living dangerously

What was once my favorite reason for living in Indianapolis has lost its appeal.

Yesterday's US Grand Prix was a boring affair, and probably my last Grand Prix. I was first drawn to F1 when my boss attended a friday practice session and later told me about the amazing abilities of the cars and drivers. I attended the saturday session and was blown away with the speed, braking, the crowd. I bought race tickets, brought out my friends from back in Illinois, and eventually even attended the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka; Now i'm just bored with all of it. I'm bored with predetermined finishes (anyone who knows anything about F1 knew that Michael Schumacher was going to pass his teammate during a pitstop), lack of passing, Bernie Ecclestone's arrogance, and the general non-competitiveness of the sport. When you add all those factors to my growing apathy towards cars in general, it doesn't make sense to spend $95 on a ticket. Perhaps the sport will be more competitive next year when they institute the split wing design and I'll suddenly wish I had bought tickets. I'll still attend practice and qualifying (you really can't beat it at $20). Then again, maybe we won't even have a race in Indianapolis.

Where's the danger? Here's some songs.

the futureheads - news and tributes (from the album "News and Tributes") - I'm not sure if this album is out yet, but it's good stuff. It's not quite at frenzied as their previous release, but it's still a very solid effort. Just ignore that fact that they can tend to sound a little bit like a punk rock version of The Proclaimers.

the national - karen (from the album "alligator") - This is an old one, but I've been listening to this album pretty much constantly for the past 3 or 4 months. It's a slow grower.

What are you listening to these days? I need some suggestions. Or maybe not even suggestions. Just some insight.