Happy Valentine's Day

- I'm really glad that people are starting to listen to Archer Prewitt. Both Pitchforkmedia.com and Stylusmagazine.com gave him some glowing reviews for his new record, Wilderness. It's quite nice, in an adult-contemporary kind of way -- some good songwriting and fancy orchestrating. His previous record, Three, is alot like this one, only a little more smooth-FM ready. From that record try "Over the Line".

- I'm not so thrilled with allmusic.com's new interface. (How new is this? 6-months?) Too many click throughs and hidden stuff gets me frustrated. I like for everything to be laid out in front of me.

- I love my girlfriend, Christine Simpson, very much. She's a very, very special girl to me! We had a fantastic weekend in Winston-Salem, NC this weekend where we went to a winery (Sideways is having a bigger influence than you can imagine on white men everywhere), had a classy dinner, and topped our weekend off with one of the worst movies ever, The Day After Tomorrow. How come they don't make action movies like Diehard (which we saw the previous day) anymore? Movies like Diehard make me so happy I'm in love and not a terrorist, like Hans.

- Has Olivia Tremor Control always been really amazing? Man...

- I finished Bob Dylan's Chronicles. It was fun to read. He's an interesting person who has some very interesting things to say about the things that influence and affect him. My only complaint: he could write longer sentences every once and a while. His short, dramatic descriptions got kind of old after a while. "The music was like a car going over a cliff." But 300 pages long. (It's not that bad: I just used the dramatic flair he did. Clever, huh?)

- My Sirius satellite radio is really nice to listen to. Right now, I'm getting into "The Vault". They play classic rock tracks that don't normally play on the radio. Usually they're by bands that were never really that good (Alan Parsons Project, Chicago), but sometimes they're really great in their averageness. (Bonus points for "First Wave": they played a song from North Shore. Fuck yes!)