At the wedding, the DJ played "Hey Ya," and I couldn't stop expecting to hear the chorus "Taaaaardis.... Tardis..."

What timeframe of your life are you supposed to become attached to the music of?

Dunno. Growing up, my parents listened to Heart, The Beach Boys, CCR, Bob Seger, ABBA, and manyMANY musicals. I only like Bob and CCR now, though I do have guilty affection for ABBA.

My first taste of New Wave (about 7 years behind the curve) was an explosion in my brain - that was when I was 13? I think? I still love it. I also have a guilty affection for hair bands such as Bon Jovi (Waaaaanted) and Poison, which was the prevalent music in teenagerdom.

I like the Eurythmics better than most Annie Lennox solo. Perhaps because "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass" were very overplayed by the canned radio station in the grocery store in which I worked. We always called 'Walkin on Broken Glass' ' Just Like I've got a Broken Ass'.

I have three brand-new holes in my arm, courtesy of tetanus, Hep A, and Hep B vaccinations.

Boy, this is exciting.

Okay, I'm suffering from that writer's thingie when you can't think of the words.

Had an interview last night and I'm trying to compose a thank you letter that praises the organization, and conveys my enthusiastic interest in the firm and why they must hire me immediately. But all I keep coming up with smells of sycophancy and desperation. Does have a good template for thank you letters or know a good website that has them?

Thanks for the Brithday wishes you guys.

My tastes are scattershot. I grew up on my parents's stuff (which pretty much skipped anything popular in the 70s and 80s, but for my Dad, of all people, introducing me to U2,) was pretty unaware of music* until I got to college.

* but for the U2, TMBG, Siouxie and the Banshees, Tori Amos and the NIN tapes I tortured my brother with while driving him to school. I have no idea how I became familiar with them. Maybe the college rock station in town.

I have nothing to add to the music talk. I'm looking at the sketches I made for this database I'm working on, and it makes no sense. It was fine three days ago, but two days removed from it and not enough sleep or coffee, and now it's a bunch of gibberish.

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Can I just say, thank god for Google Scholar? I'm trying to fix a scanned-in version of someone's bibliography, and by just searching on his name I'm finding all the right citations.

I should mention that the Royals pounded Detroit last night. They're only 38 games behind in the wildcard race.