iTunes played She Wants Revenge followed by New Order. There is no way that was random. It's like iTunes thought "you just listened to the copy, now I'll play the original." I wish I understood the crazy AI they call Party Shuffle.

It's about freaking time for a new Built to Spill album. Album comes out April 11th and it's called "You in Reverse". They've posted the first song Goin' Against Your Mind on myspace and I really enjoy it. It sounds more like something from "Perfect From Now On" than "Ancient Melodies of the Future".

Here's the tracklist:

1. Goin' Against Your Mind
2. Traces
3. Liar
4. Saturday
5. Wherever You Go
6. Conventional Wisdom
7. Gone
8. Mess With Time
9. Just A Habit
10. The Wait

Just got back from seeing TV on the Radio (TV's blog) open up for The Faint. TV was solid, but not great. I hope the Young Liars EP doesn't end up being their peak. On their opener they were channeling Mogwai with this distorted guitar that slowly built over the course of a few minutes. I was really surprised when they sampled themselves playing and started looping it. I've never heard anyone else use that technique for their kind of music.

The Faint brought down the house. I had always relegated them to the upper echelon of B-List indie acts. I was wrong. Their live show is second to none. I've seen Modest Mouse, Yume Bitsu, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Death Cab for Cutie, Dismemberment Plan and a few others perform in the same venue and none have sounded as good as The Faint did tonight. I had thought it was a limitation of the venue, but apparently not. They also had the best visual and light show of any of the bands I've seen play there. A number of video sequences were synchronized to the music and didn't slip at all. They were tight. Todd Baechle, the lead singer, had a really strong presence on stage that I didn't expect him to have.

The highlights of the show for me were "Agenda Suicide", "Paranoiattack", "Birth", "Phone Call", "Worked up so Sexual", "Call Call" and "Your Retro Career Melted". The live performances had all the energy of the studio cuts and more. The video and light presentation with each looked far beyond what any indie band should be able to afford.

For me The Faint has nicely filled the void left by the Dismemberment Plan when they disbanded. The Plan never really excelled on their studio albums, but their live shows were excellent. I'm looking forward to more Faint shows.

On another note, it's been about a year since I last experienced live music from a band. The last show I'd seen was Mogwai in Atlanta, which was excellent in that cerebral, sit-down and melt into the music kinda way. It's good to have opportunities like this again, and at $17 total you'll hear no complaints from me. I was surprised to see some folks in DC paying $30 to $60 for the same show.

Somethingawful.com has posted a pitchfork parody that is quite funny. It overdoes it with the Radiohead humor but I liked this snippet from a "review":

Discovering a new Radiohead release is like staring into the eyes of Jesus Christ and feeling the eternal stream of love and awe that flows from Him.

Pitchfork has funny stuff on their own like their review of Metallica's St. Anger.

I've been on a hot streak with music purchases recently. The Unicorns, Halley, The Books, Modest Mouse, songs from Xiu Xiu and Four Tet and the new Mirah have all kept me enthused about music.

Today it's the new Mirah that's put a smile on my face. Five songs in and they all match Cold Cold Water in production, lyrics and the raw anthem like power. The simple, solitary quiet and playful lyrics that dominated her past two albums seem gone.

Talked to a friend about her guy problems today. I wonder what purpose the great dance plays. "I want you." "I don't." " I want you again."

I was put on the spot during lunch to come up with an embarrassing date/ask-out moment. The two anecdotes I shared revealed more about the other person than myself. I feel so aloof sometimes.

I talked with this homeless guy for an hour a couple weeks ago. He's never been married and has nobody now. For the first time ever I saw a future where I floated from city to city alone.

I missed the ark but I could have sworn you'd wait for me. I was born a unicorn. I could have sworn you believed in me. Then how come all the other unicorns are dead?

I'm loving me some of The Unicorns. I was pleased to see on their news page that they've hit the big time as a music sensation. How do they know this? Well has started writing fanfic porn about them.

Somehow ELP's Tarkus made it onto my ipod and into a playlist I was listening to. My how my music preferences have broadened since my "if it's not prog rock it sucks" days. Listening to Tarkus reminded me how incredibly tight prog is. You can hear engineers and musicians of the 60s/70s reveling in the control that new audio equipment gave them over sound. Nowadays I tend towards the fuzzy noise of acts like the Microphones.

