The following represent the cold side of the pillow right now:

The new Open Hand album (not for everyone, though, but I will not use the “guilty pleasure” cop out), the Nightingales 7″ (”Idiot Strength” on Rough Trade, 1981) won cheap on eBay to prove there’s still something for me in OG post-punk, Gerard Cosloy’s website (www.cantstopthebleeding.com), an Urge Overkill song that I loved as a teen (”Emmaline”), Big Bad Love by Larry Brown, the fact that I decided to exhume The Cimarron Weekend, the later and disliked Descendents albums (I Don’t Want To Grow Up, Enjoy, and All), the first song on the forthcoming Pernice Brothers album (”There Goes The Sun”), finding my ripped-from-Soulseek burns of The Conet Project, Kubrick’s “The Killing”, my new (to me) Volvo station wagon, that I sent out 7 different pitches tonight, the first Emitt Rhodes album, and having a load of new ideas. Nothing is sexier than a good idea.

How’s that for fluff?