what's new in the way of old music

the new modest mouse song - "dashboard" is amazing. i can't wait for the new record. i spent many hours today reading about music and downloading it from the internet. it was fun. i got some items i'm excited about, david dondero, who was a big influence on conor oberst. conor learned his distinct style for singing from david and it shows. i wish i could find anything from sunbrain, davids first band that was around about the time conor started bright eyes. i also got "cold war kids" which aaron told me were good. they are. "folk songs for the afterlife" is super good as well. i know far too much about omaha music. commander venus is a band with conor and tim kasher (of cursive and the good life) and thats very intersting to hear two of my favorite song writers in a band together, tho they aren't very good back then. slowdown virginia was the fore-runner to the band cursive (one of my favorites, they wrote both my almost favorite record and all time favorite song), i got their record and its pretty sweet. i like it better than early cursive stuff.

music is a meaningless pursuit.