Christmas Roundup
After listening to garbage muzak in so many stores for the past couple weeks I’m glad to say I was blessed with some good music on Christmas to partially make up for it.
Got some gifts from Mish and my family, including: Rolling Stone Cover to Cover (every page of every magazine – all 40 years – searchable on DVD… very nice), Turbonegro: The Movie (saving that for a special evening with the old lady), a Billy Childish doc and season 2 of Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels (my guilty but not revealing in any way pleasure). And on a recent trek to Nepal my mother-in-law picked up some Nepali rock for me – a band called “1974 A.D”. Haven’t listened to it yet but I’m assuming it sounds a lot like Bob Seger’s “Kathmandu”.
Also got a couple albums at the local record store yesterday: Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Bros live in ’69 and the new BellRays. Both are superb.
Thee Oh Sees, The Sheepdogs, The Rolling Stones, Frankie Miller, Al Casey, Hayden, Kiss, Thin Lizzy, Takeshi Terauchi, Sloan, Black Lips, The Black Keys, The Ventures, The Kinks, Belle and Sebastian 
i can usually count on at least 1 beatles/stones book from the folks, but not this year… however, santa did bring me the new c’mon cd. (thanks). i got it bad for Katie’s song.