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Weekend Ennui
Jul. 16th, 2004 09:27 pmWeekends sure are boring sometimes. Today, I spent most of the day volunteering at Longwood Gardens and then shopping. I had lunch at Chick-fil-A, and it was tasty. Chick-fil-A is really cool, aside from the whole not-being-open-on-Sundays thing.
Actually, I guess my problem isn't always boredom as such, so much as feeling that there's something else I COULD or SHOULD be doing. I guess cleaning up and applying for jobs are the two big things I should be doing, but I really dread them. Not that cleaning up is necessarily that bad, but it is when you don't have any idea where to put things. When I have work, I usually have a valid excuse (or an excuse that's valid to me, anyway) to avoid annoying tasks like those.
It's been a long time since I've burned a mix CD. It's something I'd like to do again, but I don't have anyone to make them for, and making them for myself is okay, but not the same. I probably will make myself a new They Might Be Giants mix after I get my copy of The Spine and "The Spine Surfs Alone," though. I've made a few TMBG mixes already, but they tend to be pretty fun to do, especially now that there are new songs to include. I was kind of wondering if "Museum Of Idiots" might sound good following "On The Drag," since they both use horns, but in different ways. I probably won't include "Experimental Film" on the mix, even though it's the first single and all. I'm sure I'll get into this some more when I actually hear and review the album, but that song seems kind of (as the American Idol judges might say) "safe." I mean, it's a good song, but it kind of seems like the Johns thought, "Okay, this is pretty catchy, and sounds kind of like a lot of our other songs, so we'll make it a single."
Actually, I guess my problem isn't always boredom as such, so much as feeling that there's something else I COULD or SHOULD be doing. I guess cleaning up and applying for jobs are the two big things I should be doing, but I really dread them. Not that cleaning up is necessarily that bad, but it is when you don't have any idea where to put things. When I have work, I usually have a valid excuse (or an excuse that's valid to me, anyway) to avoid annoying tasks like those.
It's been a long time since I've burned a mix CD. It's something I'd like to do again, but I don't have anyone to make them for, and making them for myself is okay, but not the same. I probably will make myself a new They Might Be Giants mix after I get my copy of The Spine and "The Spine Surfs Alone," though. I've made a few TMBG mixes already, but they tend to be pretty fun to do, especially now that there are new songs to include. I was kind of wondering if "Museum Of Idiots" might sound good following "On The Drag," since they both use horns, but in different ways. I probably won't include "Experimental Film" on the mix, even though it's the first single and all. I'm sure I'll get into this some more when I actually hear and review the album, but that song seems kind of (as the American Idol judges might say) "safe." I mean, it's a good song, but it kind of seems like the Johns thought, "Okay, this is pretty catchy, and sounds kind of like a lot of our other songs, so we'll make it a single."
