Joining the discussion very late, but had to throw in my experience with Russian Pepsi. Back when I was in high school in 1989, I did a 3 week summer exchange to Estonia, which was still part of the USSR at that point (but not for much longer). I drank a lot of Pepsi while there, even more than I would at home. I…

Didn't you have Swamp Pussy in your list last week too?

Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Buddy Holly – Love Me
Broadcast – Chord Simple
A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Close Chorus
Nirvana – Dumb
Lykke Li – Tonight
k.d. lang – Myth
Green Velvet – No Sex
Menomena – Air Aid
Nouvelle Vague – Bela Lugosi’s Dead (iTunes Live Session version)

I saw that AV Club included the Jem comic in one of their best of's for 2015. I had been wary initially, but was interested based on their review. Would you recommend?

This week, I have been concentrating on selections for a couple of book clubs. First, I am going to my first meeting of a local graphic novel book club tonight which, if I enjoy it, will be every other week going forward. This week’s selection was Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre. I have, of course, read the…

As I recall, NIN opened, then Bowie came out and they performed several songs together, then NIN left the stage and Bowie continued with his band. As soon as Trent left the stage, the teenagers started leaving.

When I saw the tour that Bowie did with Nine Inch Nails, a ton of the crowd left after NIN. It boggled my mind.

There are tons of good songs with horns, but the one that immediately pops to mind I'd Dead Man's Party by Oingo Boingo.

Thanks! I'm sure I'll be on an even keel in a few days. Just some work-related BS that really set me off; I usually stay out of office politics, but got sideswiped by some unavoidable crap this week.

That's how I'm watching it, since I don't have cable and they locked everything down on the Logo site with the finale of Season 4 Ruvealed (which is irritating, as I haven't found the Ruvealed episodes elsewhere).

I loved Alexis's Alicia Keys. That is how you take someone who doesn't seem funny and make it work.

I continued reading I’ll Never Write My Memoirs by Grace Jones. She has had a very interesting life, and honestly I’ve only hit the very beginning of her music career. I like her frankness. It took me a little bit to get into her writing style, but I am now really enjoying the ride.

As I was getting ready for work this morning, I couldn’t help but think that I really, really need to get around to making an “I’m in a pissy mood” playlist. But I haven’t. So today’s “shuffle” looks something like this:

That seems to track with a lot of reviews I read on Goodreads; they liked the novel but not the short stories. Maybe I just started with the wrong book.

I finally got around to finishing short story collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell. I started reading it at least a year ago (before I was tracking anything in Goodreads, so not totally sure when), and I’m not sure what the hold-up was, since I only had one story left. It was probably because I…

Was it you that talked up Pia Fraus on an earlier shuffle? Because I subsequently picked up three of their albums and I am in love.

The Happy Mondays/Sleater-Kinney duo makes my day!

Goldfrapp – Twist
Screaming Trees – Nearly Lost You
Victor Villarreal – Dirtbike Girls
Crowded House – Better Be Home Soon
Tori Amos – Humpty Dumpty
Curve – Storm
Nick Lowe – So It Goes
Martini Ranch – Hot Dog (12” Remix)
The Beatles – Day Tripper
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Turn Into
Peter Gabriel – The Barry Williams Show

I started The Girl In The Spider's Web, the first of the Millennium series not written by Stieg Larsson. So far I'm enjoying it. It's not too far off the mark of the original series, although Lisbeth hasn't really shown up in anything but references yet, so we'll see how that goes.

Super-sized Day After International Women's Day Shuffle