Something To Husker

Billboard April 15, 2006

• Man, my office mate was listening to Keane, and now I totally need something thrashy.
  
• Maybe that's why I've got the sudden urge to buy Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take out the Trash for the library.
  
• Or maybe it's that I've got "I Hate Music" stuck in my head...
  
• And, yeah, I realize that there are much MUCH better Mats albums to buy (we don't have any right now), but I think I could sell this one to my kids the best.
  
• Plus, we all know I'm a sucker for desperation + poor production values.
  
• I'll be right back. I'm gonna go sort through our cds...
  
• heh--I forgot about that Screeching Weasel cd I bought.
  
• Yeah, I need to go get some headphones to listen to that, though. I can at least put it on the iTunes for when I've got the office to myself.
  
• It's way too mean to play that out loud around people who are too midwest polite to call me on it.
  
• Really, I should be playing with 5th graders today, but that was cancelled.
  
• beating a dead horse: our copy of Nailed has the ISBN13 sticker over part of the publisher info on the back.
  
• Eh, the excerpt actually.
  
• ANNOYING.
  
• Dido looks different here.
  
• Is boogadaboogadaboogada still importing? I kinda forgot about it...
  
• I think there was a contest to pick the worst picture of Roy Orbison possible.
  
• Avril Levigne is wearing what looks like a very cute sweatervest (black, with yarnover holes in an argyle shape and plaid and what looks like maybe a skull sewn on it) and an AWESOME glittery dangly skull bar pin thing.
  
• Seriously. It's very cool.
  
• But then, we all know what a sucker I am for glitter + skulls.
  
• Is it just me, or does the new Pearl Jam single sound EXACTLY FUCKING LIKE EVERY SINGLE OFF TEN?
  
• Seriously, guys, what's up with the backwards?
  
• oh, and Touch Me, I'm Dick.
  
• Plus, as Tiff reminded me and Wacky Neighbor Billy, "A compliment for me, is a compliment for us."
  
• Tower's got an online bookstore now.
  
• I actually bought David Foster Wallace's Girl with Curious Hair short story comp at the Tower Records in Austin, thinking it would be good for the planeride back.
  
• It wasn't.
  
• Then I found Our Dumb Century in a bookstore in the Chicago airport (I was pretending I was in a Galaxie 500 video as we flew in) and ruined my eyes reading the tiny print by my seatlight 'til Pittsburgh.
  
• Where Tiff'n'Alison met me with a sign with my name on it.
  
• Look, that guy has the same name we do!
  
• Little Steven's trying to convince me The Vines don't suck.
  
• Nice try, Li'l Steven.
  
• Agh! Giant picture of the Doors!
  
• Scary.
  
• I much prefer this teeny picture from entourage, of Adrian Grenier/Rory Cochrane.
  
• blah blah blah giant Rascal Flatts section...
  
• Billboard is like the worst offender of entertainment/advertising I've ever seen.
  
• My Intro to Women's Studies (bka The Media Is Evil 101) professor would plotz.
  
• We already have the new album on order, anyway.
  
• Velvet Revolver and George Michael are working on new stuff.
  
• Not together though.
  
• Man, how kickass would that be!?
  
• Dear god, I'm taking the magazine's advice on new bands now. That's scary, but so far (about 20 seconds), I'm liking Office.
  
• Definitely not the trash I was wanting earlier, but more populated-corner-of-the-library friendly.
  
• Panic! At the Disco is boring. And that guy's haircut works much better on what's his face from The HIves.
  
• You know what song I'm loving right now? "Eleanor Get Your Boots On"
  
• Seriously, it's totally awesome.
  
• The Brand New Heavies have a new album coming out?
  
• This review of the new Built To Spill is says pretty much the same thing as the Pitchfork one, but in a nicer way.
  
• I really like it, by the way.
  
• And so does Liz, if you haven't read that comment yet.
  
• Also, I'm assuming that I don't need to link to the Pitchfork review; that those of you that care have already read it.
  
• My little green and white bungalow is still for sale.
  
• I'm really liking what I'm hearing from Office right now.
  
• Plus, I can't help but miss the crap white collar job hipster contingent.
  
• I was such a part of it for so long, you know?
  
• If you have $800, you could have 100 12"s. How tempting is that!?
  
• WTF: "actor-turned-musician John Corbett"