The Weaker Soldier, off Arise Therefore by Palace Brothers, was my favorite song of 1996. I was also very fond of disorder from the same album. Endtroducing was awesome but I didn't hear it until a couple of years later. Also Arnaldo Antunes released O Silêncio that year, if I had only known.

You don't need to say "while staring into the abyss;" we'll assume it.

Wrong again, Internet! Their first collaboration would be Six Pairs of Pants.

That hurts.

Maybe they could put something good on iplayer while they're at it. I'm a little offended that they are spending money trying to catch people when they could be spending it making their service more attractive.

Parity is achieved.

If he wants his inheritance he will.

He can star in as many dramas as he likes, but the sight of him still fills me with barely restrainable mirth. Shit, is restrainable not a word, or does by spellchecker need updating?

I don't know about lauded, but he was rewarded with attention that didn't include a restraining order. I wouldn't be surprised if he was getting punched by strangers in his free time.

Doping should get its own Olympics.

No need to apologize. Navigating therapy is relevant to a lot of people here, particularly the issue of dealing with therapists who bring their own baggage to the table. Therapists who dominate the conversation are forgetting they are supposed to be therapists.

Joanna Newsom - '81
Palace Brothers - You Will Miss Me When I Burn
Fred Frith - A Career In Real Estate
Lhasa de Sel - La Maree Haute
Beck - It's All In Your Mind
Chumbawamba - Social Dogma
Beirut - Un Dernier Verre (Pour La Route)
Steve Earle - I Thought You Should Know
Minutemen - The World According To Nouns
Elizabeth…

I was fishing the Chatanika river for greyling. I had caught one which was lying on the opposite bank, and I started to hear rustling, so I loosened up the bear spray for quick access and carried on. A few minutes later a moose ran by with a bloody leg. I figured I should collect my fish and leave, and out bursts a…

On behalf of everyone I know who has been sexually harassed, you have my gratitude.

Now you're just trying to get a rise out of me with the seraphim thing.

I wonder if that's Yegor Letov he's talking about in the excerpt.

Must have been a sale on Croatoans at the Valley View mall.

1. Royal Southern Brotherhood, the kernel of which is Cyril Neville
2. Chris Jacobs, songwriter with a rhythm section
3. Elizabeth Cook, country singer
4. Qiet, a young Charleston band, genre-hopping, must have been in ecstasy to have gotten on Mtn Stage already
5. Leftover Salmon, who I somehow never heard before

Headed to Mountain Stage in a couple of hours. I don't even know who's playing, but I'm visiting family here and that's what they're doing.

Unless you get to catch Slava Polunin and Viktor Tsoi, I'm not interested.