Jordan Rundle

I appear to be looking at something. What? You'll never know.

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:58:24 -0700

That's right. You heard me.

There I go looking at things again.

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:58:10 -0700

Silly me.

Bright light to the right! Oh darn, that's my left.

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:33:50 -0700

Magazines!

I've decided to completely stop reading music reviews.

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:55:47 -0700

I am a person easily swayed by opinions with an air of authority or relevant knowledge, and reading reviews of music I listen to, before or after the fact, warps my perspective, ruining my enjoyment or falsely boosting it. Be they major print outlets such as Rolling Stone and the Denver-local Westword or the massively popular online site Pitchfork Media with its final-word followers, I'm going cold turkey. I used to have a policy of not reading critiques of albums until I've fully explored them, but I've found that even this does not work, and that I see it through others' eyes instead of my own. Obviously, this creates some problems. In the past I've discovered new music primarily by way of various review outlets, passing up records that received poor or mediocre ratings. The temptation to skip a poorly-received album of an artist I'm a fan of is great, and I simply don't feel right doing it anymore. So, from now on, I will actually utilize Last.fm's recommended artists and radio features as well as Pandora's and many other options (word-of-mouth, Virb profiles, local record stores, etc) to discover new music. There are countless means of discovery and expansion, and taking the easy way out has severely limited my eclecticism and taste. So, from this day forward, I vow to do my best to avoid professional reviews if at all possible. If you are like me in any of the ways listed, I implore you to try it yourself.

Arcade Fire at Hove

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:32:04 -0700

Today I re-watched Arcade Fire's performance at Hove Festival in Norway for about the sixth time. Their on-stage energy is absolutely amazing, and everyone seems to really be having fun throughout. I'm extremely excited for their Red Rocks show with LCD Soundsystem. Should be a beautiful experience, especially two days after Monolith. Check it out: http://rita.nrk.no/community/hove07/?klipp=266792

Upcoming shows in Denver

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:34:34 -0700

Nabbed from my Last.fm upcoming events list. August 23 - The One AM Radio August 31 - The Apples In Stereo September 10 - Devendra Banhart September 11 - Rilo Kiley September 13 - Bright Eyes September 14 - Monolith * 3:00 - Everything Absent or Distorted * 4:30 - Ghostland Observatory * 5:45 - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah * 7:10 - Born In The Flood * 8:30 - The Decemberists * 10:15 - CAKE September 15 - Monolith * 2:00 Gregory Alan Isakov * 4:30 - Margot & The Nuclear So and So's * 5:40 - Brian Jonestown Massacre * 7:00 - Art Brut * 10:00 - The Flaming Lips September 17 - The Arcade Fire September 24 - The New Pornographers September 28 - Metric October 1 - Voxtrot October 4 - Mute Math October 19 - Aesop Rock or Pinback October 26 - Architecture in Helsinki October 27 - DeVotchKa November 17 - Of Monreal

Great album closers

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:00:22 -0700

Original post (Last.fm): Great album closers I decided to go through my library and compile a mix of album closers that I find to be really exceptional. Here's what I came up with: 1. Bookworm Margot & the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of Retreat 2. Mornington Crescent Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit 3. Easy/Lucky/Free Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn 4. A Lack of Color Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism 5. Sons & Daughters The Decemberists The Crane Wife 6. The Biggest Lie Elliott Smith Elliott Smith 7. The Key of C Say Hi to Your Mom Numbers & Mumbles 8. Black Like Me Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 9. Land's End Patrick Wolf Wind in the Wires 10. Stop Coming to My House Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People 11. It's All Gonna Break Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene Have anything you'd add to / remove from this mix? P.S. If you'd like these songs, PM me.

Fancy custom layout, first impressions.

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:28:54 -0700

I just launched the layout I've been working on for the last couple of days! Obviously, Virb has made quite an impression since I signed up. I'm falling in love with the flexibility, simplicity, and, of course, the social aspects in every way that I didn't with MySpace. I plan to do more with it over the next week or so, including redesigning the comments boxes and adding more personal information and links to other sites. I'm going all out. This project has rekindled my passion for web design, and reminded me of the therapeutic effects of CSS coding. It's like meditation. Not to mention the good two hours I spent refining the vector stuff. I actually used a pre-existing piece to create it, tweaking and updating where necessary. I think it turned out well. Alas, it's coming on 5:30 in the morning, proof positive that I shouldn't get on a roll coding after 9:00. And I have work tomorrow. Tsk tsk. I'll be having a rough day.

Inaugural blog...ural!

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:38:08 -0700

As I settle myself into this little slice of interweb called Virb, I can't help but wonder what the future has in store for me. What wacky debauchery awaits as I traverse the endless horizons of this social network thing-a-majig? Will I make friends? Will I take the time to jazz up my profile with sexy CSS action? Will I forget about this the way I forgot about Consumating? WILL THERE BE CAKE? All pressing questions, and all will be answered in time. In the meantime, I'm still deciding upon what exactly I want the focus of this blog (blag) to be. Shall I go the LiveJournal route and talk about my day? Shall I talk about my snobby indie music tastes? Shall I blow everyone away and update each week with a deeply insightful diatribe, making everyone's lives just a little bit better? Or shall I continue to fill this entire post with rhetorical questions? Perhaps I will do a little bit of everything. Because really ladies and gentlemen... That's just how I roll. I can already tell that this is going to be a great relationship.