Sinister: a discourse on brian mcbride, or, saying "hello"

[clairk at xxx.edu]

Hello, sinister.  My name's Kevin and this is my first post, and I'm pretty 
happy today.  Right now I'm listening to the Dismemberment Plan, which 
always puts me in a good mood.  I rather like their last album, and I think 
"The Face of the Earth" might be one of my favorite D-Plan songs now.  I 
missed them when they toured with Death Cab For Cutie because it snowed 
that day and I couldn't drive to Chicago.  Oh well, such is life.

I'm done with school now, which is good because I don't have to deal with 
silly things like finals anymore, and those have pretty much dominated the 
last few days for me.  Now I get to look forward to summer, which I'm 
spending right here in Minnesota.  A bunch of my friends will be in town, 
and many of them will have cars so trips to the Cities will be plentiful. 
It's not Chicago but it's acceptable.

I heard _Storytelling_ for the first time a few days ago.  I wasn't 
expecting too much out of it, since it's a soundtrack and I heard from lots 
of critics that the movie sucked.  Although I did like "Wandering Alone" 
when they played it at the Chicago show.  But the songs were actually 
really good, and I guess as a whole the record exceeded my expectations 
even though the spoken bits are stupid.  Now I just need to wait until 
Friday when I get my paycheck so I can actually buy it...

I'm also happy because my World Cup teams are doing well.  I'm following 
three closely; South Africa because I'm studying it to get my degree, 
Ireland because it runs in my blood, and the U.S. because I live here.  The 
U.S. plays tonight, of course, and per tradition I'll be slaughtering my 
sleep schedule to stay up until 3:30 watching it.  This has become a ritual 
for me of late; that Mexico-Ecuador game last night was better than I 
thought it might be after the first half when nothing happened.  anyway.

I'm getting longwinded.  So much for brief introductions.  ^_^;

--kevin
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