I've never gotten a chance to see him and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna blubber like a reposted avx fan if I get to shake his hand. His bands have meant so much in such varying times in my life.

Shabazz Palaces, Sebadoh, Mike Watt, Corb Lund and that's just to the end of next week. BOOM!

Yankee Doodle Dandy Tattoos and a vegan restaurant full of Animal Liberation Front art plus Apocalypse Tacos? Des Moines is the shit!

I agree, but on the off chance you read mine I said: Woodrell=Drag the River and DBT=Faulkner :)

"Androids Getting Mercked On a Train Over Roosevelt Island"

I don't know the music but that is one of my favorite novels ever, so I'm checking it out. Thanx!

Winters Bone by Drag the River and Light in August by Drive By Truckers

Notes From Underground by Fucked Up and Snow Crash by the Refused. Goddam, this is fun!

As long as it's got sole

Shit-tone seems appropriate for that record

Will they sing in an Irish brogue, you think?

Times New Roman, thank you for asking :)

Also Every Day is Like Sunday by Morrissey is good at really feeling like, yeah it's a day off but I've still gotta have a bath and go to bed early when you were a kid.

I like the Boomtown Rats but c'mon. The River has more great songs than the Boomtown Rats' entire catalog. I'll give ya U2, though, damn straight.

Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night - Tom Waits and Teengenerate's batshit garage punk mangling of Saturday Night by the Bay City Rollers are two other fun ones.

Lesbian…period fiction?

Still only heard Marvin's original and Weird Al's cover. I will say a legal precedent being achieved that allows the house bands at Motown or Stax to get some "y'all stole some shit" money would be fantastic, probably in both senses of the word.

Completely true, my eternal bad :)

Good to know, keep me abreast of any new developments, Nate.

Celebrity Deathmatch Naked gets my vote