I gotta baby on the way

In case you haven't noticed from before, my wife and I are expecting to have a meeting with the ol' stork here in September. And though the drudgery of my gloamish job along with the stress of throwing together a 25-40 page masterpiece of critical writing have really been sapping my excitement for this upcoming event, I'm still really excited for the whole shebang to get on with the shebanging.

The due date is still pretty firmly the end of September, but Sue's fairly confident that the Ides of the moth sounds much better and I have to agree. Sooner than later, as long as sooner is a safe time for sooner to happen so that she won't have to hop onto a respirator or spend any unnecessary time in the hospital (Molly: when you decide to emerge, do so in a healthy state of mind. K. thx. bye.). In any event, that means Molly will be either a Virgo or a Libra. Sue's a Libra, and well that works good with me...but two balancers in the house may lead towards some headbutting (good thing I have that archery thing going on with the saggitarius bit...so I can snipe from a distance).

In all truth, I really don't know much of anything about astrology, so I'm really babbling, babbling more as a foregrounding to the lovely background images of the baby's room that we've taken pictures of. It's truly a wonderful mural, painted of course by Sue. So take a look.

In other news, as I've mentioned, I've been crunching away on the ole ECE, and after reading seven books of research and rereading The Age of Wire and String, I'm thoroughly ready to move on to something else. It's definitely one of those "I've conceptualized the paper, but I don't really want to write it" moments. I'm sure you all know what I mean.

Musically, I recently picked up Jill Tracy, Emilie Autumn, Buck Tick, and Tre Lux. Jill, Emilie and Tre Lux are all goth-vein stuff of varying levels of angst. Buck Tick was actually for Sue, and it's a Malise Mizer kinda sounding gothy J-rock band. It's pretty good, but that album lacks in consistency--about half of it is harpsichord darkness, and the other half is ska/Dick Dale kinda stuff...really off putting if you ask me. Tre Lux, a solo album from one of the girls of Switchblade Symphony is all cover songs of popular music...Weird in a gothy way. "Yellow," "Blackhole Sun," and "Karma Police" are among my favorite covers on the album. Sue hates Tre Lux. She says the girl's voice sounds like a cat being skinned alive...yet she likes Switchblade Symphony, which sounds about the same....go figure. Jill Tracy is pretty much a spooky piano. It makes me think of the flamenco dancers' music along with a little Addam's family and Elvira all jumbled together. Odd but interesting. Emilie Autumn is a very Dresden Dollsish type with lots of piano/harpsichord and violin work. I particularly love "Gothic Lolita" because it makes me think of the Harajuku goth scene as well as Nabokov's Lolita (which the song is probably based off of). The album is smart, angry, and very dark.