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Maybe he can be a permanent pinch runner, like Herb Washington:

And I know I've pointed this out here on VC before but it blows me away that they did all that while they were in their 20s. George Harrison was 26 when he did his last recordings with the Beatles ...

Kristin Hersh (Thorwing Muses/50 Foot Wave) last night and again tonight

I'm reading this right now and it's pretty good. Remarkably detailed look at their formation and early days. I'm only at the point where their first record came out but it's interesting to read about their approach to things in the early days (and the number of bass players they went through).

I'm sure I'll get some disagreement here but I've never liked Within You Without You. I had a friend in college and we would always have the same argument when Sgt. Pepper's was on: he'd say it was the best song on the album and I'd say it was the worst.

I wonder how Jonathan Richman will be treated ...

Kind of stalkery but a friend of mine was dropping her son off at college this past weekend. During one of the freshman orientation sessions for parents Bruce and Patti were sitting right in front of her.

Portlandia's Candace from the feminist bookstore interviews J Mascis:

That is my take on it too. For me I was starting to lose some interest in Wilco and about 30 seconds into Art of Almost during my first listen to TWL I thought "they're back ..."

For me it's TWL by a long shot.

Britt Daniel has two new bands: http://stereogum.com/1113871/spoons-britt-daniel-has-another-new-band-called-splt-sngle/news/ We’ve already heard a bunch of news about Divine Fits, the new group that Spoon frontman Britt Daniel has formed alongside Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs co-leader Dan Boeckner and the New Bomb Turks’ Sam Brown. And now Daniel says that he’s recording with yet another group. This one is called Spl:t S:ngle, and its other members are Telekinesis/Verbow bassist Jason Narducy and Superchunk/Mountain Goats drummer Jon Wurster. As Pitchfork points out, Daniel recently talked

I'm about 100 pages in but so far, so good. I am a big fan of The Sportswriter and Independence Day but I thought the third book in the triology (The Lay of the Land) was not great. This one is more like his short stories - it's set in Montana (and I'm guessing eventually Canada) in the early 1960s and is somewhat bleak.

Weir and Hart talk about Spring '90: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-grateful-dead-commemorate-peak-shows-with-spring-1990-box-set-20120801

Phillies are selling: they just traded both Shane Victorino and Hunter Pence.

I have not. And I will say that the new stuff doesn't grab me the way the old stuff does. I like it but I have a real attachment to Signals and Vs.

'The Velvet Underground & Nico' to receive six-disc 45th anniversary re-release http://www.nme.com/news/the-velvet-underground/65119 The reissue celebrates the 1967 album's 45th anniversary. The six discs will include the original stereo and mono versions, as well as Nico's 'Chelsea Girl' and two live discs taken from a show at the Valleydale Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio.

John Lennon recording How Do You Sleep

All World Cowboy Romance is such a great song ...

Years ago I went to see Jim Carroll (of Basketball Diaries fame) read and after the reading he was signing books. The only book I had was Invisible Man so I had him sign that. He sort of chuckled right before he signed it.

Just finished this and boy did I like it. It reminded me of a lot of John Irving's work.

Yeah - it came out about a year ago. As you said, there is some great stuff on it. Beyond the two you mentioned, my faves are Plant White Roses (which Kelly Hogan just recorded) and Rats In the Garbage of the Western World.

I left too (because my ride was leaving). On the site that moxiebean linked to above someone said that Simonon doesn't participate in post-Clash rehashing, and someone else said that Rhodes approved the script (although I'm curious what script there was). I wondered why Topper Headon wasn't interviewed.