Today is varnishin' day*. Therefore, I am upstairs in my bedroom, pretending to find useful things to do on my computer. I have checked the weather twice (still overcast), applied for a job (whoot! Now that doesn't happen every day), and started listening to Rain(de)er Maria.

Further to a lengthy, confused and occasionally bad tempered conversation about Whut is Emo?, Rainer Maria came up and proved themselves one of the few bands in the genre I can actually talk about. Then it turns out that the album I have, Look Now Look Again, isn't emo in the first place. D'oh. For a full, frank, and mind-numbingly tedious deconstruction of the whole emo g-thang, go here.

*two years ago I painted the units in my kitchen orange, to go with the orange theme to my flat. Unfortunately, I didn't varnish them, and they got chipped, dirty and crappy. Yesterday was paintin' day, and today is varnishin' day. Maybe if I finished jobs properly first time I wouldn't have to do this.