In the past month we have traded these:

A Beautiful Mind, Soundtrack
Lateralus, Tool
Rules Of Travel, Rosanne Cash
End Hits, Fugazi
Nimrod, Green Day
Insomniac, Green Day
Gold disc II, Ryan Adams
Birdland, The Yardbirds
Break Your Mother’s Heart, Tim Easton
A Rush Of Blood To The Head, Coldplay
Have You Fed The Fish?, Badly Drawn Boy
The Hits, Garth Brooks
Every Day And Every Night, Bright Eyes
The Beauty The Of Rain, Dar Williams
Blackout, Dropkick Murphys
Red Line, Trans Am
The Curved Glass, Hopewell
Stephen Malkmus, Stephen Malkmus
Electric Version, The New Pornographers
Hate, The Delgados
Broken Freedom Song: Live From San Francisco, Kris Kristofferson
The Instigator, Rhett Miller
Electric Warrior, Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Cul-De-Sacs & Dead Ends, The Minders
A Collection Of Songs Written And Recorded 1995-19, Bright Eyes
Standards, Tortoise
Gold, Ryan Adams
Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand

And received these in their place:
Trompe Le Monde, The Pixies
Living In Clip (Disc 2/2), Ani DiFranco
End Of The Summer, Dar Williams
Educated Guess, Ani DiFranco
The Early Years Vol. II, Tom Waits
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, Simon and Garfunkel
Trace, Son Volt
Little Plastic Castle, Ani DiFranco
A Far Cry From Dead, Townes Van Zandt
Around The Sun, R.E.M.
Bossanova, The Pixies
Glow, The Innocence Mission
Life For Rent, by Dido
Flood, They Might Be Giants
V.O.L., Vigilantes Of Love
Kind Of Blue, Miles Davis
All For Nothing/Nothing For All (Disc 1/2), The Replacements
The Ghost Of Tom Joad, Bruce Springsteen
Straightaways, Son Volt
Is This It, The Strokes
Welcome To Struggleville, Vigilantes Of Love
Graceland, Paul Simon
Out Of Time, R.E.M.
Good News For People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse
A Rush Of Blood To The Head, Coldplay
Violator, Depeche Mode
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, U2
The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner, Ben Folds Five
Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand

Pretty neat, huh?

Iron and Wine with Calexico are playing the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, 16 Dec. Sarah and I want badly to go and to take my little brother, J.D.M. However, we also would rather not pay the $22 cover each for such a large venue. Such bands should be enjoyed in a more intimate surrounding. Perhaps they’ll come play in my living room. Besides, we fly to M-Pol the following Monday. Do we have any friends that are willing to go bootleg the show for us and to allow us to live vicariously through them???

P.S. S., music lover that she is, does not endorse bootlegging of bands that she likes, but N., clueless rebel that he is, believes i.p. laws to be wholly immoral and an undue burden.

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I’ve been tagged by Emeth.”

“THE RULES: List five songs that you are currently loving. It doesn’t matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they’re any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the songs in your blog, then ‘tag’ five other bloggers/friends to see what they’re listening to.”

1. ‘Our Endless Numbered Days’, Iron and Wine
2. ‘Sweet Adeline’, Elliott Smith
3. ‘My Funny Valentine’, as covered by Over the Rhine
4. ‘October All Over ‘ Unwound
5. ‘My Dark Life’, Elvis Costello

Also-rans
6. ‘A Housewife Lovesong’, Starflyer59
7. Evelyn’s tape of lullabies with the WHAMP WHAMP WHAMP prenatal heartbeat samplings that came from someone else who picked it up at a garage sale somewheres.

I tag Eucharis, Valerie Silliman, Daniel Silliman (I don’t believe I’ve ever seen him do things like this before, so don’t get your hopes up), Bryan and Meggan.

Was Alex Chilton ever found in New Orleans?

Sixpence None the Richer — yeah, remember them? They’re still drifting around somewhere in your 1995ish consciousness. Anyway, Leigh Nash is on myspace and has a solo record coming out sometime.