Elliott Smith is one of my favorite artists, but he's never made good seed material for Pandora or other algorithm-populated radio stations for me. Stuff that's _like_ him always strayed into the self-indulgent, saccharine, or just superficial. What he had was precise, deeper than it looked, and hard to imitate.

Heh. I was at that show. I was a sophomore in college and I got some friends to bandwagon up from Annapolis. Great evening. It also didn't really prepare me for seeing him at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland the next winter, when he was on stage alone, drunk, and unable to get through most of his songs. It was rough.

Fourthed.

Glad to see everyone giving Eddie George so much credit. He was hilarious.

Just watched this episode and Eddie George (whom I didn't know from Adam before the show) had me laughing out loud more than any host since Gillian Jacobs. I was delighted to find that Ms. Stephens liked the show as much as I did: not a show I would expect to be a favorite, but sometimes life throws you a curve ball.

In 1995, I was a Christian rock loving Evangelical 8th-grader, when a friend played me this album in the background while we were playing video games. When "The world is a vampire…" happened, and the guitars surged into the emptiness of that drawled declaration, two things became instantly clear to me:

Jones seems awesome to me. We haven't exactly seen her do a lot, but she was the best part of the 39 cents bit last week, and every time she's on screen I'm on the edge of my seat.