Miscellany

I don't think i ever realized exactly just how freaking long Disintegration is. I took it on one of my four-mile walks today, pressed play in the elevator of my aprents building, and didn't hit the end of "Untitled" (one of the best album closers ever - ack i sound like a character in High Fidelity) until i was crossing 79th street on the way home, around 80 minutes later. And it's a great album, to boot.



I'm on my second spin of the day of DJ Shadow's Endtroducing, which i wasn't hip enough to be listening to back in '94, but which is really amazing and i feel like i could just leave it in my CD player for a couple years and never get tired of it.



Someone found this site by googling "Shamus McNasty", which is funny a) because Shamus McNasty haven't been a band for like four years despite the relative activity of all four members and i don't know why someone would google them - though i certainly think they were a great band, and b)because i rarely get search hits to this site, and i only mentioned Shamus McNasty like yesterday and already i get a search hit and it's for a band who haven't played a gig together in four years. But i can't really think of a band whose first gig i would rather have been a fake roadie for. Well, except for, like, the Replacements. Or the Pixies. Or the Clash. Ok, shut up.



I have a carcinogenic and ulcer-causing bacteria in my stomach for which i have to start taking antibiotic cocktails tomorrow. This continues for a week, and then in three months i go back to the GI doctor and take a "breath test" (sounds like being busted for DUI or something) to see if the damn things are dead or not. And on top of that, my fingernail is infected and very pustual. I'm sure you all wanted to know that. Oops, too late.