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[vovat]

There's now a Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven podcast. They play a few A.C. Newman songs, as well as "Raise Them Up On Honey," a cool outtake from the upcoming Cracker album Greenland.

Neko Case is apparently planning on doing a podcast, but it's been mentioned on her website as "coming soon" for several months now. I DID notice that she's going to be on David Letterman on Wednesday the 14th, though, so that's cool.

While going through my old entries to add and edit tags, I came across this, and decided to do it again.

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. art score: 14
2. firefly score: 12
3. movies score: 12
4. science fiction score: 10
5. drawing score: 10
6. modest mouse score: 10
7. oz score: 10
8. star wars score: 10
9. photography score: 10
10. shakespeare score: 10
11. the pixies score: 9
12. theatre score: 8
13. comic books score: 8
14. mst3k score: 8
15. the shins score: 8
16. classical music score: 8
17. dvds score: 8
18. neil gaiman score: 8
19. wilco score: 8
20. radiohead score: 8

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Some of these are the same as last time, but I'll comment on the new ones.

1. That's pretty broad, isn't it? Granted, so is "music," but hey. I'm not much of an art person, although there are certain artists whose work I really like.
2. Assuming this means the TV show, and not the insect or the Last Car song, I've never watched it.
5. I am possibly worse at drawing than anyone else on Earth. Seriously, I just can't do it. I doodle sometimes, but it's usually limited to Super Mario Bros. enemies (but not Mario himself), planets, and maps of imaginary places. I've never been able to draw people at all.
7. I listed "Oz books" instead of just "Oz," because I didn't want anyone to get confused and think I was into Australia, ounces, or an HBO prison show. Other fantasy lands don't seem to instill as much confusion. I mean, nobody thinks HBO or weights and measures when they hear "Narnia" or "Middle-Earth," do they?
8. I LIKE Star Wars, but I know so many people who are REALLY into it that my own interest pales by comparison. It's sort of like why I'll probably never add the Beatles as an interest. Most of the interests I list are things that I think I'm more into than the average person, and I'm not sure I am with those things.
9. I took a photography class when I was in high school, and thought I might keep up an interest in it, but I've hardly ever even taken any pictures since then. And I can't for the life of me remember what an F-stop is.
10. Another one along the lines of #8, I guess. I LIKE some of his plays quite a bit, but I don't LOVE them like English majors do.
11. I don't like to list the same interest twice, so I had the make the call as to whether I would put "the" in front of certain band names and titles. Since their albums just credit them as "Pixies" without the "the," I left it off for them. Hopefully it hasn't led people to think I'm into Tinkerbell or something. {g}
12. Hey, I'm a good American! I don't use no British Commonwealth spellings! Well, except for "travelling," which looks incomplete without that extra L. More seriously and to the point, though, I'm just not a big fan of the theater, regardless of how it's spelled.
13. I've never been into comic books. I sometimes think I should, but it seems like a hobby that would consume a lot of time and money.
14. I like the little bit of that show that I've seen, but that wasn't much of it.
15. Not really familiar with them.
16. I don't listen to that much of it.
17. I think they're a cool medium, and a definite step up from videocassettes, but I wouldn't say I'm INTERESTED in them.
18. I've read Good Omens, but that's all. I know people who are totally into Gaiman, but I've always been somewhat resistant to reading anything by him. Call it an aversion to what's popular, I guess.
19. I like the work they've done with the Minus 5, but I believe all of the songs I've heard by Wilco proper have been okay but forgettable.

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[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

but I know so many people who are REALLY into it that my own interest pales by comparison. It's sort of like why I'll probably never add the Beatles as an interest.
Whoops, sorry, my fault. Everyone is cursed to be not-as-into-the-Beatles-as-me for all eternity. Ah, but you identified "Baby You're a Rich Man" in the Guess the Lyric Game, so you've earned your right to list the Beatles as an interest if you ever should feel inspired to do so.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Thanks. {g}

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

Hmm, so what did you major in? I always just assumed the kind of person who would go on to be a librarian would have to have been an English major.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Ooo, let me answer this, I like answering this question.

Actually, one of the main reasons library science is a Masters program is that the people designing such programs wanted librarians to have a firm general knowledge background AS WELL AS library skills. And because there are so many different kinds of libraries, a person who has a background in whatever that particular kind of library specializes in has extra credentials. English majors of course are great for general Adult Services Public Librarian types, and college libraries with a strong English department. I wanted to be a children's librarian, so my undergrad major was elementary education. Someone who wants to work in a medical library could have a pre-med degree; a law library, pre-law (actually I went to library school with a woman who actually WAS a lawyer, who wanted to go into more Information Law and stuff); a business library, business. So forth. Um, Nathan majored in History, so you'll have to get him to explain that one to you. ;)

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I guess there wasn't that much connection between my graduate and undergraduate majors, aside from the fact that research figures into both. They were both subjects that interested me, though. I think it would be fun to get a job with a historical society, or something along those lines, but I haven't had any luck in finding any that were hiring.