I still need to read High Fidelity. It's sitting right there on my bookshelf, even!

Read The Hundred Foot Journey for book club, and was unimpressed. It's on my short list of movies better than the book, and considering that the movie is pretty pedestrian, that's not exactly saying much for the book.

Ooh, I think I need to go listen to Overdrive now. Great song.

Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta – We Go Together [Grease soundtrack]
Blouse – Fountain in Rewind
Boss Hog – I’m Not Like Everybody Else
Nils Frahm - Says
Speedy Ortiz – Doomsday
What Made Milwaukee Famous – Selling Yourself Short
Nirvana – About a Girl (Live at the Paramount)
Gorillaz – Re-Hash
Bobby Bare Jr. – My Baby…

Under Ice is one of my favorite Kate songs.

Belushi: A Mission From God graphic novel, which was godawful. The art was atrocious, the writing was not much better. If you weren't familiar with John Belushi before reading it, this wouldn't give you much insight, and certainly didn't do justice to what made him a magnetic performer; even excerpts from a few of…

BOFC – Burn It Down
Melor Creager – Fa La La Opener
Austra + Gina X – Mayan Drums
Monty Python – I Like Chinese
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Clockface
Ugly Duckling – The Confrontation
Conveyor – Holly
Kate Bush – Bertie
The Monkees – Midnight Train
Tricky – Bad Dream

Too Much Joy! Saw them in concert on my 20th birthday. They were hella fun.

I was more amused by Ru referring to Derrick as Britney without realizing it.

Linda Rondstadt – Blue Bayou
Lea de Laria – Tattooed Love Boys
Adam Freeland – Intro
Queen Adreena – My Silent Undoing
Brian LeBarton – Threshold (8 Bit)
Elton John – I’ve Seen That Movie Too
Madder Rose – Roland Navigator
The Bird & The Bee – So You Say
Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring
Weyes Blood - Summer

RIP indeed.

Danielle Dax! You just made my day.

I love that Roxy Music track. Also, Yay Deceptacon!

That whole run of albums was amazing, but the bookends of that period are my favorites.

When my nephew was, oh either tween or early teen, a family group had gone to the symphony and he started dozing through the 1812 Overture. He was a bit surprised when things got loud.

He did give money to the occasional people who guided him between villages, and would sometimes give money or medicine to those who asked, but from the text of the book, no, he did not give money to the people who gave him food and shelter in the villages.

Scary Monsters and Station to Station are my two favorite Bowie albums.

Yeah, the dog was very memorable. Although **spoilers for anyone that cares about spoilers for a nonfiction book** at the end I was like of course the dog died. God forbid he allowed to live out a happy life in Scotland. And who thinks it's a good idea to feed a dog with no teeth rack of lamb??

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – Crimson & Clover
Louis Prima and Keely Smith with Sam Butera – Love of My Life (O Sole Mio)
Josh Rouse – Some Days I’m Golden All Night
Wooden Wand – Bones for Doctor Swah
Nouvelle Vague – Shack Up
Antony and the Johnsons – Shake That Devil
Bauhaus – The Three Shadows, Pt. 3
Rasputina – Meant To…

For this month’s book club selection, we read Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, which documents the month he spent walking across Afghanistan, starting two weeks after the Taliban was removed from power. On the one hand, it was a very entertaining read, much more interesting than I was anticipating. On the…