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Glenn Kotche's top 10 (according to Filter Magazine): 1. Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers 2. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor 3. Alex Cline - Continuation 4. John Luther Adams - The Place We Began 5. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship 6. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 7. Frank Rosaly - Milkwork 8. Nels Cline - Coward 9. Bobb Bruno - Dreamt On EP 10. Chris Corsano - Another Dull Dawn

Panic Pure (Vic Chestnutt) my earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler high up to the darkest sky some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never be able to repeat at times i might be accused of being painfully nostalgic but as of late i'm looking forward to the future thought i've never been much of a planner throwing caution into the fan catch as catch as catchers can and so all you observers in your scrutiny don't count my scars like tree rings my jigsaw disposition, it's piecemeal properties are either smoked or honey cured by the panic pure

And Bill Janovitz has a nice tribute on his Cover of the Week blog.

30 years ago tonight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSZbZ0Z4zcM&feature=related

It is great on Reckoning. Reckoning also has one of my favorite versions of Bird Song (for me, rivaled by the 8/27/72 version).

A studio version of To Lay Me Down is also included on So Many Roads and is listed as an American Beauty outtake from 1970. A different studio version showed up two years later on Garcia's first solo album.

Well we can parse his grammar all day but in his defense he was talking about how it was recorded for Workingmans Dead but that that studio version was not released until So Many Roads, which is correct.

And Hideki Matsui to the Angels (1 year/$6.5m)

5 years/$85 million

The TV show is over December 10th Bret, Jemaine and James (co-creator/director) said “we’ve noticed the less we say about the future of the show, the more people want to talk about it, so in an effort to reverse this trend we are today announcing that we won’t be returning for a 3rd season. We’re very proud of the two seasons we made and we like the way the show ended. We’d like to thank everyone who helped make the show and also everyone who watched it. While the characters Bret and Jemaine will no longer be around, the real Bret and Jemaine will continue to exist.

Bill Janovitz (from Buffalo Tom) had a pretty good write up of this song/video on his blog a couple of weeks ago.

What is it? (I can barely see the cover ...)

Or you could just reuse your Wilco calendar from 1982 ...

"playing tighter than Daisy Duke’s shorts ..." Good one.

I love Paul Auster. I think my favorites are New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, and Music of Chance. The movie of Music of Chance was pretty good, although I saw it a long time ago. His new one got a glowing review in the New York Times Book Review; they say it is the best novel he has written.

I am not even that familiar with Too Much Joy but this blog post is a pretty interesting look at how artists get (or don't get) royalties from online downloads and streams.

That's the first one that came to mind. Saw them live once and they were great ...

I did this several years ago and it was sort of rewarding. I had researched prices online and had quotes from other Toyota dealers in the state but I wanted to buy it at the dealer close to my house. I went in and asked "what's your best price?" He told me and I told him another dealer had a lower price. He got his boss who told me that if I could get it at that price from another dealer I should. So I said OK, got up and walked out. He left me two messages at home later that day asking me to come back to talk about it.

When I saw Yo La Tengo at the Wilbur a couple of months ago I was right up against the stage. At one point they brought out an 8 piece string section and I couldn't hear a thing they played. I assumed that I was too close as I was actually behind the speakers. I just got tickets to the Magnetic Fields show at the Wilbur in February and I am right up front for that. I am hoping that because the Magnetic Fields play very quietly the sound won't be as much of an issue.

Serena Williams fined Serena Williams was fined a record $82,500 for her U.S. Open tirade and could be suspended from that tournament if she has another “major offense” at any Grand Slam in the next two years, Grand Slam administrator Bill Babcock told The Associated Press on Monday. Babcock’s decision was to be formally released later Monday. He said Williams faces a “probationary period” at tennis’ four major championships in 2010 and 2011. If she has another “major offense” at a Grand Slam tournament in that time, the fine would increase to $175,000 and she would be barred from the

Interesting that you say the sound was great. There is whole thread over here on Bostonist about how bad the sound was. It even links to the ProSoundWeb message board where a guy who appears to be the Feelies' sound guy complains about the venue. I have only seen two shows there: Yo La Tengo (where the sound was not good) and Neko Case (where I thought the sound was good).

Sun Kil Moon's covers of Modest Mouse songs are better than Modest Mouse's versions of Modest Mouse songs.

As much as I have tried to like him (and believe me, I have tried) I don't really like Elliott Smith's music.