El Rejectionâ

Got a nice rejection from Shenandoah today, via a handwritten note from R.T. Smith.

I've sent to Shenandoah since the very beginning, and I've never gotten a handwritten note like this before from them until today, so that was welcoming. It seems like a very tough journal to crack.

Usually I like these notes not to necessarily hope to get into the journal next time, but to hope that someone else takes a poem or two, if not more, who also currently has them for consideration.

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Leaving for Pennsylvania tomorrow for a week or so.

Jess and I have to do some marriage license thing at the courthouse on Friday morning, and then we're meeting with the Father who's marrying us in the afternoon.

Then I'll be kicking it at the homestead, with family and friends, before the real insanity of summer starts.

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Yesterday was the official "Two Months Until We Get Married" mark...

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Recommendations:

Riceboy Sleeps - Riceboy Sleeps
Salem - Astronaut
White Rabbits - It's Frightening
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Port-Royal - Magnitogorsk
Passion Pit - Manners
National Skyline - Bliss & Death
The Silent Years - Let Go

Snow Angels

I paid for my first ever Itunes tunes today. One was a single track, an Itunes exclusive, I think, from The Silent Years.

The other was the Snow Angels soundtrack, featuring the beautiful and virtuoso monoliths David Wingo (also of Ola Podrida) and Jeff McIlwain (who is also Lusine), and it was worth it. I may have blown my cinematic wad by knowing the songs of the score before the flick, but I couldn't wait. There's also an original Explosions in the Sky tune apparently, near the end, for which I'll be on the lookout.

The soundtrack's low key but what I'd expect from the duo. Seems perfect for the subject matter of the book, and the movie I believe sticks pretty close, but you never know with David Gordon Green.

September = The start of the NFL season and Snow Angels on DVD.

And all you Giants haters and disbelievers, we're going after it again this season too.