The “4th 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.
- Blindside • Painting
- Buried Inside • Time As Resistance
- Mojave 3 • Writing to St. Peter
- Æsma Dæva • Communion
- My Dying Bride • The Scarlet Garden
- Shearwater • The Kind
- Sufjan Stevens • Presidents and Magistrates
- Dillinger Escape Plan • Baby’s First Coffin
- King Crimson • The Great Deceiver
- 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?)
[...] Others walking in the big parade: Ben … [...]
[...] Ben (who was born a travelin’ man, & happy 4th!), Faux Real, Tho (the early bird catchs the RF bug), Howard (Happy sis day to you… hope she likes the dulcet tones of your happy birthday serenade more than your mix, but that something there would make her smile nonetheless) Cat: [...]
[...] Not to mention: A Modest Construct reminding me that it’s getting on for two years since I last loved My Dying Bride, and The Sam and BeckyBoo Show reminding me that I actually quite like that Alanis Morisette album. [...]