I don't hate them but I know them.

Special shout-outs to Marissa who, after much hilarity and reference-desk-adjacent Stone Temple Pilots singing, burned me a copy of The Crow's soundtrack. Now we just have to buy the damn movie for the library...
Billboard October 7.

• Ray Charles is on the ad cover; Diddy's on the real one.
• Seems a bit backwards to me.
• Anyone else watch "Heroes" last night?
• I'm very quickly becoming addicted to that show.
• Even if Jess was totally a whiny little bitch last night.
• And trying to figure out the logistics of Ikin makes my brain hurt.
• Because, yes, I think too much about these things.
• You know what else I think too much about? This picture here of Justin Timberlake.
• He seems to be hatching his face from a disco ball.
• Add a little eyeshadow and lose that milk mustache, and he looks just a few coke binge/orgies away from throwing Toni Collette over for Ewan MacGregor.
• I do like "Sexyback" though. It's ridiculous.
• Apparently, rock stars are planning tv show's soundtracks now.
• On an upcoming "Laguna Beach", Chris Carrarararaba (bad news) has chosen, among other things, "Lloyd I'm Ready to be Heartbroken" (good news).
• We replace the flesh, which is weak, with steel, which is strong.
• Li'l Steven's using his column to talk up Seymour Stein.
• OK, no one is going to be at all surprised by what I'm about to say, but
• The founder of Touch and Go Records is cute!
• Oh, and speaking of Chicago--Raedy, if you're reading this, go read Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning. It's very cute. You'll like it; the main character sings songs about Hello Kitty, art school boys (it's British), and writing a boy's name on her stomach.
• But, back to the cute boy, we all know I'm just a sucker for the heartbroken-seeming, music-obsessed, writerish boy with a good head of hair stereotype, don't we?
• I just don't get many of them down this way...
• Oh, Christ, Puffy/Diddy/I Don't Care is back.
• I guess he couldn't find anyone else to exploit, so he had to release another one of "his own" albums.
• Dre and Snoop are also working together again.
• This is all because I've been listening to the Crow soundtrack right? All this mid90s shit.
• Speaking of, I'm totally bringing 90s Trivial Pursuit this weekend. It's on!
• New ...and You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead album includes a cover of "Gold Heart Mountaintop Queen Directory".
• Which I now, true to form, am singing in my head.
• I'm totally ordering the new Killers album.
• My collection development technique is unstoppable!
• hunh. That sounds pretty awesome. Maybe I should make a shirt.
• Or have a new email signature or MySpace headline or something.
• There's a new Beck, and there's some guy over by the videos who isn't answering his damn phone.
• Emmylou Harris needs to go wigshopping. Maybe she can take Whitney and Jessica with her.