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Happy 70th birthday to the one and only Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno! It seems appropriate to put this one on.

That's great! And you are right - there is something about being in a place where music was written or that inspired the music and it brings it all together. I've not been to Scotland but maybe this will inspire me to make a trip.

Very sad news about Scott Hutchison.

Juliana Hatfield sings Olivia Newton John

Ezra? Or Pound? And I get it. If I avoided all art/music/literature by people who did horrible things then I'd miss out on a lot. Lou Reed is one of my musical heroes and by most accounts he was a pretty unpleasant guy. I agree with Kidsmoke's comments above about Woody Allen. I see his movies differently now (particularly Manhattan) than when I first saw them. I think the Diaz stuff is tricky for me because I am literally in the middle of his book while also reading these allegations against him.

I know the relationship between the art and the artist is a tricky one and I'm mired in it right now. About a week ago I started reading Junot Diaz's "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," I've had it for a while but have never read it. Then I also read his piece in the New Yorker about the abuse he suffered as a child and felt sympathetic towards him. And then the allegations came out late in the week about his shitty and abusive behavior towards numerous people and I sort of don't want to read his book any more. I recognize that much of the art/music/literature that I have enjoyed over

New album by Belly (called Dove).

One of the great things about going to a game at Fenway is organist Josh Kantor. He's been in a bunch of bands, sits in with everyone from the Baseball Project to the Boston Pops, and he takes requests (via twitter) during the game. At tonight's game someone just requested Spiders and he responded "I mean... everybody loves an 11-minute song that pretty much only has one note, right? Stick around; I'll sneak it in at the end."

One of my top 10 of all time.

I ran into J Mascis on the street couple of hours before the Buffalo Tom show. I said hi and he nodded. He sat in with them on four songs including a very tasty cover of Mazzy Star's Fade Into You.

Buffalo Tom

Ha! Thanks. They are also two of the cornerstones of most of the music that I listen to.

Now that's a story I'm not familiar with and I'm a little reluctant to google it here at work ...

I see some similarities (some of which are superficial): They were both called the Warlocks Lou and Jerry both liked Ornette Coleman, and Lou and Bob played with Rob Wasserman They both experimented heavily with feedback early in their careers Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable had similarities to the Acid Tests They both felt like albums didn't capture their live show But feedback aside, I don't hear much in common musically. Even in their early improvisational noisy jams, the VU were about repetition where the Dead were emphatically not.

I did that one too - only I got maybe 15 seconds with him. It was a weird event ...

Cohen's third client is Sean Hannity? That is rich ...

Why yes, yes you do. They changed a bit after Crazy Rhythms and introduced some acoustic guitar but both The Good Earth and Only Life are top notch.

Yeah I got it right when I moved to NYC in the fall of '86. It totally brings me back to walking all over New York with my walkman, just wandering aimlessly listening to music until I had to get more batteries.

Thanks! It was sort of interesting, particularly to see who got involved and who didn't. Waiting 20 minutes in 39 degree weather while the umps sorted out who was being tossed wasn't my favorite part.

Was at the Red Sox-Yankees game last night - and realized that in all my years of going to baseball games I had never seen a bench clearing brawl.

Superchunk!

Happy birthday r.e.m.! Played their first show 38 years ago today.

Bigmouth Strikes Again. Great song.

Setlist from last night in Boston: Set 1:You Are HereForeverLast Days of DiscoAshesShe May, She MightPolynesia #1 (Michael Hurley cover)No WaterI Feel Like Going HomeHere You Are Set 2:Dream Dream AwayStupid ThingsMoby OctopadShades of BlueFor You TooI Should Have Known BetterArtificial HeartDouble DareOhmThe Story of Yo La Tango Encore: Junk (Christmas cover) So Easy Baby Center of Gravity