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.

The Sadies once showered in my apartment!

Heh. The friend I went with used to DJ a show they played on at our college radio station (KJHK at the University of Kansas, the show was called Route 66) and they had crashed and showered at his apartment.

Dallas Good is the only member that's still the same.

If his brother was still in the band then, then there is one more that is still the same because they are both still members.

I am so tired of this 2005 mix that I am thinking about chucking the whole thing and starting over w/ a batch of new songs. It's just a mix, tina, CHILL.

But right now I'm listening to Michele's Mountain Goats mix AIFG.

I just did a quick buffistarawk check:

erin - I have no idea who that song is by either (but I guess we know it's not the squirrel nut zippers).

joe - aaahhhh! I love that moose bit. I've had bits and pieces of Woody's stand up on tape that I haven't listened to in years. I need to pick up that CD.

I just sent "Nine Lives to Rigel Five" and "Regenisraen" by Game Theory to Buffistarawk.

Both well worth checking out. I've got Tinkers to Evers to Chance loaded on my iMac now, so if there's anything else from that OOP collection you're interested in, give me a holler.

...and I just posted to Bufistarawk again.

1. "Ivory Tower" by The Long Ryders, jangle with a dark mood and a bit of that Petty/Dylan whine in the vocals. Very Byrdsy.

2. "And She Rides" by The Long Ryders, when they still had a bit of Velvets drone, and garage rock bash.