Nobody's getting Trashelle for Christmas, though Bkenny001 tried. Go figure, $1,500 for a day with Trishelle wasn't enough to meet the reserve... (Thanks to Stereogum for the pointer.)Ok, on to the music stuff.It looks like Rhino has done it again. This time it's Left of the Dial, which compiles tra

I have been reading so much good stuff this year and I haven’t updated about books once.  Y’all probably think that I’ve given up books entirely, that I’m practically illiterate these days, but no!  I still read.  I just forget to update.  And I really sho

I have been really remiss in not updating y’all on our concert schedule.  I really should write up a proper reviewafter each show (if for no other reason than to help Jake and me remember what we’ve seen) , but I always forget.  (For example, I think I neglected to ever post

So, Crazy Tom and Little Joey Potter had* a baby girl.  Her name is Suri, which means "Please, Mama, take me back to Toledo so I don’t have to be raised by the Scientologists."Good luck, Katie.  If you tie some bedsheets together, you can make a  ladder and maybe you c

The Guardian released a list of "most relevatory books" for men, which noted that men didn’t have the same connection as women with fiction, and that a number of men described non-fiction books as their "watershed" books even though they were told to focus on fiction. 

The Complete Sherlock Holmes (A quarter of the way through the first volume, so good). www.bloglines.com (Awesome, I can’t believe I only started using this now.  You can read all your usual blogs in about 1/4 of the time.)moleskine notebooks (I don’t know what it is about these, bu

I’m torn.  I want to see The Pursuit of Happyness [sic] because it looks like it will make me cry.  However, the fact that a simple word like “happiness” is misspelled in the title bothers me more than I can express.  What is the point?  Why would such a word be

8.  David Mead at Jammin’ Java.  It’s a shame that there were only, like, fifteen people there, because he was amazing.    7. Marah at Iota.  This was way back at the beginning of the year, but it was a fun, fun, loud, fun show.  (They played two nights i

Okay, maybe not “best,” but my personal favorites. 10. Belle and Sebastian, The Life Pursuit 9. Regina Spektor, Begin to Hope   8. Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not 7. Bruce Springsteen, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions 6. John