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One of the best albums I bought for less than $2.

I think this one is my favorite:

I haven't seen it yet. Don't tell me it's "Lust For Life" again.

Thanks. I figured out a lo-fi way to do it by scanning in a photo with a messy border, cropping out (or blacking out in my case) the orginal photo and using it as a template, sort of. More concert stuff. Not my favorite PW shot, but love that hat...

It's probably a good thing I don't have any kids as the names I would give would ensure a daily ass-whupping (probaby from a kid named Dylan). I think I already suggested Asa (did I?) but I also like Valentine (possibly as a middle name), Sebastian (trendy?), Dante (my dad's name for me had I been born a boy. Actually it would have been Dominic Dante. Dominic is fine, but I'd be a Nic before I'd be a Dom), and Ruby for a girl (after my grandmother).

Kind of thinking the same thing. There's a chapter in Freakonomics about how the trendy names trickle down to the unwashed masses and why yesterday's richy-poo Britanny is today's trailer park Britannie (or Britanie, or Britney).

That song used to scare the hell out of me as a kid.

Here's one I like a lot that I took at Jonathan Richman's last Blueberry Hill show (and I figured out how to get an image in here that's hosted on Flickr without breaking their rules):

The sloppy border frame that someone used on page one. I've tried most of the frames on flickrtoys. The only one I like is the 35mm "sprocket hole" one.

Okay, yeah. If you really want a wrist-slasher mix, just put "Holocaust" on a loop.

"Colors and the Kids" - Cat Power "Hard Life" - Bonnie Prince Billy "For the Sake of the Song" - Townes Van Zandt "I See a Darkness" - Again, Bonnie Prince Billy (or if you may, Johnny Cash)

Where can I get that frame template?

I just finished Superstud. Funny as hell. (Make sure you read the chapter he warns you not to read.)

I don't use a digital camera, so I don't really know from settings, but I use 1600-6400 ISO film (depending on whether I can use a flash or not) and open up my lens as wide as it will go. Don't count on the club to provide great lighting; most bigger venues do, but smaller clubs have awful lighting. A fill flash really helps, but unfortunately, a lot of clubs don't allow flash photography. My general take on blurry vs sharp: either very blurry or pin sharp. Blurry hands on a guitar always look cool.

My Flickr I mostly use toy cameras and recently an old brownie I picked up at a junk/antique shop for around $9. There's some concert stuff in there, but you might have to dig. (I'm semi-retired from concert shooting, or taking a long vacation.)

Same here.

My French is rusty to nonexistent, but I love, love, love this album.

The Aristocrats. The Aristocrats is a joke comedians like to tell among themselves because it allows them to ad lib the filthiest set-up line they can possibly think of. (I'd never heard it before I saw the documentary). The joke goes something like: a guy walks into an (agent's; booker's) office and says, "I have the greatest act in the world (scatology, beastiality, grandma...). The agent says, "What's the name of the act?" "The Aristocrats." Yeah, it's not funny when I tell it. The movie was good though. A little long for what it is.

After reading three books in the past few weeks on how women treat each other like crap, which inevitably have me running to the mirror to make Stuart Smalley-like affirmations at my reflection (damn it, people like me!), this is a nice change of pace.

I think Gene Clark was horribly underrated as a songwriter.

Wanna feel really old? The Buzzcocks and AARP.

Is there a top 40 anymore? Everything's so splintered now, and there are far more avenues for a smaller band to protome their music than there were in the past, that the concept of "pop hits" is pretty much gone.

As someone who always drags a camera with her to every show (save for the last Wilco show I went to, which was at an absolutely "no cameras" venue), I still hate, hate, hate obnoxious photographers. You ever had this: someone taking photos of his friends while they're watching the show? I was at a Paul Westerberg show last year and some clown behind me had the audacity to prop his drunk buddies against me as he took pictures of them raising what appeared to be adult-sized sippy cups of beer.

link Tonight is the final show at Mississippi Nights. If you live in or near St. Louis, it's a pretty big loss for fans of bands too small for the medium-to-large sized clubs, and too big for the smaller clubs.