This Broken Chant

Everytime I open my front door I think that the pumpkin sitting on my porch is a rabid dog with a personal vendetta. A small wave of panic rushes over me and then, for some reason, I think of Billy Corgan.

Our garbage day is Wednesday… but I'm pretty sure the garbage men come to my street everyday, at 7am to practice.

SPIN Magazine’s 25 Must-Hear Artists from the CMJ Festival. I am working my way through this list. It is very hard to get a vibe from just one track, but I can’t stop listening to:

• Pac Div – We The Champs
• Family of the Year – Summer Girl
• MyNameIsJohnMichael – Character Piece

These bore me, yet I am intrigued…I want more and I will get it from them:

• The xx – Basic Space
• Bear in Heaven – Lovesick Teenagers
• Fanfarlo – Harold T. Wilkins, Or How To Wait For A Very Long Time
  The length of the song name bugs. It is so long it has forced me to comment, and thus turn my tidy list into a jumbled pile of boo-boo. At least remove the spaces like JohnMichael did. I heart Fanfarlo though. A better Fanfarlo song:

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Listen to Tegan and Sara’s new album: Sainthood

Release date: 10/27

Thank you Jordin.

None of my clients behave this way…

Today I saw a grown man have a physical and emotional reaction after he learned that Starbucks was out of his favorite breakfast sandwich. I judgmentally  chuckled… only to find myself, mere seconds later, equally as heartbroken when I realized there were no cocoa sprinkles at the stir-station to apply to my americano.

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