Louisville, Kate Nash, and a smattering of random

So residency is here again, and though it may be futile for me to blog about Louisville since most of my readership is either currently here with me or recently graduated, but WTFN (as in Why the Fuck Not), right?

Although it's only Saturday, and I'm sure I'll be tired and cranky by Thursday, Residency looks to be very very well laid out in terms of planning and sluffing and overall interest in what's going on. Workshop this res for me looks to be particularly good--I really enjoyed all of the pieces, and they were all very thematically different. AND, I get to be workshopped first. Shut up.

Sue, Molly and the fam are due in Thursday and Friday. I'm a little sad that they'll all miss my readings and lectures

• Lecture: Structural Screwity: A Brief Guide to Reading and Writing Experimental Fiction
• Tuesday, May 27 @ 1:30 PM ELC Lectorium
• Reading: from "Deconstructing Happily Ever After" (2008 Kentuckiana Metroversity Contest Winner)
• Thursday, May 29 @ 1:30 PM ELC Lectorium

But, since the first thing everyone said to me at Residency went like this: "Hi Drew, How are the baby and Sue? Got any pictures?" I think everyone will be generally happy to see them, and I'll be happy to see my wife and baby (which I already miss terribly). Win-win.

On to new musics:
Thanks to the wonders of my favorite online radio, Pandora, I've found several new bands and other musical type groups that I'm very much obsessed with lately. Kate Nash is at the forefront of this new wave in my musical tastes. Kate's music reminds me a little of Bjork, a little of Anna Nalick, a little of the Dresden Dolls, and a lot of none of them. She has a very [for me] unique sound and sings in a lovely cockney. Her songs are pretty bawdy, and very story-esque. Normally I can't hear lyrics for shit, but because she uses the cockney accent, and because her instrumentation is pretty simple, her lyrics shine out. I first got hooked on her music with the song "Merry Happy," but since I've bought the album, nearly every track is fantastic. My favorites include "Foundations," "The shit song," "Birds," "Dickhead," and "Pumpkin Soup." I guess Kate also won best breakthrough artist in england for last year. I hope she sticks around, because I thoroughly love her music.

I've also, thanks to Pandora, been finding a number of more instrumental bands that I really dig: The Section Quartet (like Apocalyptica, they redo rock songs with their strings.), The Last Cord (very dark instrumentals), Matmos (kinda weird, but also good), and Tom Waits (probably some of the most miserable music I've ever heard. I love his voice and the misery).

Ok I guess that's it. I lied about the smattering of random. I'm sure you don't mind.