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Feb 26, 2005 00:27

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I know The Arcade Fire so much enmicropedias February 26 2005, 08:52:19 UTC

and of course I love them too. Them and FERDINAND are my current faves. I've gotten one or two pieces of tuneage by METRIC and they're marvelous too. Even wierder is that I was listening to them when I read your sentences. I would've told you to buy them last week or so, but I figured I was the LAGGING WAGON in this case because of my being located in the JUG BLOWIN, FINGER PICKIN commonwealth of VIRGINNY. It's been my goal not to fall too far behind, and it takes all I've got, brother.
When you feel like you should call, then you should call. I mysteriously stayed up late last night, not really doing anything and not sure why I wasn't going to bed, and now your confession explains it all.
Also as an addendum to my entry, I have been able to build a best albums of 2005 list as I have promised myself.
Here's an excerpt in no particular order:

1.Arcade Fire: Funeral
2.Franz Ferdinand: "
3.Magnetic Fields: i
4.Blur: Think Tank
5.Modest Mouse: Baron
6.Interpol: Antics
7.Muse: Absolution
8.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Sdtrk
9.Wilco: A Ghost is Born
10.Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse

So that's that, with ammendments still possible, but perhaps mildly unlikely.
K was down here last weekend, chock full of wacky stories. It was good, but somehow I wound up cooking all day on Sunday, which I didn't really plan on, and the play we saw on Sat night I thought was a little lame but the others seemed to like it. Plays are tricky business, very volatile, sensitive affairs. We wine tasted on Sat. and that was the most fun of our experiences. I went running with her and Kevin 2 mornings and that made me realize what sorry shape I am in. Maybe the oddest thing about it all was exactly the point you hinted at, the strange X-formation of exes. Dora was brought up more in those three days than she has been in the last three years combined. Which was fine, but perhaps slightly odd for Michelle. And stories involving you and just the shared past were retold. It did seem like it would be appropriate if you and Dora were having a mirror encounter in Seattle or Santa Barbara. But to me rather, it seems like it only makes it more essential that you come out and visit us in virginia. Perhaps this is a selfishly-motivated request, but aren't they all? in either case, we'll see you soon enough. Hard-deadline is that our lease is up at the end of August and that I've stopped taking wedding orders for after June. More to say but it can wait for the cozier confines of the telly.
I'm oddly sweaty this morning, I must bathe the old corpse.

By the way, did the postal service manage to navigate the BIRD CHRONICLES to your door despite my best efforts to confuse them?

Re: I know The Arcade Fire so much enmicropedias February 26 2005, 09:49:15 UTC

Actually, I have to retract the Wilco one; I just listened to the whole album for the first time through, and at best it sounds like the later Beatles stuff, and at worst it sounds like soft adult contemporary. Something about it is a little boring, but some individual songs are good. One song I like unfortunately has something very reminiscent to the Sesame Street "pinball counting clip" for an intro. If I were perhaps born ten to fifteen years earlier this album would probably be on my list.

Re: I know The Arcade Fire so much enmicropedias February 26 2005, 09:56:53 UTC

Yikes, I forgot M83 Dead Cities, Red Sea. and if the rest of the METRIC songs are as good as IOU, then that would make it too. Get out of here Wilco. The next ones on the marginal area are MUSE and SONIC NURSE. The first six are a lock though. Also if I get to hear more of the new BLONDE REDHEAD album that could make it. AND if I like more than a few of the songs on DJ KRUSH's JAKU then that could make it. Competition is heating up.

Re: I know The Arcade Fire so much buster February 26 2005, 11:50:46 UTC

Yeah, I got the book sent to Prince Bezuhov (strangely they delivered that one but wouldn't have delivered one to my actual name because my actual name wasn't on the front door thing), and I've started it and really like it so far! Thanks for sending it! The main character has a funny way of wording things that I like. I'm late on the Arcade Fire bandwagon because I kept on thinking they were called Atari Fire and could never find any information on them or find their CD in the A section.

It definitely would've been good narrative balance if Dora and I were palling it up on the West Coast last weekend. Oh well, that chapter will need to be rewritten in the history books. Maybe I will try to find a cheap ticket to Virginny... I'm already going to Austin 3/10-3/13 and San Diego from 3/14-3/17 and Brazil from 4/16-4/26, but I think I may be able to fit something in between 3/17 and 4/16. Tickets can't be too bad right cause who goes to Virginia?

The only album on your list that I don't think I've heard is the Magnetic Fields... worth buying?

Re: I know The Arcade Fire so much enmicropedias February 26 2005, 14:54:29 UTC

YES. Without hesitation, GO BUY IT NOW. It is super excellent. Definitely, very securely, one of the best albums of 2005, or any year.
I'm glad you are liking BIRD; it gets better and better, stranger and stranger- but my only complaint is maybe about the very ending.
OK, now go buy Magnetic Fields.

Re: I know The Arcade Fire so much enmicropedias February 26 2005, 18:50:36 UTC

I guess I should listen to a whole album BEFORE I call it one of the best albums of the year. I think M83 just lost its bid for the slot, although Run to Flowers is nice. Next up to listen to from start to finish is Sonic Nurse.

Re: I know The Arcade Fire so much enmicropedias February 26 2005, 18:51:12 UTC

what's your list nebson?

Re: I know The Arcade Fire so much buster February 27 2005, 14:40:31 UTC

Okay, I bought Magnetic Fields... sounds interesting on first listen. I'll give it a couple more spins before offering a final opinion.

I haven't really made a list of favorite albums... but let me look at my iTunes to see which albums from 2005 I played the most:

* Scissor Sisters, self-titled
* Neulander, Smoke + Fire
* The Futureheads, self-titled
* Air, Talkie Walkie
* Arcade Fire, Funeral
* Nice Cave and the Bad Seeds, Abattoir Blues
* Franz Ferdinand, self-titled
* Modest Mouse, Good News For People Who Like Bad News
* Interpol, Antics

And albums from 2003 that I may have been late in finding but listened to a lot last year:

* Metric, Old World Underground
* The Wrens, Meadowland
* The Postal Service, Give Up

Re: I know The Arcade Fire so much enmicropedias February 27 2005, 18:14:38 UTC

DUDE, OMFG, I forgot AIR?!! okay, that easily boots sonic youth off. I just learned about the Nick Cave album the other day, so I need to hear that. I'm so out of it in the backcountry here that I haven't even heard ANYTHING about the SCISSOR SISTERS, NEULANDER, and VERY LITTLE about The Futureheads. Postal Service I listened to a lot. The Wrens I don't know. Well, I guess my weak spots will be taken care of now. I'm going to go find them all.

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