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Buffalo Tom

The title track came up on shuffle this morning so I went back and listened to the whole thing. It's a good one.

Was supposed to go see the Feelies but it was postponed due to the ongoing manhunt ...

William Tyler - Impossible Truth Mentioned this elsewhere but saw him live last night and he blew me away. Layered guitar pieces with beautiful melodies.

Saw William Tyler last night (opening for a band in Boston) and he blew me away. What a talent. I bought both of his CDs and chatted with him a bit.

It's been a weird 12 hours in the Boston area. I was out in Central Square in Cambridge (about a half mile from where they shot the MIT police officer) seeing a friend's band last night and I started getting texts about a shooting near MIT. As I was getting ready to go home (about 12:30) there was a text about avoiding the MIT area. The drive home was a little crazy. As I got close to the Charles River there was a steady stream of police cars. I must have seen about 40 or 50 police vehicles all racing past with their sirens on. The guys had hijacked a car and I guess the driver escaped at

Ugh - Kinski on at 11:30 ...

I've got the Feelies Friday night so I'm hoping tonight isn't too late ...

Kinski!

Weird day in the Boston area. Hard to separate fact from fiction while it was happening. I'm a few miles away in Cambridge but there were still lots of sirens and a big police presence while I was leaving tonight.

Bill Janovitz (from Buffalo Tom) - Walt Whitman Mall

Apparently "Do You Realize" is no longer the official state rock song of Oklahoma: http://pitchfork.com/news/50300-the-flaming-lips-do-you-realize-no-longer-the-official-state-rock-song-of-oklahoma/

I am reading Rick Moody's novel Garden State and I had a funny realization last night. I have only seen the tail end of the Zach Braff movie called Garden State but I thought they were related. They are both about depressed, detached kids in suburban New Jersey who listen to music, take drugs, and try to figure out their lives. As I read the first half of the novel, I kept waiting for it to connect to the part of the movie that I had seen. I finally looked it up and realized that they have no connection ...

Pretty spotty list with some great stuff and also some big holes - but that's inevitable. I was only at one of the shows on his list (Augusta Maine 1984) and while it was a great show, I'm not even sure it was the best one I ever saw.

Yeah, it (Kinski's Cosy Moments) is really good. Wasn't sure what to expect when I saw a bunch of short songs but they fit in nicely. Looking forward to the show.

Really enjoyed this ...

In the early to mid 1980s probably half the music I listened to was the Dead. Another 35% was a mix of Dylan, the Beatles and the Stones. The remaining 15% was "current" stuff that I listened to with a particualr group of friends - Replacements REM, Talking Heads. One day I came home and my roommate was playing Husker Du's Flip Your Wig and it blew me away.

Yes! Out tomorrow and at the Middle East in a couple of weeks.

I'm sure there is stuff left off. To your point, they re-released a version of Dead Letter Office in Europe a couple of years later that added two songs. Then in the mid-1990s IRS released something called REM: SIngles Collected that added a couple of things. And then the And I Feel Fine ... compilation had a disc of songs that were not necessarily official b-sides but it included a bunch of early outtakes and live songs.

You may know all of this but the early B-sides were collected on Dead Letter Office - which also includes the fantastic first EP Chronic Town.

Thought these were the highlights. Stagger Lee was particualrly intense. Agree that it was an amazing show. I was maybe 12 or 14 rows back but wish I was in the 4th row. When he walked into the crowd on the backs of the chairs was he over you? And did you take pics?

Ben Daughtery (Squirrel Bait) Some other favorites who I have not seen mentioned: Hugo Burnham (Gang of Four) David Narcizo (Throwing Muses)

Pretty amazing, wasn't it?

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Looking forward to reading this (when it comes out this summer).