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Distractions

Presently rotating:

Matthew Sweet
100% Fun
Thelonious Monk
Straight, No Chaser
The Cars
The Cars
Yo La Tengo
Fakebook
Robert Gordon
Are You Going to be the One?

Presently reading:

Jules Verne
Autour de la Lune
Greil Marcus
Ranters & Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977 - 92
Luke Welling and Laura Thomson
PHP and MySQL Web Development

Thing of the Week
Champale
[song] '68 Comeback - 4.6 Mb

I've only heard two songs off of this band's debut, Simple Days (both of which are available on their label's Website as mp3s), but from what I've heard, it's gonna be a great album. Breezy, jazzy, sweetfully lazy pop to fill your summer days with goodness... in fact, I'm gonna go out and buy it tonight.
Past Cultural Joy

Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation
By Eric Schlosser

I'm just waiting for a reviewer to say, "Fast Food Nation does to greasy hamburgers what No Logo did for globalization" - as lame as that sounds, it's an accurate description of this excellent book. Author Eric Schlosser rips apart the black box that is the American fast food and meat industry, and it's at times lucid, enlightening, and digusting... sometimes all at once. (Thank goodness I don't eat red meat.) A great, compelling read that will change the way you look at "1 billion served" forever.
David Byrne
[song] Winter
[From Music for "The Knee Plays"]
Gorgeous, soaring melancholy, courtesy of the Internet via Alan via Kottke.org.
Pernice Brothers
Pernice Brothers
The World won't End

Joe Pernice makes the most beautiful statements out of sadness, and this followup to the Bros. uneven but fine debut Overcome by Happiness is proof of that. It's a more lush, fuller-sounding, and sonically ambitious effort than the debut, evoking comparisons to Pet Sounds, Nick Drake, and Jimmy Webb. Pernice's explorations into poetic pop closes the book on his previous country-tinged work with the Scud Mountain Boys. A soaring, blissful soundtrack for a lazy Sunday morning.
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xBlog
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Hooray for spring

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Shout outs to Zeldman.com (Style Sheet advice), theMorningNews.org (orginal three-column setup), and blogger.com / hit-or-miss.org (XML and PHP assistance).