foreign candy and music

[solarbird]

Thunder, Lightning, Strike - the Go Team's first CD - is finally out in the US, months and months after their big UK hit that I love love love. And it's on Columbia, which is to say... Sony. To wit: fuck. Now I'm going to have to pay the extra expense and order the UK version.

Oh well.

Also probably on the buy list: Tallahassee, by the Mountain Goats, now that I finally know who the hell does the "I hope you die! I hope we both die!" song I've heard a few times on KEXP, and which Best Boy Electric covered last night. Maybe I'll just get that one song, though. I dunno. I was thinking of getting the whole CD, but I'm not at all sure about it.

ravyngyngvar brought as a housegift some candy, most of which was chocolate. Kjekssjokolade Kvikk Lunsj is made by Freia (which is, in turn, owned by Kraft) in Norway. (Yes, it looks like I just mooshed my fingers onto the keyboard. I didn't.) Basically, it's Norwegian version of Kit-Kat, but with much better chocolate. I'm now wondering if it's available locally. Perhaps in Ballard. ^_^ Alternatively, anyone wishing to gain too much weight or simply taste what may be the Platonic form of the Kit-Kat can in fact apparently order it here. I've never heard of this place before, I just mooshed the keyboard until I got a URL found it through Google, so if anybody tries it and has candy show up (or not show up), please let me know!

Politics later.

Friday's miles: 1.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 511.2
Miles out of Rivendell: 51.4
Miles to Lothlórien: 415

Comments

[janne.livejournal.com]

And here I've been sending the most american-tasting chocolate I could find to stateside friends since I didn't think anybody over there would like the sweeter norwegian kind. May have to reconsider :)

[solarbird]

It's not that it's sweeter, it's that it's richer, while still being a milk chocolate. I love dark chocolates, but I also like milk chocolate, and while there's a very good market for high-quality dark chocolates, I haven't run into a lot of very good milk-chocolates, and particularly, no milk chocolate candy bars!

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

Tallahassee is a great album, I highly recommend it. Really most of the Mountain Goats CDs, although his earlier stuff is pretty low-fi and not everyone is crazy about that style.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Hey, we could bring it over for TGVG!

[risu.livejournal.com]

> I just mooshed the keyboard until I got a URL

*giggles helplessly*