VAST's new album (Nude) is brilliant. That is all.

Vic Chesnutt re-issues coming June 15th

Sweet! Dinosaur Jr is forthcoming with reissues of Bug & You're Living All Over Me, too.

Have you seen this: >[link]

Nope. Or at least I hadn't before you linked to it. Part of me wants to reread GR and V, but a bigger part of me is a) lazy and b) thinks, "Why would I want to reread 1500 pages of dense, arcane, willfully obscure literature that I didn't get much pleasure from when I read it before?" That said, I absolutely love the line (can't find the exact quotation) that goes something like, "When Profane walked to work every morning he would glance at the news kiosk and if the New York Times did not have a two-inch banner headline he knew that everything was okay." I'll keep working on it.

David, no luck at the record show, but I did think of another major Bay Area music figure: David Murray of the World Saxophone Quartet and other projects, for whom one could make a strong case of being the most significant jazzman to emerge in the last thirty years. Just picked up the new WSQ Hendrix tribute Experience, and I wish I could say I liked it more. Maybe it will grow on me. Too much Craig Harris and not enough Hamiet Bluiett for my taste. I like the Oliver Lake arrangements of "If 6 Was 9" and "Little Wing". There is a rhythm section. It's been a while since they recorded with just horns. I've never heard Gil Evans' Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix, but I'd like to hear his interpretation. The Evans/Miles transmutation of "The Wind Cries Mary" into "Mademoiselle Mabry" on Filles de Kilimanjaro is way better than anything on the WSQ disc, and I'd guess better than anything on the Evans album, but that may be an unfair comparison as it's one of Miles' greatest.

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Dinosaur Jr is forthcoming with reissues of Bug & You're Living All Over Me, too.

Is this where I mention that J. Mascis often comes into the store where I work and is a total creep?

He's one of those people who's very close with a few people, but shy around everyone else and that often comes across as rude or creepy. YJMV.

Hmm. I suppose I could give him the benefit of the doubt. But he still creeps me out. (Edit: which is not really giving him the benefit of the doubt, now is it?)

He was quite a bit intimidating when I talked to him at SXSW (at the Consonant show). It may have been shyness, but it came across as assholitry. 'Course, that was exactly what I expected of the man, and I was not disappointed.

Joe: one of us, one of us, one of us. V. is calling your name.

WFMU is playing "Captain Groovy and his Bubblegum Army." Before that they played "I Want Candy."

Have I mentioned how much I love WFMU?

Edit: I guess the guy who wrote these songs (and a whole bunch more) just died.

Edit: I guess the guy who wrote these songs (and a whole bunch more) just died.

Richie Cordell, part of the team that did most of the Tommy James and the Shondells hits. (And consequently also worked with Joan Jett.)

New Mission of Burma!! and new Magnetic Fields - in the same day! It's like they know me.

I also picked up the new Iron & Wine and the TV on the Radio CDs. It's been too long since I went to the record store.

The tracks from the MoB record up on the Matador site rock and rock and rock. I gave it to a co-worker to listen to first, because I'm so damn nice, but I am looking forward to blasting my neighbors later. (I would feel guilty about this if I didn't call my neighbors Mr & Mrs Shouty behind their backs.)