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[Sneakeater]

New album out June 12!

They're playing LPR June 15! (But I've already got a ticket to Jens Lekman and Of Montreal at the Northside Festival that night! Ugh!)

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While we're waiting:

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And this video by Emily Hubley . . .



. . . who was the little girl in her parents John and Faith's Windy Day . . .

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. . . and whose sister is Georgia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgpQBaziy0

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One more oldie while we're waiting for the new album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKEqGcES4Xw

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I never liked this song much. But I was going out with someone of that name when the single came out (and eventually married her), so I have a certain sentimental attachment to it. ("Our song" was "(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine (Pts. 1 & 2)", though.) (Our other song was "Mild und Leise", which unfortunately turned out to be weirdly prescient.)

[Adrian]

New album out June 12!

They're playing LPR June 15! (But I've already got a ticket to Jens Lekman and Of Montreal at the Northside Festival that night! Ugh!)

Sunk cost sir. Lekman and Of Montreal (it's not like this is the last chance to see those guys) are great live shows but if you've got to do this, do this.

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It's a festival, so it's a BIG sunk cost.

Also, I'm planning to go to Stockholm at the end of the summer, so Jens Lekman would be an appropriate way to start it.

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Wow. Here's a song I totally forgot about:



This (A-side and B) might have been my favorite single of 1978 -- a very good year for pop music.

[Adrian]

It's a festival, so it's a BIG sunk cost.

That's the fallacy!!!

(you can resell, anyway)

((have you seen Lens live? Lots of fun)

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No, never have.

Saw the dBs a lot back in the day, obvs.

(It's a 7:30 show. I can probably make it over to the festival afterward and still catch something.)

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Sunk cost sir. Lekman and Of Montreal (it's not like this is the last chance to see those guys) are great live shows but if you've got to do this, do this.

It's funny you should say this, actually. Cuz the way I was looking at it was that I could be a pathetic baby boomer and try to relive the past, or I could see people who are actually creating valid new music NOW. (OK, Of Montreal's last two albums were kind of a come-down.)

You know, like I wouldn't want to be one of those people who only go to classical concerts where they play Brahms, and not duYun or Derek Bermel or Kaia Saariaho or Neil Rolnick.

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Sunk cost sir. Lekman and Of Montreal (it's not like this is the last chance to see those guys) are great live shows but if you've got to do this, do this.

It's funny you should say this, actually. Cuz the way I was looking at it was that I could be a pathetic baby boomer and try to relive the past, or I could see people who are actually creating valid new music NOW. (OK, Of Montreal's last two albums were kind of a come-down.)

You know, like I wouldn't want to be one of those people who only go to classical concerts where they play Brahms, and not duYun or Derek Bermel or Kaia Saariaho or Neil Rolnick.

What do you always tell people who don't know what to order? Order what you most want to eat! If you want to enjoy the kids, skip the codgers, though Kevin Barnes is pushing 40...

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It's been a long time since I've looked at pushing 40 as old (or even contemporary).

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I'm feeling good about this. The LPR set will start approximately on time and be short (and there are no opening acts). The Northside Festival show will start late (and be a general shit show), and if I miss the Thermals and the Beach Fossils (whom I kind of like), well, as you said, they're not going anywhere. But I can't imagine I wouldn't be there in time for Jens and Kevin.