moxiebean

I refuse to put anything but Wilco camel's milk in my Wilco coffee.

Nap's foliage looks like a giant lobster claw, or a lava monster.

I'm in!

These folks sure know how to craft some near-perfect pop songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkA-L3mK7q8

The Wonders (formerly Oneders; see also: Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters)

I both appreciated/hated that they killed the horse...

T-Bone Burnett's solo stuff, especially the Trap Door EP and Proof Through the Night also, Bruce Cockburn

more 70's awesomeness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iiryJwvDtc

The catchiest song ever written about a cyclone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD9JjwWhAoY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMF972rmOl8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXq81-cGJr4

I was just getting ready to post this.

I agree - "Halcyon Digest" tops my list for best album of the year so far. They seem have a knack for mining some of my favorite musical cues (Doolittle-era Pixies, Jesus & Mary Chain, 80's jangle) and bending it into something special.

I voted!

I still absolutely adore the first two Aztec Camera albums (High Land, Hard Rain and the Mark Knopfler-produced Knife) - literate, beautiful, and catchy as hell. *sigh*

maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzJeovAiDKs also, Baby, You're a Rich Man (Beatles) How does it feel to be One of the beautiful people? Now that you know who you are What do you want to be?

I lost my shirt at a Ramones show sometime in the late 1980's.

Pink Floyd minutiae: The cash register at the beginning on "Money" is the same one the Beatles used on "Yellow Submarine"

If you have to choose between the Louvre & the Musee d'Orsay my vote would be to opt for the Musee d'Orsay. It's a manageable "see" if you have a couple of hours, and almost all of their core collection is currently on display. The paintings that are part of various current traveling exhibs are not the really, really, really great stuff (altho they'd be the envy of any museum) - the truly monumental works rarely (if ever) leave the building. Plus it contains three of my favorite works of art: Manet's Olympia, and Courbet's The Artist's Studio and Burial at Ornans. I'd also cast a vote for

Paris: If you have time, a trip out to Père Lachaise Cemetery is worthwhile - lots of famous dead writers and artists (Edith Piaf, Morrison, Proust, Oscar Wilde, Delacroix, Seurat, etc.) and amazing funerary architecture. The metro station is just around the corner and you can pick up a cemetery map at the florist opposite the main entrance. Also: A tour of the Paris catacombs is appreciably creepy

I was never a fan of 1970's Linda Ronstadt (nor of her stuff after this) and I never dug the whole torch song thing, but this album just makes me swoon. Maybe it's the cover?

"The Card Cheat," London Calling