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The summer has been fairly slow as far as album releases go. Usually when this happens I satiate my hunger for new sounds by either downloading albums by artists I have heard about but never listened to or going off of suggestions from friends. Two recent satisfying finds came from friends. After some prodding, Sean got me to check out Working for a Nuclear Free City which he described to me as a shoegazy Chemical Brothers. I love it. From Shane came the suggestion to check out Silver Jews. They took a few listens to warm up to but I think I am there now. I think I remember him comparing them to Why?. I see the comparison. 

In other news, my screenwriting workshop ended today. Not that excited about it being over. It would be nice if the class could be long enough to help me get through my entire script. The class being only 5 weeks, I was able to, as with the other class members, finish the first 30 pages and my treatment. This makes two scripts that I have the first 30 pages and a treatment for: "Silent Stones" (I hate that title but haven't been able to think of something better.) and "Out of Touch" (The song references my favorite song by the 80's pop duo Hall and Oates.) I was thinking of making it my goal to finish at least one of them by the end of the year and to have them both done by the end of next spring semester. 

This marks the beginning of the end of summer for me. These next two weeks will wrap things up. I have no job, I might get one. I have no fun plans, I might make some. More than likely though, I will just kind of hang out and wait for the insanity to begin.