It’s pouring rain. Obama won Iowa. I’m listening to Burial, again, though I have just discovered that I only have one song on my iPod instead of the whole album. I have a deadline next Friday which has the potential to be a mad scramble; it also has the potential to be glorious.

I’m watching rain pool on a windowsill, rippling out like stones in a lake as fat drops shower the green painted metal. The wind is sweeping the falling water across the parking lot in patterns.

Last night, I went over to Nick (aka the Russian)’s to spin some records. He had misplaced wires and plugs, so we ended up fiddling with Reason for about 30 minutes. It was mostly him showing me stuff with it, as I hadn’t used it before. The end result was this little 3 measure beat he called wiki wiki ah mp3 (I think, secretly, because he had been listening to a lot of Aphrodite. And because he didn’t like my title suggestion of ‘Bloody Stump.’) It’s not amazing by any stretch, but for having never worked with anything but a eons old tracker 10 years ago, I would say it’s not a terrible first result for 20 minutes of knob turning.

And I’m saying it non-stop in person, so I might as well post it too: Obama/Edwards 08. I know Edwards isn’t admitting to being keen on the idea right now, but let’s fast forward a few months. It doesn’t hurt that most sane people would be very excited by this ticket. It almost seems impossible, the notion of being excited about politics, after 8 miserable years of shame and head-hanging and cursing.

This storm is supposed to go on until Monday at least.

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