Battles/Archie Bronson Outfit

I know Alex Wilson pretty well.  Contrary to popular belief/prejudice, just because he lives under a bridge and eats gruff billy goats does not make him a troll.  That's just ignorant.

Oh btw Alex, before this thread concludes, that's my dad holding me, not me holding one of my kids.  But thanks for the kind thoughts about the picture.  Next month, me drinking beer.

Bradley - when my wife and I watched that Louie CK show on TV, the italian pony bit had both of us laughing so hysterically that we had to pause the show for several minutes so we could stop and recover.

Snagged it!

 

"Thank you.  Thank you ver much."

This can't possibly compete with Cam's story below (to which I have to say "whoa!"), but I'd like to add my two cents to the music year-in-the-making conversation. I don't have a year-so-far list, but looking through my iTunes collection, I see two albums from this year that I really like that have not been mentioned here yet. Of course, one's comedy and the other is classical, so their absence here makes sense. First is the recent Louis C.K. album Hilarious, which is... hilarious, but also deep and thoughtful just like his show Louie. Highly recommended. The climax "My 3 year old is a 3 year old" just about killed me I was laughing so hard. But I love (literal) potty humor.

I also dig Vol. 2 of Kristian Bezuidenhout's Mozart: Keyboard Music series on Harmonia Mundi. Yeah, I know... But seriously, check it out. It's quick and light and the fortepiano provides a more abrasive, tinny tone than a lush piano performance would give. I like it. But I like Mozart. (I'm not a classical snob! I swear!)

For Christgau picks, I'll reorder them like this: so far I've really enjoyed Stampfel & Lewis, and play Those Darlins, and Rainbow Arabia a lot. Simon and Tune-Yards are both really beautiful, but I don't throw them on as much as I expected that I would. My wife and I also play the Hayes Carll a lot, but we're a Hayes Carll kind of house; we played out the last one.

I'd like to add that, though I don't hate the new Lucinda Williams album, I am getting sick of the recent way in which she interprets her lyrics and melodies. It's like she's trying to pull expression and emotion out of lines and melodies that just don't have a lot of expression or emotion in them. But maybe something will break through for me. That's what's nice about loving music in the 21st century--we can listen to it over and over again whenever we want.

Well you guys have convinced me to listen to the Elvis reissue. (I have Elvis Is Back! at A- in my notes, though I don't recall which edition that was.)

Might not be for a while, though, because at the moment I just want to play the McGarrigle box over and over.

Jon Wurster is the drummer for Superchunk and also the funniest twitterer (one who tweets? Twit?) I follow. Example, from last night: "What if my tombstone sucks?" He just linked to Amazon and said "If you don't think I'm buying this tomorrow, friend you've got to fall". Which means that the Bob Mould autobiography ("with Michael Azzerad") is about to drop. Now what could possibly be the maraschino cherry to this hot fudge sundae?

Chris/Jacob:  I presume because of the dates of the songs that there is not much overlap between the new Elvis Is Back! and the 5-disc The King of Rock 'n' Roll:  The Complete 50's Masters from 1992.  Correct?

Oh, and my favorite songs on Burst Apart seem to have the titles that get you guys laughing, so check this one out: "Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out."