99% of the time i love my work, the other 1% of the time i sing my dissertation this song

dear friends,

i do not write here anymore because i am writing a dissertation.

i hope to re-emerge in 6-8 months with my social skills intact,
cam

avant garde music

dear friends,

today, whilst writing, i have been listening to my cd collection in alphabetical order. i am up to ballboy, who i had totally forgotten. hilary and i actually were at this knitting factory show where i picked up this cd. i cannot believe that was nearly two years ago.

cam

ps- highly recommended song: public park....

the fun bulgarian game

dear friends,

lately i have been almost bored enough to succumb to those facebook memes. btw, what the hell is a meme? but, i refuse to become a statistic. i also am trying not to abandon old technology for new. as god as my witness, i shall not twitter.

therefore, in the spirt of compromise and procrastination i present to you my 'ipod shuffle= sound track of my life' results right here on this BLOG:

This is the soundtrack of my life, based on the following rules:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)2. Put it on shuffle3. Press play4. For every question, type the song that's playing5. When you go to a new question, press the next button6. Don't lie.7. Repost!
OPENING CREDITS:
WAKING UP: Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself- Morrissey
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL: After Six- Scritti Politti
FALLING IN LOVE: Waiting on the Stairs- Pela
FIGHT SONG: Piranha- Tripping Daisy
BREAKING UP: BarBQ- Wendy Rene (maybe this is meant to be the B-side of that record, saddest song of all time After the Laughter?)
PROM: Computer Camp Love- Datarock (bwahahahaha)
LIFE: 12345- The Diskettes
MENTAL BREAKDOWN: How Come Your Arms Are Not Around Me- Kristofer Astrom
DRIVING: I'll Be Your Mirror- The Velvet Underground
FLASHBACK: Pink Moon- Nick Drake
GETTING BACK TOGETHER: Love That Boy- The Innocence Mission
WEDDING: Happy- Sister Hazel
BIRTH OF CHILD: Neon Bible- Arcade Fire
FINAL BATTLE: I Want A New Drug- Apostle of Hustle (Huey Lewis Cover)
DEATH SCENE: Love Your Shotgun- Be Your Own Pet
FUNERAL SONG: Just Like Anyone- Soul Asylum (I actually still listen to Soul Asylum a lot OK?)
END CREDITS: 1979- Smashing Pumpkins

the most hilarious thing to me is that this is basically a version of what the girls of the little yellow house used to refer to as "the fun bulgarian game" c. 2000-2003. why bulgarian? i cannot recall. but basically, we'd sit around my room on my bunk bed (oh yeah bottom was futon) listening to my 5-cd changer on shuffle and say ok... the next song is about.... [fill in boy of the moment for girl in question]. it was basically like music plus MASH. and, what wasn't to love about that?

sometimes i still play it on airplanes,
cam

irish advent calender

dear friends,

luke just sent me this link to which i replied:

1. is that an advent calender made of beer (how irish!)
2. is that a drug-weighing scale? (how perpetually stolen from my high school!)

neither of these things has anything to do with my working,
cam

ps- brother by another mother got offered a job at a little school in ct that rhymes with whale! that is of course neither here nor there in terms of the content of this post, but by the time i write another post it will be old news.

advanced style in academia

dear friends,

i was reminded this morning of how i love the olds (via an email forward to college humor of all things). i love my grannie. and i loved the ladies who are the subject of my masters paper. and i love the blog advanced style.

there are some stylish ladies around here that i certainly hope to grow up to be. see the one in the middle below:

or this one

crucially neither of them commit what i believe to be the #1 female academic fashion sin: use of a shawl/cape.

also, i really love tweed fabric.

cam

vindication

dear friends,

i always knew in my heart that malibu was meant fot a sophisticated palate. and it is delicious.

love,
cam

ps- lukas sent me this and i watched it thrice. if any of you want to get me a pipe wrench fight tee for christmas, i would proudly wear it.

the sexuality is palpable after paul rudd's dance

dear friends,

i am sure i have spoken before about #1 celebrity crush, paul rudd (and maybe even how i met him while baracking the vote). but damn, if he didn't just entrance me again with his primal scream dance.



palpable friends, palpable.
cam

ps- i meant to blog with my obama excitement, but work was busy. and not like i need to clear my head for 5 minutes so i'll blog busy, like gettin' down with county-level census data and finding meaningful and determinate variance busy.

pps- see also sofi's letter to ryan gosling