alabama 3 and such

nothing in today's mail, but I did receive e-files of Minus the Bear's Planet of Ice (that's on Suicide Squeeze and I'm asking for a Suicide Squeeze t-shirt for my birthday) and Stereophonic's upcoming Pull the Pin (lots of re-issues on the way from them, too).

nothing much on the television today (though there's a Ronald Reagan movie on now in which his character's wife says, "Of course, you'll have to tell me what to do. I'm only a woman." and that was pretty funny), which I guess is a good thing, because it gave me a chance to knock out some Robyn Hitchcock transcribing. his Egyptians-era box set, Luminous Groove, comes out on August 19 (so the piece will run that week).

out today: Randy Newman's Harps and Angels and Amy Ray's Didn't It Feel Kinder (we recorded a P4St with her yesterday at the north end of Central Park) and Conor Oberst's self-titled (which I do not have)

also new today, our Possibly 4th Street session with the Alabama 3, writers, performers and overall cool Brits behind the Sopranos' theme "Woke Up This Morning" (which they played for us in Union Square - worth seeing)