This Is Not A Good Day.

I feel sick, and I’m extremely depressed because of the war. I don’t really have much to say here today, maybe later, I don’t know. I’m sorry this blog has been so dull this week, my heart just hasn’t been in it the past several days. I’m sure you understand.

Yesterday was a fine day, though – I went down to WFMU and interviewed Tom Scharpling for an article about the Best Show that I’m putting together, and that went very well. I also bought the new issue of New X-Men which was quite good, and somewhat surprising. The story sort of zigged when I thought it was going to zag, you know what I mean? I also picked up the new David Rees comic, My New Filing Technique Is Unstoppable In: “Horse Races”, which is pretty good so far, I’ve only read about ten pages into it. It’s very funny, and manages to be even weirder than the first Filing Technique comic. I love Rees’ Get Yur War On strips, but the Filing Technique comics are a lot closer to my heart.

I picked up a copy of Pig Lib yesterday too, the limited-edition version with the bonus EP. Be careful – some stores aren’t carrying that version. If it’s in a plastic jewelbox, it is not the special edition, and you really ought to get the special edition because it’s worth going out of your way just to get it so that you can hear the studio version of “Old Jerry”. It’s very melancholy and beautiful, and better than half of the songs on the proper album. I really wish that Malkmus had put that song on the record, I would have preferred it to “Dark Wave” or “Animal Midnight”, but then I can understand why he didn’t, because it would’ve been one more slow jammy number and it might’ve made the album a little too same-y sounding.

I would offer an MP3 of “Old Jerry”, but I do want to encourage people to actually buy this record, and most people already have the full album proper.