Joanna Newsom’s new album, “Ys” recently leaked and I couldn’t be more pleased. It’s a dense, lush, beautiful sounding record and it’s going to take me some time to wrap my head around it. I predict the music critics will go wild for it. If you haven’t heard Joanna before, do yourself a favor and check her out. She’s one of the most exciting artists working today.

Here’s my favorite track off it, Sawdust and Diamonds.

Maybe this is a leading question, but if you had to make a guess, would you think these hats were owned by a Mexican vato or my 61-year-old father?
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Lilys-In The Presence of Nothing.zip
In 1991 a group called Lilys released an album that sounded so much like My Bloody Valentine that many people thought the group had changed their name for the release. They did not, but Kurt Heasley, the driving force of the Lilys, was able to make his guitar sound the same way Kevin Shields had on Loveless. Shoegaze was dying out and the album never really got its due. At this point the album is out of print and goes for upwards of 40 dollars on amazon.

I’m not the biggest fan of shoegaze or MBV, but I’ve been really into this album lately. I highly recommend it if you like MBV at all.

For the most part, my experiences with finding a living situation via craigslist.org have been positive. About a week in to almost every stay, one, or sometimes all, of my roommates will offer me the chance to smoke marijuana like a cigarette. In fact, at two of the places they were even growing it. While I enjoy imbibing every once in awhile (it leads me to come to conclusions like “Jason Biggs should have a warning on himself that says ‘dude sucks’”), I rarely spend any money on the stuff, and find it most enjoyable in small doses while watching really bad movies. Anyway, if they weren’t offering to smoke me out, we were normally watching TV together or carrying on some form of peaceful coexistence.

My most recent craigslist roommates provided no pot, nor any sort of peer bonding. Ali’s gift giving manifested itself in a different way. He left cigarette butts in the shower:

This particular butt stayed parked in its perch for close to three weeks, and, after a heavy soaking, gave off an aromatic mixture of tobacco, swarthy Pakistani, and Axe body spray.
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I saw this video last night at The Tomorrow Show and it’s one of the craziest things I’ve seen. This is an old educational film about periods starring a young girl named Jill.

Owing to other obligations, this may well be my last Tourgasm recap. Unless the season finale is totally awesome. But anyway, here’s episode 7.

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