In this brief prog reverie I turned to allmusic to look at two bands from the 90's Swedish prog scene, Anglagard and Anekdoten. I've got to give the researchers at allmusic massive credit for knowing the history of Anglagard this well:

Anglagard got itself noticed in the small international circles of progressive rock fandom, and both of their albums were voted album of the year on internet prog newsgroups.

Here I am all excited by the new Death Cab For Cutie CD, Transatlanticism. I was wondering who else rivaled Ben Gibbard for emotional sincerity in lyrics and naturally Elliott Smith came to mind. Apparently he died at 34 this week. Pitchfork has an obit to Elliott Smith. While I was not a great fan of his music I certainly acknowledged his tremendous talent.

"To vanish into oblivion It's easy to do And I tried to leave but you know me I come back when you want me to."

Every day that I go into work I start it off listening to "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel. I've been listening to it almost non-stop since I discovered it in spring on a new article on Salon, and a recent Creative Loafing article that praise it. Not bad for something that came out five years ago.

It was neat to see references to Soft Machine, Elf Power and Olivia Tremor Control. I love it when I've assembled a little music universe for myself and then discover that someone else used the same parts to build theirs. It kinda makes everything seem structured, meaningful.

I saw my last D Plan show this saturday, well unless I go to DC July 28th for the last show of the farewell tour. It was a great all request thing. It was sort of funny watching them play musical chairs with their instruments as people requested songs with different instruments. At one point Travis, the lead singer/guitarist, said the audience would have to do a little work as well and try and group songs with similar instruments together. An appeal that was largely unheeded. Towards the end of the show when everyone gets to go up on stage with them they had the largest group I've seen on stage yet, I'd guess 30 or so people. It's kind of impressive to watch them play the song as people are hugging them and they are posing for pictures with fans.

At one point Travis took time to thank the promoter who put the show together and how sane, and easy to work with she is compared to lots of other ones. He's a pretty outspoken guy so it wasn't really surprising when he said people like her make the Clear Channel radio grab irrelevant. An issue he's written about and that kuro5hin has more details about citing Travis' website in the writeup.

I think a highlight was when he broke into "Tomorrow" and "It's the Hard Knock Life" during one of the D Plan songs. This was after the group dance session when he remarked on one of the fans looking like Annie meets Yves St. Laurent.

I just got back from a preview of 28 Days Later, the new Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) movie. I went in with few expectations other than "low budget zombie movie." I really enjoyed it. I'd like to see it again when it comes out.

What I found particularly stunning is the look of the film. While The Beach was full of color and the clich�d view of paradise 28 Days Later goes in practically the opposite direction. The colors are frequently washed out, and the picture feels like television enlarged for the big screen. A conceit that seems to tie the movie together with the opening sequence. There are a handful of scenes where the scenery is clearly digitally manipulated, For example a patch of flowers look like they've been rendered as oil pantings in photoshop. Thankfully it's sparingly used which is why I think it worked so well to help create a different world. In particular I liked the way fire was shown. The fires seem too vivid for the camera at times so they pixelate in neat ways. For me, all these things really added to the sensation that I was a roving reporter with a cheap digital video camera capturing the last moments of human civilization.

The music worked in quite nicely. First Mogwai Fear Satan made it into a movie, and now g!ybe's East Hastings has shown up. East Hastings starts up in the first 10 minutes when he's wandering around an empty London. The movie nicely avoids the generic post-apocalypse clich� of the rag-tag group finding a scientist who explains why the world ended. The closest you get to that kind of exposition is when Selena explains to Jim that the candy (the main "food" that has lasted 28 days) he's been eating is what caused his headache. In general it's details like that (what kind of food would still be around) which make the movie a bit more thoughtful and interesting than the usual zombie gorefest.

I can't believe they just used Canon XL-1 cameras to shoot it. Dave has one of those. Movie making really is getting cheaper.

Apparently I grew up in a world different from others. A world where CDs are to be treated as near sacred objects that will break at the slightest indelicate moment. I've been re-encoding CDs from my collection and reached Orbital's In Sides disc 2 with the 28 minute version of The Box. This is a CD that had been loaned out and returned somewhat scratched. Apparently the scratches destroyed The Box.

Anyone have a 192 VBR copy I could download?

