good grief. who creates an e-mail account and forgets their e-mail? ... my mother, that's who. And buying antivirus protection online kinda requires an e-mail address...


in other news, have any of you heard of the hylozoists? they're like stereolab sans vocalists and plus a steel guitar. pretty good stuff. They played on, uh, thursday, and had three xylophones on stage being played all at once. never seen that before.

Alright see you there.

If anyone else is into CD shopping today , we're starting at Blackbyrd at around 1:30.

Check this out:

Leaked images from upcoming Nintendo Revolution game "Red Steel", by UbiSoft. Isn't ubisoft the guys who made rayman? This doesn't look much like Rayman to me... which I'm quite happy about to be honest. Man, I'm getting more and more excited about the new nintendo system!

"A difference of agreement"

An eclipse, as viewed from above:

Who's down for a Whyte Ave CD cruise tomorrow? I know I've got a lot of music shopping to do...

this is much better image anyways:

from:
http://goodweatherforairstrike.blogspot.com/2006/04/new-sufjan-stevens-album.html
where you can check out the track Avalanche, and an acoustic version of the best song of last year

Very cool:

During daylight hours (Pacific) check out this site.

A guy on Hornby Island hung a web cam above an eagle's nest and is broadcasting live during the day. You have to check this out. The clarity is great. The camera will be hung there for the next 20 days or until the eggs hatch. Hopefully you are on highspeed!

mms://lastream001.galaxytelevision.net/hh001

from pitchfork


Last night, Asthmatic Kitty announced that on July 25, it will release The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album. The disc collects material originally written for Pitchfork's favorite album of last year, revisited by Sufjan in late 2005 and early 2006. It includes three versions of standout track "Chicago", songs concerning Saul Bellow, Ann Landers, Adlai Stevenson, and Henry Darger, and musical contributions from drummer James McAlister, trumpeter Craig Montoro, singers Shara Worden and Katrina Kerns, and, of course, Rosie Thomas.

In typical Sufjan fashion, the tracklist is an adventure unto itself:

01 The Avalanche
02 Dear Mr Supercomputer
03 Adlai Stevenson
04 The Vivian Girls Are Visited in the Night by Saint Dargarius and His Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies
05 Chicago (Acoustic Version)
06 The Henney Buggy Band
07 Saul Bellow
08 Carlyle Lake
09 Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair
10 The Mistress Witch From McClure (Or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
11 Kaskaskia River
12 Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version)
13 Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne
14 No Man's Land
15 The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
16 The Pick-up
17 The Perpetual Self, or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?"
18 For Clyde Tombaugh
19 Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder version)
20 Pittsfield
21 The Undivided Self (For Eppie and Popo)

In related news, Asthmatic Kitty (which Sufjan co-runs), recently signed the Canadian band Shapes and Sizes. Their self-titled debut album arrives in stores July 25, the same day as The Avalanche. Shapes and Sizes also have a split 7" with the Weird Weeds due out August 8 on Asthmatic Kitty.