Yes, you are already very aware that I love Muse. But sometimes you just have to vent or share and this is one of them.

I was feeling so downish while I was cleaning up after lunch today.  You spend the time to make a meal, you get it all ready and on the table, people come eat it, they leave, and you are left alone to clean it all up and get everything shiny again.  Then you know you just have to do it again in a few hours.  Also lingering in my thoughts was the dread of taking the kids school supplies shopping later today (not fun).

During all of this my iPod was on shuffle, then came those lovely little flitting notes followed by guitars and it was like smelling a rose on a warm summer night.  Everything in my body went into happy easy breathing mode.  “Glorious” by Muse may have actually changed my chemical makeup.

When this song is playing, I can’t tell you what time it is or if we have to be somewhere later, I mostly just crank the volume and drift along to it.  Do any of you have a song like that?

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This is kind of a short post, mostly I just wanted to see what you think about it.  James Iha formerly of  The Smashing Pumpkins is finally in another band: Tinted Windows.   I just listened to their new song, Kind of a Girl, here.

Over all I would say they are musically talented for sure, but the lyrics? (to this song anyway)  Not so much.  It was too bubble gum for me, but that is what they were going for I guess, so they did a good job.  I was hoping that it would be better, so James could feel cool too.  He’s kind of like the ex-girlfriend that wants to look super hot and be all that, next time she sees her ex-boyfriend (Billy Corgan) at a party.

Prediction: Kind of A Girl, will surely end up on the soundtrack of a Disney-type tween movie.

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Yes, we bought Coldplay’s newest album “Viva la Vida” on the day it came out. We are not rabid fans or anything like that, but I freely admit that I like everything they have done. This album is pretty great, even Tac likes it.

When you have a music blog, part of you wants to be too cool for bands that millions of people love. I was tempted to omit mentioning on this blog that I bought that particular album, because for some reason humans who have enough food to eat and shelter with running water, have the mental energy and feel compelled to come up with weird social laws telling us what is cool and hip. And liking a band as popular and mellow as Coldplay puts a person as far away from the fringe as is possible while still keeping their listening pallet’s integrity intact.

So there you have it, I’m not holding anything back from you.. no shameful secrets here. Ha ha, as if listening to Coldplay was in any way uncool, it’s just sometimes hard to admit to liking a band that people who listen to rap or Gwen Stephani also like. I am so glad when talented bands that I love make it big; THEY SHOULD, they are way more talented than most of the music enjoyed by radio listening mass population.

“Viva la Vida” is full of beautiful piano, and a plethera (see Hefe for the definition if you don’t already know) of other gorgeous instruments. The lyrics are engaging and totally worth listening to and I love his voice. This album fits nicely with the other albums as the band progresses and learns new things along the way.

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Yesterday I was trying to get the house cleaned up, the kids had friends over and they were being really loud, and I was starting to feel very frazzled.

Then…Cherry by The Smashing Pumpkins started playing on our stereo and it was like magic. I just tuned out everything around me and floated away to Billy’s voice and the oh so poignant guitar notes.

Ahhhh. All better. For a quick defraz of your own, listen here.

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For the past several years I have had a wonderful television relationship with Jim, Pam, Dwight, Michael, The Temp (Ryan), Andy and Angela from NBC’s “The Office.” Tac and I rarely watch television, we just don’t really have the time. He is always busy with work and school, so I am taking care of everything else ( children for example). We eagerly look forward to our weekly Office fix.

“The Office” comes on at 8:00 which happens to be our kids bedtime…who do you know that actually has their kids all the way tucked in and stopped whining by bedtime? So at first we just let them stay up later on Thurs. and watch it with us. Well, they are smart for one thing and they paid too much attention to the show that their parents were obviously enraptured with. The next thing we knew, they were saying things like “that’s what she said” while they were playing with each other (and most likely at school too).

Solution: download it from itunes for 1.99 and watch it on your laptop * in bed* when your kids are asleep. It was perfect, all week long I looked forward to actually watching something that I enjoyed, without our kids. Then NBC pulled their shows from itunes, basically wrecking our beautiful system. They show it on their own online player, but it constantly freezes up and it turns our wifi off repeatedly, plus they show the worst commercials ever (worse than Toby . People all over the country are complaining about this, so I know its not just us.

NBC should have made sure their lame player worked before they messed everything up. I am now 2 or 3 weeks behind in “The Office” which shouldn’t seem like a big deal in actual life, but I’m still really sad about it.

Additionally, since we couldn’t get NBC’s crappy player to work one night we decided to see what was on the other networks and we ended up watching a show called “Cavemen.” I can’t begin to explain why we think this show is so funny, but we have watched it ever since. I happen to be a fan of sarcastic, witty, frozen yogurt eating (sometimes whiny) cavemen. But last night my brother told me that show was going to be cancelled.

So down with NBC and their shoddy player, and everyone else for not seeing “Cavemen” is totally funny. I guess I will just have more time to read and listen to music, because I don’t get to watch tv until NBC figures out how to play nice with others.

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