Drunken Owls and Other Delights

This year was really tough to pull together musically...nothing really called out to me this year. I'm thinking that, again, this was a year where more word-of-mouth came from the internet kids and less from radio and elsewhere. It also kind of reminds me of that change of indie mood around the spring of 1996, when college radio stations weren't playing much mainstreamish alt.rock (that was for all the commercial alt.rock stations now), but were filled with a lot of indie that was more angular, quite unpolished, and harder to simply enjoy. In 2007 I found myself turning more towards songs being played on my local alt-rock radio station (Live 105), and even some of the heavily commercial stuff being played on VH1. Yeah, it was definitely a telling moment...the year where I finally gave up trying to pick up on indie rock and simply just went with what I enjoyed listening to. Further proof that what is indie and hip one decade can be commercial and decidedly unhip the next. Rock tends to be fickle that way, really.

Lifewise? This was an another off-year...I didn't get too much done writing-wise except for finishing Love Like Blood (on New Year's Eve, mind you!), and a few other writing plans fell by the wayside. Jobwise I was getting frustrated, but that would fall into place quite nicely at the end of the year when I changed departments. Everything else was good (and we went on a great trip to Hawaii, where I met kateelliott!), if otherwise uneventful. It very much felt like a year of changes and waiting for things to end and other things to start up. Not exactly a bad year, but not lifechanging either.

So! Onto the music...

( I bet you know beef jerky has an aftertaste! )

Coming up next weekend: 2008-2009, and finally my Best of Decade list!