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I haven't done anything lately. Except occasionaly post dumb stuff here: www.filboydstudge.com

but I got a few CD's recently that I should have gotten ages ago...

Foo Fighters: The Colour & the Shape... Seems a lot of people really really like this album. Obviously, it's got some great great songs (e.g. Everlong - thanks, Stephanie), but I wasn't completely enthralled with it at first or second listen. Still glad to own and to have heard it, but my expectations were too high. I was looking for something that would go into immediate semi-permanent rotation.

Concrete Blonde: Live in Brazil... Yeah, they've had some misses, but also some really really great freakin' albums. This was recorded in '03, and I had a chance to see them this tour, but I didn't feel like driving to Chapel Hill. I hate Chapel Hill. Go Illinois. Regardless, I should have gone. Johnette sounds AMAZING, and the whole band is on. Joey is probably the worst of the two-disc set. Love her voice. Love their sound. I also liked their last album, Mojave. Pretty classic Blonde. (But "Group Therapy" didn't quite do it for me)

Roxy Music: Viva! Roxy Music... Just never paid attention before. But, speaking of Concrete Blonde... was listening to Roses Grow from Still in Hollywood, and Johnette mentions Paul Thompson... the drummer... "formerly of Roxy Music, now he's the Blonde, yes?" So. Got the Roxy live disc... it's kind of... artsy as opposed to "rock" perhaps. But I likes. A lot.

Trent Reznor is still the Man. Especially the last response from 03/22. I'm excited.

Buzzcocks: Singles Going Steady... again... Stephanie... thank you. Pearl Jam... thank you. Suppose I should get an actual album, but I found a used US version of this for cheap. I likes very much. And I wish the Buzzcocks had opened for PJ the entire tour instead of Sleater-Kinney... (who, btw, were fine, but not good enough to make me want to buy an album, and I thought they totally wrecked the encores of both shows I went to.)

KMFDM: Nihil... should have bought this long, long ago. Got all the singles from the album but never the album. Dumb. Definitely one of their best. If not the best. So I got it on vinyl too. Kind of lucky, I guess, since both are out of print. And yes, it's trendy, but Juke Joint Jezebel still rocks. And KMFDM puts on a really really awesome show.

Minor Threat: Out of Step... and, once again, just dumb that I didn't have this before. Was listening to 13 Songs before I went to the record store, and they had this new on vinyl. Really really really good. This, I think, would be the apex of anything I could hope to accomplish with music.

And I think that's all of the stuff I've come into recently.

I'm going to see Muse in one week.
and the Shins 2 1/2 weeks after that.
with a girl that actually likes me.
Very cool.