1. Guided by Voices Redmen and Their Wives
2. Guided by Voices Best of Jill Hives
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3. Robert Pollard Far-Out Crops
4. Guided By Voices 14 Cheerleader Coldfront
5. Robert Pollard Town of Mirrors
6. Guided by Voices Little Whirl
7. Guided by Voices My Impression Now
8. Guided By Voices Dayton, Ohio - 19 Something And 5
9. Robert Pollard White Gloves Come Off
10. Robert Pollard The Ash Gray Proclamation
11. Tobin Sprout To My Beloved Martha
12. Guided by Voices Awful Bliss
13. Robert Pollard I Get Rid of You
14. Guided by Voices Johnny Appleseed
15. Robert Pollard Kickboxer Lightning
16. Guided by Voices Chicken Blows
17. Guided by Voices Exit Flagger
18. Guided by Voices Kicker of Elves
19. Guided by Voices Don't Stop Now
20. Guided by Voices Father Sgt. Christmas Card
21. Guided by Voices Tractor Rape Chain
22. Guided by Voices Huffman Prairie Flying Field
23. Guided by Voices Big School
24. Robert Pollard Pop Zeus
25. Airport 5 The Cost of Shipping Cattle
26. Robert Pollard Vibrations in the Woods
27. Robert Pollard Edison's Memos
28. Guided by Voices Game of Pricks
29. Airport 5 Stifled Man Casino
30. Airport 5 How Brown?
31. Tobin Sprout All Used Up
32. Guided by Voices Do the Earth
33.Guided by Voices Cut-Out Witch
34. Guided by Voices Queen of Cans and Jars
35. Guided by Voices Back to the Lake
36. Guided by Voices Lethargy
37. Guided by Voices On the Tundra
38. Guided by Voices The Official Ironmen Rally Song
39. Tobin Sprout The Last Man Well Known to Kingpin
40. Robert Pollard Subspace Biographies
41. Guided by Voices Car Language
42. Guided by Voices The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
43. Guided by Voices Wrecking Now
44. Tobin Sprout Water on the Boaters Back
45. Tobin Sprout The Crawling Backwards Man
46. Go Back Snowball It Is Divine
47. Guided by Voices Atom Eyes
48. Guided by Voices Non-absorbing
49. Robert Pollard Whiskey Ships
50. Robert Pollard Enjoy Jerusalem!
51. Guided by Voices My Valuable Hunting Knife
52. Guided by Voices Matter Eater Lad
53. Tobin Sprout As Lovely As You
54. Robert Pollard Weatherman And Skin Goddess
55. Robert Pollard Dunce Codex
57. Guided by Voices Gleemer
58. Guided by Voices Shocker in Gloomtown
59. Guided by Voices Postal Blowfish
60. Guided by Voices Teenage FBI
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p.s. Hey. Starting on this coming Tuesday, the blog will be going into reruns and will lack p.s.es of any substance for approximately two and a half weeks while I'm away traveling in Australia and, briefly, in Hong Kong. I will explain how that'll work in more detail on Monday, but just to give you an early-ish heads up. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, David. Those 'Casino' opening credits are a total beauty, aren't they? And the 'Casino Royale' ones are too. I loved that 'Casino Royale' film when I was a kid. I'd like to see it again. Thanks! ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Oh, thanks! I don't know Darren Banks' work, but a quick viewing of the initial portion of his site intrigues me a lot, and I'll rectify my lack. ** Bill, Thank you kindly, sir. Please do your Hsuian magic with those squishes. Pretty please? Glad the stuff hit some sort of interesting spot. Have a swell weekend! ** Thomas Moronic, Thanks, Thomas. Cool. How's your weekend shaping up? ** Sypha, Hey. I'm an 'Ernest'/Jim Varney fan. I'm not embarrassed in the slightest to say so. What he did was very slight and particular, but there's something really exciting and beautiful in that character, I think. I have read quite a bit of Bataille's non-fiction, yes. I of course heartily approve of you diving into that stuff. 'Tears of Eros' is great. I like a lot of his philosophical books. I don't know if you want or need recommendations, but, if so, I might suggest 'Visions of Excess', for one. You might have fun with one of his odder books, 'The Trial of Gilles de Rais'. Anyway, I think you probably have a path laid out. 'Literature and Evil', is, of course, great and one of his easier reads. ** Rewritedept, Well, thank you. Sexy beast would have been quite a stretch, but thank you. Mm, you know ... I don't remember how old Nick is, if you ever told me, but since you call him a kid, I assume he's a kid. Kids are figuring things out, the world, themselves, exploring, experimenting ... They're focused on themselves, as they should be. Maybe what you present isn't something he feels like he needs to explore or understand right now. I don't know, obviously, but I think you're taking the fact that his attention is elsewhere way, way too personally. And you're trying to read him like he's a peer, your age, an adult, a friend or a crush. He's a kid, man. A relationship with a kid is great opportunity to explore things like selflessness and objectivity and study your own needs and why you have them and stuff. Chill, basically, is my advice, ha ha. I hope my birthday is fun and not depressing too. I don't have a lot of hope for, but hey. Naw, birthday schmirthday, whatever. Birthdays are so overrated. ** Chris Dankland, Hey! Cool, perfect way to watch them. The 'LCTG' credits are super-minimal. First there's the stupid animated logo of the distribution company. Then there's the title in big white letters on a black background. In Helvetica? Can't remember. Then the words 'a film by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley', again white on black. Then the film starts. At the end, again, simple white on black credits, one after another: actors, us, crew, music, thanks, etc. While a minimal, kind of weird, sad song by Niko Solorio plays over them. Totally basic. Oh, yeah, 'Dawn of the Dead' credits, I remember those. Those are cool. They must not be online 'cos I really scoured. Next time I see Stephen O'Malley, I'll ask him who he thinks has the best BM or DM lyrics. He's a scholar of that stuff. If I actually remember to do that, and if he tells me, I'll pass his pick(s) along. Oh, and maybe I'll shoot a quick email to Brandon Stosuy and ask him. He's one of big honchos at Pitchfork and a great pal and Metal is his musical life love. Oh, awesome, that title you picked out for Twitter is really great, yeah. Ditto, yeah, re: the Butler and Krilanovich books. Speaking of, do you know how close she is to finishing her new novel, by chance? I'm kind of jonesing for it. That little scene you mentioned in 'Lords of Salem' was by far my favorite thing in that film. May you have the finest Saturday and Sunday that those two days can produce! ** Okay. So, I decided to mark the occasion of my birthday by heavily indulging my reverence for the holy triumvirate of GbV, Pollard, and Sprout. I invite and even strongly encourage you to celebrate my birthday by clicking as many of those Play buttons as you can stand because what they lead to is the happiest, best part of me. Or something. There you go. Have good weekends. See you on Monday.