Joe, did we reference this in our literary scatological greatest hits?

Don't think so. I didn't see Trainspotting (nor read it), but whenever I saw the trailer with the guy diving into the toilet I'd think about Slothrop. Left out Brigadier Pudding's shit-eating from GR, too. People, or at least one person, got huffy about Gargantua and Leo Bloom, so Pynchon might have caused actual bloodshed.

I found the horse incident in Nerve's scanner feature. Thought about mentioning my other favorites -- Alan Cumming's parody of the Sophie Dahl Opium ad (not work safe), and especially hobosexual.com ("For lovers of old tramps and railroad men": "Are you the same people that do Bum Fights? Hay-ell no. Anyone with half a brain can see were about making love, not war.") -- but the horse story seemed to traumatize many Natterers. Btw, I'm not linking to my other favorites; I don't want to enable your preeversions & then hear, "Ahh, my eyes! Why did you link that?" You'll have to work for it if you want to see the weirdness.

And speaking of Nerve, here's a Sufjan Stevens interview. Work-safe, although a lot of places block the domain.

Sufjan fans ya gotta track down the latest Mojo which has a fab picture of him leaping about in a Fighting Illini Cheerleader uniform.

Speaking of the Mojo, lisah, I've got that Chess burn ready for you as soon as I get your address.

As a UofI alum, I think I need that mojo. . . perhaps I'll take a little jaunt out to Borders tomorrow.

I saw 'em open for the Replacements in 1990, and they were pretty good then.

If you haven't heard any of their stuff since, I'd highly recommend Frosting on the Beater. It's poppy as all heck but it's punctuated by moments of, I don't know, desperate sadness. The way the songs undercut themselves, it's like watching someone put a brave face on while they fall apart.

And speaking of Nerve, here's a Sufjan Stevens interview.

What considered responses. Makes me feel much better about spending 20 quid I don't have on Illinois.

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I saw 'em open for the Replacements in 1990, and they were pretty good then.

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I've got that Chess burn ready for you as soon as I get your address.

Rad! Thanks so much. Insent as soon as yahoo lets me.

The way the songs undercut themselves, it's like watching someone put a brave face on while they fall apart.

That's the essence of top-notch power-pop.

Speaking of power pop there's a Big Star bio out now.

Did you know they were playing Gibsons on those records, Corwood? Who plays power pop on a Les Paul?

Really? I'd always assumed they were Fender through Fender or Gibson hollowbodies. But Les Paul? Not what I think of when I think of power pop. In fact, when I've seen Big Star (with the Posies filling in, natch), they've pretty much kept to the Fender products - Chilton on a Strat or Tele and Auer on a Fender Coronado (which is pretty damn sweet).

Anybody got a favorite Pernice Brothers record?