I also find some of the "fan" comments about the new disc not "sounding like 'Dare'" pretty amusing as well.

There used to be a local diner that had a open kitchen. If you got the right booth, you could see a cut out of the cover of "Trout Mask Replica" hanging in the kitchen.

I checked out the Lemon Twigs after reading a glowing review in this month's Vogue. They're a bit too twee for me; maybe I'm just an old grouchy person and don't get it.

https://www.youtube.com/wat…. Though my favorite was the game show "What fits in Mother Russia"

Oh dear—another year of people singing off key and off beat. Why?? Why raise the dead???

It may have been one of those days that the parent just decided to thrown in the towel and let the toddler wear the Disney dress with the ug boots and stripped pants. Believe me, after parenting two kids, you learn to pick your daily battles.

We're both huge Costello fans (of his earlier stuff). Honestly, most of E's early album output with the possible exception of parts of "Get Happy" were pretty damn dark in the topic of romance.

Yeah, I tease him about that. "Did you ever listen to the lyrics?".."um…kinda.."

As a college DJ in the early 80s, I was surrounded by guys like those in High Fidelity and probably related to that side of the film a bit more than most women. And yes, we were snobs and could hold each other accountable for musical tastes. I remember spinning up M's "Pop Muzik" one night on a late shift and…

My kids find it particularly funny that a serious part of my husband and my courtship revolved around mixtapes. In our garage, there is still a mixtape somewhere labeled "Summer of 1987", in which my husband filled with such songs as Marshall Krenshaw's "Favorite Waste of Time" and Costello's "I Want You".

Well there's this issue with labor practices: http://www.nwlaborpress.org…

Westwood in Bergen County

Real Estate disputes are ripe for spite. I lived in a town in NJ, where there was a Stationary store on a triangle of land that was locked up and closed for years. It was a time capsule of the early 60s. Everyone had theories about the owners motives (son died in Vietnam was a popular one), but found out years…

Why…just…why?

Along with the usual random shuffle of stuff I listen to commuting back and forth to work, I've been listening to Sarah Vaughan. What an amazing voice that woman had.

Ok, you had me at Reptilicus. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Because its not the holiday season until Mariah stuffs herself in a 2 sizes too small dress and sings this song in the vicinity of the tree at Rockefeller Center. She's just the queen of Christmas.

I purchased a collection of Orson Wells movies for my husband for Christmas, since he had never seen most of them, and we spent a rainy weekend binge viewing a good portion of them. Having watched "Citizen Kane", "The Magnificent Ambersons", "A Touch of Evil" and "The Stranger" in film class decades ago, the revisit…

Ya think??

Probably because he's still alive and his career isn't.