The Wee Democracy

new music

there are few pleasures in life like discovering new music. and i don't mean like coldplay, who, while they rock, are pretty damn mainstream, so you can say, yeah, i've heard of them, but i haven't heard them. or perhaps you'll say, i've heard a couple of their songs and they rock.

no, for today, i must extol a kind of gratitude not seen in ages to a person i don't even know. such gratitude goes out to an amazon friend who goes by jami-la. you see, ms. la created a list on one of those nifty amazon listmania pages, and had the good idea to name it "a bunch of lonesome songs". well, me, being the glutton for melancholia that i am, i clicked on it, then started downloading some new music!

i "discovered" so to speak two artistes -- iron and wine, who have an album called "the creek drank the cradle" which i must soon own, dammit. and another guy named damien jurado, who is genius.

i've linked them up. my sister is giving me the evil eye, which says to get the hell off the computer.



feeling: excited!
thinking of: ireland
song of the day: jesus the mexican boy - iron and wine
-jesus the mexican boy, born in a truck on the fourth of july, gave me a card with a lady naked on the back