You smiled once and walked away.

Billboard April 1

• In what is possibly the greatest front/back cover combo EVER, we have Toby Keith's big mug on the front, and an ad for the new Morrissey album on the back.
  
• I was kinda tempted to keep this magazine in my inbox for a few days, and have Mr. Morrissey and his violin stare at me.
  
• I officially hate that Bon Jovi smirky face thing.
  
• Wouldn't it be funny if WalMart sued them?
  
• "Consumers Hot for 'Hee Haw'"
  
• So, over at TagWorld (some MySpace wannabe), they're having a contest for musicians.
  
• If you win, your music could be in Snakes on a Plane!
  
• Quick, someone give me music lessons!
  
• Ooo, Todd Martens is talking about Waterloo Records in Austin!
  
• I've been there!
  
• That's where I bought Boink!, Let It Be on swirly blue vinyl, and This is Just a Modern Rock Song, which I had been unable to find at Paul's.
  
• Stupid Paul's.
  
• And then, in the dying-mall-esque Austin airport, a guy walked past holding Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant.
  
• True story!
  
• Waterloo also contained a bunch of Morrissey 12-inches, but I couldn't've flown them all home.
  
• Plus, I was under the impression that I would be shortly moving to Austin, instead of into Paul's neighborhood.
  
• Then, when I made the Paul's neighborhood decision, I walked in there and blew some of the money I was saving for the move on the Galaxie 500 box and 69 Love Songs.
  
• This concludes yet another chapter of "Jessy is an indie rock stereotype".
  
• Butterfingers is the worst dressed band I've seen in a long time.
  
• This one guy's rocking the flip-flops (I'm so not a fan of flip-flops on boys).
  
• Then they've got Mr. Tight Argyle Sweater over Button Down with Studded Belt and Ginormous Black Shorts.
  
• Bitch, you aren't the 21st century's Angus Young.
  
• Canada is apparently quite hot right now with newcomers.
  
• Rife with them, you might even say.
  
• What is it with bad band names with the word "plane" in them?
  
• Who did I see Planes Mistaken for Stars with?
  
• Cara?
  
• I believe it was in Philadelphia...
  
• They opened for some other band I can't remember now.
  
• I think it was at the Trocadero.
  
• OK, so while I was doing some "research", I came upon the fact that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are playing the Troc in April.
  
• For $50 a pop.
  
• Anyone want to know how much I paid?
  
• $5.
  
• For them, the Raveonettes, and the Gossip.
  
• Same place.
  
• Well, plus the price of the Sleater-Kinney ticket, the bill they were supposed to be on, but Karen O had "bronchitis" or something.
  
• Victory Records is hiring a bunch of positions.
  
• and there's our boy Morrissey again...