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[511] Friday night I'm going nowhere, all the lights are changing green to red
So the new couch that we picked out on Boxing Day and have been eagerly awaiting for weeks... does not fit in our house. So we have to go pick out a new one after all that (eating the cost of the failed delivery in the process) and do this all over again, and in the meantime, we don't have a couch because we had already arranged to have the old one hauled out. The old one that was fucking massive, so I don't understand how the fuck this one can't possibly get through either of our doors, and work is stupid and frustrating (love 2 b bulldozed by a stupid bitch manager, also when porters tell me they'll do something and then immediately fuck off for three hours) and I'm still so fucking cold and I just want to cry.
Also, the wind was so crazy last night that it completely carried off one of our massive recycling bins, so that's just... gone. Throw all that in with the theatre STILL being closed, and this is shaping up to be pretty much the worst birthday week I've ever had? Dinner out Tuesday was nice, at least. Hopefully leftovers and Dynamite will let me forget about all this shit for a couple of hours tonight.
Wikipedia Sez: White Ladder is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter David Gray. It was first released in November 1998 through Gray's own record label, IHT Records, but failed to chart. On 24 April 2000, the album was re-released by Dave Matthews' label ATO Records and debuted at number 69 on the UK Albums Chart, before climbing to number one on 5 August 2001, more than a year later. White Ladder produced five singles, including the hit "Babylon", which ignited interest in the album and shot Gray to worldwide fame. Other singles released from the album were "This Year's Love", "Please Forgive Me", "Sail Away", and "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye".
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Indie Rock
Release Date: November 27th, 1998
Prior Familiarity: None, and seeing how popular it clearly was, it's definitely one of those "oh, the UK really is a whole other world" sort of things, like Robbie Williams.
What I Did While Listening: Got a healthy amount of cleaning up done. Not enough, though. It's never enough.
Verdict: It's fine! It sounds like very generic late-'90s radio-friendly pop rock. Why the fuck were some of those songs so long, though?
Favourite Song: This Year's Love
Leshia's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐, a full star of which is due solely to This Year's Love, a song apparently written for a movie I have also never heard of.
Ugh, I'm just so fucking discouraged about everything right now.
Also, the wind was so crazy last night that it completely carried off one of our massive recycling bins, so that's just... gone. Throw all that in with the theatre STILL being closed, and this is shaping up to be pretty much the worst birthday week I've ever had? Dinner out Tuesday was nice, at least. Hopefully leftovers and Dynamite will let me forget about all this shit for a couple of hours tonight.
Wikipedia Sez: White Ladder is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter David Gray. It was first released in November 1998 through Gray's own record label, IHT Records, but failed to chart. On 24 April 2000, the album was re-released by Dave Matthews' label ATO Records and debuted at number 69 on the UK Albums Chart, before climbing to number one on 5 August 2001, more than a year later. White Ladder produced five singles, including the hit "Babylon", which ignited interest in the album and shot Gray to worldwide fame. Other singles released from the album were "This Year's Love", "Please Forgive Me", "Sail Away", and "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye".
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Indie Rock
Release Date: November 27th, 1998
Prior Familiarity: None, and seeing how popular it clearly was, it's definitely one of those "oh, the UK really is a whole other world" sort of things, like Robbie Williams.
What I Did While Listening: Got a healthy amount of cleaning up done. Not enough, though. It's never enough.
Verdict: It's fine! It sounds like very generic late-'90s radio-friendly pop rock. Why the fuck were some of those songs so long, though?
Favourite Song: This Year's Love
Leshia's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐, a full star of which is due solely to This Year's Love, a song apparently written for a movie I have also never heard of.
Ugh, I'm just so fucking discouraged about everything right now.