Somebody needs to claim "as much fun as you can have without fisting references" as their tagline!

I would LOVE to read your pitch, Hec.

Lots of let-your-pitch-get-picked-ma for both you and Corwood.

I may have the next two hours of my day free. MUST GET MIX DONE.

So, fun was had last night. I saw The Sadies (Neko Case used to be their backup singer). I wasn't familiar with them at all, but I really enjoyed the show. For those not familiar - they are have a base of Dick Dale-esque rockabilly, with a dash of old country (they covered "Workin' Man Blues" by Merle Haggard), along with a tad o' southern rock (they also did "Everybody Knows this is Nowhere" by Neil Young and "Lazy Days" by the Byrds) mixed with some blues and straight guitar rock. They're from Toronto and were excellent, hard-working and clearly Chicago-loving musicians.

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I would LOVE to read your pitch, Hec.

Check your inbox, missy.

I'm going to try to post some things at Buffistarawk this weekend. Some mashups I'd promised, the Long Ryders, and maybe the anti-xmas mix for the first week in December.

I'll read it, if you don't mind stupid questions or something. Which I thought you might, possibly. Hence the silence. Just because, when it comes to your kind of music discourse, I'm a bit Special. Short bus to the blues bar, or something.

Lots of let-your-pitch-get-picked-ma for both you and Corwood.

Gracias!

Short bus to the blues bar, or something

Au contraire.

I saw The Sadies (Neko Case used to be their backup singer). I wasn't familiar with them at all, but I really enjoyed the show.

The Sadies once showered in my apartment! They would have crashed there, except for my roomate at the time. But that was ages ago, adn I think Dallas Good is the only member that's still the same.

You're too kind, Corwood.

Heh. The very cool Stephinsources website which traces Stephin Merritt's musical influences, finally gets down to Bubblegum, and our book even gets a nice mention.

From the same site:

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Chickfactor: Are you a participant in the goth scene of New York?
Merritt: So much so that I wrote the book on it.

I can imagine Merritt delivering that line with a sly smirk, but indeed, Merritt is a goth at heart. In a Chickfactor interview with Claudia Gonson, when asked if Merritt and she were new wavers together back when they were teens, Gonson responded, "Yeah, we were goths." Browse through Merritt's songbook and you'll find lots of over-the-top, depressing lyrics with plentiful references to suicide, vampires, and death. And, he has an entire band, the Gothic Archies, devoted to mixing gloom and doom with bubblegum pop. Their official site states: What makes this band different from The Magnetic Fields is that any glimmer of hope is absolutely extinguished.

Good luck, Hec and Corwood.