But he has more of a short story writer's sensibility mashed up with antic wordsmithery

His lyrics remind me of Morrissey, in a good way.

The interesting thing about "July, July!" is that it is apparently about some time Colin spent living in a former chicken slaughterhouse in Portland. So it's the chickens' blood that's running down the drain.

And they are my favorite newish band of the past year. I've seen them three tiimes, and it was always fun.

I have been listening to the Future Soundtrack for America compilation, which is amazing.

Damn, those are some pretty boys in eyeliner.

Jilli, my friend (who went with me)'s boss had pretty much the same reaction. Except he thought all the older songs were newer songs and wanted to know why they didn't play any of the "old stuff." We laughed and pointed.

Coming in out of the black to page:

tina f.! tina f.!

insent to your profile addy and the other I have for you.

I swear, musicalistas, we will have a Winfield F2F. If, by chance, there are Winfieldian lurkers, contact me!

t /rude barging in

Roky Erickson was at our gig last night. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), he was there for the first band, and didn't stick around for our show. I got a picture with him, though.

Did you ask him about Pynchon? (apparently a major Roky fanboy)

Did he seem healthy?

I didn't ask him about much, 'cause he seemed very drugged. His brother was there, and we talked for a few minutes about how much Roky loves Buddy Holly.

Picked up the new Icehouse album. If you liked Iva's earlier stuff (Crazy, Great Southern Land, etc), you probably ought to get this. It's all covers, from artists such as The Bowie, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Frank Sinatra, and (oddly) Killing Joke. Very very good stuff.

Picked up the new Icehouse album.

wow, I thought Iva had entered a monastery or something. Interesting to see he's back (or still going).

eta: you can download a song from the new album at Iva's website: [link]

etaa: oops, my mistake. The downloadable song is from a work in progress and not from the album Gandalfe was talking about. From Iva's site:

NEWS UPDATE : 09 JULY 2004 : HEROES ATHENS MIX AND NEW CD

Icehouse will release a version of David Bowie's 'Heroes' to coincide with the upcoming Athens Summer Olympics. The song will be available as both a CD single AND on a new album that features songs previously released on the 'Berlin Tapes' album plus the new version of 'Heroes'. Warners have decided upon this release as they thought the Berlin Tapes album was too often thought to be a ballet soundtrack and thus it didn't do justice to the content - a great album of cover versions.

You can see the track listing here:

[link]

Fans of 60's pop (I'm looking at you, David!) -- This looks to be a great resource.