excerpt from Rivers' Myspace - found through Musicians Who Blog from beatnikpad.com

I took typing, Psych 101, and English 101 that semester. It was in my English class that I heard the analogy of the unraveling sweater. Dr. Eisenstein used the image to demonstrate the effectiveness of focused thesis statement in an essay. “All I have to do is hold a single thread in your sweater and it will unravel as you walk away.�

By the way, it’s “HOLD this thread� not “PULL this thread.� I know it sounds like PULL on the record but it’s definitely supposed to be HOLD. I’m thinking that maybe Brian sang the wrong word (he joined the band just in time to do those vocal tracks) and I didn’t notice at the time. We were really rushed to finish the album.

We saw Blue Man Group with Ric Ocasek round about the time we finished the Blue album. And “P�, Ric’s wife Paulina, had a baby round about the time we mastered it. I remember thinking that we had totally botched it—the guitars were too loud, the drums were too dry, the vocals were too low, and the energy of our live show had completely avoided being captured in the studio. (I love the Blue album now, though, and I think we did a great job, especially for a first album, and especially on such a limited budget.) The press was quick to viscerate us for being slick, lifeless, major-label rock and I took it all like poisoned daggers in my heart.

it happened to me last night a few times too. yeah basically it was timing out. except mine would sometimes go to the Preview Message screen, but the Submit button would not be available

that's okay... but it's happened to me like 4 or 5 times now. I think it's an issue of it "timing out". If I take too long writing something it comes out blank. But I didn't expect editting it would do that...

Sorry, Tay, I literally have no idea why that would happen. The fact that it only seems to have happened to you doesn't help me find the problem.

Over the next few days, I'll try to set it up so that it saves old versions of editted messages, so I can manually bring it back.

As for a permanent solution, it may take a little longer.

I'm not gonna fuckin bother re-writing the song of the day, because that's too much fucking time down the drain. But anyway, here's who they were:

song of the day:

sylvie: I saw them last night and I got a pre-release copy of the new album from smallman and it's fucking killer.

minotaur shock: their new album is fuckin great, and on top of it they did the remix of tulips which is the hidden track on the new Bloc Party album Silent Alarm Remixed.

I am Robot and Proud: great new album.

Paras, this shit is really pissing me off. All I wanted to do was edit my "song of the day" post and now it's a fucking blank message. son of a bitch.

this is like my shit:

McSweeney's
I CAN NEVER
RECALL THE NAME
OF BROOKLYN'S
NEW HIP BAND.
BY DAN KENNEDY
- - - -
I'm Clapping as Fast as I Can
Clap Your Hands Together Like This
All Clap Hands, That's Right!
Yes, I'm Clapping, OK?
Clap, Clap, Clap for the Band

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The WooHoo Awesome Sweet Yeah Holy Shits!!! - Extra Exclamation Point
Silence. Beautiful and golden, like the forgotten sound of a basement tape of the Gods long fallen. So begins "Extra Exclamation Point", the debut LP of the latest band from the burgeoning Albequeurqe, New Mexico indie rock scene (what, you haven't heard?)

The WooHoo Awesome Sweet Yeah Holy Shits!!! are an undeniable miracle. Their jangly, angular, boisterous, poignant, harmonious, New Wave-inspired-without-being- derivative, joyous, hand-clapping, foot-stomping sound is exactly what the universe has been missing. It is, in a word, antidisestablishmentarianism.

As opposed to thier flash-in-the-pan, now totally out of style predecessors like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Shout Out Louds and the Go! Team, The WooHoo Awesome Sweet Yeah Holy Shits!!! will be rocking your iPod Nano for a very long time to come. Maybe even two, three weeks. They're worthy of every bit of the buzz that will result at the publication of this review, so I would suggest paying as much as $700 for scalped tickets to their upcoming show in an impossibly small venue that everyone will want to say they were at.

Like Wesley Willis after a large sushi dinner, WHASYHS!!! frontman Atreyu Overholster combines the swagger of Jagger with the vocal intensity of early-era Bob Seger. The rest of the band doesn't really matter, but they're good, too.

Obligatory reference to T. Rex Bowie Kinks Eno Early Duran Duran Obscure Punk Band.

As I stumble out of my Williamsburg apartment, listening to the joyous sounds of The WooHoo Awesome Sweet Yeah Holy Shits!!!, I am reminded of the first time I heard music that changed my life. The album was a rare imported Nick Drake home recording. I was 4 years old. Today I feel like a child once again.

Key tracks include, "Oh My God Remember The Rollerskating Rink!?!?", "Huddle Up and Cuddle", and "The 80's Were Awesome!".

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taylor check out Odeo - this might be a venue worth considering when posting up daily mp3s. like this Odeo channel which for some reason is connected with Salon.com magazine

so a little while ago i was pumpin' this one band, We Are Scientists - well i think now's a good time for you kids to check them out. cause that full length's out soon, and it sounds fuckin' fantastic. again for fans of HOT HOT HEAT -they're basically recentvintage Heat