No no, the powerful brain section is remembering the album lyrics on its own. I think it has its reasons.

If you have to devote your powerful brain section to remembering the lyrics to Minimum Wage, your brain needs to ramp up the juice.

Yeah, that one took me a while. I think what scared me most was when I knew most of "Letterbox". That one's damn wordy.

Hec, the Dresden Dolls will be playing at Café du Nord (which is where I saw Tegan and Sara!) August 20. Go.

Current listening: a bunch of Fiery Furnaces singles thanks to Soulseek. Right now, their overly chaotic cover of The Fall's "Winter" just ended and their drenched-in-analog-noise cover of the Clash's "One More Time" (which mixes in the dub version, too) is just getting cranked up.

Hec, the Dresden Dolls will be playing at Café du Nord (which is where I saw Tegan and Sara!) August 20. Go.

Psych! I love Cafe du Nord. It's in the basement of the Swedish American Hall and it used to be a speakeasy. It's where they hold Dark Sparkle on Wednesdays, and it's also where I like to see Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Likkers. (Note to Teppy: The Swedish American Hall is where I saw Big Sandy play.)

Okay, the CD fairy came to my mailbox today! Hec, your package o' wonderful arrived, Thank You! And so did the long-rumored Angus and Moonlit CDs! Yay!

Oh, and Hec, I was playing the Glamourdolls while ripping it, sitting next to LB (who was drawing Batman, as per usual) and he said "this is good Batman music." I believe the song that was playing was "Do You Like Boys." I will let you draw your own conclusions.

Oh, and Friday, while I was on the phone to the OTHER radio host sometimes discussed in this thread (Joe's "favorite"), somebody came up to him and handed him "Blueberry Boat," right as I was talking to him about it. Funny.

Just picked up the doves' last broadcast. Lovely. Makes me happy and bouncy. And also the new Ryan Adams, which is also making me happy. the doves make me feel very nostalgic and pretty in pinky.

doves' last broadcast.

It's good. Elbow sounds a bit like them, too.

Oh, and Hec, I was playing the Glamourdolls while ripping it, sitting next to LB (who was drawing Batman, as per usual) and he said "this is good Batman music." I believe the song that was playing was "Do You Like Boys." I will let you draw your own conclusions.

I concur with Little Bird - it's excellent Batman music. Action packed, glossy and just a bit twisted too.

Today's subject is Music You Watch.

First, I'll note that the last episode of The Alternative I TiVoed was excellent for mopey boys (Cure, Peter Murphy, Echo and the Bunnymen) and power pop fans (my beloved Hoodoo Gurus, Let's Active [the puppy video], The Mats video for "Alex Chilton" [they were still in their "we'll make a video, but you can't make us make it interesting" phase), and The Bongos' "Number With Wings." Ple, did you know there was even a video for that? I sure as hell didn't. Oh yeah, and they catered to my inextinguishable Jane Wiedlin crush with the "Cool Places" video.

Also, picked up a DVD of interest to msbelle, joe, hayden and Misha: Heartworn Highway - a mid 70s documentary about the margins of country music (at the time) including, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Steve Earle (very young), Rodney Crowell (ditto), David Allen Coe, John Hiatt.

For fans of British eccentrics, I also got the DVD for....well, I'll just share the box copy:

Landing squarely in the What The Fuck department is Bonzo Dog Band alumnus Vivian Stanshall's Sir Henry At Rawlinson End. If you're looking or white-hot action hat delivers Trevor Howardin a tutu on a unicycle, then consider your quest at an end.

my beloved Hoodoo Gurus

Saw them live circa 1986. Most fun I've ever had at any concert I've attended.