I'd been listening to a few mp3s of songs by Neutral Milk Hotel for a few weeks now. Yesterday I finally bought the album (Screw you RIAA). I don't think I own a CD with as many songs about life and death. If I do, they certainly don't have the upbeat, magical view of our beginnings and endings that this album has. "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea", "Ghost" and "Holland, 1945" in particular stand out.

According to iTunes I've listened to "Holland, 1945" 14 times in a row over the past hour or so. I've been thinking about the lyrics as they stream by. The words themselves have this wonderful lyrical quality about them. You can tell the rhyme and meter was crafted as carefully as the rhythm and melody of the music. The song opens with The only girl I've ever loved was born with roses in her eyes but then they buried her alive one evening 1945 which is nicely echoed in the final stanza with And it's so sad to see the world agree that they'd rather see their faces filled with flies all when I'd like to keep white roses in their eyes. I get the feeling that he's singing about how the person is still great and wonderful even in death, no reason to let them rot away in your memory or in the ground. The song even talks about what happens after she dies Now she's a little boy in Spain playing pianos filled with flames. Her spirit is so strong and bright with so much music to give that the piano ignites into flame. The rest of this short song is filled with equally whimsical and jubilant ideas about what the living and the dead have left to enjoy.

A few other notes about the title and the band: Holland was liberated May 1945 and occupied by hundreds of thousands of Canadians for the summer. A summer that came to be known as The Wild Summer for the number of pregnancies. I was impressed to see that someone wrote stories based on the songs of Neutral Milk Hotel.

And the mightyness of Rush carries on, this time in the web medium. Congrats to rush.com for winning a 2003 SXSW Web Award for best Musical Artist/Band site.

Oh and I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that fellow DFWer Griff trounced the competition in the "Weblog" category with his site ultramicroscopic. DFW reprezent!

I don't think I've seen one positive remark from anyone about how the Office of Homeland Security reports on terrorist threats. The harshest criticism has come from people who live in NYC and DC. I never expected DC band The Dismemberment Plan to get in on the act. There it is first thing on their web site. After criticizing the color coded system Travis then goes on to mention what his views towards regime change, the UN and anti-war protests are. It's too bad they are splitting up, but I guess it's good to out on a high note.

After listening to about 40 mix CDs (40 more to go) collected from around the country I've been stunned by how uniform people's preferences are in NYC and Boston. LA people are okay but Toronto/Montreal natives win for the most eclectic and interesting CDs. If you live in the three previously mentioned cities make sure you're up on your indie rock standards like "The Hives", "The Shins", "The Vines", "eels", "Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs", "Hot, Hot, Heat", etc. A good knowledge of Sub Pop and Matador will take you far in those cities.

You know what's surprised me, all "The Kinks" that people listen to. "Cat Stevens" has also had a stronger presence than I expected. Did the Rushmore soundtrack really affect that many people?

Just as Steve Albini would appear to have been born to produce Mogwai and godspeed you black emperor! albums I think I've come across another match waiting to happen. Vindication comes in the form of pitchforkmedia news about Björk's new album:

At this point, very little is known about the album, tentatively titled LakeExperience, but we can promise that our continual pleas for Björk to just try collaborating with The Microphones' Phil Elvrum have again gone ignored.

There is a god and he likes me. godspeed you black emperor! is playing Houston, Austin and Fort Worth the 12th, 13th and 14th. I guess the Spring music season is gearing up. But the announced breakup of The Dismemberment Plan casts a pall over everything.

Dear Mr. Lynne,

Is it okay if I call you Jeff? I've derided Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) since my late teens. I always felt vaguely pissed off that ELO had a box set and Rush didn't. Although, most of my derision was aimed purely at ELO's music. I only heard the two songs that were (over)played on classic rock stations. Perhaps it's wrong to condemn an artist's complete oeuvre for just two songs, but I did it.

I was wrong. I just watched the new VW commercial with your song "Mr. Blue Sky" and really enjoyed it. However, most of my praise is reserved for the clever direction by Mike Mills. Bravo Jeff.

June 24th left Matt a very sad Matt. The car he loved was gone, and the CD/MP3 receiver that had kept him sane through Nevada on the "Loneliest Highway" was homeless. In a daring and moderately bold move he'd snagged the CD player from the wrecked car while it was at the auto salvage place when the insurance adjuster wasn't looking. Technically it was part of the value of the car. Matt knew he loved it in a way no one else ever would and so theft was okay.

