My Mommy Made Me Boots

“Timmy Von Trimble” – Happy birthday to Tom Scharpling! “Timmy Von Trimble” is the best of the recent skits from The Best Show On WFMU, and quite possibly the most surreal bit to ever air on the program. I don’t want to spoil anything, but the bizarre, unbelievable premise is eventually trumped by the disturbing turn the bit takes once we get to know Timmy.

Also: I highly recommend visiting former Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrison’s website and downloading his newest song “Born In 72.” It would be an obvious thing to post here, but since he’s got it on his site, you may as well just get it there. There are some other mp3s there as well, but that song is the best and most interesting to me. The new music isn’t all that different from what Morrison was doing before, but he sounds much more pop now that he doesn’t have to have guitars on every song.

Elsewhere: Comic book writer Warren Ellis is posting nothing but links to unknown bands this week on his Die Puny Humans blog. So far it’s been a nonstop parade of bland, amateurish cut-out bin fodder, but you never know, something good may come up later on.