55: It rains, it pours...

Hey Ya. It's been raining outside for about 3 days now, maybe that Noah story wasn't so far-fetched after all... Hell, maybe I should build an Arc! Whilst I do it I can listen to Arc buy Neil Young. What a noise that was.

Anyway... I went to see a great band from Baltimore play at Tiger Lounge the other night. They are called Thank You and are on Thrill Jockey along with Tortoise, Pit Er Pat and loads of other bands. I'm sure you can imagine what they're like just from me telling you that. Check them out here...
www.myspace.com/wethankyou

Also... Mew (the danish band, not the pokemen) are playing tonight in Manchester and I really wanna go so I guess I will! Also, Yo La Tengo tomorrow. Yo La Tengo is a sell-out but I think I've scored a ticket on ebay. My sister has guest list, I dont.... I'm not bitter.

I've been having a drink tonight whilst listening to Bob Marley. This wasn't to celebrate anyone trying to blow up important British buildings, just to celebrate it having been a year since I saw someone who was no good.

It's almost been a year since those Low christmas shows, they were great things and I enjoyed acting like a child again and getting caught up in the season to be jolly. Maybe I will have to do a christmas show this year to make up for the fact there isn't a Low gig. Paul McCartney is doing a christmas show, he is a total prat these days though...

I am bored as you can tell. I should be in bed at this time but Curb Your Enthusiasm is on at half 2 and I missed it earlier. GO TO BED!

54: Love Gun! What an album cover.

My computer doesn't work anymore so I can't get online so much, which is annoying because I still have to wait a while til I start my new old job. Christmas at HMV was good last year so I will enjoy it I'm sure. I might even save some money to go on holiday soon.

I went to see Efterklang in Manchester on Saturday night (Halloween) and they were pretty boring. Sure, I like them, but that doesn't make them good live. Stick to the records I say, save your tenner for something better (Spectrum at Corsica Studios or Bob Mould/RGC at the Bloomsbury Ballroom maybe?).

At the moment I am reading Shakey, the Neil Young biography. I have literally had the book hanging around since first year of college without ever reading it so I thought it was a good time to do that. It's starting off a bit heavy. I don't know if I'm bothered about what his Grandparents were like, it is interesting though. The sooner I get to the electronic madness in the 80s the better. COMPUTER AGE!!

I've been reading the new issue of Mojo magazine too. Roger Waters is a great man and he is the cover star this month. He's planning to do a tour of The Wall! I won't start going on about that album again though. Bit of stuff about Spiritualized/Spacemen 3 too. And Kiss. I think I like Gene Simmons, he is shameless. Imagine Gene Simmons, J Spaceman and Roger Waters together in a band? They would be rubbish, regardless of previous triumphs.

This is a really long post today isn't it? Not over yet, not at all. I've been looking at this great little venue in London called the Battersea Barge. It's a Barge on the Thames and it floats around while you have a party or something. It's mainly for business meetings I think but hopefully one day I can get Pink Floyd to reunite and play there with the pig floating over the power station like it's 1977 and play Animals all the way through. Capacity is only about 60 though, forget about it.

Someone on the tv is swimming fully clothed, I imagine that would be hard. Jeans would get really heavy and slow you down a lot. Depends if you want to swim fast... Don't wear your clothes in a swimming race... you'll lose. It's the taking part that counts, of course, but you would just look stupid... Now they have nothing on... I think I should change the channel...

53: I can U can We can They can Can can Neu can

I don't know what that's all about. Anyway... I got a job at HMV so I will get to walk around trying to sell Yo La Tengo CDs to people who came to buy Kings Of Leon. I'm nice like that. I'd try and sell them records but they don't sell them anymore, THE SHAME! I don't start for 2 weeks so I have a lot of time to spend in my room being bored and telling you all about it.

Went to see Isis last night, they were ok but their new albums just arn't any good so it was annoying that they didn't play hardly anything old. Not even Celestial (The Tower).

More prog.

52: Wet socks

Never go to a house party and give away all your beer, no one will return the favour and you be wandering round for hours trying to find more. My fault obviously.

Also, don't go to house parties that plays loads of dodgy dub step and drum n bass or whatever.

New motto. More prog.

51: I'm Sick To Death Of This Chair

I'm sick of sitting in this chair all day, so I have a job interview in 2 hours. Hopefully I will get the job and will be able to get 30% off CDs and stuff. It's only temp til January though. There is a job developing photos too, but I don't think I'll even get an interview for that.

50: Gimme yer' money

Just a warning here, grumpy JT is at large in this post.

The fantastic PAVEMENT curated ATP Festival has now sold out, obviously, because a lot of people were glad to see Pavement back together and appreciate their taste in music enough to shell out hundreds of pounds to go. Well, now that sold out, I guess it is completely fair to add a Pavement gig in London for the week before the festival. So, if you bought tickets just to see Pavement at the festival, you may as well of just waited til the London show was announced. a good £100+ cheaper, too.

Yeah, that was always going to sell out too. Guess what? ANOTHER Pavement gig in London. And another. 3 shows in 3 days, then the big finale of ATP (and then maybe a few more shows later in the year, who knows? ATP probably do). So, if you love Pavement so much, you have plenty of chances to see their reunion here in the UK, just make sure you have enough money in the bank.

I like Pavement, although I definitely don't love them like a lot of people do. I'd rather see The Jesus And Mary Chain do their reunion again, I missed that one. Oh, and anyone planning on going to Primavera in May... Pavement yo play the Estrella Damm stage, yathink? Most probably. That will be nice though.

Just working on my Top 50 albums of the last 10 years. Hopefully that will not take too much longer.

49: Piece Of Crap

Just thought I'd get all my best photos together and get them developed to put in a bit of an album rather than just have then on my computer. The guy who did them is obviously an idiot because he has made almost all of them look terrible. £11 wasted I think. He's re-doing some of them as I type but they won't be any better. Apparently he is printing them in "canon settings" whatever the hell that means. I took the pictures on a Canon camera anyway. He is a fool and you'd do well to avoid him in future. His store is in Milnrow so you'll probably never pass by anyway. You probably don't know where the hell that is either. Near Manchester, I'll say.

Oh yeah, and they all have that tacky white border round them cutting off some of the photo. Black and White is Black and Green now.