Halloween Stress!

Argh! The BP logo patch i ordered off Ebay 2 weeks ago for my Halloween costume hasn't arrived yet. only a couple more business days before Saturday and i don't have a backup costume! Goddamn it, serves me right for ordering an essential component of my costume from a company in Malaysia 3 weeks before Halloween!!! i knew i should have just gone to Stewart/Colbert rally in DC.

Despite this, i am happy today because i'm still really enjoying the Crystal Castles' cover of Platinum Blonde's "Not in Love" remix as sung by Robert Smith; apparently even Twitter is abuzz with this song (for whatever that's worth!)



I really hope that he sticks to this more 'restrained' singing for the next Cure album. frankly, his vocals and lyrics have left something to be desired since Bloodflowers in 2000 (some would even say since Wild Mood Swings in 1996). Can't wait for a new album regardless though. i can't start to get excited yet. if there is to be one more album, and it would probably be the *real* last Cure album, it won't be released until at least 2012 (it's been an album every 4 years for the last two decades, and 4:13 Dream was released in October 2008). If it really is the last Cure album, and is released in 2012, i'm kinda ok with the whole 'world ending' bit... :D

Yesterday, i spent like 8 minutes staring at my laptop screen blankly, trying to remember the name of a band. I was SURE that there was no way i'd get it because it was pretty long (i remembered that much) and a pretty obscure band. anyway, i'm pulling my hair out, wracking my brain, going crazy trying to will myself to remember when suddenly there's this moment of clarity and it comes to me: CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN!!! YES!!! haha. pretty much the most rewarding moment of my week thus far. "The History of Utah" by Camper Van Beethoven is, without a doubt, one of the best tracks ever written. and on a different but related note, I love this song: