Sebadoh ‘Brand New Love’
Brecht/Weill ‘Song of the Insufficiency of Human Endeavor’
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band ‘Big Eyed Beans from Venus’
Leonard Cohen ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’
The Ramones ‘I Don’t Wanna Go Down to the Basement’
Dwight Twilley Band ‘Looking for the Magic’
Spirit ‘Aren’t You Glad’
Pinback ‘Talby’
Destroyer ‘An Actor Seeks Revenge’
Brian Eno ‘The True Wheel’
Wire ‘Mr. Marx’s Table’
Fugazi ‘Rend It’
The Shangri-Las “Past, Present, Future’
Tobin Sprout ‘The Last Man Well Known to Kingpin’
The Quick ‘Madchen Mania’
The Kinks ‘Wicked Annabella’
Swervedriver ‘Rave Down’
Sonic Youth ‘Schizophrenia’
Moonface 'Marimba and Shit Drums'
Alexander O’Neal ‘Criticize’
Guided by Voices ‘Best of Jill Hives’
The Replacements ‘Color Me Impressed’
Randy Newman ‘Marie’
Death Grips 'Get Got'
Velvet Underground ‘White Light/White Heat’
Neil Young ‘Tired Eyes’
David Ackles ‘Montana Song’
Laura Nyro ‘Captain St. Lucifer’
Pink Floyd ‘Lucifer Sam’
Sunn0))) 'It took the night to believe'
Superchunk ‘The First Part’
Drive Like Jehu ‘Here Come the Rome Plows’
Jefferson Airplane 'Watch Her Ride'
Broken Social Scene 'Anthems For A Seventeen-Year Old Girl'
My Bloody Valentine ‘Cigarettes in Your Bed’
Pavement ‘Starlings in the Slipstream’
Bow Wow Wow ‘Chihuahua’
ABBA ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’
Xiu Xiu ‘Blacks’
Donovan ‘Epistle to Dippy’
Soft Cell ‘Say Hello, Wave Goodbye’
XTC ‘Rocket in a Bottle’
Gram Parsons ‘1000 Wedding’
The Melvins ‘Joan of Arc’
The New Pornographers ‘Use It’
Van Dyke Parks ‘The All Golden’
Ladytron ‘Destroy Everything You Touch’
Var ‘Pictures of Today/Victorial’
Tricky ‘Diss Never (Dig Up We History)’
Super Furry Animals 'Run! Christian Run!'
Kevin Ayers 'Oleh Oleh Bandu Bandong'
The Cure ‘Strange Day’
The Move ‘Tonight’
Sparks ‘Mickey Mouse’
The Breeders ‘Doe’
Echo & the Bunnymen ‘Villiers Terrace’
Andy Pratt ‘Inside Me Wants Out’
The Byrds ‘I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better’
Husker Du ‘Divide and Conquer’
Weezer ‘Holiday’
SOS Band ‘Be Good to Me’
Public Enemy ‘Bring the Noise’
The Supremes ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’
Magazine ‘The Light Pours Out of Me’
Pete Shelley ‘XL1’
Cheap Trick ‘Auf Wiedersen’
Mission of Burma ‘Academy Fight Song’
Bjork ‘Hyperballad’
Nick Drake ‘Black Dog’
Siouxie & the Banshees ‘Skin’
The Dickies ‘Fan Mail’
The Weirdos ’Neutron Bomb’
The Assembly 'Never Never'
Wall of Voodoo ‘Factory’
Ride ‘Vapour Trail’
New York Dolls 'Personality Crisis'
Love ‘August’
Serge Lama ‘Je Suis Malade’
Blur ‘This Is a Low’
Silverchair ’Tuna in the Brine’
Nirvana ‘Heart Shaped Box’
Robert Wyatt ‘Alifib’
Lush ‘De-Luxe’
Buffy Sainte-Marie ‘Poppies’
Alice Cooper ‘Halo of Flies’
The Three O’Clock ‘Fall to the Ground’
Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac’ Green Manalishi’
Cat Power ‘Crossbones Style’
Deerhunter ‘Helicopter’
The Bee Gees ‘Holiday’
Gang of Four ‘I Found That Essence Rare’
Morrissey 'Last of the Famous International Playboys'
The Left Banke ‘Shadows Breaking Over My Head’
Swans ‘Weakling’
Butthole Surfers ‘U.S.S.A’
Roxy Music "Mother of Pearl'
Rob Zombie ’Superbeast’
Loudon Wainwright III ‘Kick in the Head’
The Rolling Stones ‘We Love You’
The Fall ‘Carry Bag Man’
Mad River ‘The War Goes On’
The Jesus and Mary Chain ‘The Hardest Walk’
Tim Buckley ‘Pleasant Street’
Roky Erickson Two Headed Dog’
Drunken Boat ‘Pool’
The Buck Pets ’Song for Louise Post’
10cc 'Somewhere in Hollywood'
Richard Hell ‘Love Comes in Spurts’
Pixies ‘Gigantic’
Young Marble Giants ‘Wurlitzer Jukebox’
Robert Pollard ‘White Gloves Come Off’
The Who ‘I Can See for Miles’
Peaches 'Rock Show'
John Cale ‘Engine’
Lou Reed ‘Sad Song’
Codeine 'jr'
Buffalo Springfield ‘Expecting to Fly’
Tom Waits ‘God’s Away on Business’
Nina Simone ‘Pirate Jenny’
Elvis Costello 'Riot Act'
Flipper 'Way of the World'
Elliott Smith 'Everything Means Nothing to Me'
Om 'Annapurna'
Sir Mix A Lot 'Baby's Got Back'
