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[wildflowersoul]

In gearing up for the Slathered-In-Awesomecakes that will be All Tomorrow's Parties, I'm starting to download some albums by artists who will be there that I've never heard before. So I got the latest Animal Collective (Strawberry Jam), because Pitchfork has been creaming their pants over this band for years, and I gotta say, I just don't feel it. It's interesting, and I can appreciate that they're doing something unique, but I don't feel like they're writing songs so much as crazy aural architecture. It just feels kind of pretentious and cold to me. But they do sound like they might be a really great live experience. And they sound like maybe they'd blow my freakin' mind if listened to while stoned

I am hoping that Stephen Malkmus actually tours with the Silver Jews, because, um, Stephen Malkmus and Lou Barlow at one festival? Indie Rock Gods!!

I've been slowly getting some vinyl converted into mp3 (technically, I guess it's mp4s or whatever the iTunes format is). I can't stop listening to "On Avery Island," it's been so long since I last heard it, and it's still one of my all-time favorite albums.

Also, we have been researching haunted pub/inns for the one night in England that we still have unscheduled. I'm getting scared just reading about some of these places, I won't get a wink of sleep! But it's too neat to pass up the chance.

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[genylibrarian.livejournal.com]

Where are you going in England? It isn't a pub, but I swear I felt spirits at Fountains Abbey. It is a really beautiful place, if you can check it out.

[wildflowersoul.livejournal.com]

We're going to London, the Cotswolds, and Minehead. I'll check that out, beautiful + spirits = good times!

[genylibrarian.livejournal.com]

You HAVE to check out the ravens at the Tower of London. If you have ever seen Hitchcock's The Birds, you will die! They are bigger than some dogs!