Mean People

I live in Iowa... the heartland... the place where nice people are supposed to thrive, right? No.

I don't know if it's in the water or what the deal is, but lately I've been running into mean people at a far greater frequency than I am used to. People cutting me off on the highway, I got flipped off the other day because some dude tried to cut ahead of me in line, people butting into my conversation rudely offering an opinion that I did NOT ask for... I mean really. Normally, people have a nicer disposition in the city I live in (don't get the wrong impression - there are 350,000 people here - I'm not in a small town).

Do you think I should blame the economy on this one? Or are people just starting to let down their polite flags and start exercising their right to be angry? If it's the former, welcome to my attitude island - I hate most people and am not ashamed to admit it. Its just that before, I would feel bad about being rude to a nice person - but since there seem to be a lack of those around here lately - it's GAME ON!

Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird was in my city last weekend, wow is he a great performer. If you have the chance to see him live - I highly recommend it.

In other news, I'm still irritated at the world, and this includes being irritated with myself. I'm a horrible blogger in 2009 apparently.

Perhaps I'll find a new voice this month?

A newfound love.

Somehow I came to realization that I'm a huge fan of modern folk music, I knew I liked what I liked, but I didn't know that it was called folk until recently (yes you can judge me for that).

So going off of the "Listeners of ___ also bought"sections in iTunes I stumbled upon 2 1/2 hours of new music that I downloaded last night (thank you iTunes gift card givers). I love it all... here are some of artists I downloaded.

Meiko
Rosi Golan
Ray La Montagne
Amos Lee
Angus and Julia Stone
Andrew Bird
Owen Brady
Lay Low
Brian Factor