And FAQ Girl and I listened to David on NPR yesterday and I laughed at the buffista-shout-out story David told about the "friend" buying a Go-Betweens CD and the clerk getting all excited.

That was for you, tina! Happy Thanksgiving. Miss you.

David, I just listened to your show from yesterday, and it was most excellent.

Thanks! I'm still basking. I get to see Jon and FAQ girl this weekend too. Thanksgiving rocks.

I just listened to the show on my parents' computer--that was great! I loved the shoutout to tina. I wish you guys had been able to talk a little more yourselves; I got annoyed with a couple of the callers who rambled on and on (like the Nick Drake guy) because I wanted to hear YOU talk, not them. I wonder how different the show would have been if you and Kim and the host had all been in one studio together. I got the sense a couple of times that you were holding back a little so as not to interrupt someone else, and it seems like if you'd all been in the same studio, you could have avoided some of that. Anyway, it was SO COOL to hear you, and I thought you sounded very articulate and knowledgeable. Go team Hec!

I just listened to the archived show AIFG. Emmett can, I hope, rest easy, since his dad definitely did not make a fool of himself and is a bit more famous than before. I knew about Bobbie Gentry's other stuff, so now I feel all cool and cultural all the more. (A friend once sent me a print from Japan that had an enclosure in it assuring me that the print would make my house "beautiful and cultural all the more.")

I wasn't familiar with Bobbie Gentry, outside "Ode" and some of the Glen Campbell duets (I'm a sucker for any version of "All I Have to Do Is Dream," and yes, that includes the Andy Gibb/Victoria Principal version), but I liked the concept of "one-hit wonders" being lost to the extent that they did a lot more than their one hit.

The Tornados ("Telstar") come to mind.

Anyone else heard about the upcoming Bobby Darin biopic?

Yeah, it's getting a massive push and is tipped as an Oscar contender by the few people who haven't already decided Jamie Foxx will win.

It got a terrible review in The Guardian.

How can that be? It's up on their website. I expect one can buy copies of transcripts or the recording of the actual show.

Well, I meant while you were on the radio in real-time. I just saw your link to it in Press.

Yeah, I think Spacey's gonna find out he's no longer top of the heap in the hard way on this movie.

Fiona -- sorry, I get it now. The song is just a fantasia on the name, which rhymes with many things, like "not an iota" and "reaching my quota" and "no Nino Rota." It also has the only reference to the Pantone color system I can think of in pop music, though my knowledge is not as encyclopedic as some. Speaking of which...

Hec, I am so looking forward to hearing you geek out on the radio, oh-whoa-oh-oh, on the radio! I will have to stream it this evening.

Build your own Gramophone: [link] that records on to CDs. Manually, by scratching grooves into them.