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I was just going to post this. We can tell you no more about the place. Just go find it.

I was a journalism major.

Yellow Submarine I can kinda see, as it's really a kids' song. But "Michelle"?!? For that bass solo, alone it is transcendent. And "Yesterday"? That must be a product of overexposure.

Seems to be the standard choice, but I actually don't dislike that one. Does "Revolution #9" count as a song? If so, I pretty much dislike that one. (Although having heard "Revolution #20", I think that I get it now and it's pretty freaking brilliant.) I would say that I dislike "Why Don't We Do It In the Road?". It's just such a nothing.

So, another relatively unknown artist (like, my level of popularity) is asking about covering one of my songs for his small-run indie release. My heart tells me that I can just tell him to go ahead and do it... it's so flattering that he is even wanting to put the time into it, but my head tells me that we need something in writing to protect both of us. Both of us are new at this thing, neither one of us has released anything with a cover song on it before, and neither one of us has had one of our songs covered on a commercial release, either. Okay folks, if I can't count on you to point

Wonder how fast this will sell out.

Really want to see this one! Anyone else heard anything about it? Looking to go?

Yeah, not a bad little collection. Although, given the bands that were involved, it didn't quite live up to what I had hoped from it.

My God, Paul looks like somebody's uncle. Shouldn't be surprised, but it's just not something that I usually think about.

Last Night at the Lobster by Stuart O'Nan Chose it partially (a lot) because my first job after college was waiting tables at a Red Lobster near Chicago while searching for my first "real" job. One night of reading this very short book, I'm about halfway done. Very into it.

Andy started having debilitating panic attacks before live performances, so they stopped performing after the English Settlement tour. I've seen some live footage of the band and they were a monster live band. Too damn bad.

No Dukes?

T'was a tiny little room, but: Any questions?

Seeing as how they are THE most-underrated band in the history of rock, I thought that this might be fun. Or it might fall to the bottom of the page, never to be heard from again. Anyway: 1. Skylarking 2. The Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips From the Chocolate Fireball 3. Drums & Wires 4. English Settlement 5. Black Sea 6. Nonsuch 7. Oranges & Lemons 8. The Big Express 9. White Music 10. Mummer To be fair, I have not really heard Apple Venus enough to include it in any such list. Although, from what I hear, it is one of their better albums. I gotta go listen to it a bit more.

As he sings lead on some songs, I guess that Tobin Sprout (GBV) qualifies. My inlaws have a place up in northern Michigan, near Traverse City, where we visit them a couple of times a year. Occasionally we'll take day trips to a couple of cute little towns of the other side of the bay from them: Leland and Sutton's Bay. Leland, in particular, is something of an artists' colony with lots of artist-owned galleries and such. A few years ago I noticed a sign for "Petrified Fish Gallery: The Art of Tobin Sprout." Being a huge GBV fan, I had to check it out to see if it was actually his work. It wa