Oil Can Boyd

Black Eye

I mentioned this in the Now Reading thread a while back, but Patti Smith. I like some of her songs, and I liked her book, but I like the idea of her more than I actually like her.

I am reluctant to start yet another similarly themed thread but this got me thinking about Highly Praised Albums That Don't Do a Thing for Me. For me, Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica might be at the top of the list. I had Safe As Milk, which I really like, and I remember reading about how amazing Trout Mask was, so I got it. Believe me, I tried to get into it but I'm just couldn't.

Totally surprised me too. I thought this talk of a mysterious third team was just hype. Is it easier to change the title of a thread or start a new one? Seems like we should have a MLB 2010-2011 off-season thread ...

Nice choice. I love that song ...

And is it all that?

I like it and totally didn't see it coming. I assumed after the Adrian Gonzalez trade that they would be tinkering around the edges and not making any more big deals.

I'm not sure I understand your point here. He's called himself a Christian (or maybe a small c christian) for years. He certainly wasn't hiding it on Seven Swans.

Perhaps he was mesmerized by Donald Trump's hair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLTrPo7-AXA&feature=player_embedded

I am totally happy with the result and was surprised at how easy it looked.

Werth signs with the Nationals: 7 years and $126 million. Wow ...

All kinds of conflicting reports on whether this is happening. Sounds like the negotiation of the contract extension is all over the place.

It's funny. I don't think Age of Adz would have been in my top 10 until I saw him play most of it live. I like the album so much more having seen the show last month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n34s98WpwJg

This is kind of cool: isolating the tracks of Gimme Shelter.

But the photoshopping was done by the NY Post, which ran that on its back page last week.

THIS - only I'd say the first four tracks are just about perfect. Sidewalk (track 4) is one of my favorite BTS songs.

New song, track listing, and cover art on stereogum.

I've had Pink Moon and Five Leaves Left for years but for some reason I never picked this up until yesterday.

This Jeter/Yankees negotiation is getting weird. I'm sure he'll re-sign with the Yanks but they are pretty far apart right now and it's unusual (for them) to be playing it out through the media like this.

It already was:

Mass. pizza parlor stiffed by fake Dylan rep November 23, 2010 AMHERST, Mass.—A man wearing a Bob Dylan backstage pass who ordered 178 pizzas from a Massachusetts pizza parlor has left the restaurant blowin' in the wind. The man walked into Antonio's in the college town of Amherst early Saturday morning shortly after Dylan performed at the University of Massachusetts and ordered $3,900 worth of pies. He said he would return in several hours and deliver them to Dylan's crew. But he never returned and the manager called police. Restaurant employees stayed until 5:30 a.m. making the pizza

Nice interview with Bill Janovitz from Buffalo Tom, and he talks about their next album (called Skins) which comes out on February 15.

I really liked this. It's a novel but it's written as the journals of a British man whose life spanned the 20th century.

V-Mart to the Tigers