Weeks and months went by with Matt walking, hitching with friends and riding buses and trains. The KDC-MP8017 whose sole purpose in life was to play music lay dormant the entire time. Matt's life had grown quite dim during those same months, as perhaps his purpose was to listen to KDC-MP8017 play music.

Today Matt spent $37 in wiring harnesses for his Honda and KDC-MP8017. (He had stupidly not realized he needed to steal the Kenwood wiring harness too) Then an hour wiring them together and installing the unit. Music came forth and there was much glee as they'd each found their missing piece.

Tivo grabbed Birds of Prey the new live action Batman spinoff. In the typical WB vein it features scantily clad, sexy young women using super powers to save the world. Yeah, I said super powers, what kind of crap is that? That's for the Marvel universe, not DC! Remember Joker's sidekick Harley Quinn? She is very well written, and clever in the animated series. In fact, the episode where she and Poison Ivy tear up the town is one of the highlights of the Batman oeuvre. She's in this and she's played by a very, very hot Mia Sara. I have never seen a psychologist who dressed like her though. Although it's not quite as good as her evil dress in Legend, but I digress. To be honest the show is sort of awful. Acting, dialogue, costumes and set design all came from the WB "How to make a hit show" corporate flowchart rather than a creative team.

None of that matters though. The absolute best part of the show is during the final credits when they mentioned Porcupine Tree's new album In Absentia. (That means it also showed up during the show) I've been a fan of the Tree since 1997 and to see my music tastes vindicated by a major media conglomerate and sold to the 18-49 male demographic...well it just brings a tear to my eye. I felt like I was somebody, like my music tastes matter. Even if being somebody meant I was just customer #45267. Hear me now! #45266 and #45268 (if you're out there) I feel like we're brothers united by mother AOL Time-Warner. You can count on me to consume pop culture and make our nation a better place.

Home alone nursing allergies and thinking through a Benadryl buzz I'm listening to music by Jandek. Jandek has been putting albums out since 1978 and has released 28. They are put out by "Corwood Industries" and consist mainly of two to four minute songs. You acquire them by sending a letter to a PO Box in Houston. In my case, Chrissy gave me one of her duplicates.

A primer of sorts called Mystery Man: Jandek is available online. Here's a clip:

All his albums have a fuzzy photograph on the front cover, of a man or part of a house or some curtains. The back covers have his name, the album title, the track titles and times, and Corwood's address, all typeset in the same nondescript font—except for 1991's One Foot in the North, which uses a sort of Chinese-restaurant font. That's it: that's all anyone knows.

The CD I have, "Glad to Get Away", is filled with his off key but expressive singing and out of tune guitar playing. I find the mystery is more compelling than the music to be honest. It's not bad music, just really weird. Especially when you are aware of the context (or lack thereof) surrounding it. How someone finds the energy to do this for 24 years fascinates me. Despite a reclusiveness that rivals Greta Garbo or JD Salinger folks like Kurt Cobain name-dropped Jandek and Spin magazine named him one of the ten most interesting musicians of the late eighties.

While BtS is "having a life" indie rock star hero Doug Martsch has put together a solo album. Apparently he started listening to an old blues guitarist, Fred McDowell, that musicologist Alan Lomax recorded in 1959. It was some blues music he actually liked. You can listen to all the songs at www.dougmartsch.com.

I really like the single Heart.

When it rains it pours...the good times kept rolling today. At around 4pm today I got a call from Mark wondering if I wanted to go see Rush. I knew they were coming, but with tickets starting at $65 I had planned to sit this one out. These tickets were better than anything I could afford, center stage, row W. I'd never been that close at Smirnoff before. A week ago I had spent a day listening to my Rush mp3s rating them in iTunes. The music had sort of lost the magic, and I found myself giving most things a 2 out of 5.

Seeing them live has rejuvanated my enjoyment of them. They didn't play but one or two keyboard songs. This was a guitar/drum event. I was totally surprised when they played "The Pass" off Presto, and even more surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Highlights were the Professor's drum solo, Natural Science, Spirit of Radio, La Villa Strangiato (complete with a bizarre, and funny sort of spoken word performance by Alex during the song) and Working Man. They even managed to get me to enjoy Resist with a new acoustic version of it.

