New Year's was a complete and total bust. Mind you, that was to be expected but it is still annoying.

Lucero - "My Best Girl"
I just finished reading Parable of the Sower while listening to this song and I felt for a moment that both my ears and mind were completely satisfied. It was a moment of simple brilliance; a book filled with the kind of sadness that comes equally riddled with hope absorbing into my mind and a song that is mournfully romantic and ultimately sobering filling my ears.

Here's to 2008. listen more, learn more.