I have no worst song nominees at the moment, though I will note that hatin' on Dolly and Aerosmith will get you nowhere with me.

I'd like to see Metallica do a song like "Dude Looks Like A Lady."

Cool Thing!

Just found out that our editor at Routledge, Richard Carlin, played concertina on the Shoot Out the Lights tour with Richard and Linda Thompson. How fucking cool is that?

NYistas!

Book event in your city tonight: Steve Wynn (of Dream Syndicate) playing an entire set of Flamin' Groovies songs. It'll be very cool.

How fucking cool is that?

(speechless)

Just found out that our editor at Routledge, Richard Carlin, played concertina on the Shoot Out the Lights tour with Richard and Linda Thompson. How fucking cool is that?

That is very fucking cool.

Whatever that song was by Nelly and... Kelly Preston, maybe? Came out a couple of years ago, lots of "aaoouuuwww"s in the chorus?

ACK. That song bugged the crap out of me because the chorus is something like "even when I'm with my boo, all I think about is you." I wanted to scream at the both of them to dump their "boos", hook up, and quit singing about a problem they're BRINGING ON THEMSELVES.

I may take song lyrics a tad too literally.

I will note that hatin' on Dolly and Aerosmith will get you nowhere with me.

Hey now, I'm not an Aerosmith-hata. That song just makes me want to jump off a bridge.

I may take song lyrics a tad too literally.

No, that's part of what bugged me about the song, too. Also, use of the word "boo" for boyfriend? Gag. But it's really the "aaaooouuuuww"s in the chorus that drive me over the edge. Make it stop!

Oh, hey, speaking of the mix trade -- does anyone who's willing to pass it on have the .MP3 of "Song for Whoever," from Kate's mix?

I do. Email me - profile address is fine.

Remember that Hoax that the Alarm perpetrated on the British music scene? (Was that last year?)

They (people) are going to be making a movie out of it.

It's bullshit, that, BTW. the UK singles chart is in such freefall that they'd have probl'y got a hit even with the (spectacularly uncool & valueless) Alarm name attached. I think we're currently around 2,000 sales for a top 10.

Damn, Hec, sorry that Arafat died. Did you get bounced to next week on Talk of the Nation?

2,000?

What percentage of records sold is that? How does the percentage compare to Billboard's US charts of records sold? (Although, aren't the singles charts more about songs played, then records sold, isn't it?)