Giuseppe Zangara

The Doves album Some Cities, which I am having a very hard time finishing.

Speaking of Dead Meadow and LCD Soundsytem, as a part of my series Listening to Music Released This Year, I am now checking out the Doves' Some Cities. Doves is a band long-touted by people I know to have respectable taste, so, listening to this album, I am wondering why. They sound like a more rockin' Coldplay. Which isn't a good thing, obv.

Also, for the second time ever, I'll be playing a metal band on my show this Sunday. It may be the third time, if you count GWAR.

Because of Agent, I'm giving Neurosis another shot, by way of Through Silver in Blood. Downloading now. Also, I like this new Dead Meadow album, Feathers, though it appears I forgot to grab the last track when transferring the station copy to my iPod. A fifteen minute track, too. Oh well, I'll likely end up buying it, anyway.

The Decemberists - The Tain LCD Soundsystem - s/t Dead Meadow - Feathers

I remember starting a Dolls thread several months back, in which benoitrulz4life directed me to an old thread in which like a third of the people posting trashed them.

Pensacola wishes it were in Alabama. Fuck that place.

You had a point, though. Feeling sorry for yourself only makes things worse.

The album's a little too erratic; James Murphy clearly had a lot of fun making this record, but he'd benefit from acquiring his own identity, rather than the guy who listened to a lot of left-of-center music from the 70s. This makes for a pretty good guessing game the first listen—hey, he's making like Brian Eno here, but there, he's like the Fall!—but not all of the songs are strong enough to stand up to repeated listens, I think. We'll see. (Oh, the album is packaged with a bonus disc, containing LCD's early singles, which, as it happens, are better than the album proper.) fake edit: Here are the strongest tracks (from the main album) Daft Punk is Playing at My House Tribulations Movement (from the bonus disc) The whole disc is solid (minus "Tired"), but "Losing My Edge" and "Beat Connection" are the standouts.

Wonderful. My roommate and her boyfriend are in her room, blasting Le Tigre. (To drown out any sex noises, I guess.) So I'm listening to LCD Soundsystem to counteract it. It's a fun little record, but I can't imagine it being something I'd listen to very often.

I have a sinus headache.

I know what that's like. It wasn't until within the last year that I've been able to make serious strides to change myself.

That Le Tigre song—which I never cared much for—gets played all the time at this scenester bar I occasionally patronize. Well, my gf recently bought the album from which it appears. The song itself appears in two versions on the record. The album itself is very short, so I ended up hearing two slightly different, but mostly similar forms several times during the course of a couple of hours, as she would not change the goddamn CD.

I still feel awful for the horrible way I treated certain girls in my younger days. Even if I had the chance to now, I know I'd never be able to apologize for my past boorish behavior.

I was once indifferent to Le Tigre, but after hearing that goddamn song "Deceptacon" five times today, I hate them. I fucking hate them.

I can't listen to Modest Mouse without thinking of a certain ex-girlfriend. And she's been an ex for almost three years, with a number of exes following in her wake.

People actually listen to Elvis Presley? Weird.

Better than most mass-produced beers, but still not very good.

I don't give a shit about Elvis Presley.

I went to a pool hall earlier this evening and had some Amber Bock. It's the Strokes of beers, I think.

Man, the New York Dolls were fucking rock and roll, without a doubt.

That "Femme Fatale" cover is lame, mainly for Chilton sounding like a woman. He's not a woman. Radio City is my favorite Big Star, if only for the lack of Chris Bell. Bell's contributions to #1 Record are quality, but hardly great.

Yes and yes.

dude, thanks.

Lotta old people down southern Florida.