Too much, too much.
I’m trying to ration out my posts – I don’t want to have what Kenny Fischer might call a “premature evacuation” of my blogging material. I know the excitement of a new blog will eventually, inevitably, inexorably, wear out, but I may as well jot some stuff down before these thoughts dissipate into the ether. Here are some tidbits that I may expand later:
- new Rhett Miller album, The Believer, out today. Immediate reaction: poppier, less alt-country, less rockin’ than usual 97’s stuff, but good ear candy nonetheless.
- relatedly, I want to subscribe to The Believer, the McSweeney’s literary spin-off mag. I also want to order pretty much all of the McSweeney’s back catalog.
- new Built to Spill album leaked – my copy has clips of “Who is Mike Jones?” comically sprinkled throughout, as if Doug Martsch and Mike Jones have come to some sort of kooky cosmic convergence
- last three books read: Harry Potter: Half-blood Prince (no linkage necessary), Blink (thanks Phil!), Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life (definitely more on this later)
- right now, as I’m typing, Kevin & Bean (morning radio show here in L.A.) are interviewing a Mexican guy who has developed a FULLY FUNCTIONAL JETPACK.
Hello future, you are now. Courtesy of Mexico. - new Amazing Race tonight on CBS. Best of the reality/game show sub-genre.
- watched MTV True Life: I’m a Competitive Eater over the weekend. Two words, one man, no peers: Takeru. Kobayashi.
- Yes, keen reader, that was a Can’t Hardly Wait reference up there. Get over it, it won’t be the last.
snowshoe said,
March 1, 2006 at 11:53 pm
the “who is mike dow” or whatever he says — at the end of the album there’s a phone number — 281 330 8004 — i dare you to call it