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turns out i have a lot more i want to tell the computer than i ever imagined. i thought it would be a wonderful discipline to write about food, but today is all about not that. today is about MPP.

my foray, sashay into this interesting world of blog came this year. late bloomer, i know. i both enjoyed and not a period of unemployment this winter. i started reading blogs. i mostly started reading about music. i consider myself to be fairly knowledgeable about music, maybe not about music that happened in the eighties as this culture didn't really get into my life (living under a rock?) and i haven't made a huge effort to catch up... but ever since i discovered pearl jam in junior high, i have sworn that i wouldn't fall behind what is happening out there.. seeing friends older brothers wearing tshirts from lalapalooza shows where pearl jam, soundgarden, red hot chili peppers all played together! i was sick with envy. and a few years too late. of course, i only like to discover stuff that i like. but that is all that matters. when it happens it is like birthday presents.

the fun thing about music blogs and being unemployed is that you can check out lots of music for free. so i started getting pretty into that. a bunch of the sites that i was checking regularly where talking ALL about animal collective and how MPP was going to be this earth shattering new musical ride. it got to the point where i felt like this was all i was reading about all the time and i got turned off by all the attention. thinking surely since these people are getting all crazy, that it either wasn't going to be good, or it was going to be good- but i don't know something about it made me frown, become uninterested and start reading other blogs that happen to be written by and about people that i know. (and this is where the idea of this whole thing started to become a sparkle in my eye..)

well, animal collective played on letterman last week, and not that i am watching tv ever, but i do sometimes see something on the internet and watch it. (joaquin pheonix, etc. maybe i should just start watching letterman?) it was really fun to watch, even though the boys are just standing there in front of their magical music making tables. and things light up and the coolest kids were in the back doing some sort of interpretive giant puppet/stilts dance. overall, it made me remember that i hadn't picked up this album that i had spent a lot of time reading about. i got it. and there is some good stuff going on!

since i seem to be unable to keep my secrets and childhood photos off of this- i will just go ahead and tell you all that i power walk. for exercise, for health, for head clearing, pounding, sweaty movement. and i turn up the tunes and i really move it. it is really good. today- this was the power walking soundtrack. and it was super fun and it got me to that place where i am all legs and arms and booty moving fast and hard and to the beat of my heart and the music and my breathing and the rest of me, my head, thoughts were soaring along with the tunes. and that is all it takes for me to become a fan of anything. so, i guess the moral is that it is worthy of all that ranting raving attention.

now i am going to read this new cooking book that i picked up yesterday. excited that it is for reading and laughing and full of recipes: EAT ME, THE FOOD AND PHILOSOPHY OF KENNY SHOPSIN. i am sure that i will be delivering a review on content, hilarity and excitement soon! and if it really gets me, i am going to have to get up there and watch that guy be a character while i am eating his food.