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I forgot how much I like this movie. (And given the prominence of the Feelies, you'd think I'd remember.) Some great cameos including John Waters as a car salesman and John Sayles as a cop.

Agreed. He and Jeff Beck must have contests to see who can come up with the worst covers.

I certainly agree on the "Echoes" side of the album (because I have listened to that many many times late at night) but "One of These Days" might give me nightmares.

I had never heard of This is England before last night. I was flipping around the channels and saw it was about to start so I watched. It was great.

63 year old Bill "Spaceman" Lee still at it.

Saw this last night and thought it was great. The look on both Jack White's and the Edge's faces when Page starts playing Whole Lotta Love was priceless.

Even this?

It was pretty crazy. Here is what I don't get - I know it is one of those unwritten baseball rules that you don't steal when your team is up by a lot of runs but I had never heard that it was bad form to steal when you are down by a lot of runs. The coverage I saw last night made it seem like Morgan's steals were what set the whole thing off. And speaking of crazy, Nyjer Morgan is kind of crazy. Did you see the play Friday night where he unnecessarily crashed into the catcher and in doing so missed home plate and was called out?

It shouldn't be that surprising to hear Wilco in a music store but I was just at Newbury Comics in Cambridge (MA) and they had disc one of Being There playing.

It was sort of like the Beltre incident I referred to earlier in this thread. The ump seemed to want to show that he was boss. With Beltre the ump seemed pissed that Beltre and Hernandez were speaking to each other in Spanish and he assumed they were talking about him.

Wow - that totally sucks. Has Rob Dibble commented yet?

I'm walking out for some Mountain Dew, my honey ...

So who is the fourth?

I don't usually complain much about umpires but throwing Adrian Beltre out of the game last night was pretty ridiculous.

According to boston.com he's staying with Detroit ...

A friend of mine posted this picture on facebook with the caption "When did he go from Jesus to Morrissey?"

Are/were you a fan of Pianosaurus?

New EP out right now!

Almost done with this and it's a pretty interesting book. I am a bigger fan of Patti Smith as a person and an artist than as a musician, if that makes any sense. She has some classic songs but I rarely put them on.

The always great Bradley's Almanac has a download (mp3s) of the show. He also has links to two other Arcade Fire shows he recorded, one from 2004 and one from 2007.

Saltalamacchia has the longest last name in baseball history? Who knew ...

There is an article in today's New York Times discussing the #1 status and the role that Amazon's $3.99 sale price played in it. Interesting quote: "Neither Merge nor SoundScan would say what proportion of the band’s sales last week came from Amazon, but the discount clearly helped: 62 percent of the album’s sales were as digital downloads, according to Billboard — more than twice as many as the band’s last album, “Neon Bible,” had in its first week in 2007."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHaVUjjH3EI