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Britney Spears's kid.

Left, but before we moved into our current house I was always on the right. Also, in hotels I'm almost always on the right, unless there are two beds and then I usualy get the one on the left. I have no idea why it plays out like this. A much more thought provoking thread than it would appear at first glance.

Oh god, me too. The zine my friends and I made in high school is embarrassing enough, particularly my contributions, and at least a few copies of each issue are probably still floating around out there somewhere.

LOL, I was about to post the same thing, but I couldn't remember her screen name.

The mugs were made by Cate and they're sold out. They looked very nice. I only odered the LP. http://wichitarecordings.11spot.com/cate-le-bon-mug-museum-bundle-pre-order-11-12.html

Did you preorder the bundle that comes with a homemade mug? My most anticipated is the new Hospitality record, but it's not out untl January 2014 and there's not a thread for next year yet.

Not really a so far since it hasn't come out yet, but I'm very excited for Cate Le Bon's new record, Mug Museum, which comes out next month.

I'll Be Your Mirror

The New Monkees

What is NM?

I suggest going to bars that don't have Taylor Swift on the jukebox.

I have noticed that music critics tend to me a creepy lot. Why is that?

I'm not interested enough in your opinion to make a list.

It's well known that there are bands that "serious music fans" are "supposed to like" and we all know who they are. Stop being difficult.

I don't know these days. This used to happen all the time when I was younger, though. When I first got my Cure Staring at the Sea tape it took me forever to make it past the first song (Killing an Arab), then I added the second song (Boys Don't Cry) and listened to just those two over and over, then the same with the third song (Jumping Someone Else's Train).

Whew, that's a relief. Now I don't have to come up with the $1,000 prize I was going to give to the winner.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/eric-clapton-wows-audience-with-even-slower-versio,34325/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default

I don't know, but as I said before, Muswell Hillbillies was a turning point that they never recovered from (although there were significant stylistic, more arena friendly shifts in their sound occurring before that, particularly on Arthur and Lola). What year was their first tour of the states after the ban?

"I like it okay" is probably how I would put it. If it were a one-off record by a forgotten band, I might think it was a lost masterpiece. But as a piece of work by the Kinks, it falls flat against most of what trhey did up to that point. I wouldn't be surprised if it clicks with me at some point, though.

Probably has a lot to do with them being banned from the USA during their creative peak.

I love the Kinks. They're one of my favorite bands ever, but Muswell Hillbillies has never connected with me. I think it's a significant misstep and they were never able to recover from it. I don't understand why it is held up as one of their great albums.

That's an excellent example. I've loved Nels since I first saw him with Mike Watt in the mid '90s, but a lot of things he's played on (mostly the formless improvised stuff) do nothing for me.

I like Clapton's entire Gibson period and the first year or so of his Strat period. Layla and his first solo record. Slowhand has some good playing, too, if I recall (The Core). I don't want to sound like I can't stand the guy, but he's definitely received decades of the highest possible acclaim based on only a few short years of notable contributions.

I wish I was you. Oh what a wonderful world it would be if that were so.

I would agree with this. Eric Clapton is why we now have a world full of Joe Bonamassas. Thanks Eric.