I ticked the wrong box

hehehe. I really enjoy rock bands fronted by women (eg, elastica, garbage, veruca salt), but have only really listened to british chick rock, not really american. I understand Morningwood come from New York, they are a 4 piece rock band with a female singer.

My favourite 2 tracks off this album are “Nth Degree” – which is the single I heard on Juice here (one of our MTV-type channels) and “Jetsetter”.

The music has a very new wave and punk type feel about it – which kind of explains why I like it so much. Also, Nth Degree (for me at least) has a similar feel to some of the Saint Etienne tracks off Good Humor.

Anyway, I’m super impressed by these guys. I hope they get the airplay they deserve.

I had to do a first year paper in data structures and algorithms. I scraped through, I just could not “get it”. I’ve decided that Haskell (Hugs is what we used) is not going to conquer me. I am going to relearn and understand functional programming.

Now the slacker kids get to use Java. They aren’t forced to learn the joy that is functional/declarative programming.

On my trip to wellington last weekend Johnny (the younger brother of a friend I was staying with) suggested I might want to check out Calexico. I got a hold of 2 of their albums, one is a joint effort with Iron and Wine (who I also really like a lot), and the other is Calexico alone.

If you’re into folk guitar type sounds (Iron and Wine, Belle & Sebastian [twee pop – but a similar sound]), Sufjan Stevens etc) I can highly recommend In The Reins. The album Feast of Wire was a more interesting mix, which I’m lead to understand is more core Calexico. Jazz, Afro-Latin, and acoustic guitar blend with beautiful voices to create a masterpiece. I’m quite impressed.

quite well I felt. They have already organised for me to speak to the “Group Resourcing and Talent Management” (of course, I am talent!) liason again. He started asking about visas and everything, I was a bit unclear about my situation. I found out as I was walking home that my grandfather was born in South Africa (I always thought he was born in Newcastle). However, because of South Africas relatively late independence, and a change in immigration law in the UK, I might still be able to swing a visa thru him or my father. Anyway, the company indicated that it would be no issue to hook me up with one. I just can’t be in the country when they file the application.

Fingers crossed! Looks promising!

That’s how I found it. The album left me feeling quite empty. Like I hadn’t really been listening to anything. The only track I actually enjoyed off the album was “Black Girl”, and I think the reason for that was because I really like the Nirvana acoustic version “Where did you sleep last night” from their Unplugged album.

I was recommended this album by a friend, and she’s not usually wrong about music that I’ll like.

I was quite disappointed.

on Tuesday night. Fingers crossed. I have to do a video conference, and because we (in NZ) are 13 hours ahead of the UK at the moment, I have to be in at work at 9pm. I’ll be heading in late in thr morning on Tuesday I think.