I wish Ani Difranco spent more time exploring human relationships and less on girl-power politico stuff. The song Both Hands off the Living in Clip CDs is her using her great song writing skills to explore something that will remain timeless and powerful whereas the struggle for gender equity, while probably eternal, will change from decade to decade and date her material.

The live version features the Buffalo Philharmonic opening and closing the song to great emotional effect. She sings the song with this breathless intensity that is sort of her trademark style. (Although in other songs with lines like "My cunt is built like a wound that will not heal" it would be intense no matter who sang it) "Living in Clip" is great, which is I guess why Rolling Stone named it one of the ten must own CDs of the 90s. This song is the highlight for me though.

Every song I've ever treasured for its perceived insights into relationships has always become dated and silly with time. I wonder how long this one will last..

Salon has a good article on electronic music in America. It's about why techno remains underground and Britney and Eminem top the charts.

A pleasing musical diversion came my way in the form of Josh's May mix of the month.

The first track is a rocking song from Add N to (X) called Metal Fingers in My Body. It's an interesting mix of musical styles.

I'd never heard of them before. They are a trio from London. Looking around on their website I learned that they built an interesting musical installation. It consists of a theremin (that spooky sounding instrument that creates sound when you pass your hands through the air around it and disturb the magnetic fields) and a bunch of finches. The birds fly around inside and unknowingly manipulate the theremin to create sounds.

In what is clearly a freak of nature, neo-prog rockers Hawkwind had them as "special guests" for one of their shows. That's like loser Rush clone Pendragon having The Faint for a special guest.

I will post mp3s once I have them.

I'm really really enjoying Quarashi. They are an Icelandic band. They remind me of the Beastie Boys in a lot of ways if you added some more techno elements to their stuff.

Although stuff from The Avalances has been a pleasant musical diversion.

Ordered the no maps for these territories DVD yesterday. It's been over a year since I saw it at SXSW but I still remember parts of it. It's a 90 minute interview with William Gibson edited down from a trip in the back of a car between LA and Vancouver.

Which is funny because I read this nice e-sheep comic called The Guy I Almost Was that talks about Neuromancer and William Gibson's typewriter. It was neat to read about someone else that had a similar cyberculture wet dream in the late 70s and 80s.

Back in big D after fun, fun, fun in the Austin rain and sun. Saw a few movies, met a buncha people. I'll write more later, sorry to blog and run.

A few CDs will be joining my regular rotation the Dismemberment Plan and Juno EP. Juno's cover of DJ Shadow's High Noon owned me. I left it on repeat for awhile. Death Cab for Cutie's Photo Album and anything by Television as soon as I can find a CD of theirs. As far as I'm concerned Josh struck gold when he found one of their CDs in the Waterloo Records used area. I had never heard them before, and boy had I been missing out.

I saw Silver Scooter and Death Cab for Cutie last night with Josh and Leia. After my last music experience with Built to Spill I was a bit leery of going to another show. While I enjoyed myself at that BtS show I felt like it was a musical deathmatch with the bands and I vying to see who would succumb to exhaustion first. I didn't get home till after 2:10am and I reeked of an odor that would have made Grendel blush.

This show was nothing like that and I found myself pleasantly surprised by these new sounds. They reminded me of a mellower "Ancient Melodies of the Future" Built to Spill with their short songs, vocal stylings and guitar/drum rock sound. I found myself flagging as the night marched on towards midnight. Leia and I left before Death Cab finished their set.

The kick ass HMV.com sent me a copy of the new Rheostatics album Night of the Shooting Stars. I am still impressed by how quickly they shipped it after I ordered it. Only a handful of bands have found regular play in my CD player over the past decade and the Rheos are part of that handful.

Has there ever been a better time for music?

How many times have you had to listen to the obnoxious people scream "Free Bird" when you go to see a band? Chances are it's every time you've seen a band. How many times does the band ever play the song? NEVER, unless it's Lynyrd Skynyrd or Built to Spill. Yes, they closed out the night and their tour with a cover of "Free Bird." They've done this before apparently. This was after they played a cover of Cheap Trick's Dream Police and a few other covers in their set. I enjoyed their performance but I would have chosen a different set.

