That's a solo record between the end of Songs:Ohia (with the Magnolia Electric Company record) and the beginning of Magnolia Electric Company.  Or at least that's how I remember it.

That whole album is so amazing.  Just be simple, riding with the ghost, hold on magnolia… definitely an amazing songwriter with a heart-breaking voice.  Very sad.

When did the av club get so into third eye blind?  I think they were talked about in every single one of these write-ups.  Are people liking that band now?  Ugh.  Did the lead singer crack his bullwhip on stage?

Isn't it also shooting fish in a barrel to write an article calling out a vice magazine blog for being snarky.  Isn't that what vice magazine blogs do?

Nah, the dead had to CREATE that grassroots following.  Phish and all the modern jam bands got to exploit it.  There is a whole circuit of lucrative jam band festivals and cities full of people with nowhere to take drugs and "dance" the 364 days the Dead weren't in town for up and coming jam bands to exploit.  the…

It's funny how that erratic nature makes it so much better when you do finally catch a great show.  And they were amazing.

I hated the dead for a loooong time, mostly based on their fans, who were invariably the most annoying people I knew.  Eventually I got into American Beauty and this doc Festival Express where Jerry came off as a pretty cool guy, and had to soften on them.  I also can't help but respect the success of their career…

I only ever heard about two red house painters shows in my life, and I went to both of them.  The first time, they didn't even show up.  The second time I drove 10 hours to see them.  Mark came out and said he was sick and wanted to cancel the show, but he would play a few songs for us.  Then they proceeded to play a…

ICP are eminently more embraceable than Phish.

Yeah, I've always loved Rage.  The Bachman books in general are some of his best writing, except for the last one.  I still wish somebody would make a version of the Running Man that follows the book.  The Long Walk is awesome too.

I agree.  I loved Cersei's arc and hated Arya's.  Arya had been my favorite character all through the series but at this point she's kind of ruined for me.  There's not really much left of the girl I liked and wanted to see get her revenge.

I just read Perdido Street Station.  It was amazing, absolutely first rank fantasy.  So dense with description and background and characters, but still absolutely page turning and driven by a captivating story.  I loved it.

Wizard and Glass is definitely the best of the series, not coincidentally it's essentially a standalone novel in the really interesting world King had created by then.  Everything in the series that takes place in Roland's childhood is better than the main narrative in the time jumping/multi-reality world.  I wish he…

That opens up a huge can of worms, probably best dealt with by exploring some Martin specific sites.  Before you start digging you should decide how much you really want to know, because people have taken this stuff very seriously and really pulled everything apart and based on Martin's own comments(he talks about how…

I have to say your list of "incredible" things to come is making me want to just give up on it.  The idea of slogging through hundreds of more pages to get to someone's AA experiences and a list of things that are blue makes me want to burn the book.  Does it ever start to feel like there's a story there and not just…

I've read them all (but the last one-that one only once so far) three times.  They read incredibly fast for me.  I think I've read the whole series twice in the same time frame I've struggled through 200 pages of Infinite Jest.

What am I missing in Infinite Jest?  I've been slogging through it forever, but I've probably read thirty other books, including some just as long, since I started it.  I find it well written at the sentence level, and reasonably interesting one page at a time, but I've read a couple of hundred pages and it has yet to…

The stream didn't work for me, but the download did.  Good doc on a band Id mostly missed.  Now I have to start buying their records.  The only thing I have is the Crust Brothers, Silkworm + Malkmus playing a live set of (mostly) Basement Tape songs.

Has anyone else done this successfully?  I paid for my copy but when I try to watch it there is no picture.  Anyone actually seeing this thing?  Is it just my computer?

the suicidal impulse usually comes out of intense self-loathing, not narcissism.  it isn't that the person doesn't think of their family and friends.  the much sadder truth is that they normally do think about their loved ones, and in that state they genuinely think their loved ones would be better off without them,…