For People Who Like Bad News is the album Modest Mouse will be releasing in April. For those of you who aren’t Modest Mouse fans, but are Wilco fans there is even more “good” news from the happy cohesive rock troupe: Leroy Bach is leaving the band. That’s right Wilco is completing a new album and band members are leaving. To those of you following the band this should be no surprise since Jeff Tweedy has famously not got along with Jay Farrar, Ken Coomer, and Jay Bennett. Ah! Rock’n'roll drama! It’s the best kind.
In other news
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Tirade of recommendations
Here’s the short run-down of what’s on the top of my recommendation lists lately: TV series DVD boxsets, primarily those produced by Joss Whedon. I was a late comer to the Buffy-verse, but Whedon’s Buffy, Angel, and Firefly DVD’s caught me up in a hurry. Literally days of time can be devoured catching up but I recommend starting with Season 1 of Buffy (12 episodes, 45 minutes each) if you are wanting to try it out.
What else? I’ve been picking up a ton of Flaming Lips EPs and singles but that’s because, as one friend said, I’m a fan-boy. Also, I recommend huge MP3 players and KVM switches. They are mainstays of my life now. Also, I recommend Spring. I’m tired of Winter (it usually doesn’t take long for me) and I want Spring to be here already. Stupid Groundhog.
And Also…
To that end, I recently found this bad boy while searching the World Wide Inter-Web for affordable, yet tastful, velvet Elvis paintings. It simply screamed to be mentioned here, in our little blog of blogging, since it combines three of the greatest things in the world: monkeys, poker, and velvet paintings. And so I have. Mentioned it, I mean. So, there you go. Enjoy.
