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BR is here the same night as Henry Rollins spoken-word. I'm very torn.

Was this at the Bait Shop in Rockton? Right before their first record came out? If so, I was at that show too!

I'd be more concerned about humidity than heat. While your dorm room might get uncomfortable for you if you don't have a fan on or anything, the molecular composition of records won't get altered by, say, a room at 80 degrees. If anything, buy a dehumidifier to suck all the moisture out of the air -- it's that stuff that will mess up your sleeves.

You can still reserve rooms at the official Fest 6 hotel at http://www.thefestfl.com -- $124 a night.

-My first-ever Fireside Bowl show: The Hippos/First Grade Crush/Allister/The Beatdowns (March '99 I think?) -My first-ever Metro show: Buck-O-Nine/Homegrown/Riverfenix (April 10, '99) -My high school band opening for Alkaline Trio at Illinois Wesleyan University in April '99, on the last date of their Goddamnit tour -- you just knew something was special -Braid/No Knife @ Fireside Bowl and Braid/Sarge/Alkaline Trio @ the Metro, Aug. 20/21, 1999 -- Braid's last Chicago shows -Booking Alkaline Trio to play my hometown in Jan 2000 -- their second show ever with Mike Felumlee, and according to Skiba after the show, the first time in their career they ever got an encore -Having my brother book Alk3 on my 18th birthday in Bloomington, Illinois, in March 23, 2000 -Weezer/The Get Up Kids/Ozma in Milwaukee, March 10. 2001 (first time seeing all three bands, and Weezer and GUK are all-time faves)

I don't know if I could pick just one, but seeing Brand New with 6 people, followed closely by seeing Brand New with 3 people, would definitely be up there.

Ditto. Shit is going to be nuts.

This should be moved to the other forum.

Such a fucking bummer.

Oh man, don't tell me you're an Office snob. I work with someone who prides herself on having never seen the U.S. Office and talks about how "amazing" the U.K. version is so the U.S. one "must be inferior." Puh-lease. Both shows are hilarious and compelling for different reasons.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Could be very slightly off - Which could be why you dont hear it at 33 but do at 45 -- If you have the dots around the platter and a pop up light you can tell if its calibrated correctly I don't have that display.

Wow. Smited. Of course, I like Third Eye Blind. So maybe we're even.

Or you can ask your mom if she had any aborted test pressings... Thanks, I'll be here all week, don't forget to try the fish!

Yeah, she's a huge Trio fan. We actually both saw them on New Years Eve in Chicago, but we didn't know each other then. Small world.

It is?? I didn't know that. Their record's pretty good, for a D4 ripoff.

I used to like My Name Is Earl, but find myself watching it less and less now. My only real must-watch in terms of comedy is The Office. (I don't have cable, so that severely limits my choices.)

I listened to my Minus The Bear "Planet Of Ice" vinyl last night and it definitely feels faster at 45 rpm than the CD, but 33 rpm records still sound on pitch to me. Is it possible to have one speed be aligned but the other be out of whack?

As of 10 minutes ago, when I purchased my hotel room and airfare, I am officially going to the Fest 6. I'm flying into Orlando so I need to get a rental car, but now that I'm finally 25, that shouldn't be too much of an expense. There's so many great bands playing -- I started to make a list of who I wanted to see, and then I realized it would be quicker to make a list of who I didn't want to see. So who else is going?

It kinda looks like celery But I would be town for trying it. Straight up, it is delicious. In pie form, it's sweet but tart, with a small bitterness as well, so it really gets the tastebuds working. I highly recommend everyone to try rhubarb pie at least once.

Just picked up a copy of Social Distortion's "Sex Love And Rock & Roll" for $8 at a Hot Topic in the middle of nowhere in the Illinois Valley (the ladyfriend was visiting her folks and went to the local mall, so I had her text me what vinyl the Hot Topic had -- no Falcon LPs, though).

What's rhubarb? Wow. Maybe it's just a midwest thing. Anyway, rhubarb looks like this: It used to be considered a vegetable but was re-classified as a fruit in the U.S. back in the '40s. It's very tart, but with a little sugar works amazingly well as pie filling. It looks like this cooked: Learn more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb

Recordnerd's been back up for about two months now, for anyone who's been avoiding it...

Rhubarb or pumpkin pie, please!

Yeah, it's a shade over an hour but she spends much of her day in rush hour traffic so it's a good length to get someone to and from work without hearing the same song more than once in a ride. I'd put a Popes track on there but she is already a huge Popes fan (she's from Chicago), and I don't have any Popes rarities to impress her with. For anyone wondering, here was the first mix I made her: