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When I was a kid, I had this stuffed tiger named The Pittsburgh Pirate (he was missing an eye), and my pre-school teachers never complained when I bought that thing to show & tell many, many weeks in a row. Rye's got his kitties -- there are five of them around the house in various states of wear and tear. I remember getting the first one before he was born!

posted January 8 2010 and tagged with rye

C. Ray Harvey, holiday nephew

posted January 5 2010 and tagged with allbes holiday

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It's football season, and I'm trying to pay attention.

posted January 5 2010 and tagged with taglines

Late Addition to Best Shit List 09: Cotton Jones!

This list has been updated to include a late-comer with Cotton Jones' killer country-tinged ep titled Rio Ranger. Mike Nau and his lady Whitney McGraw (paired together with an assortment of other players here or there) have made some very seriously fucking great pop tunes over five or so years, most of which have been under-appreciated, which is a wrong that I'm certain will one day be right-ed.

This short five-song viber has been playing over and over either from my stereo or alone in my head so many times over this holiday season. Nau and McGraw have recently gotten married, which adds a great piece to a great love story. They're working on the next Cotton Jones album... can't wait for it!

Here's "Stop for a Minute", the last jam on the ep. As far as I can tell, it's straight autobiography, a quick summation of the two's path together trying to find a place to settle down, when settling down means next to nothing vs the motion they crave. It's a great ending to a record that begins with a sentimental homage to trucker songs. It's a collection of songs about movement, which so many of my favorites tend to be.

Where You Stop For A Minute by Cotton Jones

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posted December 28 2009 and tagged with art & ent listing

New camera - prepare for Rye pic overload

posted December 25 2009 and tagged with holiday rye

Before & After (Boring alert. For family only.)

Click here to download:

Before_After_Boring_alert._For.zip (2653 KB)

posted December 25 2009 and tagged with home improv

The Best Shit for 2009 List

In no particular order:

Alec Ounsworth Mo Beauty
Jay-Z The Blueprint 3
Other Girls Perfect Cities
The Big Pink A Brief History of Love
Girls Girls
The Avett Brothers I and Love and You
The Growlers Are You In or Out
Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus
Cotton Jones Rio Ranger EP

Clients who were not considered for this list due to professional conflicts & complications, but put out great records this year:

Lightning Dust Infinite Light, The Cave Singers Welcome Joy, John Vanderslice Romanian Names, Bon Iver Blood Bank, Silversun Pickups Swoon, Foreign Born Person to Person, Volcano Choir Unmap, The Dodos Time To Die, BLK JKS After Robots, Crystal Antlers Tentacles, The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come, Pink Mountaintops Outside Love

posted December 23 2009 and tagged with art & ent listing

Guy, live

Dischord's ongoing Re-cut and Re-issued series has driven me to the legendary DC-label's webstore several times this year for some pretty weighty purchases. I haven't paid much mind to their output over the past several years, but I would have to assume that my LP bins hold a higher percentage of their catalog than any other label.

Listening to Rites of Spring and One Last Wish today led me to a Google image search for classic Guy Picciato live photos, and then thirty or forty minutes of festisizing over the live shots in each of the early Fugazi full-lengths. Maybe the best photographed band of all time, in particular so many classic shots with co-frontman Guy doing his thing!

Cover and interior shot (shown above) from their debut mini-album: totally magic! Interior shots from Margin Walker: grainy pieces of fucking genius! Repeater's blocked out cover shot: a trend starter in record design if ever there were one! Some more of my Guy favs below.