1- Only 15 bucks.
2- Ira's guitar squeals and moans and clangs like few musicians I've seen live. The albums do a decent job recording this, but nothing can quite capture being in the presence of a average-sized, dark-haired, mild-mannered man leaning into his axe like he was trying to force down a volcano.
3- They played "Last Days of Disco" and "From A Motel 6." (No "Little Eyes," but whatcha going to do?)
4- Georgia's voice.
5- The four notes played over and over again on James' bass during the ten-odd minutes of "Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind."
6- It looks like this.
7- At the end of an almost perfect set, they (mostly Ira, I think) screwed up "My Little Corner of the World," which somehow made the set more perfect.
Predictions for the year 2000, from the year 1900. I know I posted a similar link two days ago, but I just love this sort of thing. What's amazing is the optimism; it almost makes me want to cry.

Interesting read by alec soth regarding titles. My favorite title for a group of photographs might be "The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater."



Kurt Vonnegut has died at the age of 84. He wrote 'Mother Night,' one of the few novels I've read more than once. In high school, I used a line from that book for my senior quote:
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
perhaps the hippest seniors ever do sonic youth's "Schizophrenia" (via alison):
E and I are heading to Arizona for a week. We're leaving tonight, so not many updates til next monday. See you then.

"Zoo" is a new documentary that tackles man-horse bestiality. From the New York Times:
“It was fascinating that there was a community of close friends, that there were basic human interactions happening alongside things that seemed completely alien,” [writer Charles] Mudede said. “Zoo” minimizes its freak show aspect by emphasizing the coexistence of the mundane and the bizarre[.] ... What emerges here is a sad, even tender portrait of a group of men who met from time to time at a farm, where they would drink slushy cocktails, watch some television and repair to the barn to have sex with horses.