Giuseppe Zangara

I often get Guster and Gomez confused. I don't care enough to tell them apart, so don't bother trying to help.

I just don't think Malkmus likes touring. He rarely goes out for his own solo stuff; as a big a payday a Pavement reunion would be, he could make some decent money now if he'd hit the road more often on his own. But he doesn't.

Trivia: David Bowie's "Always Crashing in the Same Car" nicks a bit of the melody of "Some of Them are Old."

I don't think any of the band members' post-Pixies activities added to the appeal of the recent Pixies reunion; Frank Black's solo career only managed minimal mainstream interest for the first two albums, while "Last Splash" was bigger than anything the Pixies had done up to that point, I'd wager the Breeders were enough of a separate entity from the Pixies in most people's minds that it didn't play a hand at all in concert turnouts a couple years back.

Marijuana, were it legal, would be subjected to much harsher regulations than alcohol, I think. Look at beer: Alabama does not allow the sale of beer higher than six percent; South Carolina doesn't allow beyond five. Georgia only recently raised their cap to 14%, just a few years ago. In fact, it wasn't until beer production laws became less stringent in the early-to-mid 90s—thus allowing the microbrew boom of recent years—that you just could find beer in the U.S. that was higher than 6% in strength. Weed will go through the same thing, so you can forget competing brands marketing bud of varying strength.

That's debatable that Pixies were bigger than Pavement when each were still an ongoing concern; Pavement managed both a minor video and radio hit ("Cut Your Hair") and were headliners at Lollapalooza. Also, while Pavement would no doubt be a concert draw now, they were never considered a good live band.

Technically, I'm for the legalization of pot, but I'm very likely paying less for weed now than I would be were it legal—taxes!—and, as Gene said, the legal stuff would be weak, anyway.

That Paul Simon album was like the Postal Service for the 40+ set.

Lite Brites? And they had Duracell batteries. Do terrorists trust the copper top?

Not too long ago, I listened to IYFS for the first time in quite awhile, and, well, Fell In Love All Over Again. Such a gorgeous album. DCW is really good, though not as consistent; "Step Into My Office, Baby," for instance, is excruciatingly hokey, yet it starts the album! Have you heard The Life Pursuit? I think that one's second only to If You're Feeling Sinister, as far as their proper LPs go.

Have you listened to Belle & Sebastian before, Superstar? I happen to like DCW quite a bit, but I'm curious as to how much you already know about them.

Destryoer. Oof. And no, the electro-pop thing is pretty recent for them; their earlier stuff was, like a lot of their Elephant 6 comrades, a bit more in line with 60s psychedelic pop. They were a bit better at that, but not much. Really, though, if Of Montreal went full on krautrock on their next album, I might embrace it fully. "The Past is a Grotesque Animal" is fucking fantastic.

Hang out with more hipsters, Czech.

If Tom Waits plays this thing, I might go.

So, Superjerk is this awful in CE, too, huh. And godthedog is crazy; the only reason Stankonia isn't the best album of Outkast's career is they already made Aquemini.

Yeah, this really isn't anything new, but smitty gets a pass for posting that video.

I remember some Full House board a few of us invaded back during tsm's Invasion Fad a few years back. It was set up to where you were automatically disciplined if you so much as used a profanity in one of your posts. No mods had to be on for it to work, either.

It's been years since I've had the energy/motivation for a good ol' invasion. Nothing different about tonight.

I was flipping through Zak Smith's One Picture for Every Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, today. It's an interesting concept, but too many of Smith's drawings are so cluttered as to leave me wondering what I was even looking at. Still, others were neat, but the nicest thing I can say about the whole project is that it further stoked my desire for a film adaptation of GR. (Not that it will ever happen.)

Oh, I laughed so much watching this.

I know a girl who has those birds on her chest. Such a scene thing.

I'll take "fills his girlfriend's bottom with majesty," thank you.

Since vivalaultra is still worried about sound quality, I'll reiterate that this leak was cobbled together from various sources—before I fiddled around with them, a number of the tracks were tagged differently from one another—producing an overall poor rip. I'm sure the proper version is appropriately big and shiny.

I understand, but it's not like you cannot find different ways to approach a familiar song over the years. Improvisation doesn't necessarily have to be involved; perhaps a band just wasn't satisfied with the performance of the original and want to give what they feel is a superior reading of the material.

I'm no Arcade Fire fan, but I thought the first album had a couple of good songs. This one? Eh...I like that organ on "Intervention." And you can say the inclusion of a previously recorded song may indicate a paucity of ideas, but there's nothing wrong with revisiting an old song. Jazz musicians do it enough—Herbie Hancock's done about four different versions of "Watermelon Man" in as many decades—so why not rock bands?