Recent Developments

1. My mom just had her hysterectomy. She's back home and she's doing fine. Phew.

2. I am going to Australia before I go back to the States and back to school. I will be flying on my mileage. Sweet! More economy class savaging! But seriously, folks, this is one trip I'm looking forward to.

That's it for the updates. Quite the simple life I live, no? That will be fixed when school starts. Can't wait! GROAN.

Oh I updated my Friendster profile today. I know how silly that is but I realized that my profile was much too vague to be of any use to anyone I don't already know. I wouldn't normally care about this but recently I got two messages from two cuties just moved in to the DC/Maryland area trying to meet new people. Barring the possibilty of them being men, they did presume some compatibilty based on what little information I'd provided. Here's what my profile read:

Favorite Books: comedies
Favorite Movies: comedies
Favorite Music: pop
Favorite Television Shows: comedies

I've elaborated on those now, but had a very hard time with the favorite music bit. To name a few musicians I always listen to would be leaving out so many, and to list them all would be overkill. Sometimes people put so many names down that I wonder if all of them are their favorites. Could it be they merely like a lot of them? Have they heard everything by those guys? Isn't it possible that their genius was limited to one album? One song even? Or are these people just showing off? Do they want to show off how much they know, or how esoteric the people they like are? Are they trying to tell you, "Yeah, I'm a trainspotter, my music is a lot cooler--a lot more unknown--than yours"?

So I decided to list genres I listen to (even though I usually call everything that isn't 'jazz' or 'classical' 'pop'), that way I didn't leave anyone out and I wasn't showing off either. But--in the refuge of this blog--my favorite music? A field recording of a tribe from the northern Philippines. I have the only reel in existence. Hell, I made it myself. Take that, assholes.