Sounds kinda like Willie Nelson

There is something uniquely charming about Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations." What would be a better employment than being allowed to travel the world, write, be sarcastic, and entertain myself through culturally themed hobbies and activities? I think that would be absolutely marvelous.

Life has been pretty simple lately. I should recant when using such words given everything going on. I think being able to try so many new things has given me a new perspective to life. The more I can experience the more at ease I tend to be. I think that has to do with the longing to be prepared and know. I guess I was taught to be ready for any situation, and I know I'm not.

I'm really thankful for being given the chance to work where I do. Shared iTunes playlists are only a mere drop in the bucket of perks for being here, but from these and some very cool members of staff (one being an ex-magazine music writer) I have found some pretty groovy tunes.

One of my favorite new bands is White Lies. Every time I start to listen, I find myself totally immersed in the music, sinking deeper in the rhythm and beat into some delicate flavor of music that I find quite enchanting. Okay... So some of the songs are mildly cliche and typical. There's definitely mixtures of a lot of different groups already on the market, but it's a lot of what I already like that's out there mixed together in some grand blender that knows to disgard what I don't particularly enjoy. It makes me want to dance.

"Let's grow old together, and die at the same time. "

I love Santogold. I'm going to go ahead and get that out there. I haven't found a group that I liked this much over all in... Well, a long time. "I'm a lady" is one of my favorites out of the whole cd. I can't come up with any one song that I didn't like on the cd though, which is a very rare or absolutely non-existent predicament to find myself in. (Yes, it did beat the ever famous "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" but only due to the emphasis on whole cd versus one song. I still love the title song. The video... Not tons. I thought Apple did a better job.)

"I pay for what's called eccentricity and my wish to evolve."

Those are probably my two absolute favorites from everything. I do love Elbow, Spinerette, Roisin Murphy, Yael Naim, Feist, Manu Chao (of course!!!), but I haven't gotten the chance to listen to all these guys enough to decide how much. Feist and Yael Naim is too slow to really get into now and I don't have Elbow or Spinerette's cd's. Roisin Murphy seems like the music lacks depth but again I have not decided overall. I've been much too busy listening to my other new loves.

Something that I did not think that would happen is the redeveloped interest in The Raconteurs. Since seeing their show at Bonnaroo on the site I have decided I need to see them live. The album's not thriller by itself, but that set was amazing, and now I must go to Bonnaroo some day.

I must! (The lyrics to Consoler's of the Lonely follows this thought too well. "I'm bored to tears yeahhhhhhh.")

It would be fun.