MC Paul Barman: the man, the myth, the

hee!

hayden - I am going to see Will Sheff of Okkervill River this eve - he is playing with a great local artist, Danny Pound, for $2 tonight! Anyway, I thought of you since they were on your mix.

ION, I just switched my Mac to system 10 and therefore upgraded from iTunes 1.1 to like 4.2 or something. I might as well be in a world without shrimp. Down is up, up is down and everyone is speaking Japanese. I hate change.

edit: see! why wasn't there a break in this post? I'm on a new browser, too. grrr.

OS X rocks like a rocking thing that has a rocking OS. Although I've never owned a Mac before so I didn't need to unlearn Mac pre-OS X weirdness.

iTunes is by far the best, um, integrated computer music thingie. Or something. Especially if you have an iPod.

Oh, and thanks Hayden for the compliment on my mix... it was challenging to find songs that fit.

Tina: excellent! He's a great songwriter. Hope you enjoy it! The only show I'm looking forward to is the Fiery Furnaces next weekend. Oh, and SXSW, of course (lessee, Mission of Burma, the Mekons, The Decemberists, Calexico, Ted Leo, The New Year, the American Music Club, maybe the Pee Wee Fist -- I guess that'll be ok).

Oh, and thanks Hayden for the compliment on my mix... it was challenging to find songs that fit.

I think you did a great job. Looking forward to hearing it.

Oh, and SXSW, of course

big taunter.

OS X rocks like a rocking thing that has a rocking OS. Although I've never owned a Mac before so I didn't need to unlearn Mac pre-OS X weirdness.

I have been using Macs since I was about 7 yrs old and never before have I wanted to switch to something else. I f*cking hate this!! It looks stupid, it's all counter-intuitive. I had to switch browsers TWICE to edit my last post!! I have to rebuild my iTunes, importing my bookmarks got all screwed up, I can't change the stupid font on my desktop views.....I HATE CHANGE.

But I'm glad you like it! Sorry-I'm just frustrated. I'll get used to it eventually. I just have to keep telling myself I can finally buy stuff from the iTunes store and that alone will be worth it....

maybe the Pee Wee Fist

Just bought our plane tickets last night! Looks like it'll just be Pete and me, and maybe Jimmy Ryan (who's on the same saturday night bill as us) helping out a bit. It was down to the wire. Pete had some concerns and was waiting to hear back from the SXSW guy before he committed. He finally heard back yesterday. And he left this morning with Clem Snide for a 5 week European tour.

Fiery Furnaces are an odd band. I saw them here a few months ago. I didn't even know the singer was a woman until I saw them. She has a deep voice and a 70's hairdo that's part Charlie's Angels and part hat-head.

Another thumbs-up for tommyrot's mix.

Thanks Jon.

I suppose I should read other people's mixes and pass out the compliments.

Are we suppose to keep the recipients of our CDs secret? Because I printed out the mailing address of my recipient - s/he is so close I to me I could walk there....

This is the cover art I finally settled on. Yes, a sphynx; how did you guess? This one looks pissed off, as if to say, "Make fun of my lack of hair and I'll tear you a new one!"

Tommyrot, that is a really, really disturbing image.

Looks like a good CD, though.

Tommyrot, that is a really, really disturbing image.

As the resident Joey it is my duty to say, "That is not a cat!"