I drank whiskey for 8 straight hours yesterday. Don't try this unless you're a professional, and you really hate feeling good. Anyway, it's Friday and I'm about to rally. Up first, I'm going to check out What Made Milwaukee Famous, Menomena, and possibly The Long Winters at the Bowery. I've been hearing good things about WMMF, and I totally heart Menomena's I am the Fun Blame Monster. Perhaps I'll catch a bit of the headliner, but it's a friend of mine's birthday, so we're celebrating by heading out to the newly reopened Smalls. Smalls was absolutely my favorite jazz club in college, I used to go every time I was in NYC. It closed several years back, and now (apparently due to a wealthy benefactor who missed the club) it's back! Will it still be as awesome as it used to be? I'll find out tonight...

In other tidbits, I'm still digging on O'Death. Brooklyn Vegan posted a few mp3's, so go check em out.

Also, I've not been able to stop listening to Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin's forthcoming debut Broom since I caught them earlier this month. It's catchy as shit and oh-so good. I think it's slipped into my top 10 for this year, but only time will tell. There's a chance that my head will explode doing my year end list, there are so many records and bands that I like this year... I posted a track over at A Tune A Day for y'all to check out, I'll write a review of this record soon. In the meantime, just know that it's fantastic.

I've been giving Beck's new record some spins, and I'm digging it. More on that soon.

Bush got his torture legislation passed, the fucking bastard. The only good part about this: it's likely that the Supreme Court will strike down the new law because of it's denial of Habeas Corpus (the right to challenge imprisonment), which is a right enshrined and protected explicitly in the constitution. The folks that wrote that were so much smarter than the losers running the country right now. Ugh.

Well, that's it for now. Have a nice weekend!