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I love Eleven:Eleven, although I must admit that I have not listened to it in a while. I am pretty sure it was recorded by Tim O'Heir and Carl Plaster at Fort Apache.

I'll have to check it out because 2/13 is my favorite Dark Star, and not just from 1970.

Kind of off-topic, but I was just reading a recent interview with Dylan and he was asked about Stevie Wonder. He said "I could write a song like Superstition but I couldn't write one like Sir Duke."

Ouch. That sucked. Now I can get on with my life ...

tinnitus/Tim: great pictures, as always.

Me too. It's one of those books that I really liked and I am tempted to re-read it but I'm afraid I won't like it as much as I think I liked it (if that makes any sense).

And to bring David Crosby/the Byrds back into the discussion, I remember seeing a great interview with Crosby once. He was talking about how early in the Byrds' career people were hyping Dylan but they (the Byrds) didn't think he was so great. Then someone gave them an early version of Mr. Tambourine Man. The way I remember it is that Crosby says he got to the lines "Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship, My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels, To be wanderin'..." and he realized that Dylan was on a differen

I know in terms of percentage it is not as bad as other examples that people have referenced, but I just got hosed. There is a benefit concert next weekend in Boston and the show includes both Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses) and Bill Janovitz (Buffalo Tom), two of my favorite musicians. Tickets are $10 but there was both a $2.50 convenience charge and a $2.60 handling charge. For tickets I'll pick at at Will Call. I get the convenience charge. I thought about going to the box office at lunch but when I first looked only the convenience charge showed up and I thought "I will pay $2.50 fo

Finally saw this last night and really liked it. The relationship between Lips and Robb Reiner was pretty touching. FYI - they are on Conan on Tuesday night.

He struck out Randy Ruiz on back-to-back 80 mph fastballs. It was probably the highlight of the game ...

I went to the game last night and it was as brutal a game as I have ever seen. Granted, I knew that before I got there when I had seen that the starting line-up was second- and third-stringers, but it was ugly. I had never seen a catcher pitch before ...

I know I am not saying anything all that profound but one of the thigns that continues to amaze me about the Beatles (and which I am reminded of in all the recent press) is just how young they were. When they last recorded together none of them were even 30.

And similarly, (as Tugmoose asked a couple of pages back) if Polanski was a priest rather than an admired director this discussion probbaly wouldn't be taking place right now.

When I saw them in Boston last week they had an 8-piece string section come out on two songs and then two of the violin players came back for the long jam on Little Honda. Ira mentioned that they were students who he had just met that day.

I just finished it and really liked it. It's about a somewhat directionless 20-something guy (who is never named) who leaves his marriage and hides out on Cape Cod. There is not a strong story line; it is more the narrator thinking about his present day situation and looking back at his relationships. Music doesn't play a huge role in the book but it is a consistent theme. Pernice just put out a "soundtrack" to the novel that includes him reading a few passages from the book and solo acoustic versions of a bunch of songs that are mentioned.

I saw the show last night in Boston and, I dunno, it was fine but I wasn't blown away. I still love Farrar's voice, the band was tight, and I thought Walbourne sounded good but as my friend said as we left "they've got the whole mid-tempo thing down pat." The show was solid but there were not a lot of great moments. (But certainly one of them was the closing "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way.") There was one funny moment where Farrar said something like "we're going to play an old one next." Somebody shouted something which I couldn't hear but I assume was an Uncle Tupelo song. Farra

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Love this video of Box Elder with Gary Young saying "so how does it start?"

Kannberg blurb in Rolling Stone Typically for Pavement, the decision to get back together was made in a lackadaisical way. Says Kannberg, “Steve [Malkmus] and I just had a conversation on the phone, and we’d never talked about it before at all. We’ve talked over the years, but the subject never came up. Then our agent asked us about these New York shows, so we went around to everybody in the band, and they said, ‘Yeah, the time is right If everybody’s ready to do it, then we’ll do it and see what happens.’ There was no real impetus — it just kind of happened naturally.”

I just watched Season 5 for the second time. Even though I knew the storylines around both Omar and Duquan, I am still having a hard time with them. Great, great show.

McKelvin's front lawn vandalized HAMBURG, N.Y. -- Bills players are concerned with their privacy and safety after the front lawn of a home belonging to cornerback Leodis McKelvin was vandalized following Buffalo's season-opening loss to New England. Hamburg police on Tuesday confirmed the home of a Bills player was vandalized, but declined to release details of their investigation after an obscenity and the score of Monday night's game -- a 25-24 loss to the Patriots -- were painted in white on the player's lawn in suburban Buffalo. McKelvin fumbled a kickoff return with under two minute

Me too - and going to see them tonight.

I used to watch a lot of tennis and saw a lot of McEnroe and Connors tantrums but I never saw them say anything like "I would like to take this fu**ing tennis ball and shove it down your fu**ing throat ..." while pointing at a line judge with a racquet.

Definitely sad. I saw him read a couple of times (and got him to sign my copy of the Basketball Diaries) and he was always entertaining.