‘Dear Diary’ and Modest Mouse
Ibuprofen is disappearing from the medicine cabinet like ice on a hot summer day. I’m beginning to wonder if maybe I’m starting to get addicted to the stuff. Never was one for painkillers, but last few weeks I needed to concentrate on too many things to have aches slow me down. Time to start keeping a closer eye on the little red pill use, just to be on the safe side.
Thoughts and ideas for new skin designs - mainly WordPress ones - are floating around in my mind. I bought some credits on StockExpert and browsed their selection extensively, which got my creative juices flowing. Designing the skins is easy enough and fun; It’s the subsequent support and upgrades that are holding me back. Underlying software patches which in turn require skin updates are at par with dentist drills.
What are people thinking when they reply “But they’re good for you” in response to, say, “I don’t like red peppers”?
Browsing a blog or two, I opted to leave a comment on a couple Blogger powered journals. Google has always been at the forefront of usability and interface design, but someone was sleeping at the helm when the comment section testing was in progress. As if a pop-up wasn’t annoying enough, the little window ends up displaying seemingly random portions of the content, for which endless scrolling is the main cure. Unless I have some personal connection to the individual to whom the blog belongs, if powered by Blogger I will from now avoid the comments section entirely.
Modest Mouse has released a new album, “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank”. My sweetie picked up a copy for me the other day, a nice surprise. As soon as I opened the jewel case and laid eyes on the disc, I had a good feeling about the sound about to fill my apartment. The disc looks near identical to “Good News For People Who Love Bad News” - definitely one of my Modest Mouse favs.
If food needed pleasing you’d suck all the seasoning off! are the first lyrics of the CD. What an imagination and dexterity with language these guys have! The track is preceded and supported by drunken accordion sounds, which all beautifully paint the ship theme established by the album title. Accordion, fiddle, and rhythmic clapping, it’s all there and it’s a party!
Part of the official album promo is the visually rich single, Dashboard. You’ll catch it along with the video at YouTube. Rumour has it that the video cost a cool million to produce.
Within the first half a minute into the latest Modest Mouse release, you know that this ain’t a piece for the cloth-eared nincompoop. If Indie rock is your type of sound, you need to check out “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank”.
Someday you will die somehow and some things gonna steal your carbon!
Here’s one to being alive until the ship’s hulls are full of water, and our numbers are up. Cheers!