Neko Case, “I Wish I Was the Moon Tonight” (mp3, 4M) from Blacklisted

• Look for these albums
  • The Tigers Have Spoken (two mp3s, “If You Knew” and “Train from Kansas City,” available as free downloads from record label.)
  • Blacklisted (RealMedia file: “Things That Scare Me Not“)
  • Furnace Room Lullaby (RealMedia file: “Mood to Burn Bridges“)
  • The Virginian (RealMedia file: “Karoline“)
• Music preview of Blacklisted at Salon.com
• Review of Furnace Room Lullaby at Salon.com
• Official website (no, really)
• Relevant page at the company that represents her (includes upcoming tour dates)
• Allmusic entry
• Here’s an iTunes list of Case music.

MP3 files are posted for evaluation purposes only. Availability is limited: usually 24 hours. Through this site, I’m trying to share and promote good music with others, who will also hopefully continue to support these artists. Everyone is encouraged to purchase music and concert tickets for the artists you feel merit your hard earned dollars. If you hold copyright to one of these songs and would like the file removed, please let me know.

There’s a stack of books by the bed that I’ll be tackling as my late-night reading this semester, starting with…

Whitney Terrell, The Huntsman
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex: A Novel
Chang Rae Lee, Aloft
Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Did you already notice these changes, dear reader?

My old blog design had tons of links to other blogs right on the home page. Now, however, I’ve put everything into my Bloglines subscriptions, to which I’ve provided a link on the right-hand side of the home page under “About You.”

I’ve also been maintaining a side blog called “Clip Job,” and you’ll find a link to it right below the other oone.

Reality television continues to astound me:

• Having met on the set of American series The Surreal Life, Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav are now romantically involved and have their own reality show, which starts tonight on VH-1. [NY Times story]
• Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Germaine freakin’ Greer is on the latest season of Britain’s Celebrity Big Brother, which also features Nielsen. [Guardian story]

• Do I owe you a blog entry? Definitely.
• Do I owe you an email? Probably.
• Do I owe you revisions on an article? All signs point to yes.

We returned from our sojourns and then entertained houseguests for a few days. So now I really have to hotfoot it to get ready for the semester. In lieu of a real blog entry, here are a few unrelated factoids for your consumption regarding developments Chez Zombie:

• It appears that whenever someone clicks on one of the ads I now have on my archive pages, 5 cents goes into my account for BlogAid. Keep that in mind, kids.
• When I mentioned earlier that “[m]y mp3 collection is growing by leaps and bounds,” what I should have said was, “I have acquired more new music in two days than I usually get in a year.”
• We are making the spare bedroom into a serious, get-work-done office for both of us. Almost there.
• Now that Max is gone, I plan to start volunteering for Wayside Waifs soon. They had a volunteer orientation scheduled for tonight, but it was cancelled due to all the snow and ice on the roads.
• The above development means we get to watch the latest (taped) episodes of Lost and Alias tonight.
• As soon as I get my bedside table and lamp, I’m seriously cutting back on the late-night blog reading. I mean it this time. No, really.