Sunday Randoms

As usual, nothing random about the so-called random thoughts...

I watch Project Runway occasionally and I'm not afraid to admit that my favorite part is hearing Heidi Klum pronounce the word 'out.'

We've been discussing music around here a lot, and when I was listening to some older songs in the car I was reminded of sitting in our dorm room, putting on an one side of a vinyl album which we had chosen after a thorough discussion, and just sitting and listening. Do people still do that? Hard for me to imagine that they do.

On a related (and therefore non-random) note, whenever I talk about music with students they often ask me who I like, so here's a few that maybe give some ideas about the dozens of bands that I like. Current bands include Rilo Kiley, New Pornographers (A.C. Newman's band that also includes Niko Case), Fountains of Wayne, Death Cab for Cutie and others that I hear on the radio and don't always catch the name. I think one of them is called Cake but I'm not sure. I was very into the New Wave thing back in the late 70's with my favorites being Talking Heads and Elvis Costello. Other bands like Steely Dan and artists like Paul Simon, Tom Waits, Randy Newman and Springsteen weave their way in and out as well and there are many, many others.

In the aftermath of something that I will only describe as involving challah french toast, I just vacuumed my toaster oven.