Cathy Dennis - All Night Long (Touch Me)

Sun Ra - Rocket #9

Spoon - The Fitted Shirt

Wire - Blogging

Electric Youth - Tomorrow

I saw them in late October, and not that it will make you feel any better, but yeah, it was an amazing show.

Dammit, now I'm getting wistful over Metal Box again…

Yes. We banned the punch practice at my house (my children are too young for punching each other, but not too young to enjoy a repetitive fart joke).

I lost my shit during the Chad sketch when Chad farted and then muttered "safety". That's been a family game of mine for years, and while I knew we didn't invent it, I thought it was obscure enough that very few people in the world knew what that meant. Is that really a universal thing? If so, my sense of belonging…

Yeah, thanks for making me feel like I should defend Chick (which I won't, because he's indefensible), Webcomic Scold!

I was just coming in here to say that. Morphine was incredible, even when doing something tossed-off.

blues-noodle/sax tootle. Blues Noodle Sax Tootle. BLUES NOODLE SAX TOOTLE! BLUESNOODLESAXTOOTLE!!!

5 years ago, I got $350 in store credit for about 100 or so CDs (at least half of which were crap). Two months ago, I got $60 for about the same (all of which were pretty cool—X, Miles Davis, Mr. Bungle). The dream is over…

I've enjoyed reading this, as I have a similarly too-huge collection, and I go through purges every now and then (it was more fun when there were more record stores around to take your used crap). This series has also gotten me thinking about the importance of physical media in a digital world, and why I keep the…

with minimal/inconsistent punctuation and from the point of view of a character weve never met before i'm sure. is there a study guide to go with this fart joke? ive got a quiz tomorrow…

I saw his butt hole. I didn't like it.

I like fart jokes.

I'd take Alan Wilder as a consolation prize.

Mercury Rev - "The Funny Bird" always did for me. That album is definitely a high-water mark for all involved, and the decade as a whole, as well.

"Plainsong" definitely. Also heard it for the first time on a really good set of headphones with the volume one notch above too loud.