I've heard that story before but it's a great one. Special Beat Service is one of a few albums I played so often in the 80s that I wore it out and had to buy a second copy. (I think I bought the second one as a cassette, not a smart move). And to link back, Who's Next is another one I wore out.

I've heard that story before but it's a great one. Special Beat Service is one of a few albums I played so often in the 80s that I wore it out and had to buy a second copy. (I think I bought the second one as a cassette, not a smart move). And to link back, Who's Next is another one I wore out.

Here's the order I'd recommend:
Crying of Lot 49
V.
Slow Learner
GR
Vineland
Mason & Dixon (which I'm currently re-reading after watching the Transit of Venus last week).

Here's the order I'd recommend:
Crying of Lot 49
V.
Slow Learner
GR
Vineland
Mason & Dixon (which I'm currently re-reading after watching the Transit of Venus last week).

Look out momma, there's a white beard coming down the chimney.

1a "Big Mouth Strikes Again"
1b "What She Said"

Depends. I will never go see him again. The last time I saw him, he spent more than half the concert telling really boring stories about being a vacuum cleaner salesman and other exciting topics. It was awful even though he had a kick-ass band behind him.

When's the release date for French Connection IV?

Colbert is fine the next day. We got into the habit of auto-downloading overnight and then streaming to the tv the next evening. I find it hard to watch tv with commercials, esp. late-nite tv.

I'm reading Jewball by Neal Pollack. I thought it might be laugh out loud funny but it's just sort of amusing. It's short, though, so I'll finish it. After that, I might have another go at Catch-22. There was a really good piece on Joseph Heller in the London Review of Books that arrived in the mail last week. (Or…

You need a rocket arcing over it.

Similar for me. I bought Reckoning beforer Murmur. I thought Fables was so-so and hated Life's Rich Pageant, which Mills once referred to as their "Bryan Adams album". Green and Document perked me up; I saw the Green tour in Montreal at the old Forum, but that turned out to be the last REM gasp for me. I may have…

I've got the Deja Voodoo albums on my iPod.