Back from the Shearwater/Court and Spark tour. Overall, the times were good. C&S were hella-friendly, the shows were mostly good. The tour-ender @ SHQ in lil’ D was actually quite awesome; I would have settled for passable, myself but the people turned out and a good time was had. Also a bonus, I was in bed by 11:30, and that was after sorting out the money and saying goodbyes, etc. Some exciting things are on the horizon because of this tour, details of which will be revealed later.

Records bought on this tour:

  • Can Tago Mago
  • The Ex Pokkeherrie and Mudbird Shivers
  • Pere Ubu The Modern Dance
  • Rhys Chatham Die Donnerg?tter
  • Jandek The End Of It All
  • The Dead C Vain, Erudite And Stupid
  • Jackie-O-Motherfucker Flags Of The Sacred Harp
  • The Cracow Klezmer Band Book Of Angels Vol. 05: Balan
  • The Angels of Light New Mother
  • Tragedy Nerve Damage
  • Sam & Dave Very Best Of…

Ripped from others on the tour:

  • Ethiopiques 10: Tezeta (Ethiopian Blues & Ballads)
  • Ethiopiques 21: Ethiopia Song
  • Mike Heron Smiling Men With Bad Reputations

Also stopped at the MIT bookstore and ended up with Prisoner’s Inventions, Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism, Chomsky on Anarchism, The Computers of Star Trek (for my brother), and the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encycolpaedia (for Katey).

And finally, in the spirt of list-making, the Top 25 Most-played songs in my iTunes library:

  1. MX-80 Sound “Someday You’ll Be King”
  2. MX-80 Sound “Follow That Car”
  3. MX-80 Sound “It’s Not My Fault”
  4. Chrome “TV As Eyes”
  5. The Modern Lovers “I’m Straight”
  6. MX-80 Sound “Fender Bender”
  7. MX-80 Sound “I Walk Among Them”
  8. MX-80 Sound “Metro-teens”
  9. Richard & Linda Thompson “The Calvary Cross”
  10. MX-80 Sound “More Than Good”
  11. MX-80 Sound “Frankie I’m Sorry”
  12. Silkworm “Couldn’t You Wait?”
  13. The Dead C “Truth”
  14. Funkadelic “I Bet You”
  15. MX-80 Sound “Gary and Priscilla”
  16. MX-80 Sound “Man In A Box”
  17. Naked Raygun “Home Of The Brave”
  18. Pere Ubu “Heart of Darkness”
  19. Naked Raygun “Dog At Large”
  20. Naked Raygun “Knock Me Down”
  21. Pere Ubu “Final Solution”
  22. Silkworm “Don’t Look Back”
  23. Alexander “Skip” Spence “Little Hands”
  24. The Band “Yazoo Street Scandal (Outtake)”
  25. Hot Snakes “If Credit’s What Matters I’ll Take Credit”