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p.s. Hey. Don't think you're expected to rattle off 80-something favorite songs, or any number of them, if you don't want to, but if you feel like doing a tit for tat and posting a favorite song or bunch of songs, that would be cool. ** Nicki, Hi. 'Batshit crazy' is such a strange phrase. I wonder how that happened. Glad you liked the post and share a position in the ticklish popping thing. Thank you! ** Kier, Hi, K. Popping bubble wrap is even better than chewing your fingernails. Bubble wrap is like a playground for adults or something. Painting, very cool! I felt really bad for those tiny frogs for a minute there. It must be so intense to be so dependent on the weather. How was 'Marat/Sade' for you? When I saw it ages ago, I sort of didn't like it all that much, which surprised me, but I don't remember why. Maybe I thought it was too much like a filmed play or something? Maybe I wouldn't mind that now. Maybe the word Sade in the title got me too excited? Maybe that wouldn't be an issue now. 'Harvestmen', wow, that's their common name? That's really interesting. They can swallow chunks of food? Wow. I mean, they're so incredibly delicate and fragile that it seems like they could only eat air or something. That's so interesting. I think I'm going to spy on the next one that calls my bathroom home. Thank you, pal. My Monday was all right. I ran errands mostly, and, what else, oh, I hung out with Kiddiepunk and Oscar B, who were just back from vacation. The casting call thing on Facebook has been kind of a bust. I'm surprised. I thought it would work, but not really. But we have a couple of possibly really good possibilities from elsewhere that we'll try out/talk to/audition as soon as Zac gets back. Oh, thank you for the pink/hearts/bubbles! That was beautiful! It still is! How was Tuesday up there where you are? ** Kyler, Hi. I've been wrapping birthday presents, so bubble wrap has been at the fore of consciousness for me as well. I'm really glad to hear your book is finding such excellent shelves and getting props from your 'nearest and dearest'. ** Tosh Berman, Ditto, I mean me too. I don't know about pimples, though. Maybe. Yeah, maybe. Ha ha, no, I don't think Bowie and Iman were referring to me, but what a lovely idea. He did look in my eyes for a fraction of a second and squint as though something might be familiar in my eyes or something. Bowie/me collab? Uh, I don't know, Tosh. I've just suddenly realized that there's no Bowie song in my favorite songs list up there. Huh. I suppose if he suggested such an idea, I would consider it very, very seriously. I do think a little outside interference from the right person at this point in his music making trajectory wouldn't hurt him. Okay, I'd be down for that if were down for a Ferry/Berman collab, and, correct me if I'm wrong, but I know you would be? ** Sypha, Yep. Keyboard of the gods. Thrilled and fascinated to get and see your Suzanne Vega Day. Thank you, James. You rule. Sorry about the publisher's. I hope the next one bites like Dracula. ** Damien Ark, Hi, Damien. Always excellent to see you! I know, right? About the ASMR. I thought it was weird that a couple of them were made/offered as a New Age stress relief ambient thing. I thought the sound was totally stressful in a really good way. Where are you going to college? Are you excited about that? Will you be studying writing? The kind of subject matter you deal with, and, you know, me too, does make it hard for anyone else to edit. I never get edited or barely. I just learned self-editing from reading books and trying to imitate their tightness or something. Thanks, man. Yeah, I honestly don't know how I do all the stuff I do. It's weird. I have weird energy or something. Have an excellent Tuesday! ** Etc etc etc, Hey, Casey. Ooh, bubble wrap in which each bubble is a tiny snow globe. That is a genius idea right there. Hemingway Paris stuff. There must be a bunch of that. But, yeah, it could be that the spots are touristed up since even tourists who don't read books or care about literature are into seeing Hemingway's old haunts. Like all the