i wanna ask you a question: what is the best song in GBV's Alien Lanes?

If anything it's the opposite. There are ton of different reasons to love spending time with people you've known your whole life.

Jim Greer should write a better book next time then.

yeah that was v good I think

So how does the Dayton Mafia stack up next to The Memphis Mafia?

If anything it's the opposite. There are ton of different reasons to love spending time with people you've known your whole life.

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, May 2, 2020 3:06 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago)

MM has political connects

This never really worked for me.

It's reliant on not moving very far from where you grew up.

Right. I have actually been living pretty close to where I grew up for the past decade and half, which caused some deal of anxiety at first, which I believed I touched upon last night in the group hang when it was mentioned.

xxxp yes the B1000 book

james I've had p much the same experience, by choice, but I can also appreciate the value in it

I listened to this album today and the whole lo-fi thing is, in retrospect, not so great - I don't really see what people saw in it, to be honest.

Did anyone read the recent Pollard bio? Or was this alluded to above in code? (Who's the Replacements fan?)

Jim Walsh.

I read and loved it but I don't know if I'm the most objective reviewer, it's great to have anything in-depth to read

their first NYC show (after a 6 year live show hiatus!)

a life-changing night. for me anyway. afterward, on the sidewalk outside cbgb, i bumped into stephen malkmus, who i didn't know, and he told me i should go see the ass ponys, who were playing somewhere else, maybe under acme?, at like 1:30 am, but i went home 'cause my life had already been sufficiently changed, but later i came to regret missing that ass ponys set. that was a good time to be alive and into rock music.

Lol I saw the Ass Ponys open for Afghan Whigs

I saw the Ass Ponys at Brownies once. The opening act was The Upper Crust and Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter were there to see them, I think. All I remember is what seemed to be a really long, drawn-out version of "Ape Hanger." I ended up being a huge Wussy fan in recent years.

I always found the Upper Crust to be a dependably stupid fun time

Yup.

lol if ever there was a song written for dulli to sing it is 'mr. superlove'

obv he did a great job with it

the upper crust rule