Here are entries that I was going to write in the last week, but were aborted for one reason or another:
- Mention that any of Chimay's beers have surpassed my previous favorite beer, but in particular, the Chimay Blue (aka Chimay Grande Réserve) is my new favorite. It's a nice dark Belgian Ale with a smooth texture and complex flavor, and it's easy to drink despite its 9% ABV. Of course, it's a little too expensive to drink very regularly, but what do you expect from something brewed by Belgian Monks? It's still damn good, though.
- A discussion of Berkeley's proposed law on requiring local businesses to brew only Fair Trade coffee, and attempting to draw out a corollary on how this could potentially apply to beer. Aborted because I couldn't make said corollary into a joke that made sense.
- I was going to comment that with Star Trek X apparently being "A Generation's Final Journey," that means we won't be getting a Star Trek movie with Q. Then I was going to make a joke that if it meant we had to wait until Star Trek Q for Q's movie, then maybe it was alright, because the thought of that many Star Trek movies makes me ill. The joke died, however, when I rememembered that there is no Roman Numeral Q. D'oh.
- Discussion of the disturbing discovery that They Might Be Giants songs are 18.71% percent of my music 3875 song music library (though only 12.73% of the duration of my library). NIN was a distant 2nd, making up a mere 3.4% of my songs. Perhaps more disturbingly, though, is that different versions of a mere 4 TMBG songs (Istanbul, Particle Man, They Might Be Giants, and Birdhouse In Your Soul) make up 1% of my entire music collection! What's even worse about this is that there's only one version of Istanbul, Particle Man, and They Might Be Giants I really like, but I keep the rest around because I don't want to delete a song out of the middle of a bootleg or other collection. At least I listen to at least half the variants of Birdhouse that I have. Anyway, the point is that if you had any doubt that I'm a TMBG fanatic, you now have incontrovertible evidence.
- Yesterday's iPod software update made me a very happy camper, because now my iPod will update my iTunes library with updated Play Counts and Last Played times, so my iPod listening habits can be taken into consideration when creating smart playlists.
- TMBG is going to be on Conan O'Brien again on Wednesday, August 14th. By which I mean the will actually air on the 14th, as in the one that starts 30 minutes after the 13th ends. Hopefully they don't play Robot Parade like they did last time. Four of Two would be a much more reasonable choice, I think.
- While reading alt.music.tmbg last night, I came across a link to this interview, wherein John Flansburgh and John Linnell interview each other. It's very amusing and very revealing, I think. They talk about everything from other's perceptions of their music to their high school science teacher to emotion killing bacteria.
- The guy who cuts my hair (which happened today) looks totally like Tom Cavanagh (Who plays Ed on the TV show Ed).
- And finally, if I weren't completely busy with work, I'd totally be at TMBG's 20th anniversay concert next week in Central Park. ::sigh::
So now that you know what I would have written about, aren't you glad I didn't write about it at length?