people who don't really know anything about art or care about art very much flocking to the Picasso museum or something. Yeah, it'll be nice in any case. I can give you what tips and directives I have on Paris literary locales if you want. I haven't read Roth in a million years. Love Gaddis top to bottom, though. Of very late, I haven't been reading as much, but this week I'm going to start some new stuff. I'm currently, slowly reading the forthcoming Blake Butler novel '300,000,000', which is phenomenal. The authors I propped on Dazed are awesome, yeah. I hope all stuff in your head and world is progressing too. What did you do of note or even not of note on this hopefully fine Tuesday? ** Bill, Thank you. I do my best, ha ha. Those tortes look delicious. Wow. The second looks maybe a little dry in the photo, but I like my tortes moist. I'm a moist pastry kind of guy most of the time. There must be a Viennese style patisserie here. Maybe while I'm running around today I'll find one and eat a torte. I think the first one, if they have it. Yum. ** Keaton, They do seem magical. They seem like they defy the laws of physics or something. And they seem like they're too fragile to have survived this long in the evolutionary pool. I've only been to Petit Palace once. I can't even remember it. I remember there's a big central courtyard where you can smoke. It must be hard to be the Petit Palais, its entrance staring forever, day and night, at the so much more impressive entrance of the Grand Palais. You're rereading the underage classics. That's an interesting strategy. That might just work. Tot ziens! ** Steevee, No, I haven't seen 'Gerontophilia'. It's hard for me to get it up to see his films, but I always do eventually. Well, it was a hit relative to his other films. It seems like his 'Mysterious Skin' move, although I can't imagine it being anywhere as good as 'MS'. Tell me what you thought. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben! ** Misanthrope, I think I'm like you, But I think I always leave a few prisoners. Karma or something. Yeah, it makes utter and duh sense that a football player's brain would be a lot more wrecked than a swimmer's. Another reason to add to my many reasons why I can't stand American football. They say people break their toes, or the little ones at least, all the time and have no idea they have. I bet you just broke yours, for example. ** MyNeighbourJohnTurtorro, Hey, man! I've never met anyone who doesn't like bubble wrap. I've met people who like it 'too much'. But, while making that post, I did learn that there's a bubble rap phobia that is not massively uncommon. Polystyrene, eh? *Evil laugh* Nah, I'll try to avoid a post on said substance if it is humanly possible. Casting call is going but with difficulty, but it's going, and it'll be okay, and maybe even okay very soon if we're very lucky. No, as I told Kier, the Facebook shout out was kind of a total waste of time, or so far at least. The music role is definitely the hardest. Zac and I have to put our heads together and get that figured out somehow really, really soon. I like Lower, yeah. I like the new album. I haven't listened to it all that much, though. It's growing on me. The slicker, more overtly pop thing is becoming less problematic for me with every spin. Yeah, new Iceage album is due before the end of the year. New music ... nothing too brand new since my last gig post. I think I like the new UltraMantis Black, but, no nothing brand spanking new that I can crow about today. The Shabazz Palaces is kind of ruling my ears at the moment. Bon day to you sir! ** Postitbreakup, Hi, Josh. Do they still make new 'Silent Hill' games. I'm so, so out of the loop on video games these days, it's scary. I'm sorry you're in that mood. Familiarity does not lessen its impact. You should totally suss a way to write about it. It could be your writing's calling card, or one of them. It could be, like, your 'rimming'. Ha ha. Feel better, my pal! ** Okay. The favorite songs thing is the thing of today, and that's that. See you tomorrow.