It's a been a long couple of weeks, kids.

So here's a completely random playlist that I've been listening to tonight:

1. Far Away, Cut Copy
2. Daniel, Bat For Lashes
3. A Question of Time, Depeche Mode
4. At The Back of the Shell, The Kills
5. Motorcycle, Love and Rockets
6. Bizarre Love Triangle, New Order
7. Where Is My Mind?, the Pixies
8. Dancing Choose, TV On The Radio
9. A Girl Like Me, The Desert Sessions
10. There Is Nobody, Yoav
11. You Don't Know What Love Is, The White Stripes
12. I Might Be Wrong, Radiohead
13. Vagina Mine, Puscifer
14. The Government, Saul Williams

OMG KITTEH DOES NOT APPROVE!


Clearly, I should stop mixing caffeine and Malibu rum.

Sunshine, Butterflies, and Caffeine

"Just Can't Get Enough" just came on my iPod, and now I feel like the quirky main character in a sitcom, like I should be skipping around my living room wearing a flower pot on my head or something. You know-- the single girl who's so kooky that it's actually endearing, who has a comically low-paying job and is always getting into scrapes.

It's amazing what a day off, sunlight, and temperatures in excess of 60 degrees can do for my state of mind.

Depeche Mode's new album came out Tuesday and although you won't fall for it on first listen, it grows on you exceptionally well. The only two songs that I'm not a fan of are "Spacewalker" (think NASA elevator music) and "Jezebel" (Oh, Marty, why? Why would you put a song that sounds like it should be in a made-for-TV movie from Lifetime circa 1991 on this album? I know you got to sing lead on it, but-- Man!). I also spent about two days listening solely to Gary Numan's The Pleasure Principle on repeat, and god! I'm kind of pissed that I let it sit on Kristin's CD rack for almost a year before finally getting around to it. His cover of "On Broadway" makes me ridiculously happy, and "Films" is even better than that.

TV On The Radio's Dear Science is excellent. I've been looking for "fun" music to fill the void that the Red Hot Chili Peppers left when they totally killed everything that was good and original about their music (see: Stadium Arcadium), and I think this will do nicely.

Currently, I'm also downloading Grizzly Bear's Yellow House, which I expect to blow me away since what I've heard so far has been really, really impressive. I really dragged my feet about listening to this band, but I'm glad that I finally did.

That's all for right now. I really need to get in the shower and then get some yard work done.

It's been a weird week at work (power outages, firings, lots and lots of call-offs, ten days in a row with no time off, massive overtime, etc.), and as a result, I'm sort of stressed out, tired, and in a weird mood. Also, I am, at this point, running solely on caffeine and nerves, so this blog may or may not be comprehensible to anyone else.

Anyway, here's a quick list of what I've been listening to lately, for anyone who cares.

1. Golden Age, TV On The Radio
2. Kids With Guns, Gorillaz
3. He Hit Me, Grizzly Bear
4. The Mission, Puscifer
5. Policy of Truth, Depeche Mode
6. Many Things In This For You (Meet Your Master Remix), NIN
7. Sex Bomb, Spinnerette
8. City Noise, Scarling
9. Electioneering, Radiohead
10. Destroy Everything You Touch, Ladytron
11. Crying, TV On The Radio
12. The Government, Saul Williams
13. Nine Million Rainy Days, The Jesus and Mary Chain

Yes, I've started listening to The Jesus and Mary Chain, god help me. Throw in some Bauhaus and clove cigarettes, and I'll be too Goth to function. (Yep, that's a Mean Girls reference. Sue me.) And yes, I've obviously spent MORE MONEY at Amazon, my latest purchase being TV On The Radio's Dear Science, which is excellent.

And yeah, I totally shouldn't have had that extra shot of espresso added to my Venti Macchiato at Starbucks this morning-- or that last Diet Pepsi, either. Hmm.