(Feeling all validated being backed up by Corwood) And Dylan is right; I love "God Only Knows" but I don't think of it as the kind of song one drives down the road playing, and that is part of what makes Pop Perfect. High school: Nirvana and the Chili Peppers "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" I was still in the closet about the funk. What a waste(not the Cobain or RHCP...that such a primal preference ever felt embarrassing to me.)

More Perfect Pop: "Mendocino" by the Sir Douglas Quintet.

Where life's such a groove, you'll blow your mind in the morning. Yes, indeed. Did you say you have an emusic account? I think my favorite emusic download in the year or so I've had it is Doug Sahm's last album, The Return of Wayne Douglas. It's way more country than SDQ, but unmistakably Doug. Really warm, funny, big-hearted -- a fine way to go out, R.I.P. I don't like the Dylan cover, but other than that I like everything about it.

Corwood, my sister sent me a "save Frances Newton" petition. I'm anti-death penalty, but know nothing about the case & the petition is more than light on details. I gotta get outta here, but gimme a quick yea or nay on whether I should sign. Thanks.

I don't know nothin' about it, either, but I'm opposed to the death penalty on principle, so I say sign it.

"Beach State Rocking" - Game Theory

Where did you get that?

I've got it on Tinkers To Evers to Chance. I could load it on Buffistarawk if you need/want it.

You do know that Scott Miller played a promotional event for my last book, right? After we featured both Loud Family and Game Theory records in the book.

I got to request "Regenisraen" - gorgeous.

Buffistarawk?

I don't know nothin' about it, either, but I'm opposed to the death penalty on principle, so I say sign it.

Done, and forwarded to you.

And on that note I'll recommend the Dead Man Walking soundtrack (the one that says "And Songs Inspired By"), especially for Steve Earle's "Ellis Unit One," the two Eddie Vedder/Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan tracks (go figure, but they're both beautiful and heartbreaking), and "The Fall of Troy" by Tom Waits (don't like his other song, "Walk Away"). I'd link to AMG but since I find, as I often do when I'm familiar with the album, their choices of "track picks" horribly misguided, I won't. For the record, I like the Johnny Cash song, but it's about the seventh or eighth best song on the album, and I don't like Springsteen's title track at all. Do the AMG reviewers even listen before submitting their take?

ETA: Buffistarawk info's on the way, dw.

Thanks, Joe. And thanks for the Doug Sahm rec -- I've added it to my "save for later" pile (tho I may pick it up with the Booster Pack I'm about to buy).

And on the NOT Perfect Pop Songs list? "To All The Girls I Loved Before."

Oh, iPod, why hast thou forsaken me?

And apropos of... I dunno, my Weltanschauung maybe, the Slurpee's 40 and so's "Hang On, Sloopy".

And apropos of the above & New Orleans on my mind, one of my favorite quotations from A Confederacy of Dunces: "You must realize the fear and hatred which my Weltanschauung instills in people." Bonus inspirational quotation from Ignatius J. Reilly: "Employers sense in me a denial of their values."

I love that book. Of course, my writing teacher told us its meta as a cautionary tale, but the book justified it.