The Pelican’s Perch

I was planning on waiting until February when this album becomes available on their website to talk about it, but I just couldn’t do it.  This is THE best album of the year, and most likely will be the best of the year for me depending on how great Andrew Bird’s album is.  I love [...]

(recommended listening while reading this post – Rademacher’s “Ice Age” – streamable mp3 at bottom of post)
You may be wondering where I’ve been these past few days.  Well, if any of you caught CNN or any of the news channels lately, you probably saw Missouri getting hit hard by ice storm after ice storm.  What [...]

Since last post I have:

not had to worry about school
hung out with the gang quite a lot
…somehow had my debit card info stolen online resulting in a $3,000 attempted Western Union wire transfer from my bank account, which obviously didn’t go through since I’m a poor college student
Cancelled that transaction after much hassel
Closed my account [...]

Finals are over!  No more school to think about for another month!  This calls for celebration and right now Los Campesinos! seem the most fitting soundtrack to my current state of jubilation.  They’re a bunch of kids from the UK with one simple goal with their music…have fun.  And it’s pretty evident in their music [...]