Liner notes from ongoing Round Robin I'm participating in, nakedly inspired by the original one here.

Damn good mix, Corwood!

Damn good mix, Corwood!

Ditto. I really enjoyed that. I was putting together my theoretical list to that criteria as I went along. "Hmmm, literary references..."

I thought your selection criteria were very telling and Corwoodesque too. Sort of like the Five Best Categories In Jeopardy as a shorthand character building device (it's a riff in Coupland's Microserfs).

Thanks, y'all! I'm responsible for about a third of those criteria.

We're doing this one through gmail to cut down on the snail-mail confusion. I think it's a generally workable model for a small round robin. Hint, hint.

I love your graph on "The Cattle and the Creeping Things."

I really need to make a short Lifter Puller mix and put it on buffistarawk. Craig Finn gives great lyric.

I think it's a generally workable model for a small round robin. Hint, hint.

I've been wanting to participate in one since ya'll did the last one. Even though I'm not as smart about music as most of you guys are. Or, my knowledge is not as deep anyway.

I love your graph on "The Cattle and the Creeping Things."

Thanks! That album's so well plotted that it's hard to believe Finn isn't a published novelist.

I really need to make a short Lifter Puller mix and put it on buffistarawk. Craig Finn gives great lyric.

I'd love to hear it.

I've been wanting to participate in one since ya'll did the last one.

Lisa's in! Who else?

I'm always in for frankenmix making.

That album's so well plotted

It is. You have to hear LP's "Nassau Coliseum." And that's just one song.

That's three! Two or three more and we're ready to rumble.

have you heard the Bettye Lavette album that got all the rave reviews this year?

I have not, but thanks for the recommendation, tina. I'm glad emusic's catalog keeps growing, but having too many choices is a really bad thing for me: I have broad tastes and I'm indecisive. Paralysis ensues. Upgrading my subscription wouldn't help. It isn't a matter of narrowing six or eight albums down to four each months, it's a matter of picking four things out of thousands. Doubling my monthly quota means having to make twice as many decisions every thirty days. And the fuckers don't roll over the picks! So it's use 'em or lose 'em. I'm just not right in the head.

Cool list, Corwood. You are a bundle of energy: kid, job, band, book deal, an active blog, this board and who knows how many others. You aren't part of that nationwide meth problem I keep hearing about, are you? Apropos of the Neil Young track I strongly recommend that you check out The Powwow Highway, which features Gary Farmer (Nobody in Dead Man) in one of my all-time favorite performances. The book and its sequel, Sweet Medicine, are even better, but Farmer makes the film a must see.

And apropos of the flood survivor interviewed by your friend, did you think "Old Man" when you read that? I don't think the Tall Convict said as much in the whole story as the New Orleans guy did in that one answer, but still I couldn't help thinking of Faulkner.