This is The National

I'm amazing at wasting time. I've been sitting in Starbucks for three hours now on the computer doing absolutely nothing except drinking large coffees, watching other people drinking large coffees, and thinking about when I should leave. In the meantime I've been listening to that streaming of The National's "High Violet" - it's unbelievable. If you want to read a great article check out http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/magazine/25national-t.html. Seriously one of the best articles I've ever read, comprehensive and fluent, just overall excellent.

I'm an obsessive person as a whole but when a new album is coming out by a musician/band I really admire, the obsession reaches shocking heights and I'm not able to think of much else. It takes over my brain. The National is the kind of band that absorbs every inch of your soul.

I have a music blog so I don't know why I'm writing about music here but this isn't really a blog, it's just a dumb screen on your computer with a cool name. If you want to read something of even more substance than the NY Times article, go here : http://musicmavens.blogspot.com/ or just go outside and get off the computer completely. That would do you much more good than staying here and reading anymore.

Or if it's raining or you're ill or have no friends to play with, watch these great videos.

P.S. My favorite so far on "High Violet" is "Lemonworld". It's devastating.