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Went out to dinner last night and stuffed face: Sweet corn soup, crappy mixed greens, and wild mushroom ravioli. It hurt, but damn, was it good.

1) New Order – Age of Consent
2) Cyne – 400 Years
3) Wesley Willis – Rock n’ Roll McDonald’s
4) Steve Harvey and Cockney Rebel – Judy Teen
5) The Boomtown Rats – Lookin’ After Number 1
6) Wooden Wand – Bones for Doctor Swah
7) Howard Tate – Night Owl
Gogol Bordello – Future Kings
9) Penetration – Don’t Dictate
10) Blue Scholars – Evening Chai

Happy birthday, baby. I love you.

1) Jens Lekman – Draw a Dinosaur For Me
2) Jason Brouwer – Run Me Out of Town
3) Br. Danielson – Your Daughters Will Tune You
4) Gogol Bordello – Start Wearing Purple
5) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Crow Jane
6) Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds
7) Elliott Smith – Happiness
David Byrne – I Wanna Dance With Somebody
9) Sufjan Stevens – Size Too Small
10) The Screamin’ Mee-Mees – Hot Sody

Bonus Guilty Pleasure: 2Pac and Jodeci – How Do You Want It?

Think I got a job. Will find out Monday. As for the tunes:

1) Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up, Look Sharp
2) PJ Harvey – Meet Ze Monsta
3) Neko Case – Star Witness
4) Velvet Underground – Stephanie Says
5) Public Image Ltd. – Rise
6) Gnarls Barkley – Smiley Faces (I’m embarassed that I own this. And like it.)
7) Greyskul – Do They Exist?
Chad Vangaalen – Red Blood
9) Peaches – Felix Partz
10) Richard Hell and the Voidoids – Love Comes in Spurts (Appropriate for this week’s theme at PAB, no?)

Guilty Pleasure:

Only because I have to share in the horror.

1) Dan Zimmerman – Influx
2) Sufjan Stevens – All the Trees of the Fields Will Clap Their Hands
3) John Langford – Hard Times
4) Reigning Sound – Get It!
5) Willie Nelson – He Was a Friend of Mine
6) Blue Scholars – Burnt Offering
7) Christine Laume – Rouge Rouge
Nick Cave – Grief Came Riding
9) Psapp – Hi
10) The Roots – Step Into the Realm

The title comes from having heard news that my old nemesis is in town this week. He doesn’t know that’s he’s my nemesis, but I have decided it is so after he came back from six months in London with the worst British accent you can imagine.

What the hell is up with people who move south, or east, or overseas, and return to the Midwest with their awful, pretentious, and horrible (did I mention horrible?) fake accents?

Very, very glad that the week is almost over.

1) Dead Boys – The Nights Are So Long
2) Devo – Mongoloid
3) Shooby Taylor – Lift Ev’ry Voice (dedicated to Norbizness)
4) Awol One – Matters
5) Eddie Floyd – Knock on Wood
6) Poison 13 – Blank Generation (not a bad cover)
7) Public Enemy – 911 Is a Joke
Reigning Sound – Love is a Fine Thing
9) Billy Bragg – A New England
10) Thirstin Howl III – Still Live With My Moms

Bonus Guilty Pleasure: Bryan Ferry – Let’s Stick Together

Title taken from a kid at work today, when asked what he loves most in the world.

1) Nekromantix – Love at First Bite (great — gotta start off embarassing)
2) Onry Ozzborn – Perfect People
3) Gas Huffer – Jungles of Guam
4) David Pajo – War Is Dead (in which Pajo channels the ghost of Elliott Smith)
5) Iomos Marad – Each 1 Teach 1
6) Jens Lekman – Tram No. 7 to Heaven
7) Of Montreal – Death of a Shade of Hue
Bonnie Prince Billy – Love is Love (Lungfish cover)
9) Gun Club – Sex Beat
10) The Dwarves – Throw that World Away

Bonus Guilty Pleasure

Bonus history lesson after the fold…

(more…)

1) Old Time Relijun – Two Crows
2) The Vibrators – You Broke My Heart
3) Au Pairs – It’s Obvious
4) Madvillian – Accordian
5) Clutch – Tight Like That
6) Belle and Sebastian – Is Wicked Not to Care?
7) The Ruts – Babylon Burning
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Christine
9) Buck 65 – Red to Black
10) Sam & Dave – Soul Man

Bonus Guilty Pleasure: PJ Pooterhoots – I Can’t Go For That (Hall and Oates cover)

With a jiggedy jig.

1) Ohmega Watts – Move!
2) Nina Simone – Blackbird
3) Nouvelle Vague – In a Manner of Speaking
4) Haiku D’Etat ft. Blackalicious – Top Qualified
5) Pere Ubu – Life Stinks
6) Lou Reed – Perfect Day
7) Cat Power – Could We
Man Man – Zebra
9) The Dead Boys – Sonic Reducer
10) The Modern Lovers – Girlfriend

Bonus Guilty Pleasure: Sisters of Mercy – Marian
Bonus Extra Guilty Pleasure: Too $hort – Pimp Shit

Ten days of rain and counting leads me to oversleep and come in to work, oh, thirty minutes to one hour late. Every fucking day.

1) T. Rex – Rip Off
2) The Meteors – Load Up
3) Minutemen – Song for Michael Jackson to Sing
4) Haiku D’Etat – Built to Last
5) AC/DC – Rock n’ Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution
6) Danielson Familie – Deeper Than the Government
7) Sach – Rhyme Slayer’s Blues
Wesley Willis – The Chicken Cow
9) Dead Boys – I Don’t Wanna Be No Catholic
10) Le Tigre – Punker Plus

Bonus Guilty Pleasure: Duran Duran – Notorious

Blogging will slow down even more for me over the next week as I head south for a week-long conference. Scratch that. It might pick up since I’m going alone and may very well die of boredom. I would vow to drink my way through the entire thing, but considering it’s a conference to get accredited as an addictions counselor and they don’t even allow smoke breaks, I am out of luck. Perhaps I will look for a non-clinician drinking buddy.

I have never lived in a college dorm before, and have been in one maybe four times, once to pull a major prank that was very much worth it, and nevertheless I will find myself living in the glory of communal showers and bunk beds from Sunday through Friday. Kill me.