Great story. Kinda hard to get happy that Tuesday morning no?

What a kickass find for music. At first, when I saw “Shelter”, I thought to myself, “No! Uh-uh, he isn’t gonna put down ‘Shelter’ from Maria McGee IS HE?” (although it’s a perdy song and all- Maria’s kinda easy on the eyes in a Mickey Gilley 2AM-kinda-way too . . .but….????)

Dag gummit Nico, I’LL EAT A BUG! That’s 3 (count ‘em THREE) new discs to add to my ever-so-yearning-for-more discography. The Battles were THE FREAKING SHIT! Them cats be bumpin! (hey, I wanna cube like theirs. so then I could see HOW REALLY cool I am when I get all freaky playin’ air bass with sneaker-pimpin’- self and hair not washed for dayyyyyyyyyyssss) Seriously broheem-a-tha, I likes. I’m totally picking up what your putting down. (what would REALLY be weird taste in music, would be an all-Eunuch Gregorian Chant ensemble from Amarillo doing Marvin Gaye covers in Latin? THAT would be a bit of a stretch for me. A wee bit o’ one. At any rate. . . .)

C’mon now Neek! Allow the force to go down the acid-house/hardbop/post punk route will ya? (I know you gotta Rocket From the Crypt, Charles Mingus, or Hardkiss jam that’s craving for take-off! Oh. That’s right, I almost forgot. You also got conditions. Conditions? You’re the only one I’m currently exposed to these days who’s gotta 21st century limitation. And that’s saying A LOT!

(btw: dropped-off tennis-pro-hotgirl-Melania today. she LIVES in the moment. THE MOMENT. she also lives outside of Cluj-Napoca, Romania- and made me see radiant bolts of orange with swirly shapes of hot pink fading to recoiling yellow at our “goodbye party” this morning. i felt like Capt. Kirk. . . .sans the gaucho boots and George Jetson snap-on hairdo. but muy macho nonetheless.) Destiny: Vlad the Impaler’s barrio. The Carpathians are calling me like Sirens to a sailor. SEAL-blade? check. Garlic? check. Fake fangs? check. Count Von Count (from Sesame Street, remember) fake accent working? check.

I’m good.

One last request. PUT SOME MORE FEMALE ARTISTS in your mix. I’m kinda short 1 now these days. Aye! I’m a Libra with a heart full of napalm. What’s that old Vandals song again. . .??? “Ladykillers” (”. . . . he the one, he the one. . . .whoooo!) Totally. Just. Being. A dork. Again.

Ciaosito (that’s just a “little bye-bye”) -The Verbose Dork

...your updates from the road. I hear there’s some awesome stuff to be seen in Cluj (aside from Hungarian tennis pros.)

Glad you dug Battles and Six Organs of Admittance.

Like I said, I was going to open it up to all time periods everywhere, but I thought it might be a bit more fun if we locked into a certain time period. Maybe After the season, I’ll do fifty from the 90s, or fifty from the 80s, etc. who knows? I just figured it’d generate more discussion if we limited the choices and I think it’s working because this is a lot of new stuff to most folks…so mission accomplished or something.

There’ll be some ladies in the mix for sure. I actually have made a list of sorts now and there’s definitely some ladies on it (even a few all girl bands) so it’s coming. We still have 43 more to go….