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So lax in the blogging game have I gotten that Sound of Nonsense is now existing solely on soundofnonsense.blogspot.com as I let the domain registry lapse on the old site (i.e. I don't want to pay for no one to read this anymore....).

Other new stuff (at least for me):

• Jose Gonzalez. After doing a silly, long year-end list, I recently found a great album from 2005 that I missed, Jose Gonzalez' Veneer. It has been around for a while but was released just last year. It's solo acoustic ballads but pretty diverse (RIYL Iron and Wine, Jack Rose, Joanna Newsom, etc.). He also joins the ranks of those covering "Love Will Tear Us Apart," doing a pretty good job of it...
• Went and saw Coachella, the documentary about the California music festival of the same name... it receives my thumbs-down for most the performances therein (Arcade Fire, Pixies, Bjork excepted), and the overall flick. Not to mention the terrible Ballston theatre messing up the sound. A great music festival year-in, year-out now, but there's really no documentary-worthy story to tell about it... just kinda boring.
• I tore through two books Erin gave me for Christmas, Wonder Boys and Fargo Rock City. I had read neither, but knew I would love both, for obvious reasons...
  
• A night out at Vegas Lounge can break the bank, but it's a damn good time. Wonderland still holds my top spot though...
• The new Cat Power record is all I wanted the new Fiona Apple album to be... it's certainly Chan Marshall's "greatest," in my opinion....
  
• Brett has a nice year-end list of his own up on Goldsounds. As for my dabble in music reviewing on the side, I called it quits before I ever really got started... a lot of leg work, calling "dibs," and hell, very few free CDs...
  
• The Short House penthouse is now fully furnished, with a beautiful red curtain for a door, but the "bed" now deflates on a nightly basis. In related news, my back is killing me.
  
• After a week, I *think* I'm going to love my new job.
• Pic of the Day......happiness is a huge nipple...