We went to a New Jersey record fair today. We bought vinyl because it sounds so great at our cabin; that's where we're slowly moving all vinyl to. (It's cool because it's like discovering those albums all over again, something I'm always hoping to find ways to do. I so wish I could somehow do this with my cassettes, but I think they are on their way to the grave. Oh, and we almost bought an 8-track at a garage sale today too, but that's another story.) We got: "Getz/Gilberto," "The Complete Art Tatum Piano Discoveries," "Curtis Mayfield: His Early Years with the Impressions," Ray Charles' "Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music," and Joni's "Mingus" which I'd just never gotten around to. But we can't play 'em right now because we aren't up there where the turntable is. One of the greatest things my mom ever said to me was when we were in England in the 80s, and I had bought this Marshall Crenshaw 45 ("Cynical Girl" b/w "You're My Favorite Waste of Time") but of course I couldn't play it 'till I got home, and she said "I know if you could play that with your teeth, you would."

Currently blaring Ryan Adams' "Cold Roses." Yikes! It's kind of insane, but amazing. Like "Blonde on Blonde" + Big Star's "Radio City." Anyways, I had a lovely morning drive with it playing today, as I went to the ShopRite, and filled up at the Busy Bee. It's 79 degrees both inside and outside and very sunny. The other CD splurge of this week was LCD Soundsystem, which we would have never known about if it wasn't for this TV show, which you should make every effort to watch.

I've been blogged about! Morgan posted this...

...and Eric posted this.

Thank you, guys!

This could so easily turn into a Kelly Clarkson fan-blog: Kelly did a great job, although ill, with the Ray LaMontagne song "Shelter" on Saturday's big MTV, etc. Katrina telethon. I remember first hearing Ray on my friend's car stereo in a hotel parking lot in Danvers, MA. (Although I must say, there certainly are a lot of songs by that name. A great Lone Justice song comes to mind.) You can check it out here -- go to "React Now" and then also download some of the other performances. I highly recommend Green Day's and Beck's.

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The above title comes from an as-yet unfinished song. Here's the bridge. There are verses, but they're pretty bad.

And when I'm walking around
The pressure points me to the ground
Oh little afterwork breeze
pick me up and set me down
To a place where no one knows me
Or cares what I do
I wanna be reborn on you


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Go Kelly! Go Kelly!