vow to knit something that is not a scarf this fall/winter.   I will also figure out how to make my camera hook up to the computer and put up some pictures of my crafty stuff, along with the world’s best video ever that E took of W.  It will rock your socks.  Which reminds me- which is more horrible to say: “rock out with your cock out” or “raw-dogging it”?  Because I’m curious, that’s all.