The Grizzly that is the bear: This Monday, Memorial Day, Soundfix record store in Brooklyn will start selling Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest, one day before street date. Go to their listening party from 4pm to 6pm and enter to win a pair of tickets to the band's sold-out May 31 show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg with Here We Go Magic.

Cannibal Books hath released Untitled Wave by Carolyn Guinzio
20 pages, hand-sewn, in a limited edition of 150. $7
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Additionally:Now Online: The Home Video Review of Books, Vol 2, Issue 3: April/May 2009. www.thehomevideoreviewofbooks.blogspot.com

Congratulations to Tim Peterson on his new Pennsound author page

I love xiu xiu & I read devotedly & unfailingly William Bower's Puritan Blister installments on Pitchfork. #44 is provocative & poignant. Please read it and if you care to share, send me some lines about the column.

I'm enjoying the time off. finished Bolano's Savage Detectives. Wrote some. Grilled. The headphones clamp into my consciousness

1. Xiu Xiu: Knife Play
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz
3. Jason Lyttle: Yours Truly, The Commuter
4. Andrew Bird: Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
5. Deerhunter: Rainwater Cassette Exchange.

It feels silly, another idiotic instance of individuality, to list what I'm listening to. I would love one day to have John Cage's ears. maybe his beard too.