i was following the pack

some overdue updates to the record collection

cause = time

one of novel designs' all time favorites came today.

oh my joy, only you deserve conceit

record envelope calls itself "a little library of factory sleeves," but the collection is absolutely vast. i could spend a whole day ignoring work and pouring over these factory sleeves collected from all over the world. my favorite tend to be scandinavian.

that does sound like the name of a pavement song.

pan tostado has contributed a hilarious post to madame lamb today which makes me want to go home and play with the blossoming novel designs record collection.

i am a particular fan of this one (anything with kris kristofferson is cool in my book)

celebrate record store day.

we've done four already but now we're steady and then they went one! two! three! four!

while this is undoubtedly one the greatest rock albums of all time i really don't care for the cover. so when i learned the first cover art submission was as described below i was stunned. nothing could be further up my alley. i'm sure no pictures of the original exist. might have to recreate myself. and put on a tshirt.

"Jimmy Page has stated that the album cover was actually the second version submitted by Hipgnosis. The first, by artist Storm Thorgerson, featured an electric green tennis court with a tennis racquet on it. Furious that Thorgerson was implying their music sounded like a "racket", the band fired him and hired Powell in his place. Thorgerson did, however, go on to produce the album artwork for Led Zeppelin's subsequent albums Presence and In Through the Out Door."

aesthetics aside you can be damn sure i'm listening to this all the way through the moment i get home tonight. check out storm thorgerson's website and discover you're far more familiar with his work than you thought.

loudon wainwright III. john cale. jj cale.

welcome additions to the family.

...and that's a pretty nice hair cut!

12" came today. camera and stare b-sides. check out the vid below.




some dude wrote this on a message board and i love it:
"Further, this song is mostly about the crap bands that were popping up everywhere during the post grunge expolsion in the early 90's. It was a statement about the death of glam-rock and insurgence of corporate influenced grunge. What most people don't realize and even more people try to impose, is that the meaning of most of Pavement's songs are not defined but implied on many layers. Malkmus and Spiral Stairs write in stream of consciousness and often the initial idea is simply diluted by the wandering of the mind as it skips from one logical train of thought to the next. For instance, I might say, "I found a dollar on the subway." But take that line and expand on it using subway as the key word and you might reason that I would follow it up, "sandwiches seems lonely when they're cold... and old." Follow this train of thought and you might have written a song about the emptiness of a failed relationship or the lonliness of big city life. The possibilities are endless. Keep this in mind when analyzing Pavement, DON'T THINK TOO MUCH, JUST FEEL IT!"

career. korea. korea...

devotion

came on vinyl last night. double lp. have a feeling it will be on heavy rotation.