Sorry, I’ve been too busy to blog anything terribly interesting because:

• The course I’m doing right now is killer. I was talking to a classmate today, and he concurred: the workload for this one is much, much heavier than anything else we’ve done. It’s interesting, but it’s time-consuming. I guess I was due for one of these; too many so far have been crazy easy.
• It’s the summer. Days that aren’t hotter than the hubs of hell draw me outside.
• Family’s been visiting, and family trumps blogging.
• I seem to be reading (for fun, in addition to for school; I finally finished Cluetrain, Planet Simpson and No War: America’s Read Business In Iraq) again, not to mention finally putting a dent in our Zip queue.
• Work is busy…not so much because I have impending deadlines, but because I feel a bit rejuvenated. It’s just as frustrating and bureaucratic as ever, but I seem more determined than ever to kick bureaucracy’s ass. I’ll let you know how that goes.

However, I can report some things that grabbed my eye today, but only in point-form:

Music:

• I’m going to miss Asobi Seksu at the Horseshoe in September as I’ll be away on course. Frig.
• There’ll be a new Trail Of Dead album in October.
• The Mercury Prize shortlist has been announced, and I couldn’t give a toss about any of the finalists. The only one I liked at all is the Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan album, and even that wasn’t great.
• The Weeds theme song next season will be sung by a different artist every week. Lined up so far: Death Cab For Cutie, Regina Spektor, Elvis Costello and Jenny Lewis. Cool. “Little boxes…”
• The new Johnny Cash disc, American V…magnifique.

Movies:

• The Onion A.V. Club likes Clerks II…
• …but not Lady In The Water. Actually, nobody seems to like Lady In The Water; it’s sporting a 10% rating on Rotten Tomatoes right now. Yeeks!
• More rumours about an Arrested Development movie. I’ll believe it when I see it. I daren’t get my hopes up.
• As Cinematical says, you knew it was coming: All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us. Watch the video.

Sports:

• Bill Simmons has picked a favourite English Premiership League team. He settled on Tottenham Hotspur, because “If London was the Corleone family, Manchester United was Sonny and Arsenal was Michael, then the Spurs would be Fredo with a little more street smarts.” Brilliant.

Right, that’s it. Back to work for me.

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