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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

I was in a bar the other night and Things We Said Today came on. My friend and I both stopped our conversation to listen to it. What a great song.

Love that song. I have a version of D Boon singing it solo and acoustic which is pretty great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvSY4NYkySM&feature=related

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In the annals of bad site redesigns, metacritic's has to be up near the top.

So the big Universal Music Group roll-out has been delayed and meanwhile music from Domino, Merge and the Beggars Group family (which includes Matador) of labels will no longer be available on eMusic as of Nov. 18, 2010. This is going from bad to worse ...

Moes or Modes? I always thought it was Modes ...

The Swanky Modes (from Tapeheads)

Colin Campbell is corrupt?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubxYYzYNP84

Blue Oyster Cult The Smiths

I saw the show last night in Boston and I'd agree with everything you wrote. Great musicianship, lots of pageantry (balloons, confetti, beach balls), and lots of fun. He opened with Seven Swans but then the rest of the set was Age Of Adz and All Delighted People until he closed the main set with Chicago. I have mixed feelings about the new album but live it was really great. It helped that I was in the third row but I think it was one of those shows that makes the entire theater feel involved.

Going to see him tonight ...

I'm totally with you on How Far We've Come but we'll have to agree to disagree on Fire Away. I do like Time Spent in Los Angeles, another new one.

Is that any good?

Can't believe I didn't pick that up when I saw them the other night. How is it?

Yup, it's pretty stunning. Not quite as bad as when Rafael Palmeiro won a Gold Glove the year he only played 28 games in the field, but still pretty bad.

American League Gold Gloves Catcher: Joe Mauer (Twins) First base: Mark Teixeira (Yankees) Second base: Robinson Cano (Yankees) Shortstop: Derek Jeter (Yankees) Third base: Evan Longoria (Rays), Outfield: Ichiro Suzuki (Mariners), Carl Crawford (Rays), Franklin Gutierrez (Mariners) Pitcher: Mark Buehrle (White Sox)

On Dawes' facebook page last night they wrote "ATTN DETROIT: The venue for tomorrow's show has been changed to the Majestic Cafe. See ya there!?"

Ditto on feeling that grandpaboy's last stand is a messy sketch of a bunch of ideas. And also ditto on the request for a link to the two songs ...