I've made my best of lists without putting in records that I've released. I've love Saxon Shore's The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore and Luck Will Not Save Us from a Jackpot of Nothing and Bosque Brown's Plays Mara Lee Miller. I did cheat in my best of 2004 by charting Efterklang's Tripper album. I left off things like Sufjan Steven's Seven ( Read more... )

A few years ago, my friend Matt discovered this weird Korean electronic band who was responsible for some really nice songs for a Korean movie Take Care of My Cat : byul. He was able to find the band now because of the website which is hard to navigate because it's mostly in Korean or ascii characters that are in place of Korean characters. But ( Read more... )

So, who's up for a lunch at hott doug's on Saturday, 4 March (this Saturday)? Maybe 11:30/noonish?

i guess i'm a moron and didn't know that i was supposed to confirm people as my friends on this live journal thing. i didn't know. it's all complicated and another place to fill in profiles and all that stuff. but, i'm doing better. i'm going to visit chicago this weekend. see you all there for some hott dougs and jared's band and who knows ( Read more... )

any live journal indie rock loving baseball fans? if so, give me a comment and i'll tell you how to join up with the btv fantasy baseball league. it's a bit of work, but it's fun. and my dad is in the league with a bunch of friends in bands. it's not a jock thing, that's what football is for. it's for the pure essence of the americana sport ( Read more... )

things are a little slow for a monday night, so i'm spending time transferring some vinyl only releases to my laptop. it's a bit of a hassle because i have to move my computer across the room and had to figure out why i was having some grounding problems. i have this really great shareware program called click repair that analyzes the resulting ( Read more... )

one of my recent discoveries is the band red sparowes who are on neurosis' label, neurot. they don't sound like neurosis at all, it's some melodic post-rockish cinematic instrumental, a la mogwai, etc. i go nuts for this stuff. i bought the double vinyl of their album online and was researching the label that put it out, robotic empire. most of ( Read more... )

Happy New Year! The punch was good last night. I write a lot of stuff on my record label website, so it's weird to duplicate everything here. So I won't. But we just finished the first season of Veronica Mars and it was a very exciting wandering ending as we figured out who iced Lilly. I'm in Chicago until Tues morning. horty_pie I need mp3s before I ( Read more... )

jessypie made me do this. i'm done for now.