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One of my favorite "less than a buck*" albums. (*Truth: I paid $1.50 for mine.)

1. Nightswimming 2. Pretty Persuasion 3. I Believe 4. Time After Time 5. So. Central Rain 6. Fall On Me 7. Shaking Through 8. Radio Free Europe 9. Try Not To Breathe 10. Don't Go Back To Rockville I like Reckoning lots

Walking On A Wire - Richard and Linda Thompson She's Got You - Patsy Cline Down To Zero - Joan Armatrading C'est L'amour -

Me too. (Ducks) My favorite version is John Cale's from Fragments of a Rainy Season. Buckley's vocal histrionics always grated on me.

Alex Chilton - 2004 (I think. Could have been '05). Outdoor show + thunderstorm Sleater-Kinney - 2005 I let someone convince me that a woman going to a concert alone was a) dangerous and b ) pretty sad. Stupid, I know, because I've done it before and never felt sad or pathetic. They broke up shortly after.

I finally got to listen to the new one properly, and I'm digging it. There are a lot of weird sounds -- slight dissonance -- going on in some of the tracks, but I like it. This, I'm sure, has been said before, but his voice reminds me of Jeff Mangum's from Neutral Milk Hotel.

The past two days, mostly: The Elvis Perkins in Dearland album? I'm not sure I *like* it yet, but I am drawn to it -- if that makes sense. I really enjoyed Ash Wednesday, so I was looking forward to the new one. It's different. The influences are definitely more varied, less folk-rock.

Both better than I remembered

I've got the NPR stream of this playing right now. It's way to early to judge (and I'm still buying this Tuesday), but I'm not latching on to any song just yet. (It doesn't help that I can't see the titles.)

Lately it's been The Weepies, though I'm not sure they really qualify as a "guilty pleasure." Excessively girlish maybe.

4. Fox Confessor Brings The Flood and Blacklisted

I got my hands on a boatload of expired Portra (Kodak's pro/portrait film). Colors aren't bad, a little off maybe, but I upped the contrast in PS: Me trying to be Annie Leibovitz or something: I hate self portraits

I'll add to the love for Catcher In The Rye, a book that meant the world to me as a 14-year-old, but less so when I tried to re-read it in my twenties. Others (which I hope haven't been mentioned yet): The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion The End Of Alice - AM Homes The Easter Parade - Richard Yates

Troubled Waters - Michael Hurley Broken - Tift Merritt Dpn't Come Close - Thea Gilmore Miracel Drug - AC Newman Sadly Beautiful - Replacements Average Joe - Ron Sexsmith La Cienega Just Smiled - Ryan Adams I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Grandpaboy Johnny Sunshine - Liz Phair Everybody Move It - Teddy Thompson Rattlesnake - Replacements Drank Like A River - Whiskeytown Can You Feel It? - Apples In Stereo Nothing To No One - Paul Westerberg Jackie, Dressed In Cobras - New Pornographers The Angels Hung Around - Rilo Kiley The Race Is On - Dave Edmunds You Don't Love Me Yet - Vulgar Boatmen G

Mostly I've been listening to one of my last.fm playlists, but this is what I got from my own iTunes library: Moment In The Sun - Clem Snide Raw Ramp - T-Rex Hate It Here - Wilco The Hunch - Hasil Adkins Ol' 55 - Tom Waits Wayfaring Stranger - Neko Case This Is It _ Ryan Adams The Train From Kansas City - The Shangri-Las All About Me - Paul Westerberg Tears of Gold - Ryan Adams Dyslexic Heart - Paul Westerberg The Last - The Replacements You Don't Love Me Yet - Roky Erickson Porchlight - Neko Case California - Rufus Wainwright Good Hearted Man - Tift Merritt

This was my problem with The Replacements' Let It Be. I'd heard Tim first, and had already fallen in love with it. But (and this was in the days before the reissues -- and the second set of reissues) Let It Be eluded me for some time until I scavenged a copy, and I was ultimately disappointed. Granted, I like it now better than Tim (and am fully aware of Tim's flaws, production-wise), but back then I wanted it to be this big, great... thing. And it sort of wasn't. Back to the original question, I usually decide I like a record on the first or second listen. Unfair? Probably, but my livelihoo

Sounds better in tandem than one would think:

I don't *think* this one has been mentioned yet, but Big Star's version of "Motel Blues" is pretty depressing.

Add me to the list. I don't know if I'd say Tim changed my life, but it definitely was my "gateway drug."

I probably need to listen to someone whose last name isn't Thompson -- at least for a little while -- but this album totally charmed me:

I made it about that far before I gave up (and had to return it to the library). Finally, I just bought a copy and started over from page one. I think I'm almost 100 pages in -- again. I haven't touched in months, though. (This is, I think, the only book of his I haven't read, and I determined to finish it this year. Um, maybe.)