Where’s the peanut butter?!

These props transcend madness - my friends Eva and Adam just signed up for the 2008 Vancouver Marathon. Way to go!!

The wysiwyg wordpress editor has a habit of doing some munging of the youtube HTML embedding snippit such that it always winds up trashing my main page layout and making me go hack the source whenever I try to add youtube videos to my blog.  This is frustrating enough to bug me, but not frustrating enough for me to remember that it happens, which is really the perfect sweet spot for me to go slowly crazy…

Here are some bands I’d like to know better - a somewhat random selection based on who’s on KEXP’s year end countdown of their listener top 90.3 albums and from bands I don’t know well. I missed part of the middle of the countdown but this should keep me busy:

Film School - I can’t remember this so well but it sounded pretty good

Sigur Ros - I kind of know them but I heard more of their music on KUT in Austin and Hvarf-Heim just seems really, really good

Tullycraft - If you can not love “The Punks are Writing Love Songs” then you’re no friend of mine. But if you can listen to it twice in a row and not get annoyed, you’re probably about 16 years old.

Les Savy Fav - missed their Neumo’s show but these cats knock out some rockin jams.The Hold Steady - I think I was supposed to be really into Lifter Puller and can tell I’ll love these guys. Some day. For now, I know that “You Can Make Him Like You” from Boys & Girls in America is terrific.

The Twilight Sad - I feel pretty weenie to fall for a band with such a pretentious name (especially when the song I know by them is “And She Would Darken the Memories”) but boy these guys are hot.

Elliot Smith - yeah, I’m a little slow on this one…

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - bring that beat back!

Maps - Jesus and Mary Chain-y droning stuff I’m a sucker for lately

The Blakes - I really dig every song I’ve heard by these guys - why haven’t I seen them yet?

Cloud Cult - I’ve heard enough to think they might be a band I’m really not into, but not quite enough…

Animal Collective - Peacebone and its video really capture the nightmare experience. Not sure yet whether this is enjoyable but it’s definitely interesting.

Andrew Bird - is great.

Jose Gonzalez - covers Massive Attack? And he’s swedish? Wow…

Amy Winehouse - as far as coked-out looking H junkies go, she’s #1 in my book.

Okkervil River - they were one of my bands to check out in 2006, too, and I never got around to it.

The Shins - file alongside Elliot Smith, but I can’t deny that a couple weeks ago I heard a song on the radio that I liked before realizing it was the Shins.

MIA - I’m a total sucker for that Clash sample.