Sweet Medicine is even better, tina. A Martinez is good, but Farmer is like Philbert stepped right out of the book; perfect casting. Btw, since this is the music thread I'll mention that George Harrison was one of the producers.

You aren't part of that nationwide meth problem I keep hearing about, are you?

You should see my meth mouth. It's groovy!

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.

Will do.

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.

Man, I think "Old Man" whenever I think about New Orleans these days. In fact, I re-read The Wild Palms in its entirety about a month after the flood, mainly because "Old Man" was stuck in my head.

You should see my meth mouth. It's groovy!

Band Name: Groovy Meth Mouth

I'm in for the franken-mix.

Back in May 2003, This American Life did a road show, later compiled for broadcast, that they called Lost in America. I saw the Boston show. The house band for the evening was a band assembled by Jon Langford featuring a couple of Waco Brothers as well as a few folks from the One Day Band. I loved the title song Langford wrote for the show, performed after Ira's teaser, and I've been waiting patiently for over two years for him to record it.

It's finally here, on Langford's new album "Gold Brick". Yay! I put it on buffistarawk. Go listen.

Also mailed to Buffistarawk is a song by Wussy, a band featuring Chuck Cleaver, leader of the late great Ass Ponys. It's called Airborne, and it's a awesomely bitter, sour grapes, break-up song.

Excellent!

Oooh, thanks for the the rawk, Jon!

Thanks for the namecheck, Corwood -- I am very fond of that track. Goddammit! He loves John Coltrane!

How did your round robin work that you were so happy with, did I miss that?

Oh, and, OK, I'm in for the mix. I should warn you that I've been ripping a lot of mid-90s alt-country for a coworker, so expect to hear mandolins.

I'm in for the mix.

Mandolins? Oh, my!

This is how the Round Robin works: We set up a gmail account and divide all participants into groups of threes. We schedule each group to post their mix on an assigned week. Each participant logs into the gmail account and mails their mix, track by track, to the account (you can do this from the account itself or from another account, doesn't matter) with the subject line "(NAME) Track X". Liner notes are strongly encouraged. After all the tracks arrive, the participant gives her or his tracks a label with her or his name so that other participants can click on the label & download all the tracks. Each mix stay in the account for 3-4 weeks or until we need the space. If someone needs to move down on the schedule, it's no problem.

It's a bit time consumptive, but beats the hell of the snail-mail waiting game.

I have for the round robin: Lisah, Tina, Misha, Jon, David, and me. That's just two rounds! Who else is in?