I'm totally the biggest liar ever. Well, maybe not biggest, but I am a liar.

I have been in front of my computer several times in the past two weeks with the entire stack of CDs I got from L.A. Never once did it cross my mind to actually give the reviews I was planning to. I guess I can just say they were good, I enjoy them and move along.

They are good.

I was attempting to hold off on buying anymore CDs for awhile; however, I am a failure. But I am failure who also owns the new Sufjan Stevens album "Illinoise", so I think I win. Although the album comes off, at points, like it is a musical, think West Side Story but without the killings, it is rock solid. This is Sufjan's second entry in his state-by-state catalog of CDs. His first disc in this process was Michigan. Apparently they are very similar. I have no idea. The non-chorus line parts of the CD are solid indie rock. I give it 5 bottles of orange juice out of 3.

Here is Pitchforks's review.

Hint: they know how to write. Even if it is a wee bit pretentious at points.

I have, once again, contraced an infection of the ear. I am not sure how it happened this time. I have been out of the water for almost three weeks with a busted wrist. Hello! No submerging! Bullshit I say. It hurts, its swollen and I hate it. And since it is the outer portion of the canal all infected, it warps what I hear. So yeah, I've heard some freaking gibberish lately. Or, at least I've been giving people the benefit of the doubt that they know how to speak.

'Course, I do work in computers, so maybe that isn't the best assumption.
- posted by Pat @ 10:35 AM