Thanks, Tina. No need to poke Hec by proxy, I will poke him directly: Wedding shmedding, book shmook. We want mix CDs!

ION, I saw the Decemberists last night. They played this new 20-minute song cycle thing called "The Tain."

That band is much better than one would expect them to be. They could so easily be a novelty act or insufferably pretentious, and yet ... they aren't.

And "Red Right Ankle"? Solo, acoustic? Almost broke me.

Opening act was this glam-ish britrock thing called Clear Lake. Anyone heard of them? I thought they were good, but not SO good that I needed to buy their CD.

Hey Jon - when I was the music store just now I saw that Young People CD w/the song on your 2003 mix on it used. I know that song is a cover, but I like it and am wondering how good the whole album is? Worth $9?

And yes, soon I will have just about every album from that mix.

SXSW provided a convenient opportunity for me to pass on meara and Anne's mixes to Hayden

Ooh, foxy. (Though both of them pretty much could have just HANDED me the CDs directly. But that wouldn't do much for Hec or Tina way over yonder in those other time zones.)

Why am I so hyper today?

No need to poke Hec by proxy, I will poke him directly: Wedding shmedding, book shmook. We want mix CDs!

Woot! LJ has given me the strength to pester. Get to the post office Hecubus!!

(tina, I hate to bug you about the mix trade, but do you have Jon's CD yet? I'm sure SXSW has slowed things down a bit upstream from me.)

I'm sending today actually. I wanted to throw in an extra CD for tina.

Which I am! I'm sending you Teenster a compilation put out by my friend Judith Beeman who put out the Big Star zine Back of a Car.

Teenster has a bunch of US and Canadian bands doing music in the style of seventies pop - so kind of a glam/gum/powerpop thang. But really fun and cool, plus stickers. It's got Mitch Easter, Shame Idols, Yuji Oniki, Anton Barbeau and a bunch of other bands you never heard. I found it super cheap at Mod Lang, and I already have a copy but I thought you'd like it. It's good music for the roller rink (almost exactly what our book launch party at the roller rink for the Bubblegum Book sounded like).

But really fun and cool, plus stickers.

Stickers! Shiny!

Thanks Hec. Sounds great.

wonders if there is a roller rink in KC

It's got a great glam cover of "Roxy Roller" (written by Nick Gilder when he was in a Canadian glamish band named Sweeney Todd). Mitch covers "Gimme Gimme Good Loving" - a bgum classic. And the originals include titles like "Ono Box," "Skating Rink," "alt.sex.trouserpress" and "cosmic planet rock."

Jon would like it since he's a fan of Velvet Tinmine.

I haven't even had time to listen to meara & Anne's mixes yet, and still have the previous two to mail, also.

Tina, I like that Young People cd, but I think you'll find it a bit skronky and directionless. Also, there is a Mac client for Soulseek out there somewhere.

Also, I saw Big Star play "Back of a Car" live just a few short days ago. And now I'm toiling through the 2nd day of a 3-day hearing.

Yeah, the Night of the Hunter song is not typical of the CD. I think it's cool, but it's hard to say if you'd like it.

Jon would like it since he's a fan of Velvet Tinmine.

And I actually own the Ono box.

If you happen to stumble on another copy, maybe you could send it my way?

If you happen to stumble on another copy, maybe you could send it my way?

Of course. It turns up from time to time, and I think way undervalued. Lord knows I've heard berjillions of Not Lame pop comps that weren't half as tuneful or fun.