So it seems I didn't win an iPod in the Stephen Malkmus trivia contest. I knew only one of the answers, going in (RUSH), but used 2 hours and google-fu to score the rest.
So why am I not even on the list of runners-up?
Because for some reason "Kim's Bedroom" doesn't count as a real band. I'm not really sure who Kim's Bedroom is, or why it doesn't, but Google told me it was one of his earlier bands, and who was I to disagree?
Next time, I guess!
It looks like Gomez isn't actually opening for Ben Lee, contrary to what the Ben Lee website says. (sigh) Bollocks.
Thanks to the magic of eBay, the VU Box-Set, Peel Slowly (or something like that), is on its way to me, for a slim $25 USD. Five CDs, including each of the Velvets' long-players and a motley crew of demos, out-takes, etc. Hooray.
Clinic's Walking With Thee was a massive disappointment. After the revelation Internal Wrangler was, Walking With Thee remains just as uninteresting as before. It lacks the variety of texture I.T. possesses, relying too much on garagey noise and sneers. Sad day.
The [Banquet of] Bees version of "A Minha Menina" is superior to the Os Mutantes original. But the thing that's killer on the Os Mutantes track is that bumblebee bass sound. Hoo boy. It makes me want to be a beetle, doing a scampery little dance on my bed.