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The Cows - One doesn't really need to be ignorant of how models get over on men. One doesn't necessarily have to feel uncomfortable while this subject is being explained. Available on eMusic.

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Crucif***s - The midwest. It is so interesting that the most whiny voice and attitude can just rock out. Available on eMusic.

New Bomb Turks - The midwest. Similar to the above, doesn't actually sound whiny and/or nasal. Sounds loud, as a matter of fact, like 50s music.

Adicts/ADX, Lolita Number 18 - What do you think about being related to people who resemble Hilary Swank and "the girl from the bus"? Human female droogs who like to bake and get baked? Montessori school at 5, catching frogs at 10, applying to Vassar at 17? It seems to me that The Adicts grew up in this kind of environment, in England. Lolita Number 18 sounds similar from postwar Northeast Asia, they cover Wild Thing and the Theme from Sesame Street. Available at Taang, available at Sister Benten.

Blanks 77 - "Killer Blanks" - For some reason, when I listen to this, I stop worrying about something I didn't know I was worrying about - a common enough occurence for a fan of punk rock et cetera. In this case, I become sanguine about issues related to the delivery room. Don't know why. "Chelsea girls are everywhere".

Furious George - Sometimes it seems to me that Lorne Michaels' Weekend Update almost starts spinning its wheels, just a little bit. Check these lyrics and box it out:

Punk rocker
Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker
Punk rocker
Punk rocker
Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker
Punk rocker
Easy bake oven
Get your lovin'
Betty Crocker
Punk rocker
Punk rocker
Betty Crocker

Avail - "Dixie" - from Richmond. Check out these lyrics from Avail cd "4 AM Friday":

Right on Monroe
Right on Monroe
Right on Monroe
Right on Monroe
Right on Monroe

7 Seconds - from Reno, a city which is very close to the North Bay area by West Coast standards. Something to do with working at a casino. While traveling, I think I met Kevin Seconds, who was staying at the same youth hostel I was staying at. There were also some hostile people there, young David Lettermen. If you don't know punk, maybe you are a punk. How would you know the difference?

Adrenalin OD - While listening to this NJ band, I was transported not to the world of Aquitaine Hunger Force, but to the world of Jon Stewart.

J Church - "You just don't understand our Korean society!". Hmmm. I listened to this a lot, and I think I understand. Available from Newbury Comix.

D.O.A. {from Brooklyn) - hardest fastest band ever - except it's done on computer, something to do with John Travolta and The Sopranos.

O.N.T.J., eX-Girl, Bush Tetras - Like a girls' college, viz Vassar, Smith, Ewha. Bush Tetras is from the 70s.

Naked Raygun - "Girls girls girls, we got an all nude revue... This place is called the strip, it's been here foreverrrrr"

Medications - Great.

Varukers - must purchase.

Black Eyed Peas - Great.

Bratmobile - Great.

Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles and Heaven Up Here - The Doors and the Grateful Dead, psychedilia ad nauseam. Why is it boring? Why can't I finish my math homework? I listened to this in the early 80s, then went traveling for a long time and just bought these two as well as the new "Siberia" on eMusic. Wow.

Bloc Party - Sounds a lot like Echo to me - centrist views on being a "Black Briton" - I don't keep track but I hope the media finds a way to put some of this into rotation, in re: the election of Barack Obama. If one is interested, I am from Mass, and governor Deval Patrick looks great on TV. Historians will tell you that American politics follows a pendulum-like pattern. It's true, and I'm hoping Condoleeza will be our president in 2016.

Hang on the Box - Every fallen in love with someone you should have fallen in love with? Does Cibo Matto make you too happy? Princess strength is easy to understand. This band appeared on the cover of Chinese TIME magazine. Available at Benten Online.

MDC - the friends of the woman who sang "Spreading fear of arson" - Michelle Shocked. This is something for fans of King of the Hill, who need to know more about Texas culture, reminds me of Hahd Coah, NYPD Blue.

The Jam - This is the Nodern World, All Mod Cons - people I know who grew up in Leave It To Beaver get bored of this band easily. I sort of didn't grow up with this kind of information, these cds are precious to me. "Start" is featured on a new Toyota commercial, highlights the Beatles sound they love to create sometimes. "I spent some hours thinking of it, to get the things you need to get what you want; I spent a lifetime thinking of it, all to get to you to get what you want". I grew up reading Edwin Abbott's "Flatland" and Marshall McLuhan, Jack Kerouac and the Whole Earth Catalog, filmstrips my dad rented from his high school featuring Chagall, Modigliani, El Greco, Picasso, Mondrian, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, William Blake and Frederico Garcia Lorca; The Jam is the missing nutrient that easily enables me to live in my corporate world. Paul Weller is not a bitchy man, either.

He's put out maybe 20 albums, most of which made the British Top Ten.

Jerry's Kids - I used to think that Dischord was a pretty good label. No more. Taang rules.

Gang Green - on Taang. Someday, after years of hearing about the value of Irish fiction writers, I will play this for my dad. Somehow, some way. It is possible.

Dark Ages - "J.F.C." - my favorite speedmetal song.

Lot's wife; she turned a pillar of salt.. - from a cd produced in the 1970s.When I listen to dub now my favorite parts are the scary parts, on King Tubby and Lee Perry cds.

So nice.