urg. blogger ate my post from before... i guess their database dropped a nut or something. i would really love to move to some sort of homegrown (or at least self-contained) blogging solution, but i guess i would actually need time to set that up, eh? for awhile before i went pro, blogger would eat my posts on a regular basis, so i got in the habit of actually making them to a text file, and then pasting in when i was all done. i didn't this morning, but i might have to start again. anyway, i was pretty happy with the weather this a.m.; after the last few weeks, 30 degrees and light snow feels like a balmy summer day.

in other news, a friend of the slf who happens to be a music distributor sent along pre-release copies of the new kristin hersh and throwing muses cds. i know that all the people on the throwing music messageboard are all geeked out because of the new muses record (titled "throwing muses", appropriately enough), which is their first since they went into semi-retirement in the late 90s, but i've really only been able to give that one spin so far. i've been completely entranced by kristin's solo album, "the grotto". i've been listening to it pretty much non-stop at work since monday. the album is a collection of raw nerves, bundled together for your listening enjoyment. the music on some borders on downright "rollicking", but most are classic solo kristin. perfect example is track #1, "sno cat". stripped-down arrangement; just kristin's quavering-yet-strong voice, her guitar, and a tinkling piano in the closing seconds. pure bliss.