I liked Tim Russert, and I was sad to hear about his death. Making breakfast, good espresso, and watching Meet The Press on Sunday morning is a regular thing I do with my roommate. That show is the only thing I watch on a major TV network on a regular basis.

I get some of the criticisms lobbed ...

Masami Akita is an articulate guy. I enjoy reading interviews with him. He can easily explain the concepts behind his work and doesn't seem to give much of a shit if people like it or not. Bonus points for that. He's a classic "otaku" - if no underground noise scene existed he'd still be making a ...

I like this band a lot, but I'm biased - my band toured with them for a small bit. They are the hardest working band I know at the moment - check out their Black-Flag-like touring schedule. They are humble guys with good taste, and I can easily see them putting out consistently good records for ...

My band recently opened for Suicide here in Brooklyn. I felt pretty lucky to both (a) see them live and obviously (b) play the show. Seeing them around the time the first & second albums came out must have been amazing. This show was as close as I got, so I'm OK with that.

I'm surprised no one ...

My band (Aa) has played shows with Vampire Weekend. Recently we played with them at the Bowery Ballroom here in New York in mid-January. Shit heaps of attention were dropped on this show by the New York Times, Gothamist (I think), Village Voice, and other NY papers I see in my periphereal vision ...

From a Wired blog article:

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/01/army-seeks-prof.html

Shit. My band has no celebrities. And we fail all the stated objectives. Otherwise we'd be a shoe-in I guess. Here's a summary of what the army is looking for:

Professional Celebrity ...

I think I'd rather have zits on my nutsack.

I think I'd rather have zits on my nutsack.

My band (Aa) is playing Friday at the Knitting Factory with Aids Wolf, Ruins, Health, and about a billion others. This is a Skin Graft/Love Pump Records/Panache Booking showcase.

Can anyone elaborate on the differences in the MD412 vintages? There's the MKI, the MKII, and creamy-looking Senn/Telefunken one, which I have never used. I have been meaning to pick up a pair of 421s recently and have forgotten which vintage I used in the past.