Muse recently released a new single, which is... underwhelming. It's too generic compared to what you might expect from Muse. If I wanted to hear music like this new song, I'd listen to other bands that are known for that sort of sound. I personally don't really like it, although it's probably a bit more radio-friendly than some of their other stuff. Alas. Perhaps the full album might be a bit better overall, but something tells me maybe I shouldn't hold my breath too much.
In any case, I have also recently been listening to Joy Division. In the past, I only really knew Shadowplay and Love Will Tear Us Apart. Shadowplay because the Killers did a cool cover of it, and Love Will Tear Us Apart because it's probably their most famous song. Eventually I ended up listening to the album Unknown Pleasures in full, and today I listened to the album Closer in full.
Interesting music, but admittedly quite depressing, thematically. Although I suppose that's kind of my thing, as far as music taste goes. Joy Division's music has been around for quite awhile, and I'm only really getting into it now. New Dawn Fades is a particular standout for me, along with Twenty Four Hours.
So yeah, gonna keep listening to Joy Division in the new year. Happy belated Valentine's day, folks, and no, I have not had any success yet regarding online dating. No surprises there. I blame it on the fact that I have standards, which isn't such a bad thing, is it?
Oh, and if I hadn't mentioned it in the past, I found out about a new (to me) song about murder, which is always fun. Another one to add to the collection. Pyscho Killer
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Monday, February 12, 2018
Adding pages to a spiral notebook
The short of it: busy me = fewer blog posts. And I certainly have been very busy since the beginning of this year's spring semester. The ordeals of editing and being completely in charge of a newspaper have not abated.
In any case, at the beginning of this semester I realized that I was quickly nearing the end of my favorite spiral notebook. This is one of those things I'm quite particular about, in addition to my writing utensils and other accoutrements. The particulars: spiral, not composition. Never composition. Plastic cover, not paper -- durability is important. High quality/sturdy spiral wire and back cover. Even for other notebooks I might just use for more random notes (as in, not for school/class), they must be spiral bound. I just like the way the pages swing better that way.
My go-to over the past few years has been Staples' Accel notebooks. I used to get the wide-ruled versions, but eventually I adjusted to college-ruled paper and that's what I use now. Unfortunately, I think the quality of these notebooks may have slightly declined within the last year or so.
The cover should be an interesting color: in the past, I've had hot pink and light blue, mainly. I wish there were more options, since I like variety and would prefer not to have another notebook in the same color that I used some time in the past. Seeing as there don't seem to be more options, in the future I may have to resort to repeating a color and drawing some design on it in Sharpie and/or decorating with stickers, or something like that. Life's too short for boring notebooks. Although they do sell other brands of notebooks with more interesting cover designs, the quality is lacking.
Since I didn't feel like getting an entirely new notebook for the second semester of a year, I decided I would just try to make the most of the one I've had so far. Whenever I happened to buy this notebook, I was quite fortunate to get one that has an actual design on the cover, as opposed to just a solid color. In the time since, I haven't seen any others like that, which baffles and consterns me, since the plain covers are sort of boring. There's also the issue of quality concerns and not wanting to repeat a cover color, which I admit is mildly ridiculous.
For awhile, as I was quickly running out of pages, I wondered about how it might be possible to add more pages to the notebook, and eventually I thought up an idea. Buy loose leaf notebook paper and insert it into the existing notebook, attaching it via binder rings, as the notebook is hole-punched to allow putting it in the rings of a binder. By binder rings I mean the kind you can buy separately, that are kind of like keyrings except they open differently. Not the full binder with the covers and the rings attached inside to the spine.
Anyways, I finally got the notebook paper part of the equation tonight so I was able to test my idea, which seems to work. The binder rings are slightly unwieldy, but it's better (in my mind) than having to get an entirely new notebook. So now I can add additional pages as necessary, and even insert them in various positions in the notebook. It should now definitely last me until the end of the semester, and perhaps even into next year, although we'll just have to see how it's holding up and how many more additional pages could plausibly fit. Of course, I could just rip out all the existing pages and replace them entirely with a new, blank set in order to use the notebook even longer, but I'm not quite sure I want to do that.
In any case, at the beginning of this semester I realized that I was quickly nearing the end of my favorite spiral notebook. This is one of those things I'm quite particular about, in addition to my writing utensils and other accoutrements. The particulars: spiral, not composition. Never composition. Plastic cover, not paper -- durability is important. High quality/sturdy spiral wire and back cover. Even for other notebooks I might just use for more random notes (as in, not for school/class), they must be spiral bound. I just like the way the pages swing better that way.
My go-to over the past few years has been Staples' Accel notebooks. I used to get the wide-ruled versions, but eventually I adjusted to college-ruled paper and that's what I use now. Unfortunately, I think the quality of these notebooks may have slightly declined within the last year or so.
The cover should be an interesting color: in the past, I've had hot pink and light blue, mainly. I wish there were more options, since I like variety and would prefer not to have another notebook in the same color that I used some time in the past. Seeing as there don't seem to be more options, in the future I may have to resort to repeating a color and drawing some design on it in Sharpie and/or decorating with stickers, or something like that. Life's too short for boring notebooks. Although they do sell other brands of notebooks with more interesting cover designs, the quality is lacking.
Since I didn't feel like getting an entirely new notebook for the second semester of a year, I decided I would just try to make the most of the one I've had so far. Whenever I happened to buy this notebook, I was quite fortunate to get one that has an actual design on the cover, as opposed to just a solid color. In the time since, I haven't seen any others like that, which baffles and consterns me, since the plain covers are sort of boring. There's also the issue of quality concerns and not wanting to repeat a cover color, which I admit is mildly ridiculous.
For awhile, as I was quickly running out of pages, I wondered about how it might be possible to add more pages to the notebook, and eventually I thought up an idea. Buy loose leaf notebook paper and insert it into the existing notebook, attaching it via binder rings, as the notebook is hole-punched to allow putting it in the rings of a binder. By binder rings I mean the kind you can buy separately, that are kind of like keyrings except they open differently. Not the full binder with the covers and the rings attached inside to the spine.
Anyways, I finally got the notebook paper part of the equation tonight so I was able to test my idea, which seems to work. The binder rings are slightly unwieldy, but it's better (in my mind) than having to get an entirely new notebook. So now I can add additional pages as necessary, and even insert them in various positions in the notebook. It should now definitely last me until the end of the semester, and perhaps even into next year, although we'll just have to see how it's holding up and how many more additional pages could plausibly fit. Of course, I could just rip out all the existing pages and replace them entirely with a new, blank set in order to use the notebook even longer, but I'm not quite sure I want to do that.
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