to give tina and Lyra Jane a heads-up that they should really go listen to Sufjan Steven's "Greetings From Michigan". It's like Belle & Sebastian meet the Decemberists and do a whole CD of songs about Michigan (with lotsa exclamation points!) Very pretty, very lyric-y, very melancholy.

Mmmm. Melancholy.

Man. Emusic has no Sufjan Steven and iTunes only has A Sun Came.

Does that mean another trip to the music store? ... If I must.

As usual, I am on a new music buying spree of late - I had to buy the new Mountain Goats CD at their show last night - I mean, I had to. I haven't finished listening to it yet, but they played a lot of it last night and it sounded really really good. Talk about a sincere singer. Funny as well.

Thanks for heads up, erin.

I had an apostrophe fault! It should be Sufjan Stevens'(s). I don't think that Emusic has him.

And I got my CD check today!

Thanks for the rec, erinaceous. I'll add that to my list of things to get...

Kind of fun/excruciating read in the Spinal Tap tradition.

What's the worst gig you ever played.

I am completely indifferent to Norah Jones but she was utterly charming on The Daily Show last night. Just a real down-to-earth person.

Almost forgot to mention -- I saw Franz Ferdinand last night. They were good, although not life-changing. I definitely see why Jim referenced the Fire Engines when mentioning them.Sort of a more mersh version of that jagged guitar thing the FE's did so well. FF had the moves down. Both guitar players did that floppy wiggling!hand in the air thing when they weren't strumming. The sold-out crowd at TT's luuurved them. The volume of cheers and woo-hoo's took the band by surprise -- they seemed genuinely embarrassed by it all.

I am completely indifferent to Norah Jones but she was utterly charming on The Daily Show last night. Just a real down-to-earth person.

She did seem like a genuinely nice person who was unaffected by her celebrity. Very sweet. And she admitted to being a fellow addict who isn't allowed to have cable because she would watch too much TV. I had cable once for a couple of weeks, but had to give it up when I found myself face down in the TV gutter, watching an "I Dream of Jeannie" marathon at 4:00 in the morning. It's nice to know that Norah Jones was there with me. Like Norah, I make the one concession of having someone tape the Daily Show for me.

tommyrot, you around? Just wanted to let you know that "Dinkytown" from your CD is getting heavy, heavy rotation on my iPod ...

a genuinely nice person who was unaffected by her celebrity

Hmm, but you would never say that about someone who was actually interesting, would you?

And she admitted to being a fellow addict who isn't allowed to have cable because she would watch too much TV.

This is me. (Or at least that's my rationale that doesn't involve the fact I have other things to spend $50 a month on. Like more CDs.)

you would never say that about someone who was actually interesting, would you?

I think there's a difference between somene not being a total diva or airhead, and someone being boring. YMMV.

Yes, it probably does a bit.