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New Wordpress and the Sounds of Sunshine

So I finally gave it a shot, and updated Wordpress (the thingy that I run my blog on). It was really inspired by the fact that I needed some kind of spam-fighting plugin added to the blog. I have been getting a butt load of spam lately, for some reason – maybe it is the fact that I mentioned Jennifer Aniston in a post once (oops, I did it again!). Adding this plugin meant fiddling more with the blog than I’ve ever done before, and the success of it inspired me to also update to the next version of Wordpress.

So far I have not noticed any changes for you guys, the readers, but it might benefit you in other ways, because my success has inspired me to install other plugins. The first one allows subscribers to my blog, so that you get an email every time I post something new. You can subscribe under “Pages” or “Meta” at the right side of your screen. I have previously done something similar manually, in fact I have already subscribed all my previous subscribers, which is probably why you are reading this. Anyway, if you want to unsubscribe, it is in the same place as subscribing. In the future I will probably add more fun plugins, so let me know in the comments if there is anything you want, okay? And yes, yes this should hopefully also lead to more activity on the blog in general.

This post should not only be about boring blog-stuff, so let me mention a few records that I think should work fine as a soundtrack to the warmer days ahead of us:

  • I want to mention Wavves. If you read blogs a lot you will have already heard of this guy. This is one of the best tracks off his new record, reminds me of the Pixies. I saw him play live a few months ago in New York, and met him afterward and he was such a nice guy that my friend Jonas, who never listens to punk at all, bought one of his records.
  • Dent May put out his debut record a few months ago, and while it might not be an earth shattering masterpiece, I think it is going to end up being one of those records you just listen to a whole lot, because they make you feel SO good. I am giving you his track “At the Academic Conference”, because I will be going to one of those soon.
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart might have the most obnoxious name off any band in my record collection, but their noisy pop is nonetheless stellar. They sound British or Swedish to me, but are in fact from New York. If there’s any justice in the world, everybody and their mom will listen to this.
  • Before we get ahead of ourselves, it might be fitting to mention that it has been pouring for the last two days in New England. Fittingly, Basement Jaxx have a new single out called Raindrops. It is awesome and can only be found on their myspace! The picture above is also from their myspace and I hope it will be the single cover.

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    One Comment

    1. Zarah
      Posted April 23, 2009 at 6:03 pm | Permalink

      Well, you know I LOVE the owl!!

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