Well, I figured you had that one, David. In fact, I'd be sorely disappointed to hear that some bozo on the Internet had a Dolls video you didn't have.

In fact, I'd be sorely disappointed to hear that some bozo on the Internet had a Dolls video you didn't have.

This tape has the whole Kirsher concert. At the very end is a very very fuzzy, dim, fourth generation dub of the Dolls on Musikladen after their first album. It's so. Fucking. Great. I really want to see a high quality version of that performance. Of course, my greatest bit of Dolls vid is having Bob Gruen's TV documentary of them, Looking For A Kiss. That's a blast.

From this Richard Thompson interview:

Interviewer: Q Magazine refers to [French Frith Kaiser Thompson] as "The Traveling Nobodies."

RT: The Traveling Nobodies? [breaks into laughter and slaps knee] Oh, that’s brilliant! That’s great! We’ll have to use that. That’s wonderful.

Interviewer: The group’s latest album, Invisible Means, was released through Windham Hill in the States. As a result, it’s often found in the new age bins. What do you make of that?

RT: I think it’s wonderful! The sort of people who buy Windham Hill records are the sort of people who say "I need half-a-dozen records and I’ll take a stack!" They don’t necessarily look at the cover, title or artist. They’re also the kind of people, who if they don’t like a record, wouldn’t bother taking it back. They’d just chuck it in a corner. So, I hope we’ve sold thousands by mistake.

The sort of people who buy Windham Hill records are the sort of people who say "I need half-a-dozen records and I’ll take a stack!"

Pfffffthbbbb.

Hehehehe. I just ordered the Live Aid DVD.

So, we're listening to an album called "Alternative to Love" by Brendan Benson, which is going to be released next week (BF is reviewing it). It's really really good. Poppy but musically layered with terrific lyrics. Turns out this guy is working on a duo album with Jack White and his last album was a big critical fave. His third album and he plays the kind of music I love. Who knew?

Who knew?

I played a song from the new one just last week!

Jon B. is the bitchin'est!

Sweet. I just got an email from Glenn Morrow, head of Bar None Records, and erstwhile member of The Individuals. He thanked me for my piece in the book on The Individuals.

So, we're listening to an album called "Alternative to Love" by Brendan Benson...Who knew?

I played a song from the new one just last week!

And a song of his was featured on the OC tonight.

There's a review of Jonathan Lethem's new book

I really liked the excerpt in the last issue of the New Yorker but not enough to get such a thin book in hardback. (Speaking of those smartypant writer guys - even better is this week's Atlantic article by David Foster Wallace on conservative talk radio. Want to eat that man's brains, I do.)

And on the subject of magazines and conservatives, somehow I got an anonymous gift subscription to Blender recently and through it I read about the recent Flaming Lips cover of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army". Coyne re-wrote the lyrics and I guess it's supposed to be anti-Bush. The lyrics sound a little 2001 (Florida, Colin Powell, Ashcroft), but I've only listened to it once. Between that and the new Bright Eyes freebie on iTunes, "When the President Talks to God," looks like the red-state born and bred singers (Coyne is from Oklahoma, Oberst is from Nebraska) are all pissed and stuff.

Finally, wishing much nap-ma to your baby, hayden.

etf: my redundant-ass self