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I'm normally a stay-through-the-credits person but when we saw this yesterday my wife and I noticed one of our crazy neighbors and her crazy boyfriend were also in the theater so we left as soon as the credits began to roll.

Ha! Just got home from seeing it and had this exact thought. And I'll pile on about how great it was.

Wow - something must be up. It also includes the Jamaica event in January of 2015.

Don't know if it's changed but the original report was that Buck would be there for four shows: Great Scott--Boston Ommegang Brewery--Cooperstown Rough Trade--Brooklyn Asbury Lanes--Asbury Park

I read a lot of Vonnegut in high school and college (which was a while ago). A few years ago I picked up Breakfast of Champions and it didn't do much for me. But I found a nice copy of Slaughterhouse Five recently and just re-read it and really enjoyed it.

From what I hear/read, it was both. It sounds like he didn't change much from who he has been his whole career. And when the team is winning and Pierzynski is hitting, it's easier to put up with it. But neither of those things were happening so the team decided to see what Christian Vazquez can do.

And now John Lackey to the Cardinals: http://bostonherald.com/sports/red_sox_mlb/clubhouse_insider/2014/07/red_sox_trade_john_lackey_to_cardinals

Lester and Gomes to Oakland for Cespedes ... http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2014/07/reports_jon_lester_has_been_traded_to_the_oakland.html?p1=ClickedOnBreakingNewsBox

Michelle Shocked has released an album consisting of silent songs that are named mostly after executives in the digital music world. http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6191896/michelle-shocked-releases-silent-album-inaudible-women-of-songs-named-after-digital-music

Apparently Deer Tick had a little trouble getting there: http://www.vanyaland.com/2014/07/24/deer-tick-kicked-us-airways-flight-en-route-newport-folk-festival/

Clem Snide - Your Favorite Music

Nice piece by Jon Wurster in Spin: http://www.spin.com/articles/jon-wurster-remembers-tommy-ramone-rip/ Didn't realize there was a debate over the Replacements' "Kiss Me On the Bus" solo ...

Funny you mention all of that. I am not much of a re-reader either but this past weekend my local library was having a book sale and I picked up a nice hardcover copy of Cider House Rules.

Great job, as always. Wish I had gone but didn't get my act together. I'm curious about the blankets/chairs. Do people come really early, set them up, and then leave?

It's been a weird season to watch them. They pleasantly over-performed last year and they are surprisingly under-performing this year. I knew they would miss Ellsbury at the top of the order but their offensive problems are greater than that.

Awesome. I saw the shows they did in Boston and NY a few months ago and they were great. How was it?

I have about 3,600 songs on my phone and mostly listen on shuffle. Today during my one-hour trip to work three songs from AGIB came on: Handshake Drugs, Company in my Back, and The Late Greats. It was weird ...

It's a great series. I've probably read about 10 of them and some are better than others. (I liked the Murmur one a lot.) People take very different approaches - some get into the minutiae of the recording process, others write more about what the album meant to them, and at least one (Joe Pernice's book on The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder) is fiction.

Great place to be.

Buffalo Tom

Belly. Like many of these bands, it's a shame to limit them to one hit wonder status. I think Tanya Donelly has a great collection of work from Throwing Muses to Belly to her solo stuff but nothing she has done before or since is as big as Feed the Tree.

And not just blaming the Democrats, but blaming Cooter! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/ben-cooter-jones_n_5463196.html