doing the decent thing

a quick head's up about a tasty british mp3 blog, two headed boy, which has some cracking live shows for download. a quick two-heads up, then. he commented on my kick-ass blog, so i reckon he's alright. if you like tindersticks, magnetic fields, red house painters, jens lekman, nick cave, or mordant wit, ch-ch-check him out.

and here we have the dresden dolls, who are pretty good, covering neutral milk hotel's 'two headed boy'. coincidences keep happening.

always a lonely weirdo...

i'm off on cross-country adventures for a few days. here's an early birthday present for my favourite regular visitor.

neutral milk hotel - 'april 8th' (live in new york, may 1996)

'97 mentality

1997 > 2007

Exhibit B

These days Jeff Mangum emerges from hiding to play 'cow object' for the Apples in Stereo. Ten years ago he was a bit good. Here's his Neutral Milk Hotel at the Highbury Garage, London Town again. Why did I miss this show? I blame the NME: hanging on to britpop as the wheels fell off, they derided NMH as wet Beatles-worshipping acid casualties. While championing Cast and Ocean Colour Scene. Eughhkk, as Pusha T would say. Nowadays, a quick mp3 sets that sort of horseshit to rights. Bloody NME.

Neutral Milk Hotel - 'Oh Comely (Live at the Garage)'