I've been talking to people and discovering that one of my language pet peeves (and I have lots; I'll be writing about them at some point in the future) is one a surprising number of others share.

"Can I help who's next?"

My answer is usually (to myself, anyway), "Only if you pick someone at random from the middle of the line and help them first." But I don't figure they'd get what I was trying to say.

Another one that I seemed to be alone in despising was 'six-month anniversary.' Dammit, an anniversary is, intrinsically, a year. You wouldn't say 'fifty-year century' would you? It's semianniversary, dammit.

*sob*

Anyway.

So here's some music that's new to me that I've been listening to lately ... some of it may not be very objectively new, but I've just discovered or rediscovered it ...

Mouth Music - Seafaring Man
Poi Dog Pondering - Soul Sonic Orchestra
Nautilus Pompilius - Nevidimka (The Invisible)
Maura O'Connell - Walls & Windows
Midge Ure - Move Me
Alanis Morrissette - Under Rug Swept
Alison Krauss & Union Station - New Favorite (aptly named ... it's brilliant!)

Other stuff I've had for awhile but I've been listening to and rediscovering:
Kraftwerk - The Mix
Poi Dog Pondering - Liquid White Light (one of the greatest live albums ever)
David Gray - Flesh (fierce AND acoustic)
Spandau Ballet
Dream Theater (saw them last week here in Phoenix ... great show, even if my friend Mike was disappointed that they didn't play the second disc of their new double album)
Marillion (OK, not really ... not for a couple of months. But I feel hide-bound to mention them on any list like this as a matter of course.)