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I'm in. Sons of Jurgensen represent!

I like Timequake and Hocus Pocus quite a bit- particularly the last line of the latter and two particular scenes from the former. Vonnegut's description of death as a tossed stone hitting a pond and of human consciousness being the fastest thing in the universe- that's great stuff.

When was Ironweed published? That's another potentially glaring omission...

Afraid it's DVD only- it'll play in a computer DVD drive I imagine (I haven't tried) Our philosophy is all about the music, too- I like to joke that we're on the Guided by Voices career plan of making enough DIY music in an obscure town until people have to start paying attention.

I shan't argue with The Road at #1. Harrowing, absorbing, image-etching writing going on there. As if old cellars weren't creepy enough... I can't say enough good things about Raymond Carver. Dan Brown and no Larry Brown is laughable. Also- no Tom Robbins? That's a surprise. And seeing as they've included non-fiction, you could do worse than giving Bill Bryson a mention- I always enjoy his stuff. Maybe a bit too scientific for what EW was going for, but I have to include something from both Richard Dawkins and Jared Diamond if I'm compiling essential books from the last quarter-century.

Thanks for the good words. Hope ya'll enjoy our low-budget labor of love. Todd- Did you just manage to play one of the music videos, then? The first track of the actual movie is "The Opener".

Packages on their way to PopTodd, mountain bed, and GtrPlyr today!

Five replies- PM's are on the way. We have recently overturned our longstanding anti-Canadian policy, so GtrPlyr qualifies, too. Thanks for the interest!

Winchester. And if you reply to this, I'm not sending you two copies.

Hey VCers- First five replies here will get themselves a free copy of my band's (The Burning Dirty Band) new DVD Live From the Black Box. It's a 40 minute rock film with a limited budget about a band you've never heard of making beautiful music in a very nice corner of the Virginia countryside. If you like Pavement, Spoon, The Band, The Pixies, and yes, Wilco, then you'll find something to like. It's got nine full-length songs, music videos, interviews, and home movie goodness. DIY rock to the core. If you're going to be in Northern Virginia on August 8th (and who isn't?) then come out

Strings of Nashville - Pavement A Saucerful of Secrets - Pink Floyd Speed of Life - David Bowie A Touch Sensitive - Super Furry Animals What's the Use? - Phish Bugs - The Gourds Double Bass - Gorillaz The Wizard Turns On... - The Flaming Lips

Vices: Hanging pickets at Kitty Hawk, NC: London Eye: King's College Chapel, Cambridge University: Bikes at Cambridge University:

Ladybug after the rain: Sunset on the San Juan Islands, Washington State: Seal Island, San Juan Islands: Kelp: The Silver Jews:

The Burning Dirty Band does "Where Is My Mind" by Pixies. I get the task of doing those weird high-pitch wails. I think I get about 90% of them It's a large file- 39 MB, but pretty nice quality... plus bonus stage banter!

How did that game turn out, BTW? Orioles Magic, baby!

Is it safe to say we've collectively hated every major artist in rock history in this thread? Nearly everything that Pitchfork declares to be the latest and greatest trend or genre-defying masterpiece was already done by David Bowie in the 1970's.

Jawbreaker - "Fireman" Poster Children - "Junior Citizen" Elastica - "Connection" (I've been told by people who played with them that Elastica was the most spectacularly heroin-addled band of the 90's) Mojo Nixon - "Elvis Is Everywhere" Social Distortion - "I Was Wrong"; "Ball and Chain" Porno for Pyros - "Pets" Mike Watt - "Against the 70's"

Clearly the Libertines mop the floor with the Kinks' pathetic catalog. Having just gotten back from England a few weeks ago, I will re-affirm that Oasis still has a weird hold on the music-listening populace there. I think they're the British equivalent of "80's Night" or something, although they have 80's Nights in England, too. Actually, I might say Pearl Jam is the American Oasis. You don't really find a ton of people professing Eddie Vedder & Co. as their favorite band anymore, but they're always selling out shows and everyone under 40 can still sing along to "Black" and "Jeremy".

Damn... and I thought I was the best Jeopardy! player on VC...

This kinda sums up my feelings for this evening: I'm ecstatic to see Caps hockey in mid-April again!

I think the big flaw in that poll is the pairing of Obama and Clinton. I think Obama/VP candidate X fares better than Obama/Clinton, especially in New York state and much of the South where Hillary is so widely despised.

Robert Pollard has recorded and mixed two albums since this thread was started.

2061 is very much a natural follow-up to the events in 2010- obviously it takes place a half-century later, but HAL, Dave Bowman and the monoliths are still very much in play. Europa is a central setting of the book, and Earth is a very different place since Jupiter was ignited into a mini-sun by the monoliths. 3001 is more of a conceptual piece rather than an obvious sequel (but again, HAL is still hanging around). The premise is that Frank Poole (who was thought to have been killed by HAL in 2001) is recovered from orbit and revived using the advanced technology of the fourth millennium. T

Clarke was a genius, a visionary, and probably the most humanistic science fiction author you'll ever read. My God, it's full of stars...

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