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wow. i'm on cloud nine.

Postal Service (ben gibbard/dntel project) single came out today. Best 4 bucks i ever spent. it's a single with actual, legitimate content. kind of strange content, but wicked cool. Usually, your single is, if you're lucky, the a-side and 2 b-sides, usually throwaways but sometimes good. Other times, you just get some lousy live version or alternate cut. sometimes you get a cover, which can be cool or worthless. Now Jimmy and Ben did it right, the album cut is "such great heights" then there is a non-album track. which is great (as i think anything these two touch has to be). Then there are two more songs, covers. ah, but here's the kicked, it's other bands covering (reinterpreting) postal service songs. I guess this would be gay if it was some random band, but it's two sub-pop bands, which just makes it cool. You get the shins doing "we will become silhouettes," which is fun, but really clean and poppy... doesn't recall much of oh inverted world. The next track is iron and wine doing "such great heights" which is drop dead gorgeous. their signature super lofi just an acoustic guitar strips the song of all but it's melody, which is just stunning in this setting, especially with the added harmony line. all in all a finely packaged 4 dollar disc from sub-pop.

and now i'm off for beirut at edmonds, first time i'll have seen those guys since 2002, should be fun. the plan is the kells, i'm not 100% sold on that, but beirut is certainly a good idea.

Parents are coming up tomorrow, i will hopefully meet them at capital grille after work for some food.

ok, peace.

say hi to your parents for me.

jude