Yeah, either On The Beach or Tonight's the Night I think is my favourite Neil Young album. Everybody Nows This Is Nowhere is great too, infact I think the only Neil Young Albums I'm not too fond of are Time Fades Away and some of the 80s stuff (Landing on Water, Trans etc)

Just to add to the "Ray has latent tendencies" meme: Notice Ray had no problem writing an entire gay romance novel for Pat, but had to farm out the hetero gig.

I would imagine this is more for Beef's sake, not wanting him to think he'd been considering his lady in inappropriate ways (cf "Nice, not  my type").

The best shows I've seen in the last few years were Akron/Family and Shellac. I Love A/F's records but they are about 10 times better live, and Shellac played my a set that I might as well have hand-picked as it contained all of my favourite songs of theirs (including earlier stuff I really wasn't expecting to hear, such as Wingwalker and Billiard Player Song). Before that, Sonic Youth on the Murray Street tour was pretty awesome (the only time I've managed to get to see them), Neil Young's solo Greendale tour was great though truth be told I'd have rather seen him with Crazy hoss. I've seen the Flaming Lips about 8 times, and they've been great every time, but somehow I think it would be better if I'd only seen them once so that the show seemed more spontaneous, rather then knowing pretty much exactly what was going to happen each time.

So. Apparently for the Pitchfork Music Festival's opening, Sonic Youth are going to play all of Daydream Nation.

That sounds incredible! DN is one of my all-time favourite albums! Also, Yo La Tengo are great live, definitely worth $20 in my book.

What would be really amazing is if Ray were deeply hurt by this, and flew to Africa or something to prove to Leon that he is, in fact, a Rad Dude. Or if Ray converted to Christianity or something. That would be rude.

True, true. It would be like "Shaft in Africa" but, y'know, with a talking cat instead of Richard Roundtree, and a totally different plot... but other than that, identical!

Man, I love Wilco so much! I think I'm going to hold off on hearing anything from the new album until I can hold it physically in my hands and pore over the sleevenotes & lyrics while I'm listening to it though. I've seen leaked versions on various blogs but I can't bring myself to sneak a listen just yet.

This would also be how you would tell someone to turn onto 9th Street if you were in "Short Circuit 2".

You have just made my day!