March 16- New book, musical choices, 'stache

Finished Chuck Klosterman IV on Friday, and it was delightful...very much along in the same vein as Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, only this had a tremendous amount of music-related articles. The writing comes off as a little snarky at times, but it's only because Klosterman has such a vast knowledge of music in general that he's able to inject these scarce side-notes and rather specific bits of information... still, a solid read, if esoteric at times.

Anyway, as I said last week, here's a compilation of the first week's worth of albums that I've listened to:

Ready to Die- Notorious B.I.G.
Day & Age- The Killers
No Line on the Horizon- U2
In the Zone- Britney Spears
Shaman- Santana
Live Like You Were Dying- Tim McGraw
...And Justice For All- Metallica
College Dropout- Kanye West
and a number of tracks by David Bisbal...not sure that it is one album, but it was a steady collection of songs by the Spanish-speaking performer.

I tried to expand the scope of what I normally would choose to listen to, and so I think I have hit a solid group of relatively diverse performers. Let me clarify before anyone goes and cries foul: I understand that at least in the American mainstream, these are relatively well-known artists (minus Bisbal). I am not intentionally trying to pursue music that could be constituted as pop/anything (popular rap, popular country, pop rock, etc)...however, it is music that is much more accessible to many more people than relative unknown/"underground" groups. That and I haven't really done that much to pursue unknown groups/artists. Oh well...



Let's take a quick look at these one by one, shall we?


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No. We shall not. Part of bettering myself means taking care of things that need to be addressed, and I stubbed my toe on a bin that is meant to store all of my school files/sheets/handouts/etc. which are currently cozied up on my floor. It's coming, don't worry. You'll get some heads-up writing shortly, probably as I lay around Wednesday.

Anyway, the moustache is coming in nicely; if I can doctor a picture, I will be sure to post it later on. At the halfway mark, though, it's working out quite well, if I may say so. It'll be interesting to see how it grows in the second half of the month...