I'm totally putting that in my blog brah....

Well, please let me apologize, this has taken me a rediculous amount of time to do, but here I am, so you can stop asking me if I'm ever going to update my blog. I was planning on it, but really just kept getting busy and distracted from this rather trivial aspect of my life by more important people. This is not to say that, you my readers aren't important, but we should all have more important things to do than read/update a blog. Yes, I know it's free music.

So, what have you guys been up to? Oh yeah? That's great, I'm really glad things are going well for you. I've started school back at Xavier and am going to be living in Cincinnati more or less full time. This, however, doesn't seem to stop me from flying home tomorrow to see Sigur Ros play at Strathmore Music Hall in Bethesda, MD. Yes I have lot of concert reviews for you coming up. After I return on Monday morning I will attend my classes and then go see the White Stripes in the evening at Cincinnati Music Hall. Two nights later I will be attending a Sufjan Steven's musical event at the Southgate House. So look forward to me gushing about a few concerts, it should be self indulgent and overly loving of the bands. Hurrah!!!

I planned on penning a little piece on Drew's eBay trials, which are funny, but we haven't really gotten around to him giving me the document that makes it funny. So, instead of ruining the funny, I'll leave you hanging on that one. All I can say is it involves a record player and a death threat.

As for music, I'm giving a fairly recent release out that I know some, if not most of you have, but I still felt like posting because I know (well not really, but I haven't ever suggested it to him so I'm probably right) that my brother doesn't have it. In light of that the rest of this post will be written in letter form:

Dear Paul,
I have a feeling that this album will be one that you don't love instantly. I can't say for certain, but, in all honesty I didn't totally dig it right away either. I would like you to give the New Pornographers most rencent album, Twin Cinema, the old college try though. It's a pop album, unarguably. There's no post-punk, barely any jarring guitar work. What there are, however, is hooks upon hooks perched high upon a mountain of harmonies!!! Billy goats and Satyrs alike dance upon this mountain. Every song on here is endlessly catchy and I didn't absolute love this album until this morning. I mean, I liked it, don't get me wrong, but this morning somehting about it clicked with me and now I'm addicted. Play it loud, and sing along, it only helps the album. The hard drive of "Jessica Numbers" is totally brought full circle by Neko Case's background cooing. Fuck, I don't even know what that means, but I do know that I LOVE that song. "Use It" totally kills, "The Bleeding Heart Show" makes you want to throw your arms in the air, and everything else is just awesome. It's such a big sounding rock album. They aren't afraid to make everything sound large and just say "fuck it" to anything resmbling a tradtional hushed indie rock feel. A.C. Newman is just a plain pop music genious. Download now, my dear brother, enjoy it. Don't give up if you don't adore it the first time, it's definately one of those" grow on you" albums.

Love,
John

P.S. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema | TWO

P.P.S. - For all y'all that already have this album I'm going to do my best to not leave you empty handed. I've founf somehting else that I did not personaly put up, but still am excited about. So for some of you it's a doubly good day, for some a singularly good day. To each his own!

Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs | TWO | THREE

(A word of warning, I can't promise this second group of links work, I didn't put them up)