Hurray for snow days! I take back everything bad I ever said about snow. Sliding across intersections and shoveling snow may suck eggs, but in Florida, you will never wake up to the news that you get to go back to bed unexpectedly because of the weather (or, if you do, your house has been blown apart and missing school is a tiny consolation).

I love snow days! Huzzah! I think we teachers love them even more than the students do. I mean, I like being at school, reaching young minds and all; but it's so very nice to have a sudden arbitrary day to lay around and watch Creature Comforts and play Gun and drink hot cocoa. And blog. Of course we blog.

Pic from here.

Irk City

The following things have been bugging the crap out of me lately:

• Bands whose name doesn't fit. Once upon a time I bought a CD from Plastic Noise Experience, which was decidedly un-noisy. It was toned-down trance techno, which is fine -- but I couldn't listen to it because I felt so betrayed by the name. Yesterday at the CD shop I saw a disc in the techno section (oops, we don't call it that anymore.. it's electronica) by a group called "Brazilian Ladies" or some such. I go to check it out thinking "Cool! Maybe this won't be some 18-year-old Playboy-look-alike who gets to have her CDs distributed solely on how she looks, given the rampant sexism and juvenility of so much of the modern techno industry!" But then I see it's just three doofy guys. Morons! Pick a name that fits! (Although I suppose no one would buy a CD by "Three Doofy Guys". I certainly wouldn't.)
  
  
• 18-year-old Playboy-look-alikes who get to have their CDs distributed solely on how they look, given the rampant sexism and juvenility of so much of the modern techno industry. DJ Baby Anne is a fine DJ -- but I can't bring myself to buy her stuff because I know there are 27 female DJs who are every bit as skilled, but can't get their stuff out because they're not rail-thin supermodelettes. DJ Irene is cool, but I'm so bloody sick of trance I can't stand it.
  
  
• Trance, trance, trance. Go to a used shop (or even a new one) and all you'll see in the te.. electronica section is trance and more trance. And three or four drum 'n' bass comps. For Jove's sake, what happened to breaks? I'm from Florida, dammit! I need something more than just thump thump thump thump x ∞. (Actually, this is about more than just geography. I think those of us weaned on hip hop have a stronger love for breaks than anything else.) Are you asking "What's the difference?"

I'm sure there's more, but those are the ones that come to mind at present. Besides, I've got video games to play.

TimeWaster™

Please to enjoy BrokeBack to the Future. Via ABS.

Today I'm listening to: Breaks! Thank you, DI! (Would you believe they're playing Baby Anne right now? Aiiieee!)