Yes, so he's ultimately not the nicest guy (don't want to be TOO spoiler-ish), but I'd still want to be, uh, mentored by him.

The new Matmos album SUPREME BALLOON. You electronics geeks on the list will love this one.

I've used one download. I'm not sure whether that leaves one or two. After I click download, it says I have 3 remaining, but I'm not sure if it said that when I STARTED.

http://www.matadorrecords.com/mp3promotion.php

UPC is 744861079910

code is supreme9T31T95N


Vinyl has 4 extra tracks, including a piece with Terry Riley involved.

Spaghetti and meatballs.

Fried chicken.

A nice spinach salad with thousand islands dressing.

The new album by Windsor For The Derby, HOW WE LOST.

Three downloads remain.

Go to www.scjag.com/download

the code is (case-sensitive)

SC141.1hmmfezeDgH

This can only be done within 24 hours - was activated about two minutes ago.

(editor's note: I'm sure Dr. Freud would have a field day over the fact that I keep accidentally calling this record WHAT WE LOST)

Broccoli. A lot of people don't want to eat IT either. ;)

Chinese soldiers getting dressed up as Monks (not the 60s band or the 70s/80s band) in Tibet, to stir up trouble.

Some album covers that are evidently supposed to be bad, but which I like (a lot):

Amoeba. I'm not sure why. ;)

(1) One of the highlights of the Saturday morning colour comics was the Brawny Paper Towel ad (and you are, thus, pissed off that they're replaced the big burly bearded guy with the clean-shaven skinny guy)

(2) Your childhood icons included Chewbacca, Bigfoot, Grizzly Adams, Yogi, Smokey and Patrick Duffy as the Man From Atlantis (you would think a race that evolved underwater wouldn't have hairy chests, but no...)

(3) Some of your favourite LP covers were Orleans' debut (those topless furry boys) and Patti Smith's EASTER (oh, that armpit hair)

(4) Your reaction to those commercials that ran 'Girls, do you hate shaving your legs?' was 'Then, I don't know...DON'T SHAVE YOUR LEGS!'

(5) (I wish I could lay claim to this) At fourteen, when you took off your fuzzy sweater, no-one noticed you had taken off your fuzzy sweater

(6) Your coming out song was Bears by Lyle Lovett (okay, Steve Fromholz wrote it) rather than, oh, We Are Family by Sister Sludge or I'm Coming Out by Die-Anna Rust.

I'm sure others can add more, and feel free to do so...

"In that house, in that house, there is no time for compassion. There is only time for...CONFESSION." Diamanda Galas

Two. One.

The State. It is, after all, International Workers' Day. :)

Just for giggles...songs that, to my ear, should have been HUGE...and, for once, I'm trying to be relatively close to pop (since, though I would love to hear the Shaggs' "I'm So Happy That You're Near" all over the radio, I'm certainly aware why others WOULDN'T...)

This list is not necessarily in order - just ten songs.

Something I've Got To Tell You by Glenda Collins - a Joe Meek production. Gorgeous strings, aching vocals, a nice springy beat, a tune that will copy itself on all your brain cells. While many of Joe's boy singers were, um, cast for other reasons, his women singers were usually either brilliant or dazzlingly weird. Miss Collins manages to both rock and heartrend, despite having a somewhat throaty and theatrical voice.

Lust For Life by Iggy Pop - astonishingly, even though it is, of course, widely known, it never actually became a hit. The lyrics, I should think...

Radio Free Europe by REM - the first song I heard by them. Hooks from heck...

Right Here by Go-Betweens - who did Robert or Lindy or Grant have to blow to get on the radio (I suppose Amanda and John too)? Again, tuneful, catchy and even ABOUT love, or at least attraction.

Girlfriend by Modern Lovers - that piano/guitar duet in the middle certainly sticks to MY brain, and it's easily one of the most tuneful songs on the record (Roadrunner may have bigger hooks, but it kind of WAS a hit in Europe, admittedly not in the version on THE MODERN LOVERS...).

Standing In The Way of Control by the Gossip - this may have been a hit in Europe, but not over here. Prophetesses without honour...besides, Miss Ditto is a dyke AND in love with a transman...major Maury/cool points...

I'm Leaving You by the Luv'd Ones - girl group, mid 60s. Hooky and attitudinal - and they played instruments.

Donna by Fifth Column - again, the organ, the guitars, the bass, the dreamy vocal. And so what if it's by a queer band who are singing about a queer icon? What is DANIEL by Elton John about, really?

It Won't Take Long by Ferron - to my ear, with perhaps a judicious edit or two, could make the radio. The violin, the drums, the declamatory vocal - all stuck in my ears.

I Spent My Last $10 by Two Nice Girls - country radio hit!

(1) New Breeders album MOUNTAIN BATTLES. I got it on vinyl, code allows for 3 downloads in zip file format for digital purposes. Used one. Two remain

go to www.beggarsgroupusa.com/promo
UPC is 652637280319
code is mountainJ33B0PQP (the 0 is a 'zero', not an 'oh')

(2) New Bob Mould album DISTRICT LINE. Ditto.

go to digitaldownload.anti.com

UPC is 045778691012
code is Mould059B0OUX

(first and second 0 is a zero; third O is an 'oh')

Enjoy

An FCC ruling.

Somehow, I'm reminded of the words put in the mouth of the Marilyn character in Joyce Carol Oates' book BLONDE, to the effect that obscenity is more exemplified in things like bombs, bodies in concentration camps, and so on.

Or, as Jello Biafra put it, the idea is to get people more upset at the sight of Janet Jackson's titty than at murder and terrorism being committed on the evening news.

Being daddied (I'd say 'mothered', but my mother was not the parent who fulfilled that role).

Hi.

If you want an LP by a somewhat moody Canadian band, in digital RAR win-zip format, you have 24 hours from 9:04 PM EDT to do so (two of you).

Go to www.scjag.com/download

follow the instructions

the code you want is JAG117.3BkmVDXANdQ (and it's case sensitive).

Enjoy - it only works for 24 hours, so be quick, if two of you want this.

(should be three, but I somehow messed up my first try :( )

(for historical purposes, this would be where it was at, but the downloads have been glommed :) )

"I don't trust the sky but I would bet on your star." American Music Club

Happy birthday tomorrow, Arne.

Jeg elsker dig, min kaereste...

The idea here is to list an artist beginning with one letter of the alphabet and then a song beginning with the next, with a few provisos...

(a) It's okay to, oh, pick Cassandra Wilson and have that as 'W', because that is her last name. On the other hand, Alice Cooper is a pseudonym, so that's an 'A'.

(b) 'The' is not a T, for these purposes, except for The The. As I don't think there are any bands called 'A', 'A' as an article is largely moot, but is also out.

I'll start...

Art of Noise - Beatbox


so now, if you choose to accept, you'll need a 'B' artist with a 'C' song, then a 'D' artist with a 'E' song, etc.

(note: initially, I was going for overlap, so A with B, B with C, C with D, etc. - but, given that some people missed that, due to my poor phrasing, let's just go as above...so, next up, M artist with N song, following Kid Creole and Lambada...)