Funny- My best friend applies sandalwood essential oil to her wrists every day, and I associate the smell with her.

How a guy smells turns a corner for me. It can make someone who I never would have looked at twice irresistible. It's not necessarily a cologne thing, it's more body chemistry. There was this guy who used to work in my office…He was tall and lanky, which I like, but was otherwise the same as all the other dweeby bros…

Agreed on wrists! Also with the forearms.

It's a deeply flawed movie, but every time I see it I get a chill up my spine when the titular song comes on.

Don't get me wrong, you can't beat watching the movie. It's a sure-fire booty shaker in my house.

Most Talking Heads songs sound better live. I can honestly say I think I am liking The Name Of This Band Is The Talking Heads more than Stop Making Sense these days.

That's the spirit!

Menomena- "Plumage"
Future Islands- "Sun In The Morning"
Hot Snakes- "Unlisted"
Buzzcocks- "Why Can't I Touch It?"
Paul Westerberg- "Dirt to Mud"
Prince & The Revolution- "I Would Die 4 U"
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings- "Give It Back"
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks- "It Kills"
Ralph Stanley- "Oh Death" (off the Oh, Brother Where…

I've been there, and it most definitely sucks. Please take care of yourself as best you can. I'm rooting for you!

One friend has been having a rough winter. Her job situation is bleak (working at a failing new business owned by a friend), and she's told me the last two times I've hung out with her that she's thinking of breaking it off with her fiance. I do like the fiance, but I don't know if they're right for each other…

I've never met a golden retriever that wasn't unflappably loyal and sweet. I'm sorry for the loss.

That is awful. I am so sorry.
I think people have a tendency to underestimate the pain of a friend break up/fight, vs. the pain of a romantic break up/fight. In my own experience, it can be just as (if not more) painful, and the effects are longer lasting.

The Booker T. Set by Booker T. and the MG's. "The Horse" is a delightful song in any state of mind, but it just goes on when you're three sheets to the wind.

I know a guy who is an avowed straight edge, and his favorite band is High on Fire. I'll never understand either aspects of that sentence.

Upvoted for Butthole Surfers.

Sleep (the band)? Sleep is good when you're stoned.

Absolutely Bardo Pond.

I had some very vivid and terrifying dreams upon watching Videodrome after smoking hash.

I don't partake in marijuana anymore, and most of the music I listened to at the height of my enthusiasm has lost its thrill. Lots of Olivia Tremor Control, Spacemen 3, Paul Newman, Brant Bjork, and 13th Floor Elevators.

They only have a word for it if you go up in a bell tower with a rifle and just stare through the scope at people for hours while taking pulls from a bottle of wine.