A Modest Construct

The “4^th Anniversary tomorrow” edition

Today sees me driving to WIU to see Allison; tomorrow we come back here and drive to Chicago for dinner and a showing of Wicked; Sunday sees us driving back to WIU to see a showing of Rent (performance, not cinema); Monday sees me driving back here.

1. Blindside • Painting
2. Buried Inside • Time As Resistance
3. Mojave 3 • Writing to St. Peter
4. Æsma Dæva • Communion
5. My Dying Bride • The Scarlet Garden
6. Shearwater • The Kind
7. Sufjan Stevens • Presidents and Magistrates
8. Dillinger Escape Plan • Baby’s First Coffin
9. King Crimson • The Great Deceiver
10. Sigur Rós • Myrkur

Around the world:

• Faux Real, Tho (I sense a preponderance of Nick Cave and Jens Lekman)
• Rusty (I’m listening to Camel right now)
• The Sam and Beckyboo Show (There was a point, namely back before Napster and I could only hear it when the video was on MTV, when “We Didn’t Start the Fire” was the ne plus ultra of songs to me)
• The Smedley Log (What ever happened to the Wallflowers, anyway? Is it better to have fallen out of cultural relevance, or to be a musical icon doing underwear commercials?)