am listening to the kills record because i have to interview them tomorrow at the chelsea hotel, because they like to stay in edie sedgwick's room. i am not making this shit up. the first song on their new album is called no wow. ahm. ya, i hear ya on that. i really liked well, i really liked the song "superstition" on Keep On Your Mean Side, cause I thought that she, VV?, sounded like PJ...but she's from Florida. why does she keep saying 'ain't'? i like the tracking of the dude, codename: hotel?, just below her voice, and the guitar has this weird radio distant thing going on, like "cherie cherie..." okay, maybe i do like this music, but i think i hate the lyrics. yes. it's like listening to scrabble 'the blues addition' - 'how many lyrics can i make out of this syllable?'

IF YOU LIKE GOOD PSYCH FOLK you should like the Wrist & Pistols. Saw them tonight at Tonic, in spite of the bitter cold and having to dig my car out of a four foot snow barrier with nothing but a cat litter scooper (how depraved, i know). The dudes are friends with luke of lucky dragons, my friendito (with whom I recorded some cello majick last week) in Providence. Anyway, banjo, piano, bass, drums and a keyboard that sounded like the one Young Marble Giants used on Colossal Youth - totally gorgeous, dark blend of instruments, mostly beautiful three part harmonies and snaky little theatrical asides to their old timey style music (a little black heart proc sounding, really, minus predictibility in piano). Also, a decent cover of "Jersey Girl" which turns out to be a Tom Waits song, not one of The Bruce. Go figure.