One of the bands that opened for them is a local Dallas band called Polyphonic Spree which consists of no less then 25 members. They were all on stage, more or less. They were all dressed in white robes and many of them rocked out on a stage. One has to wonder if all of them had gotten as into it if the stage would have collapsed. If you listen to the samples off their web page imagine those played with more ferociousness, energy, and speed. About 12 of them are in a choral section and the rest play a variety of intruments (Klaus where are you they had a French Horn?) including my personal favorite, a theremin.

I saw Amanda, and Josh tonight. Those two have heard a lot of music. I'm such a babe in the woods compared to them.

Tonight also wins for the longest night of music I've had in awhile. The first band went on around 9:30 or 10pm and BtS finished at about 2:10am. I feel like I need a t-shirt that says "I survived the music." Damn, I smell like an ashtray.

the package: the pack-age ([th]& 'pa-kij) noun: The creamy, yummy center. The part of a work that goes above and beyond the expectations of the listener/viewer/reader. The package experience manifests itself physically in any number of ways but they all can be described as a moment when, however briefly, the person transcends life as he knows it and glimpses something bigger. <that song really delivers the package.>

I've been building a list of songs that deliver the package. The limitations are that it has to fit on one 74 minute audio CD. Here is what I have so far in track order:

1. the Incredible PWEI vs. The Moral Majority (Pop Will Eat Itself) [Cure for Sanity]
2. Broken Chairs (Built to Spill) [Built to Spill LIVE]
3. 22 Going On 23 (Butthole Surfers) [Locust Abortion Technician]
4. The Box (Parts 1-4) (Orbital) [In Sides]
5. Both Hands (Ani Difranco) [Living In Clip]
6. Krautrock (Faust) [Faust IV]
7. baby's on fire (Brian Eno) [Here Come the Warm Jets]

I've tried to span the decades somewhat and not repeat songs from the same artist. I'm a little worried because some songs like Krautrock might be too technical to really deliver the visceral moment one expects from a package song. Also it's over 10 minutes long. One glaring oversight just hit me. I don't have Randy Edelman's "Fire in a Brooklyn Theatre" from the "Come See the Paradise" soundtrack. Oh man, Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman's Fort Battle or Elk Hunt from "The Last of the Mohicans" should probably be in there. Okay, anyone have any good ideas on what songs deliver the package?

Okay, it's driving me crazy. I've got to write something even though technically the next blog I had planned was about what home is. I have the pictures picked out that I want to plug into it. Thankfully they will be more like icons than photos so no more big pictures taking up lots of space. I just can't seem to write the durn thing.

Friday I saw Yume Bitsu and !!! when they opened up for Modest Mouse at the Ridglea Theater. I must lead a charmed life because Dave and Leia made time in their schedules to trek west with me to Fort Worth for the festivities. Yume Bitsu is definitely of the post-rock ilk which suits me just fine as I've been inundating myself with post-rock staples such as Mogwai and godspeed you black emperor! for the past year. Unfortunately Modest Mouse still has some work to do on their live performances, they sound better in the studio. Not surprisingly they played completely different versions of some of their Moon &amp; Antarctica songs because the studio effects were not reproducible live. (However, Radiohead had studio intensive albums and they still put on a rocking show.) I'm hoping my Built to Spill experience on the 30th captures the brilliance of their live album.

That Leia chick is an enigma. She continues to evade any convenient labels or stereotypes. She has this great economy of words in her speech so nothing is wasted. She's smart. She's funny. She's pretty. I think even Holden Caulfield would have to say "She's no phoney." I bet she's been a heartbreaker over the years. Secret fact I learned about Leia from the blog rumor mill: Russell Crowe is still upset she left him.

Tonight I met Pink and Gianni at the Honchie/Gobos show down at the Boar's Nest. Unfortunately as it was a bar affair with loud music about I didn't get to really learn much about either of them. Honchie seemed to lag a bit in the middle of their set tonight. I think I prefer seeing them at Club Dada. They had a couple of good improv songs tonight, one about college football and one about Entertainment Tonight's "Where are they now?" TV show. Both shows were on the obnoxious TV sets that Boar's Nest had on.

Now I'm all about Modest Mouse on 9/21 at the Ridgelea Theater, and Built to Spill on 9/30 at the Gypsy Tea Room.