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Not sure I understand your comment PopTodd ...

If I hadn't just finished a book about Yo La Tengo, I'd probably read this right away. I'm sure I'll read it at some point because those guys were pretty important to me for a while.

Yes, it was the ICA thing. It was both great and disappointing. I enjoyed the movie and their soundtrack was really fantastic. I was in the front row so they were right there. But it was only a little over an hour and it was frustrating knowing YLT were there and I couldn't see more of them ...

Report: Carlton Fisk arrested for DUI in Illinois corn field TMZ reports that Carlton Fisk was arrested last night and charged with a DUI in Illinois. TMZ talked to a police source who said the Hall of Fame catcher was “driving his truck into the middle of a corn field” at around 7:00 p.m. and was asleep at the wheel next to a bottle of vodka when officers arrived. Fisk refused a blood alcohol test and the 64-year-old was released from jail this morning. For more details, including Fisk’s mugshot, read the full story on TMZ.com.

Chatted very briefly with Ira and Georgia from Yo La Tengo the other night. They seem like very decent people.

Well this will all be settled on Wednesday when Donald Trump reveals his "very big" news about Obama: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82701.html

Agreed - they are totally awesome. I wish we had a Freewheelin show afterwards but there was another showing of the movie. It was a tease to only see them do the music to the movie. When I walked in the venue Ira and Georgia were sitting at the merch table selling CDs. I did a double take because I wasn't expecting that, and then I went over and chatted with them for a bit.

Yo La Tengo doing a live soundtrack to a documentary film about Buckminster Fuller.

60 Watt Silver Lining was one of my standard late late night or early Sunday morning records for a while.

How is that? I used to listen to this one a ton but I hadn't listened to it in a couple of years before putting it on the other day:

I saw them a bunch of times in the late 1980s and throught they were OK. Didn't love 'em but didn't hate them either. I saw them again in 1991 or 1992 and thought they were a band on their last gasps. I remember predicting that they would break up within six months. Instead, six months later Grave Dancer's Union came out and suddently they were on SNL and Pirner was dating Winona Ryder. Shows what a good judge I am ...

Back in my vinyl hunting days, it took me a long time to find a copy of this:

I'm surprised they waited a full 12 hours after last night's game ended ...

I agree. It is interesting - I went to Amazon to get the cover picture to post here and read some reviews. Most people agreed it was great but there was a sizeable number of people who said that his story must be exaggerated or embellished and that it should be considered fiction.

Put this one on in honor of all of the Smiths rumours ...

Pretty remarkable story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who, during WWII, was shot down, lost at sea, brought to a Japanese POW camp where he was beaten, starved, and tortured, and is still alive at 95. Now I'm moving on to John Irving's new one ...

Thanks for posting that. It's a totally cool read ...

That's a good one but I think I prefer The Name of This Band is Talking Heads. I really like that it has one disc of the early stripped down band and one disc of the expanded band.

The kids crying in Lou Reed's The Kids. I get why it is there but it freaks me out every time ...

I spent a bunch of time in my car this weekend listening to sports talk radio (two things I don't normally do) and heard some talk about this. The arguments for Cabrera (some of which I agree with and some of which I don't) were: Cabrera's hot and Trout is not. Cabrera is hitting over .350 over the past two months and Trout is hitting in the .270s. Cabrera has 48 RBIs in August/September and Trout has 23, inlcuding only 4 in September. They have similar average and OBP numbers but in almost every other category Cabrera has better numbers. One area where Trout has significantly better offensi

Not to nitpick but 1941 was the year Williams hit .406, and led the league in home runs, runs, walks, OBP, Slugging, and OPS and didn't win the MVP. 1942 and 1947 were the two years Williams won the triple crown and didn't get the MVP.

Interesting story about a career minor leaguer. My favorite quote: Rodriguez spent four years in Boston and earned a spring-training invite in each of them. He smiled when he recalls catching Pedro Martinez at his peak: "He says to me that first day: 'I'm working on fastballs in and fastballs away. My curveball is my best pitch. My changeup is my other best pitch.'" http://deadspin.com/5944179/who-is-the-blurry-guy-in-this-photo-and-why-did-manny-ramirez-steal-his-pants-the-story-of-the-machete

I actually just put this down after about 100 pages. I thought I'd love it but the writing style really bothered me.